Arr! Today be Talk Like a Pirate Day, the best holiday to ever emerge in the modern age. Spend the day talking like a pirate, or dress like one like me. Better yet, if ye be of age, drink like one. Read some good pirate books, too.
Pirate Latitudes, by Michael Crichton
On Stranger Tides, by Tim Powers
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Captain Blood, by Rafael Sabatini
The Swords of the Ancients 