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Avast, me hearties!

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

In the eight years since Dave Barry mentioned us in his nationally syndicated newspaper column, what once was a goofy idea celebrated by a handful of friends has turned into an international phenomenon that shows no sign of letting up. Maybe you read about us on line.. 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. Or perhaps you're one of the millions of people from South Africa to the South Pole, from New York to the Pacific Northwest, who've made it your own personal excuse to party like pirates every September 19th (and sometimes for days before and after)!

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

Talk Like A Pirate Day 2009

What's new?

T-shirt winners announced!

The designs are all in, the ballot-boxes are stuffed and Cap'n Slappy has made up his mind. Sort of. The truth is, the Cap'n got so many great entries in our 2010 T-shirt design contest that he chose three winners, and their designs are available now on T-shirts and selected other items from our CafePress store. Congratulations to artists Nick Domschot, Mike "The Skeleton Pirate" Quinn and Greg Warmbrodt &
Captain Salty - as well as all the other talented artists who entered. Take a look at the winning entries - and order your shirt(s) now to have them in plenty of time for Talk Like A Pirate Day!

It's not too early to start makin' yer plans for ITLAPD 2010, Sept. 19 (as always). The grand holiday falls on a Sunday this year, and you know what that means: Talk Like a Pirate WEEKEND! We're starting to hear about events planned for this year, including festivals and theatrical productions - don't forget to tell us about yours! And when the party's over, don't forget to send yer ONE best photo of yer event to the Webwench to add to our gallarrrry on Flickr!

Team Pirate is startin' to hatch plans for our own 2010 fun. Stay tuned!

Meanwhile, have a look ...

at how Team Pirate spent TLAPD 2009

Curious about how a middle-class family from Oregon is fitting in after a full year o' livin' the pirate's life in the U.S. Virgin Islands? Follow the adventures in their blog, Island Time.

Pirates 2.0

By popular demand, Team Pirate now has ports o'call on the most popular social media sites:

• Facebook: Check out our new Fan Page, complete with a live feed of The Poopdeck newsletter.
• Twitter: Cap'n Slappy tweets, under "thecapnslappy" - and ye can now read his latest tweets over on the Ask Cap'n Slappy page, too!
• MySpace. Although we don't do much with that page any more.

You'll still find the best, most complete news about Talk Like A Pirate Day right here on our Web site, including:

Our books !

T-shirts!
Talk Like Blackbeard - or Talk Like Anne Bonny! And the return of the original TLAPD shirt (now it's "retro")

Pirate video!

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

(Want to see the newest videos as soon as they're available?
Subscribe to the Official Wench's YouTube group!)

Still choice:

Photos from PyrateCon 2007

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

Mad Sally's account of her 2007 WifeSwap ordeal,
on Keep to the Code

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