Today is --Talk Like A Pirate Day!

Astonish your friends, confound your enemies and confuse everyone because, Matey, today be Talk Like A Pirate Day. Arrrr!

Some people may not be amused, like this prig from the Huffpo:

Yes, I know it is only entertainment, and a campy sort as that, but why the hell are we romanticizing the deeds and cadence of pirates?

I'll say this just once. Pirates were, and are, bad people. Then and now. They were- and are- bandits, terrorists of the sea.

Get a plank. Or a humor transplant.