Pirattitude!: So you Wanna Be a Pirate?: Here's How!

By Mark Summers and John Baur

Book Overview

Set sail for high-seas hijinks and nautical nonsense with those paragons of Pirattitude who invented the famous International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Whether readers are old hands at pirating or... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451216490
• ISBN13: 9780451216496
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.6" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

Hilarious! That's all, just hilarious

If you want to learn to not only talk like a pirate, but swagger, swear, cook, pickup women, tell the future, throw a party and lots more like a pirate, these guys have a book for you! The guys who invented "International Talk Like a Pirate Day" have written the funniest book about men (and some women) who stole and killed for a living I've ever read. There's lots of quizzes and tests - but nothing that you need to take seriously. It's all in fun, and these guys seem to have fun in bunches. Learn how to find your inner pirate. It'll change your life! And with Cap'n Slappy and Ol' Chumbucket as your guides, you'll laugh a lot too.

Skull and Funny Bones

Yes, yes (or "aye," if you're gonna be like that), it's funny, shipmates. The authors Cap'n Slappy and Ol' Chumbucket are the same witty piratical pundits who appear on NPR every International Talk Like A Pirate Day (they founded it, not incidentally) and they do not disappoint--far from it. Here's the thing I did not expect about the book, and loved: This book educates you, when you're not looking, on pirate history. Can you name the Seven Seas? My doubloon says you can't. The answer is in "Pirattidue" along with a heaping of similarly fascinating bits. It also educates you on how to be a pirate. For real. Yes, you might need a time machine to hone your technique, but if you're interested in how it was done, you won't be disappointed. And if you don't find this interesting, you'll be proven wrong.

A good read

The NY Times says pirate attacks are on the rise world-wide, so I decided to get me some Pirattitude as a defense. I am sure glad I did -- very useful. And very witty. Great book for an funny evening read.

Arrr! A Mighty Fine Book

Arrr! This is one funny book. Reading it will make you laugh, so don't drink your rum at the same time. When I read the last page and closed the cover, I knew that Pirattitude had changed my life!

Hilarious, clever, AND fun!

We chose to give copies of this book as gifts for Christmas and the responses from our friends and family have been unanimously positive. I would recommend it for all of the wanna-be pirates in your life.