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Pirate Riddles of the Seven Seas

1. What do you call an angry buccaneer?
2. How is Santa Claus like a pirate?
3. Where do pirates store their gym clothes?
4. How is a pirate flag like a West Coast baseball player?
5. What do you get when you cross a pirate swordsman with a zucchini?
6. Where can you find a buccaneer's bathroom?
7. Why did the pirate give his ship a coat of paint?
8. What is a common injury pirates get from walking the plank in bare feet?
9. Why couldn't the little pirate get in to the pirate movie?

Answers:

1. An irate pirate.
2. Santa says, "Ho, ho, ho." A pirate says, "Yo, ho, ho."
3. Davy Jones' locker.
4. One is the Jolly Rodger. The other is a jolly Dodger.
5. A squashbuckler.
6. The poop deck.
7. Its timbers were shivering.
8. Long John sliver.
9. It was rated "Aarrrrr."

All Riddles © Copyright 1997-2008 Jim Nelson

All right, you landlubbers. Think you can come up with more clever pirate riddles than these? Send them to me, along with your name and address. If I use your riddle, I'll send you $5. All riddles must be original, and, if chosen for payment, become the property of Jim Nelson.

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