Around the world today, millions of people are celebrating International Talk Like a Pirate Day, a tradition started as a joke in 1995 by two mateys from Oregon.
Despite the popularity of the parody holiday, it seems that not even pirates spoke "pirate." Here's a great article from National Geographic dispelling some popular myths about pirates arrrr-ing, shivering their timbers, and making scallywags walk the plank.
Nonetheless, we can't resist a good pirate joke.
Why couldn't the pirate check out books?
He lost his library carrrrrrd.
Got any good jokes of your own? Tell us in the comments.
Written by Rebecca Harlow, Head of Reference and Adult Services.
