This is the Official email from Mark "Cap'n Slappy" Summers of International Talk Like A Pirate Day Fame!

Ahoy Capt. Tiger!

Ye should know, up front, that we bestow “Official” titles like seagulls bestow texture and colour on pirates tricorns – that is to say, on anyone with ferocious randomness and for no good reason at all – so thar may be other “Official” Aussie International Talk Like a Pirate Day web sites – but none “Officialler” than yers!

Therefore, by the power vested in me vest I now pronounce ye man and … wait … I got the wrong piece o’ “Official” paperwork here … let’s see … ah, yes … I hereby declare www.yaaarrr.com/ the “Official” (in quotes at no extra charge) Aussie Talk Like a Pirate Day site and may the Good Lord have mercy on yer souls.

And any what claims to be the “Official” Aussie International Talk Like a Pirate Day site probably was so be nice to ‘em and treat ‘em like a brother with a severe brain injury because I probably made them “Official” when I was drunk. But Australia is a big country – so big it needed its own continent! So, it’s probably big enough for seven or eight “Official” International Talk Like a Pirate Day sites! Hell. I lose track.

(But yers is officially our favourite – honestly.)

Kiss the wenches for me!

Cap’n Slappy