Cartoon Saturday

Halfway through September ...

Credit monitoring firm Equifax suffered a huge security breach that may have exposed the personal data of up to 143 million Americans; North Korea continued poking military fingers in the world's collective eye, launching another medium-range ballistic missile over Japan; a bomb exploded on a commuter train in London on Friday, injuring nearly 30 people and leading the UK to raise its terror threat level to "critical;" after an amazing 20-year mission to Saturn that returned vast amounts of scientific data and thousands of beautiful photos of the ringed planet, NASA destroyed the Cassini spacecraft by plunging it into Saturn's atmosphere to burn up; and protests broke out in downtown St. Louis on Friday afternoon hours after a judge found a former police officer not guilty of first-degree murder in the 2011 shooting death of a black motorist.

Because this coming Tuesday (the 19th) is International Talk Like a Pirate Day, I thought we'd feature cartoons about pirates today ...

You have to look closely, but it's really funny ...

This is what happens when you hire the low bidder to design your jolly roger ...

It's an understandable mistake ...

When careers clash ...

Eh??? ...

Google Glass for pirates ...

It's kind of obvious, but still funny ...

Oops ... wrong eyepatch ...

When GPS replaces the traditional treasure map ...

Pirates in Ikea ... I imagine the peg legs would have names like "Peggo" or "Stomp," and the hooks would have names like "Haken" or "Gancho." 

Aaaarrrrr, mateys! We be done with Cartoon Saturday for this week. If ye didn't enjoy it, ye can walk the plank.

It should be a nice, if warm and sticky weekend here in NoVa ... just in time for me to catch up on the yard work that didn't get done while we were in Ohio and while it was too wet to mow when we got back. Oy. 

Have a good day and a great weekend. More thoughts tomorrow, when Musical Sunday returns.

Bilbo