Avast, me hearties!

Welcome to the one and only, official, accept-no-substitutes Talk Like A Pirate Day Web site.

You've read about it in Dave Barry's blog. Maybe you caught one of our radio or TV interviews. Or maybe you just stumbled on to our site while googling around for sites your mother probably wouldn't approve of. Perhaps you're one of the millions of people from South Africa to Australia, from New York to the Pacific Northwest, who party like pirates every September 19th (and sometimes for days afterward.

However you got here, stick around an' learn all about September 19 - International Talk Like A Pirate Day!

Talk Like A Pirate Day 2007

How folks celebrated around the world, and on the Internet

Photos of Talk Like A Pirate Day past and present
Send us yours - but read this first!!!

What's new?

Ol Chumbucket and Cap'n Slappy meet up with their longtime cyberpal, Bilgemunky, at PyrateCon 2007. (No ships were burned in the editing of this photo)

New for 2008

Pirate Guys at Capricon!

Cap'n Slappy and Ol' Chumbucket join artist Don Maitz and author Mike Resnick as guests of honor at Capricon XXVIII - with plans for a filk-along with our pal Tom Smith!

A Li'l Pirate's ABSeas - a piratical primer
for junior pirates!

New t-shirt designs!
Talk Like Blackbeard - or Talk Like Anne Bonney!

Pirate video!

Cap'n Slappy and Ol' Chumbucket demonstrate the finer points of pirattitude on YouTube

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Subscribe to the Official Wench's YouTube group!)

Still choice:

Photos from PyrateCon 2007

Four swashbucklin' pirate adventures featuring Ol' Chumbucket, Cap'n Slappy and the crew of the Festering Boil

Mad Sally's account of her WifeSwap ordeal,
on Keep to the Code

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The Ship's Log o' the Festerin' Boil
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Public appearances: Meet the Pirate Guys (or invite 'em to yer gig)

The Official Talk Like A Pirate Day Song, by Tom Smith
available on his album, "And They Say I've Got Talent"

Welcome aboard, mates; roam around an' let us know what ye think.

-- Mark "Cap'n Slappy" Summers, John "Ol' Chumbucket" Baur
Tori "Mad Sally" Baur
(and Pat "Jezebel" Kight, too)