# 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:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/41 "2002-05-07T23:35:17Z")
Well, I suppose someone has to be the ubiquitous parrot. (earplugs and newspaper for the shoulder not included) **RAWWWWWK!!** _(whistle)_ **Pieces of eight!! Pieces of eight!!!** _(whistle)_ **RAWWWWWK!!!** ---
**Author:** ![donkeyoatey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/42 "2002-05-08T00:49:46Z")
I am Murray, the invicible demonic skull. Quake in fear mortal! For you insolence I shall now devour you! Could you…er…Could you pick me up, so I can bite you? ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/43 "2002-05-08T00:55:20Z")
Hark, mateys! Let’s board ‘er and take all the treasure! Arrr! Shiver me timbers! Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! Walk the plank and end up in Davy Jones’ Locker! ---
**Author:** ![Lux\_Fiat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/44 "2002-05-08T01:08:22Z")
You’ve all heard about the new pirate movie, right? It’s rated AAAAARRRRRRR!!! ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/45 "2002-05-08T01:46:34Z")
**Lux Fiat** I think I love you. ---
**Author:** ![burundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@burundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burundi)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/46 "2002-05-08T01:57:02Z")
To second **Eve** : “Tis better far to fly and die under the brave black flag I fly than play a sanctimonious part with pirate head and a pirate heart Away to the cheating world go you where pirates all are well-to-do But I’ll stay true to the song I sing and live and die a Pirate King” or queen as the case may be. What are a pirate’s two favorite letters? AAARGH! and **X** marks the spot! ---
**Author:** ![aseymayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/47 "2002-05-08T01:58:51Z")
All first-born males must walk the plank! - Pontius Pirate ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/48 "2002-05-08T05:08:56Z")
Sorry, but when I saw Pontius Pirate, I snapped out of “arrrr, I’m a pirate mode” and started singing “Fa ra ra ra ra” as in A Christmas Story. Shiver me timbers and carry ye on. ---
**Author:** ![Jonno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f19dbf/32.png) [@Jonno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonno)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/49 "2002-05-08T07:36:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elf6c \* > Do we have to where those puffy shirts? [Seinfeld] But I don’t want to be a pirate! [/Seinfeld] [singing] I want to sing and dance, I want to sing and dance I want to be a pirate in the Pirates of Penzance with the silver buckled slippers and those tight, shiny pants I want to sing and dance [/singing] ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/50 "2002-05-08T07:53:37Z")
Arrrrr… shiver lad… Pieces of eight! ---
**Author:** ![Dieter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@Dieter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dieter)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/51 "2002-05-08T10:09:17Z")
Braaaaaaaak. Polly want a cracker. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowWarrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7993a0/32.png) [@ShadowWarrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowWarrior)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/52 "2002-05-08T10:35:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by aseymayo \* > \*\*All first-born males must walk the plank! > \*\* AAARRRrrr! You have a woman’s plank, my lord! I’ll wager that plank has never been ripped from a ship by a typhoon and used as a lifeboat by eighteen hungry men and a cat! ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/53 "2002-05-08T16:39:13Z")
Thank you **Celtic Cowboy**. I’ve been trying to think of the third line of that song for 2 days. I mean: ARRRGHH! I been tryin ta drag the third line o that there scurvy song outer me brainpan fer 2 day noww. ARRRGHHH! [sub]or something like that[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Morgainelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Morgainelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgainelf)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/54 "2002-05-08T17:43:24Z")
Feeling a bit of remorse the day after…what have you evil folk roped me into? _Now for the pirates’ lair! Oh, joy unbounded! Oh, sweet relief! Oh, rapture unexampled! At last I may atone, in some slight measure, For the repeated acts of theft and pillage Which, at a sense of duty’s stern dictation, I, circumstance’s victim, have been guilty!_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/55 "2002-05-08T18:10:25Z")
You forgot the rest of it! > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*Come, friends, who plough the sea, > \*\* Truce to navigation, Take another station! Let’s vary piracee With a little burglaree! (Though not, of course, in the _Trial by Jury_ sense…) Now I’m going to have this stuck in my head all day. Thanks ever so much. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2002, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/56 "2002-05-09T15:19:35Z")
Arrrr! Avast! There be a Seven of Eleven off the port bow! Prepare to board 'er and secure the Cheezy Poofs! Arrrr! Let loose the dogs of war! (Even though the poor buggers can’t swim so well!) Arrr! ---
**Author:** ![ThreeLeggedBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ThreeLeggedBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThreeLeggedBob)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2002, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/57 "2002-05-09T17:58:49Z")
So… I’m at Black Tom’s Olde House o’ Puffy Shirts, just browsing, you know, and I found a really nice one, not too frilly, reinforced in the shoulders to avoid parrot scratches – anyway, there’s this saucy wench checking me out, saying “yes, yes, that’s the one for you, honey, I just love a man with an extra wooden leg…” ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2002, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706/58 "2002-05-09T19:28:38Z")
“Is there an ‘X’ on the seat of your pants? Because it appears that there’s wond’rous booty buried underneath!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-national-act-like-a-pirate-day/107706.md?page=2)