While visiting my family at Christmas, my six year-old nephew, Parker, asked me "How does a pirate go on vacation?"

I had no idea, of course, but I was delighted to learn he did so "In an R-V!" Needless to say, we laughed ourselves silly, scowling like the scurvy scalliwags we were while stretching our "R-'s"in true pirate fashion. "Shiver me timbers, matey." AARRRRRRGH!

The following compendium is quite simply more of the same, so do enjoy. Also, if you have any pirate jokes of your own, be sure to click Contribute to share them.

Q: How did the Captian Crook try to poison the pirate?
A: With R–senic.
     -- By Marie Anne Chiment, Drexel Hill, PA, US --

Q: How as the pirate conceived?
A: R–tificial insemination.
     -- By Marie Anne Chiment, Drexel Hill, PA, US --

Q: Why couldn't the young pirate get into the movie?
A: Because it was rated R–!
     -- By Kim Wiley, Webster Groves, MO, US --

Q: What's a pirate's favorite holiday?
A: R–bor Day.
     -- By Marie Anne Chiment, Drexel Hill, PA, US --

Q: What train does the Pirate take when he visits Flushing, Queens?
A: The R–.
     -- By Chris Mitchell, El Paso, TX, US --

Q: What was the name of the pirate's parot?
A: R–lene.
     -- By Kitty Knapp, Racine, WI, US --

Q: Why did the pirate want to go to R–vard?
A: He wanted to study R–cheology.
     -- By Marie Anne Chiment, Drexel Hill, PA, US --

Q: What do you do with a drunken pirate?
A: You R–ass and R–angue him.
     -- By Louis S. Berman, Drexel Hill, PA, US --