Arrrggg, Tomorrow Be Talk Like a Pirate Day: A Compendium

Having a strange attraction to the piratical (Climateer was a mashup of climate and buccaneer/profiteer/have a beer grog) we have collected pirate tales since the blog's early days.

It all began with the official International Talk Like A Pirate Day website and went downhill from there.
They now have an international singalong (some quite creative) that I like to introduce with:

"There! That's what I think of ye. Before an hour's out, I'll stove in your old block house like a rum puncheon. Laugh, by thunder, laugh! Before an hour's out, ye'll laugh upon the other side. Them that die'll be the lucky ones...

 

But before we waste invest another minute, the Mangolanguages linguists are offering for free the exact pirate immersion course used by diplomats and C-suite executives around the world.

Learn Pirate

Some of our pirate posts:
(post first, then read, aye that's me motto)

How Investment Bankers Are Like Sexy Pirates 

"Kidnapped by Pirates at Sea? Here's How Economics Can Save You"

Obama Reaches Out to 'Moderate' Pirate Community (and we plan to make a buck-o, or two)

"Somali sea gangs lure investors at pirate lair" and "A comparison of Piracy and Private Equity"
 
Arrgh: 'Pirates Not a Good Long Term Bet'

...Start-up costs

Piracy: Gun, boats, a handful of men, rocket-propelled grenades.
Private equity: Office on Park Avenue.

...Jargon

Private equity: “Internal rate of return,” called IRR.
Piracy: Eerily similar: “Aaar.”>>>MUCH MORE

Dealing with Pirates (and terrorists) Russian Style
"Mace and Vomit: The Latest in Anti-Pirate Tech"
Big Money: Somali Pirates' Rich Returns

Imagine if you could invest $100,000 to control a $200 million asset for three months and sell it back to the owners for $10 million—tax-free. That's the Somali pirate way 

Piracy 2012: Now With Form Letters, P.R.

The New Yorker story, The Pirates’ Code, has a link to a recent paper by economist Peter Leeson called "An-arrgh-chy: The Law and Economics of Pirate Organization ":

“Nature, we see, teaches the most Illiterate the necessary Prudence for their Preservation . . . these Men whom we term, and not without Reason, the Scandal of human Nature, who were abandoned to all Vice, and lived by Rapine; when they judged it for their Interest . . . were strictly just . . . among themselves . . .”

—Captain Charles Johnson (1726-1728: 527) 

And, while not about pirates per se:
Leadership Lessons From 16th c. Ship Mutinies

And a stop at the Pirate Name Generator garnered:

Yarr olde name be climateer. But we'll now call ye:
Pirate Roger the Malformed
I hope the namesake (eponym) was a  Jolly Roger.