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Talkin pyrate be comin eazy for us scurvy dogs at da st thomas blog. Ye check out da booty here: http://www.stthomasblog.com/?p=1063

Posted by BIG Kahuna at September 19, 2008 5:14 PM

Seems appropriate that the 'Pirate' post sits directly above the 'All else on hold' post considering what a certain number of Pirates have done on Wall Street recently. The heads of fannie, freddie, Lehman and AIG should all be on the plank right about now....

Posted by Greg Cooper at September 19, 2008 6:40 PM

Shiver me timbers! Methinks a greedy crew of pirates have carried off the loot and left us with empty treasure chests and sinking ships. Is there a sub-prime crisis at the Tortuga Club on the Cayman Islands?

Posted by Mike L. at September 19, 2008 6:45 PM

Thanks for the bit of comic relief! Too funny guys!

Posted by Judith Ellis at September 19, 2008 7:14 PM

Avast,me proud beauty. What better time to talk like a pirate as we watch the bilge rats of Wall Street that have scuttled their ships be reduced to begging for the taxpayer to finance their grog. Arrr. I'd like to see the Jolly Roger flying over Wall Street. Arrr.

Posted by Brian T at September 20, 2008 9:07 AM

I always loved this link... http://dm.senixee.net/youareapirate.swf so pirate, so addictive, so childish! Garr! :)

Jolly Roger on Wall st! GARRR!!!!!!! :) It's probably already there, in disguise!

Posted by Steve Gray at September 20, 2008 4:40 PM

Splice the mainbrace, me hearties, we're goin' on a Merger and Acquistion voyage around the corporate finance world!

We shall leave no discounted cash flow undiscounted! Set sail for Lehman Bros and HBOS. More rum!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX61PUZ3xkI

Peter

Posted by Peter Cook at September 21, 2008 5:02 AM

The only time you can say "avast behind" and not get clouted!

Posted by PaulH at September 22, 2008 2:36 AM

OK, killjoy from England here. It always amazes me each year that Talk Like a Pirate day claims that millions of people take part (even dividing by ten for Net hyperbole, if you look around the Net for how many mentions of 'Talk Like A Pirate Day' there are, it probably does run into the millions), yet The Hunger Site, run by the Greater Good, on which you can click to feed hungry people at no cost to yourself, gets a steady state 150,000 clicks or so a day. What interests me here is viral behavior - things that do take off into the millions, and things that just hover at some midpoint and fail to change the world in the way they might have done if the rule of large numbers had taken hold. Just to end that musing and to be a TOTAL killjoy...Pirates didn't really talk like that - the 'arrrhhh' and the 'matey' and all that Pirates of the Caribbean jargon. When Robert Newton had to play Long John Silver in the movie Treasure Island, he didn't know what accent to use. So he chose an extreme west of England accent and exaggerated it even further. Every actor playing a pirate ever since has just copied Newton. So, in the popular mind, that's what pirates talked like.

Posted by Phil Dourado at September 27, 2008 6:36 AM