Talk like a Pirate Day

Shiver me timbers me hearties!
Today was International Talk Like a Pirate day - savvy!

I am just enjoying this now ---arrrgh! Had some "cackle fruit" for breakfast. Too bad it did not happen on my birthday but it is every September 19th. I could have had a pirate party (pin the sail on the ship?) with a treasure chest booty of Ring Dings. Oh and the Ring Dings don't come individually foil wrapped anymore, there are two to a package and no little cardboard to sturdy them in the package so some of them were smooshed.

This is amusing because yesterday, I was looking at an old newspaper and there was an article about pirates and how the British used Pirates to keep the Spanish and French away from their land claims or resources. The pirates were very welcomed into the ports because the British liked them spending their "tourist dollars". At times they were loved or hated depends on which day you are talking about and the social climate at the time. LOL

It also mentioned that Sir Francis Drake was a pirate too -- hated by the Spanish and French but loved by the English. I guess he was a fancy pirate since he has been portrayed in history books more of a romantic man of the sea than a pirate who plunders.

Privateering was popular during colonial times in America. Some of the privateering made some of our historical political figures rich! I live in the New England area, and there are plenty of privateer colonial mansions for the tourist to visit.

Walking the plank was something in a Robert Louis Stevenson story, not an actual activity that pirates engaged in. So Robert had a vivid imagination and started this fictional tradition AFTER the golden years of piracy died down and out. I do believe walking the plank appears in Peter Pan too.

I went and took a pirate name quiz and my pirate name is Dread Pirate Flint with the following description:"Like the famous Dread Pirate Roberts, you have a keen head for how to make a profit. Like the rock flint, you're hard and sharp. But, also like flint, you're easily chipped, and sparky. Arr!"

The HTML code was not working for me so I could not post the box.

So what is your pirate name? Could make a good TBlog name too! Sink me!
I missed the Pirate Mom last night on Wife Swap, not that I was that interested in that, arrgh. LOL -- I would have rathered walk the plank.

Pirate Dictionary

More Pirate phrases

Edward and the Pirates -- a great picture book to read to kids. Edward is reading a book about pirates at bedtime and they appear in his room demanding he give them the book but he finds out their deep dark secret!
A very entertaining and creative adventure book.

Literary Pirate: noun - 1. literary pirate - someone who uses another person''s words or ideas as if they were his own ... plagiarizer, plagiariser

Fair Winds! Godspeed!
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Or you can walk the plank! Or sing a shantey!