East Baton Rouge Parish Library

Pirattitude!, So you wanna be a pirate? : Here's how!, John "Ol' Chumbucket" Baur and Mark "Cap'n Slappy" Summers

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Pirattitude!

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John "Ol' Chumbucket" Baur and Mark "Cap'n Slappy" Summers

So you wanna be a pirate? : Here's how!

Set sail for high-seas hijinks and nautical nonsense with those paragons of Pirattitude who invented the famous International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Whether readers are old hands at pirating or hopeless landlubbers, the Pirate Guys will have them pirate-savvy in no time with sure-fire pirate pickup lines for any occasion, tips on how to make their pirate party a buccaneer ball that even Martha Stewart would be proud of, and help determining their true pirate monicker

Table of Contents: Forward, by Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, Introduction: Plundered from Dave Barry -- Chapter 1: The Lure of the Sea (Or a Reasonable Facsimile Thereof), Who are The Pirate Guys? And why pirates?, The birth of Pirattitude, Sporting Insults, What if ... -- Chapter 2: Pirattitude: Getting in Touch with the Pirate Inside YOU!, Role Models for Today's Pirate Guy, Things with Pirattitude, The Poster Boy for Pirattitude, Chapter 3: Get yer pirate name here!, Who's in charge here? -- Chapter 4: What is YOUR PI-Q? -- Chapter 5: Pirate Talk: How to Make it Work for You, Meet Robert Newton, The Five A's, Curses! Foiled again! PIRATE VOCABULARY: In the office, In church, The Rev. Cap'n Slappy's Suggested Pirate Sermons, At the Doctor's Office -- Chapter 6: Pirates on the Prowl, Prepare for action, Scouring (and scoring on) the seas, Pickup lines: Top Ten Pickup Lines For Male Pirates, Top Ten Pickup Lines for the Female Pirates, Top Ten Pick-up Lines for Gay and Lesbian Pirates --Chapter 7: Dress for excess: Fashion and the Pirate Guys, To the ladies, Boxers or briefs? So you want to dress like a pirate? OK, but why?, The Pirate Guy on the town, Ties: The hempen halter, Quick Quiz, Pirate fashion - Dos and Don'ts, A quick and dirty guide to Pirate Drag. -- Chapter 8: Then and Now: Comparing pirates and players -- Chapter 9: You Can't Spell Pirate without Ate, or Pie, or the letter R, The perfect food, A little of everything - or a lot, What shall we drink?, Grog - A Very Incomplete Timeline, Potent Potables -- Chapter 10: Buccaneer Balls: Party Like It's 1699!, The Invitations, Planning the Party, The Games, Top Ten Pirate Toasts, Dos and Don'ts for Pirate Party Bartenders -- Chapter 11: Till Death Do You Part -- Chapter 12: TOTLAPPI -- Chapter 13: Ahoy, Hollywood -- Chapter 14: Music hath charms, The modern-day sea chanty - or shanty, The Drunken Slappy Rap, Chanties or shanties?, Sing along - Or not, Ear worms: The songs that never end --Chapter 15: Gazing Into The future, The Signs of the Piradiac (Pirate Zodiac), The Years of ARRRRR Lives -- Chapter 16: Cap'n Slappy's Practical Parrot Pointers -- Chapter 17: Pirates at School, School/pirate lexicon, Things to do in the classroom, TLAPDay at school: The rationale -- Chapter 18: A True Story of Pirattitude in Action, Other examples of Pirattitude in Action -- Chapter 19: Life Aboard the Festering Boil, A Day Aboard the Festering Boil, How Slappy Became Cap'n, What's in a name? Ol' Chumbucket, Other hands on board -- Chapter 20: It's not just a job, it's work! -- Chapter 21: Therapists notes from Pirate Group Sessions