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[mistakesmakeuswhoweare]

Today is "Talk Like a Pirate Day." I feel like I ought to do something for that. On the other hand, all those "pirate" trappings are completely ridiculous. Hook hands make for very poor penmanship, for instance.

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[mistakesmakeuswhoweare]

Well, I care. Do you have any idea how hard it is to coordinate a fleet when no one can read your writing?

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[youngestone]

Can't just yell it at everyone?

[mistakesmakeuswhoweare]

Have you ever been sailing? In any context you remember?

[youngestone]

Uh...

[Long pause]

...no.

[mistakesmakeuswhoweare]

Remind me to take you sometime. It's noisy, Kitten. Between the wind and the rush of the water and the creaking of the ship... Not to mention if anyone else is talking. Sure, the people on your ship will hear you, but calling across several yards of open ocean? Good luck.

[youngestone]

Get a megaphone?

[He pauses.]

Kitten?

[Tuala can be heard mewing in the background]

[mistakesmakeuswhoweare]

Not back in those days, no. You'd be hoarse in minutes.

What? You're small, adorable, fuzzy... Pun on your name...

[youngestone]

I am not adorable or fuzzy.

[Small, sure. But not the other two]

[mistakesmakeuswhoweare]

That's a matter of opinion.

[youngestone]

No, it's fact.

[mistakesmakeuswhoweare]

Are you sure you want to go into this argument? Because you know it'll get into increasingly personal questions while I prove you completely wrong.

[youngestone]

How does anything personal determine if I'm adorable or not--which I'm not, so!

[mistakesmakeuswhoweare]

We could put it to a vote. Is Ariel with you?

[youngestone]

She's around and also biased since she's my girlfriend.

[mistakesmakeuswhoweare]

I never said it was going to be a fair vote.

[youngestone]

[He snorts]

Yeah. Nice try!

[mistakesmakeuswhoweare]

I win because I cheat, Kitten. I thought that was obvious.

[youngestone]

Stop calling me that! Call Fil that, he looks like a lion anyway.

[mistakesmakeuswhoweare]

But you're the one who protests and fusses. That's half the fun, you know.

[youngestone]

I will post that picture of you as the author to your Facebook.

[mistakesmakeuswhoweare]

Go ahead. I look good in white. Besides, you should see how they make me dress for the dust jacket photos.

[youngestone]

What, a nun's habit?

[mistakesmakeuswhoweare]

Shockingly, no. More like what happens when you cross Jane Austen with cheesecake.

[youngestone]

So a cream puff.

[mistakesmakeuswhoweare]

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