Talk Like a Pirate Day
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Ahoy, matey!
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Get in touch with your inner pirate and celebrate this international holiday. ‘Tis easy, just growl “Arr” and “Yarr” a lot, and throw in an occasional “Shiver me timbers!”
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This day be started by some Yanks (aye, these original buccaneers are from the U.S.!) long ago in a decade almost lost in th’ mists o’ time (the 1990s). ‘Twas started as a rare joke b’tween friends, but a man name o’ Dave Barry, who be writin’ a humor column for the landlubbers, wrote about the day and smartly spread the day ’round th’ globe.
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Shiver me timbers!
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- Fer all you landlubbers out there, here be a pirate glossary!
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- Ye might like t’ take a peep at the picaroons who started this whole entire parley. Their sites be here and here.
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- Ev’ry year this popular holiday gives a leg up t’ the pirates in th’ long-standing battle b’tween pirates and ninjas.
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- One group who glad participates in this holiday is th’ Church of the Flyin’ Spaghetti Monster (pictured below), because pirates are an important part of the faith.
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According to the founder, Bobby Henderson, “…[I]t is disrespectful to teach [FSM] beliefs without wearing His chosen outfit, which of course is full pirate regalia…. You may be interested to know that global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters are a direct effect of the shrinking numbers of Pirates since the 1800s.” Henderson has created a graph showing that there is a “statistically significant inverse relationship between pirates and global temperature.”
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