Aye. mateys, the calendar hath done turned full circle again.

Today, answer all your phone calls and greet your friends not with "Hello," but with "Ahoy, matey!"

A tip of the ol' pirate hat to tomtuttle. As Blackbeard himself said, "Damn ye, yellow-bellied sapsuckers, he's a better man than all of ye milksops put together."

Arrrr! I be goin' with "Avast, ye scurvy dog!" as a greetin' today.

'course, caller ID be useful.

I be flyin the Jolly Roger at me desk...

I have a right funny joke for ye scurvy dogs.

So, a pirate walks into a bar with a paper towel on his head. He sits down at the bar and orders some dirty rum.

The bartender asks, "Why be ye' wearin' a bleedin' paper towel on 'yer head?"


"Arrrrr..." says the pirate. "I've got a bounty on me head!"

Pirate to man with two women stranded in row boat:

"Ay, matey, are them your oars?"

"No, they're me sisters!"

Just a friendly reminder that tomorrow is International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Hard to believe another year has passed us by.

I just discovered this festival and will see if the family is interested in going. ARGH!

Tomorrow, I will go early to work and fill the water cooler with rum.

I just got a new job, working with Sean!

We hired Ken because he can type well with a hook.

Aaaaarrrrrr we thar yet?

Oh, no we aren't. It is only 11:41pm...

Ahoy! The fateful day has arrrrrrrived!

Buzzfeed article with funny animated GIFs.

I'm all aboot the animated GIFs.

Aye be related to one of dem dar pirates... Lookin' back in me family tree...

Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596) was a sailor, politician, globe-circumnavigator, and aye, a privateer with his own Letter of Marque from Queen Elizabeth I. So reviled was he by the Spanish—whom he routinely stripped o’ ships, gold, spices and booty—King Phillip II allegedly put a 20,000 ducat (£4 million) bounty on his head. Drake made two successful voyages to the West Indies for tradin’. Nearly 100 years later, a band o’ pirates called the buccaneers became active across the West Indies.

I was tryin' t' guess - was it 13 years ago we started celebratin' talk like a pirate day on the boards?

Avast! Great post by Enjoy t' Music in honor o' t' big day:

My Grandfather helped unload the rumrunners, including this famous vessel, back when they came into my hometown. Charged a tithe (of the liquid kind) too, to let them land. Does that count?

My mother was a hamster, and my father smelt of elderberries.

Hamsters love to sit on elderberries.

Hey, I thought everyone agreed----no hamster jokes!

Armageddon!!!!!

I wonder if anyone will catch that hamster reference.

Hamster, gerbil, they all look alike to me. (Rated MA for strong sexual content.)

I think the one guy caught it on the nose.

I dunno. Richard Gere stills denies ALL of it. (I thought for a brief second about going there, but I KNEW you'd get around to it!)

Yup. Makes me laugh just thinking about it.