Talk Like a Pirate Day

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Ahoy! Today is national "Talk Like a Pirate" day and we have one pirate in the office who gets quite excited about this day every year. Greg, or "Captain Plankard" is one of my coworkers and friends. He is great to work with and is one of the smartest Java programmers ever. But one day a year, he turns pirate and I was happy to be able to witness it this year. He hid his "booty" all over the office and dressed in the full pirate garb.

This morning I received a twitter message from him on my cell phone reminding me of the pirate day, so I was able to grab CJ's "I've got my eye on you" pirate t-shirt out of the closet and put it on. Last summer when we found this t-shirt on the clearance shelf I had begged him not to buy it. I guess he thought it was cool in an "ironic t-shirt" sort of way, and because he can't refuse a bargain, he bought it against my better judgement. Well today I was glad that he did because I was able to have a little fun and wear it to work.

By the way....the weird expression in that second picture is me realizing that Greg's sword WASN'T plastic. So what you're seeing in this picture is me telling him to "Get that THING away from me" :)

It's been a fun Friday...argh!