Saturday, September 19, 2009

International Talk Like A Pirate Day!

Avast, ye scallywags! Today is International Talk Like A Pirate Day!
The observance, started by John "Ol' Chumbucket" Baur and Mark "Cap'n Slappy" Summers, gained widespread renown when it was mentioned by Dave Barry in his nationally syndicated newspaper column seven years ago.
Talk Like a Pirate Day came to be when Baur and Summers, in the middle of a friendly raquetball match, found the game was more fun when punctuated with pirate utterances so they decided to make a day of it. Since then, the day has spawned celebrations around the world, including pirate-themed bar crawls, charity walks and plenty of other events with a healthy dose of pirattitude.

4 Comments:

Anonymous nursemyra said...

lovely image of the moon

27/9/09 05:26  
Anonymous Mike said...

Loved that episode of Family Guy. And if my old roommate had known about this "holiday" he would have gone crazy - I guarantee it!

6/11/09 11:45  
Anonymous filipina heart said...

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6/12/11 07:46  
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28/8/21 01:58  

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