# Today is "National Act-Like-a-Pirate Day" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 7, 2002, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706 "2002-05-07T12:48:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/1 "2002-05-07T12:48:41Z")
**Har!** ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/2 "2002-05-07T12:50:59Z")
Blow me down! Wait, I say that most every day. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/3 "2002-05-07T12:52:47Z")
Avast me laddies! Shiver me timbers! Yo ho! Yo ho! A pirate’s life for me! Like that? ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/4 "2002-05-07T12:53:20Z")
Avast ye salty dogs and mizzen up the lubber deck. Yar! -Rue. (typing with one eye closed) ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/5 "2002-05-07T12:53:30Z")
**Prepare to be boarded, Ye scurvy internet dogs!!!** Woohoo!! ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/6 "2002-05-07T13:04:28Z")
I got overexcited and tried to slide down the sail, ripping it with my cutlass, to rescue a fair maiden. The butter knife broke, the curtains are a mess and the cat wasn’t amused with the wench costume. [sub]Stupid Pirate Day. Arrr.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/7 "2002-05-07T13:07:22Z")
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! [sub]Francesca, I’ve got tears in my eyes - well done![/sub] ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/8 "2002-05-07T13:16:30Z")
ARR! I am Bob, the rhyming pirate. Dig these rhymes and watch me gyrate! ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/9 "2002-05-07T13:21:30Z")
Pass the Grog or face me cutlas, Yarr!!! ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/10 "2002-05-07T13:22:11Z")
**HAR!** YOO HOO AND A BOTTLE OF RUM? Would Yoo Hoo and rum taste good? ---
**Author:** ![blur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dbc845/32.png) [@blur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blur)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/11 "2002-05-07T13:24:20Z")
AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGG me mateys. Pour me a pint of yer finest grog, and send in the buxom harlots! ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/12 "2002-05-07T13:47:15Z")
Hop into the barrel, darlin’, we’ll do it hurricane style. Arrr. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/13 "2002-05-07T13:51:09Z")
It shivers me timbers to see that booty, yarr! ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/14 "2002-05-07T14:04:03Z")
I say ol’ chap. Some pillaging sounds like it would hit the spot. (sorry I’m kind of an wimpy pirate) ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/15 "2002-05-07T14:15:15Z")
There I was, climbing in the winda, Pistol in my left hand, pistol in my right, And holding in my teeth a cutlass bright, My beard was black, one leg was wood, It was damnsure clear that I meant no good. …and then I got gobbled up by this fucking _dragon_. A DRAGON. What the shit? ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/16 "2002-05-07T14:27:58Z")
Aarr! Pass that me that Windows ME disc. I be making you a copy. Aarrrr! ---
**Author:** ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/17 "2002-05-07T14:30:57Z")
Oh. My. God. I sat here, reading **Ukelele Ike’s** post while drinking my water. No, I did not spit on my monitor, but that’s the first time I’ve ever shot water out of my nose while choking. Oh, and in the spirit of the OP, “we are the pirates who don’t do anything!” (From VeggieTales). ---
**Author:** ![Aristides](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Aristides](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aristides)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/18 "2002-05-07T16:24:16Z")
Yo ho Yo ho, A pirates life for me, yes no? ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/19 "2002-05-07T16:27:26Z")
National Act-like-a-Pirate Day: Brought to you by the letters “Aaarrrr” and “Aaaye”. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/20 "2002-05-07T17:00:40Z")
Yarrrr … I’mmm not attractive. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706.md?page=2)