Talk Like a Pirate Day. arrgh
Arrr, make me walk the plank, because I only just remembard that today's a 'ery important day. Aye, Talk Like a Pirate Day, o' course. Ye'll ne'er get me buried booty! (Luckily, I found a useful pirate-speak translator).So let the fun begin with a couple of contests (as if the sheer glory of Talk Like a Pirate Day weren't enough). This photo by Topper was last year's winner of the Talk Like a Pirate Day bookpile contest, and we're looking for this year's! So, the first contest is a good old fashioned LibraryThing book pile contest.
Book pile contest: the rules
- Pile up your books. Be creative.
- Take a photo.
- Post the photo. You can do either of the following:
- Post the photo to Flickr, and tag it "librarything" and "TLAPDlibrarything"
- Upload the photo to WikiThing, on the Talk Like a Pirate Day bookpiles page.
- Wait for us to crown a winner
The second contest is a a haiku contest. One of the greatest things to come out of the launch of WikiThing (in my humble opinion) was the creation of help in the form of haiku. Started by tardis (a genius), LibraryThing Haikus now holds a place of honor on WikiThing, and has expanded to include not only Help, but also general LT haikus, and Library 2.0 haikus.
Haiku help contest: the rules
- Write a haiku. Or seven.
- Post them to the LibraryThing Haikus page on WikiThing.
Here's a few for inspiration.
How to create
account? Put user name and password
in green box on home page
-tardis
Can we have wishlists?
Yes, they are coming to us
with the winter winds...
-readafew
All the books you've read,
an endless field of poppies;
Try UnSuggester!
-Felius
account? Put user name and password
in green box on home page
-tardis
Can we have wishlists?
Yes, they are coming to us
with the winter winds...
-readafew
All the books you've read,
an endless field of poppies;
Try UnSuggester!
-Felius
Bonus points for combining haiku, LibraryThing help, and Talk Like a Pirate Day. Tim's attempt (note he even respects the generic weather rule):
When autumn seas change
Scurvy dogs to lubbers, aye,
Get a blog widget.
Scurvy dogs to lubbers, aye,
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PRIZES: Yes. There will be prizes, for both contests. Possibly in the form of buried treasure, possibly in the form of gift accounts.
Labels: book pile, contest, haiku, talk like a pirate day, wikithing
posted by Abby at 12:13 PM
26 Comments:
Is this an appropriate place to declare my love for the "But no one must see all my birdwatching manuals!" haiku?
I haven't mastered editing in the wiki yet - well, I haven't tried. But here a few haiku I tossed off. Someone post them to the wiki for me:
Yo ho ho
bottles o' rum
rattle in the bilge.
Mateys!
LibraryThing
Be good!
Thingamalibrarians
walk the plank
arriving at Tim's house
Liam be cute
in blue suit
at the beach
I'm just gettin warmed up . . .
Hey, it's needs to be 5-7-5 syllables!
The original Haiku error messages.
Traditionalist!
I agree with Tim! (Tim, thanks for the seasonal reference, by the way!)
;-)
Seven swans swimming*,
and cataloguing my books,
distract me from work.
*From my office window, I can, in fact, see seven swans swimming around the retention pond.
I would also like to protest that "arrgh" is not pirate-speak. Arrr! is pirate speak. Arrgh is what the not-pirate says when walks the plank.
Even in Chinese (?),
spam is spam is spam is spam.
Please go away now.
Lol! Excellent "spam" haiku, lilithcat!
Nice!
keep listing ad lib
or tag on the contrary
either means something
A book I have loved
Now shared with many reader friends
Becomes a treasure
Esta1923
May you see me now,
with seven syllables here
making Haiku well
here's mine, can someone please put on the wiki for me? Thanks,
We tag branch and leaf
of “about” and “my” to build
folksonomy
and another for the Help in Haiku section (if someone links it to LT groups page :-)
How do I find those
who share my niche interests?
Search for a group here
Darn, was meant to have the word "our" on the 3rd line....
We tag branch and leaf
of “about” and “my” to build
our folksonomy
I recently read that 'walking the plank' didn't actually happen. Probably a Hollywood invention! Oh well, it's fun to watch in the movies.
Not Hollywood: there's lots of walking the plank in J. M. Barrie's 'Peter Pan' (1904).
I’m pho•net•i•cal•ly slow.
Seven syl•la•bles I need.
Did I count right? Summer.
Help please.
I've uploaded my bookpile pictures to Flickr and tagged them. They aren't showing up as being taged on the tlapdlibrarything tag page and now I can't seem to figure out this wiki thing.
please... I need help.
emma - post a link to your photo on Flickr in the blog comments here. Sometimes Flickr gives a waiting period before showing photos from new accounts on the public tag pages.
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http://tinyurl.com/2ulh6z
http://tinyurl.com/2lfqak
http://tinyurl.com/35eljx
The whole link wasn't showing up in the comment, so I made them tiny. :)
Thanks Abby!
Thanks, SilentInAWay!
wiki deters me
chances are I'm not alone
cup of tea test please
Fall months flying by.
Under the red and brown leaves,
Contest crowns molder.
Hasn't the contest been finished for over half a month?
Just curious who won....
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