Are you prepared? Do you have your outfit? Stuffed parrot? Eye patch? We certainly hope so, because today is National Talk Like a Pirate Day, and you might seem a little ridiculous if you failed to adequately accessorize your performance.

You think we're kidding? This is a cultural movement, with a website, a book, and best of all, an official song.


We're torn, because the whole ditty is pretty priceless, but this might be our favorite verse:

T' me,
Yo, Ho, Yo, Ho,
It's "Talk Like A Pirate" Day!
When laptops are benches God gave us for wenches,
And a sail ain't a low price to pay!
When timbers are shivered and lillies are livered
And every last buckle is swashed,
We'll abandon our cars for a shipfull of ARRRs
And pound back the grog till we're sloshed. Yo ho ....



Who says Renn Faire people have all the fun?

In the gallery, ensembles to make you Captain Hook, Jack Sparrow and of course...Sexy Pirate Wenches!