So tomorrow’s Talk Like a Pirate Day, and I’ve been preparing… But one question that I can’t find a good answer to is this: On what shoulder should I mount my parrot?
I mean, I don’t want to get this wrong - it could be rude, it could send an unintended message to other pirates, or I might not be allowed to hang out with the “cool” pirates who wear their parrot on the other shoulder!
Just so there’s no confusion, Talk Like a Pirate day is on September 19th. The OP’s in Australia, so it’s already the 18th over there, but for those of us on this side of the date line, it’s still the 17th. Whatever you do, don’t go around talking like a pirate a day early.
Yes, that should be claified. I am in Australia, and it’s Already Tuesday 18th. Talking like a pirate a day early would be even more embarrassing than wearing your parrot on the wrong shoulder.
Usually, the patch is worn over the eye that got cut out in a fight; it doesn’t do any good to wear the patch over the good eye. Like so: :dubious:
For completeness, if your piratical pet is a monkey, it has enough of a will of its own that it’ll sit on whichever shoulder it feels like - right, left, someone else’s. But you still have to clean up after it.