aaaaaar!

Talk Like A Pirate day hits office IRC:

<redbeard> nobeard: have ye asked the wenches for the brown brew?
<nobeard> redbeard: aaar, scurvey they be, tellin' me to get the brew meself

hoist yer flag, matey

I have this flag on my desk right now: http://www.jollyrogermerchandise.com/images/jollyrogerrackflag.gif

when did you stop beating your wife?

Some Irish political shenanigans, for a change: Liam Lawlor denies he used "a crude forgery" in place of evidence at the interminable planning tribunal. Does that mean it's an expert forgery?

word for the day

Are you callipygian?

(via flambingo's weblog)

minor irritation

When debunking an urban legend, saying "it could have been X instead of the claimed Y" doesn't constitute incontrovertible proof.

make friends and influence people

Well, influence people, anyway. The most amusing part of this story about a gay couple being refused entry to the US is that they were on their way to a human rights conference. I do find this quote curious:

The US Embassy in Ottawa defended the action by US immigration officials at Toronto airport, saying that the 1996 US Defence of Marriage Act defined marriage as "only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife".

...because I thought someone was recently pushing for some sort of declaration that a marriage is such a thing in order to ward off the evil memes from the Northern Wastes.