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In the run-up to Talk Like a Pirate Day (TLaPD), on Thursday the 19th, this Rhymes With Orange cartoon from the 15th:

(#1) PirateTalk + ParrotTalk, with a cartoon reversal of roles

Earlier on this blog:

— on 2/25/19 in “Grammar pirate”, with an extended discussion of PirateTalk (and links to TLaPD postings)

— on 9/10/14 in “More Bizarro parrots”:

(#2) (with links to other Bizarro parrot cartoons)

Paradoxical animal communication. The parrot clearly understands the question [“Do you talk?”] and responds in English, while denying that it understands.

And, just for its ornamental value, from my 9/27/11 posting “Gayboys going ARRR!”:

(#3) Two cute gayboys out in their black piratical underwear and their pirate hats: “it is, it is a glorious thing / to be a Pirate King!”

No doubt they’re cruising for a clever parrot for a three-way, maintaining a long sea-faring tradition:

(#4) From the NYU Press site on Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean by B. R. Burg (2nd ed., 1995)

As here:

(#5) Cotton (David Bailie) and Jack (Johnny Depp) in Gore Verbinski’s Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

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