Happy 2009 International Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Pirates have been getting some pretty bad press over the past year. Rightly so!

But pirate culture is a deviant offshoot of maritime culture that celebrates open sea adventure and camaraderie. Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day and that doesn’t mean learning to speak Somali but instead using lots of RRRR’s and silliness.

The Official International Talk Like a Pirate Day website.

I’ve rehashed some of my favorite piratical videos. Hope you scurvy dogs enjoy em!

Lesson # 1

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YouTube – Talk Like a Pirate Day: The Five A’s

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YouTube – The Pirate Song (colour) George Harrison

Here are a couple of videos that I recycled from last year because they arghh just that good.

As Republicans are to Democrats, Pirates arggh to Ninjas!

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YouTube – Pirates Vs. Ninjas

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YouTube – Talk like a Pirate

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Not sure why, but this is one of my alltime favorites.

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YouTube – You Are A Pirate (Lazy Town)