Ah, did you enjoy International Talk Like a Pirate Day? I did. Arrrr, matey! If you didn’t know this day existed, allow me to introduce it to you. All I really know about it is you can talk like a pirate today and no one can look at you funny. See, this comes in handy for me since I often talk like a pirate. I also think like a pirate. Now, I not be talking about the really bad pirate stuff and I know piracy is actually a bad thing, but, son of a biscuit eater, the spirit of a pirate, by hook or by crook be alive and well.
They (those people practically as infamous as pirates) say you are either a pirate or a ninja. Pirates be way cooler and can capture more booty with less death. Pirates also love one of my favorite words, bloody. Things can be bloody with multiple meanings when ye be a pirate. I also feel piracy is more obvious in our society. They (thar they be again…) don’t say that you ninja-ed the music, you pirated the music. Thar isn’t a catchy, rhyming phrase like by hook or by crook. Thar be no cool flag like a jolly roger. These symbols and expressions are so well known and have been within culture in general seemingly forever. Now I will give the ninja a plug–they be bloody stealthy in their ways and perhaps that is an advantage. Some things may be better protected for the ninja way of life, or I just need to study me opposition a little more closely.
Look at all of the influence piracy has had on society (and I only be looking at the influences that I can readily pull from the Davy Jones’ locker of me mind at this time of night). Pirates were acceptable to Walt Disney decades ago. Pirates of Penzance is a beloved operetta with really great songs (“For I am the Pirate King” or how about a “Paradox”, anyone?). If Gilbert and Sullivan appreciated the value of piracy, everyone can. Besides, Kevin Kline is amazing in that film. Top of his form thar he be!
Obviously Disney’s Pirates grew beyond what I think even Walt could have imagineered. Johnny Depp kicked some bloody arse in that role and offered a great way to celebrate one’s piracy with their children. Pirates think outside of the box, highly confluent they be, while ninjas tend to lean toward precision. Truly, I mean that. It’s not just because of what I did at work today. I have an awesome picture of Captain Jack Sparrow in my office. My youngest has a beta named Jack Sparrow. We’ve got the pirate castle, the pop-up Black Pearl ship, pirate hats, scarves, eye-patches…you get the picture. And we often go with the flow, thinking outside of that box.
But piracy shows up in other places. If you recall my obsession with Kenneth Branagh, 
you will have guessed that I will now be referencing Pirate Radio, a great movie. And the youngins think that piracy and music is something they connected together for the very first time. Nope, long ago, in the 1960s the two were linked. (Check out the cool pirate connection-Bill Nighy is in both Pirate Radio & Pirates of the Caribbean! Check out the cool Kenneth Branagh connection-both are in Pirate Radio and Valkyrie-not a pirate movie, and one where I have to tolerate Tom Cruise, which is a completely different blog that you’ll never read because I wouldn’t spend the time, wow, I really can’t stand Tom Cruise, can I? Except for the ritualistic viewing of Top Gun with my dad.). Anyway…I digress.
Back to piracy in everyday culture. Ahoy, Pirate Booty, the delicious snack food. Love it! Thar’s the Pirate weekend down in Maryland. Heck, thar’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
Well, me hearty, I must be off to bed. If I oversleep, me boss will make me walk the plank and we don’t be wanting that.
By the way, I be skipping the editing feature since the pirate speak will cause the spell and grammar check to use the cat o’ nine tails, flogging me blog about all the pirate talk.
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And they lived happily ever after!
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