Talk Like a Pirate Day ( + D's belated birthday) Celebrations

Today be the 10th anniversary of Talk Like a Pirate Day! In honor of this festive day, R and I set about adding a few piratical accents to the decor of the lab.

First, read this fine article for some background. Arrrrrrrr!

We had to stop by the UCSB Bookstore to buy black construction paper and a white pencils. The resulting door decorations are pictured below.


Talk Like a Pirate Day door decorations

We were supposed to get Captain Blood last weekend via Netflix in time for today, but the UCSB Post Office disappointed me again by saying it hadn't arrived yet. I saw other red Netflix envelopes in other people's P.O. boxes, so I wonder if they misfiled mine. Netflix has been accurate thus far as to predicting when the DVD's are supposed to arrive, so I think the problem is on the part of the Post Office.


Talk Like a Pirate Day goodies

Throughout the substitute movie we watched (Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl), R decorated party hats with the Jolly Rogers of different pirates while I assembled them (with staples and string). Party goodies on a grad student budget!


Pirate hats, decorated by R

Singled out from all the piratey cupcakes to be D's birthday cupcake was a particularly large and fine specimen. I stuck 2 candles, one in each of the skull's eye sockets.


D's special birthday cupcake

Later D got out a lighter and lit the candles, rendering a devilish glow to the cupcakes.


D's lit cupcake, amid the others

Below we have D presiding over his chocolatey hearties sprawled drunkenly all over the table.


A pirate and his birthday cupcake

And next up, R in her conservative pirate regalia.


R and her paper pirate hat

Lastly, here's R digging into her bound and helpless prisoner.


R biting into her hapless prisoner