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[Nate the Great]

I almost missed Talk Like A Pirate Day this year. Good thing my subconscious was twigging that today was special.



Next year will be much bigger because it'll be twenty years since the Dave Barry column that really launched TLAPD to the next level.



Some Long John Silver restaurants are still giving TLAPD deals.



Pirate Name Generator. When I put in "Nate" it spits out "Huge Hank Napier." "Zeke" gives "'Old Canker' Bark Screed." "Kirk" gives "Wankin' Brant Dawkins." "Spock" gives "Cowerin' William Screed." "Bones" gives "Keel-Haulin' Hugo Smithe."



So yeah, I don't see the connection. But there must be a formula and it's not spitting out a random name because I tried the names several times.



Nintendo takes advantage of the day to shill some "space pirate" games, including the Metroid series, of course.

[DrWho42]

queasy_f_bby drew my dog!

[Nate the Great]

I don't know how many of you are familiar with the old intermission bumper "Let's All Go to the Lobby". I remember it from when it cameoed in the old movie One Crazy Summer.



Well, 7-Up did a spoof on it for a commercial.

[Nate the Great]

Someone made a LEGO Chia Pet llama


I'm old enough to remember the Chia Pet craze, though I never had one.

[DrWho42]

I commissioned Lophial to do fan art of the Shalka Doctor (Richard E. Grant):

Commission of Shalka Doctor for @DrWho42!

[Nate the Great]

EC Henry tackles the size of a Bird of Prey and asks if you could really fit two whales inside.


The set built to represent the cargo bay doesn't fit inside the ship as depicted.


Of course this ties back to the inconsistent size of the Bird of Prey as portrayed in Trek (Ex Astris Scientia article). At best you have to assume that two different Bird of Prey classes exist, one big and one small, that happen to look identical from the outside. But one fan thinks that there may be as many as six different sizes. I think six is too many, and includes obviously oversized Birds of Prey that are the size of Vor'cha class battle cruisers or larger.



And of course the Bounty was WAY too big as compared to the whaling vessel in that one shot. And the set was built way too small to fit two whales in one half of it.


A comment on the video brings up the small B'Rel vs large K'Vort thing.

[Nate the Great]

I Love Lucy was before my time, but of course I know about chocolate conveyor belts and Vitameatavegemin. And of course she approved the pilot for TOS back when it was Desilu and not Paramount.



Anyway, I didn't know that Harpo Marx was on I Love Lucy.


Of course, the Marx Brothers was also before my time, I'm more familiar with Groucho's solo work.