Ahoy, mateys!

Thanks to the roommate, Black Mary Kidd, for sharing this quiz. I LOVE Talk Like a Pirate day. (Even though the only phrases I know are walk the plank, arrrggghhh, scalawag, and shiver me timbers.)

 

    My pirate name is:
   

 

    Captain Anne Flint   

 
 

    Even though there's no legal rank on a pirate ship, everyone recognizes you're the one in charge. Like the rock flint, you're hard and sharp. But, also like flint, you're easily chipped, and sparky.    Arr!
   

  Get your own pirate name from piratequiz.com.
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Day 263: "But why is all the rum gone?" (Captain Jac, POTC)

Ahoy landlubbers and scalawags. Is me fourteenth favorite day of the year, talk like a pirate day, arrgh. Shiver me timbers, it was a busy day. Me hoisted the colors and was off. Me'n'th' crew seen a great grand sea beastie, th' mother of all whales, aye. Had to send some scurvy bilge rats to Davy Jones' locker, but aye, just a pirate's life for me. Time for some grog, savvy?

Thanks to Wikihow for assisting me in today's featured embarrassment, talk like a pirate day! I am celebrating by watching Pirates of the Caribbean 2 while wearing a pirate hat and talking/writing like a pirate.

I decided last summer that being a pirate* would not be such a bad thing, for several reasons:

• Travel
  
• People fear you
  
• You don't technically have to bathe
  
• Firearms
  
• The search for treasure
  
• You expect treachery and deception
  
• Possibility of hot boys with long hair and sexy earrings
  
• You rely on yourself
  
• You get to carry a sword
  

And, obviously, cavorting with Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom is a nice incentive, too.

*The romanticized Disney version, of course. Not the ones off the coast of Africa and Indonesia kidnapping tourists.