Avast!

It be International Talk Like A Pirate Day, and to celebrate ye day at Americans Amuck, wa're gonna remind folks that the first, and greatest pirate of all time was ye Sir Francis Drake, who was such a scalawag to ye Spanish and their shipping that e'en the Queen harself made him a knight! So thar's hope for all ye pirates out there. Arrrrrr!!!!

Updated: Tom Smith, the world's greatest filker and a fellow commenter at this site, has his own Talk Like A Pirate Day Song. Feel free to join in: Yo, ho, yo, ho, it's Talk Like A Pirate Day ....