Wednesday, April 8, 2009

A Little More Pirate-like

Sweet Baby Jeebus, what is this? Some shaggy decrepit-looking pirate clearly came through a portal in time -- possibly caused by all this pirate dancing -- stole a 20th century lab coat and started doing the pirate dance too. Cap'n Redlocks must be taking the picture.


The Motley Monk here, eyepatched and cutlassy (is he holding a prop?) is a lesson to us all: work is the perfect place to do the Pirate Dance! Arrr!

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Across the High Seas, from Jolly Old to the New World

What did I tell you... sweeping the nation. Invented in the morning, by noon it was being done by sweet little old lady lab assistants in New Hampshire.


This is... um... I'm going to call her Cap'n Redlocks the Stabby... look at that blurry cutlass hand!

Do The Pirate Dance!

Instructions:

1. Put your hand over your eye, like it's an eyepatch
2. Rock from side to side like you're on a boat
3. Stab your other hand like you've got a cutlass in it

Then you sing the lyrics, which, conveniently enough, are as follows:

Yep, you put a hand over your eye, like it's an eyepatch
Then you rock from side to side like you're on a boat
And you stab your other hand about like you've got a cutlass in it!

Do the Pirate Dance!
Do the Pirate Dance!
Yarr!


Please post photos and videos here by emailing them to dothepiratedance@drop.io. Thank you very much.

The Pirate Dance was created by Shel and her three-year-old son Euan and has since become an international craze, spreading across the continents as fast as Skype will allow.