Talk Like a Pirate Day

Arr, today be Talk Like a Pirate Day

Is there a better place to celebrate T

Talk Like a Pirate Day is one of the weirdest fake holidays around – and that's coming from the blog that told people how to celebrate National Root Beer Float Day, National Oyster Day and the uber-festive doubleheader of National Taco Day and National Vodka Day.

But fear not. If you're dying to put on an eyepatch and pull out your favorite red bandana, we know the best ways to shiver your timbers. We'll just feel horribly ashamed of ourselves while doing so. Matey.

Sail the seven seas (or one river)
For more of a pirate experience, board the Boomerang Pirate Ship, a Potomac River party yacht outfitted with a Jolly Roger on the mast, working water cannons and a full bar with "wenches" serving rum-based "pirate grog." The crew calls passengers "landlubbers" and threatens to make you walk the plank if you don't participate in the limbo contest. (They also hand out eyepatches and plastic cutlasses to help you live out your Long John Silver dreams.) Naturally, lots of customers dress up to fit the theme. A two-hour cruise leaves Georgetown's Washington Harbour at 7:30 p.m. and tickets are still available.

Drink lots of beer
Belgium's insanely tasty Piraat Ale is sponsoring the Talk Like a Pirate Party at Granville Moore's, where the staff will hand out eye patches, bandanas and other prizes while pouring discounted glasses of potent Piraat BPA. Come dressed in a pirate costume and you'll be entered to win $1,300 worth of Piraat gear, including a nine-liter bottle of Piraat and a case of beer each month for a year. Doors open at 5 p.m.

Fill up on donuts
Walk into Krispy Kreme and order a doughnut in a pirate voice, and you get it for free. Show up in full pirate costume – bonus points for the parrot on your shoulder -- and you get a dozen for free.