Peak Piratery?
Category: Pirates
Posted on: August 21, 2006 2:36 PM, by PZ Myers
Please, say it ain't so. We've just put up the pirate flag on our house.
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Posted by: just john | August 21, 2006 3:06 PM
So who do we invade to ensure a steady supply of the pirates we need?
Posted by: Bronze Dog | August 21, 2006 3:07 PM
This may spell doom for our efforts to reduce global warming...
Posted by: Rich | August 21, 2006 3:36 PM
Shouldn't it be "piracy"?
Posted by: Wally Whateley | August 21, 2006 4:07 PM
Shouldn't it be "piracy"?
Nah, "Piracy" is what pirates do. "Piratery" is what non-pirates who think pirates are cool do.
* Attacking a ship and illegally seizing its cargo = Piracy.
* Flying a jolly roger from your house and saying "Arrrr!" = Piratery.
Posted by: Doc Bill | August 21, 2006 5:40 PM
I thought everybody had a pirate flag. I hung mine in my office when I was the UNIX Supervisor, as a fair warning to my inferior Windows Administrators.
Posted by: Neutral Observer | August 21, 2006 5:55 PM
Just remember not to fly it in Winter, otherwise your timbers may shiver.
Posted by: Mena | August 21, 2006 5:58 PM
Damn this thread and damn Sir William and Sir Arthur for getting this firmly embedded in my brain:
http://math.boisestate.edu/GaS/pirates/web_op/pirates25.html
Arrrg?
Posted by: Martin Christensen | August 21, 2006 6:50 PM
I have a new hero! Indeed the mark of a true BOFH.
Martin
Posted by: Castaa | August 21, 2006 6:56 PM
Peak pirate. That's funny but a thought provoking theory. I say yes we have. We passed peak pirate the weekend after that Pirate movie opened this summer.
Only the turn of FSM Himself could return us to such highs.
Posted by: Jonathan Badger | August 21, 2006 7:49 PM
I wonder if this will affect the chances of Piratz Tavern, a pub about to open in suburban Washington, DC. Of course even at the supposed peak of piratery, everybody I mention it to thinks it's a dumb idea which is doomed, even though *I* want to go there when it opens.
Posted by: oldhippie | August 21, 2006 9:32 PM
I think the way current laws are, that if you flew that from a boat you could be attacked and taken as a prize....
Posted by: G. Tingey | August 22, 2006 3:21 AM
A true pirate was Captain Nancy Blackett ( Amazon Pirate ) - who went so far as to tip her IUncle the Black spot .....
"Titty" Altounyan died last year, aged (I think) 87 .....
Posted by: CCP | August 22, 2006 10:34 AM
I'm more-or-less down with the FSM and all, but I have to get this off my (live man's, heh) chest:
I don't get the pirate thing.
Posted by: Keith Douglas | August 23, 2006 10:33 AM
CCP: As an amused outsider, all it seems to be is making use of a conjunctive fallacy to create more humour: pirates are cool; the FSM is cool; therefore, wouldn't the FSM be cooler if it was involved with pirates some how?