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Peak Piratery?

Category: Pirates
Posted on: August 21, 2006 2:36 PM, by PZ Myers

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Please, say it ain't so. We've just put up the pirate flag on our house.

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#1

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?

#2

Posted by: Bronze Dog | August 21, 2006 3:07 PM

This may spell doom for our efforts to reduce global warming...

#3

Posted by: Rich | August 21, 2006 3:36 PM

Shouldn't it be "piracy"?

#4

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.

#5

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.

#6

Posted by: Neutral Observer | August 21, 2006 5:55 PM

Just remember not to fly it in Winter, otherwise your timbers may shiver.

#7

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?

#8

Posted by: Martin Christensen | August 21, 2006 6:50 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.

I have a new hero! Indeed the mark of a true BOFH.

Martin

#9

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.

#10

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.

#11

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....

#12

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 .....

#13

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.

#14

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?

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