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If you didn’t understand people at the office today, you’re not going crazy, you just didn’t know it was International Talk Like A Pirate Day. To get ready for next year, you need The Pirate Dictionary by Terry Breverton. After reading the Pirate Dictionary, you’ll not only understand your friends next September 19, you’ll be [...]

For Talk Like A Pirate Day we’ve been covering a lot of pirate related products. One of them, the Pirattitude Book, taught you how to be a pirate, but today we don’t need to BE a pirate or even ACT like a pirate—we only need to TALK like a pirate. For this you need to [...]

Yo, ho, yo, ho it’s the LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean Queen Anne’s Revenge for me! As we mentioned in an earlier post, today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. If you’re looking for something to play with while talking like a pirate and you can’t afford the Pirate Ship Playhouse, this 1097 piece [...]

Deep down I think everyone has a soft spot for Jack Sparrow and those cool pirates of yesteryear.  I lot of us dreamed of being pirates and still do.  The big question is, how do you do it?  Well, the Prattitude!: So You Wanna Be A Pirate? Here’s How!  book is ready to get you [...]

I think at one point or another in our lives, we all wanted to be pirates sailing the open seas, looking for bounty, and taking whatever we wanted.  Sadly, most of us had to give up those dreams (I think Jack Sparrow is still out there somewhere) and get real everyday boring jobs.  Well with [...]

Ahoy there mateys! At GeekAlerts, we love holidays – even especially silly obscure holidays like International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Every September 19th we drop anchor and drink grog until the landlubbers start to complain. Arrrr! Naturally we enjoy pirate booty on this day as well, such as these Mimobot Pirate USB Flash Drives. [...]

When you skin your knee, say Arrrgh like a pirate instead of ouch. These Ouch! Skulls and Bones Bandages are how pirates tend to their wounds. Well, unless they lose a leg, then they just make a peg leg.

You’ve seen Minimates before with the Real Ghostbusters and now Diamond Select is expanding their Minimates line with Calico Jacks Pirate Raiders.  These are sure to be a hit when they are released later this summer since Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is still be on everyone’s radar!

The International Talk Like A Pirate Day took place about a month ago, but that doesn’t stop Firebox from releasing this pop-up pirate game combined with a 4-port USB hub.

Yesterday I said that the Vampire Bat definitely would have made it to the Top 13 Strangest R/C Toys list. Here’s another radio controlled toy that should deserve a top 5 position on an updated version of that list.

Here’s something for all those pirate and bling bling-loving computer geeks.

How about having your very own haunted castle in the garden? With this inflatable Halloween “toy” you can – if you have $499 to spare, that is.