Aarrr!

(I find today’s blog is truly best when read aloud in a gruff and piratey voice. If ye don’t get it right the first time, please, try again until ye catch the full effect!)

Ahoy! Batten down the hatches ye scurvy dogs, it be International Talk Like a Pirate Day!

That’s right, me matey, every Nineteenth of September the world comes together to rape, pillage and plunder the villages, or at least celebrate the spirit of raping, pillaging and plundering. Be ye a land lubber? Well get ye your sea boots with this curtly resource.

Whilst I sailed upon the seven seas, me came across this dainty site. Avast, tis a buried treasure of pirate booty, more filled with pirate-speak than Davy Jones’ Locker with poor lost souls.

Aye, useful ye ask? Aye aye! First, ye bilge rat, set your eyes on ‘The Basics’. Then drop anchor aside ‘Advanced Pirate Lingo.’ The ‘Pirate Pickup Lines’ be worthy of walking the plank, but be sure to skirt yer ship alongside that fine vessel whose cargo lies in the ship’s bilge (way at the bottom). The first two links are from the salty sea dogs who brought us this hallowed day. The third link is a hearty and humorous lesson in talking like a pirate. Lastly, before ye meet your maker, have a gander at the ‘English-to-Pirate Translator. It makes talking like a pirate easier than running a man through.

Aarrr, ye can find this internet beauty at www.talklikeapirate.com/howto.html. Now hop to it ye mutinous sea bass before I cut out yer gizzard and feed it to the dogs.

Ye should also feast yer eyes on this fine site, a pirate insult generator! Smartly now, ye yellow-bellied scalawag.