Yaaaarrrr!

Yaarrr, it be here at last! International Talk Like A Pirate Day be sailin’ in on the mornin’ tide, and like a good Pirate Princess, I’m swillin’ a jigger o’ rum to celebrate! And I’m dustin’ off the rip-roarinest pirate chanty o’ all time, “The Last Saskatchewan Pirate,” by those Canadian buccaneers, The Arrogant Worms. No landlubber boards me vessel without knowin’ it.

I’ve also plundered this sing-a-long o’ that pirate chestnut “Drunken Sailor” courtesy o’ me mateys at Talk Like A Pirate Official Headquarters. (Don’t ye be worryin’, it’ll be gettin’ catchier as it rolls on!)

Who stole the Mystic cannons?

Police say cannons were stolen from a bay area pirate ship.

http://www.abcactionnews.com/video/videoplayer.swf?dppversion=10783

Some clever plunderer has stolen the black powder cannons from the Ye Mystic Krewe, a custom-built ship used throughout the year and in the Gasparilla Parade in Clearwater, Florida.

Police said they were probably teenagers, but there’s $600 in gold doubloons for you if you turn them in and teach these young scallywags a lesson–don’t mess with pirates. Join them!

Captain Morgan’s Pirate Ship Found! (sort of)

Before you get all excited, to clarify, the dive team off the coast of Panama (funded by guess who), said they only thought they might have found a part of Capt. Henry Morgan’s ship, which supposedly sank in 1671 while defending Panama City against Spain while working as an English privateer.

The handsome young Welsh scion Henry Morgan, before he became the scallywag we all know and love.

They recovered a bunch of coal-encrusted boxes and chests, which probably (sigh) don’t contain treasure. Still, I think that’s worth raising a glass of rum to, don’t you?