VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – Hope you marked your calendar and remembered to wear your codpiece (You wouldn’t want your urchins to show, now, would you?)

Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Since its beginning back in the mists of time (2002), it has grown from a day observed by a handful of salty sea dogs to a day observed by slightly more than a handful of salty sea dogs.

Avast, me hearties, we be yankin’ yer chain!

The founders, Mark “Cap’n Slappy” Summers and John “Ol’ Chumbucket” Baur, claim millions of peg-leg lovin’, eye-patched poopdeck swabbers will celebrate across the Seven Seas today, with many partying like a pirate right into the weekend.

If your plans include plundering some booty, News1130 is happy to provide you with the Top 10 Pirate Pick-up Lines:
    
10. Avast, me proud beauty! Wanna know why my Roger is so Jolly?
9. Have ya ever met a man with a real yardarm?
8. Come on up and see me urchins.
7. Yes, that is a hornpipe in my pocket and I am happy to see you.
6. I’d love to drop anchor in your lagoon.
5. Pardon me, but would ya mind if fired me cannon through your porthole?
4. How’d you like to scrape the barnacles off of me rudder?
3. Ya know, darlin’, I’m 97 percent chum free.
2. Well blow me down?

And the number one pirate pickup line is …
1. Prepare to be boarded.