Avast me hearties! 19th September is ‘Talk Like a Pirate Day’ — of course it is! It’s well known now that this day was created as a joke by two friends in 1995.

It’s a great day for parrots, buried treasure, and X-marks-the-spot. It’s also a good excuse to break out the eye patch, and the grog, and practice pirate lingo on your maties.

And pirate jokes! …

… Sawbones points to Pirate’s eye patch: “How did you lose that?”

Pirate says: “An albatross flew overhead whilst crapping, and some of it fell in me eye.”

Sawbones: “But, that wouldn’t have lost you your eye, man!”

“Aye, it did,” Pirate answered. “At that point, I’d not yet got used to me hook.”

Arrrghhh!

Most importantly, don’t forget that, ‘To err is human; to arr, pirate.’

(Eek!)

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