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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 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.

Pirate Links

Selected books

Everything I Know About Pirates : A Collection of Made-Up Facts, Educated Guesses, and Silly Pictures About Bad Guys of the High Seas
by Tom Lichtenheld