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Pirate Riddles for Sophisticates

I stopped by McSweeney's today for the first time in a long while and found this:

Q: What's a pirate's favorite aspect of computational linguistics? A: PARRRsing sentences.

Q: What's a pirate's favorite alliance-creating diplomatic agreement from the Second World War?
A: The TripARRRtite Pact.

Q: If that same pirate were then to recite a 20th-century poem about the nature of poetry, what would it be?
A: "ARRRs Poetica" by ARRRchibald MacLeish.

(UPDATE: After all, it is, apparently, Talk Like a Pirate Day.)