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Sat 19 Sep, 2009 09:45 am
Yes, it's true International Talk like a Pirate day is here again, today
The men who created Talk Like a Pirate Day in Albany, Ore., say the idea began as a string of pirate insults and grew to become a worldwide celebration.
Matt "Cap'n Slappy" Summers, 46, who still lives in Albany, and John "Ol' Chumbucket" Baur, who now lives in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, said Talk Like a Pirate Day, which falls on Saturday, began in 1995 as pirate-style bantering on an Albany racquetball court, CNN reported Friday.
"We just grew up in a time and place where we saw the wrong movies, read the wrong books," Baur said of the pirate fixation he shares with Summers.
The men said they decided to turn their idea into an annual Sept. 19 event and the holiday gained major national attention in 2002 when it was the subject of a Miami Herald column by humorist Dave Barry.
"This is not what my parents would have chosen for me, but when the wave comes up, you ride it," Baur said. "We do it for fun. We don't pretend that this is serious.'
• Why Sept. 19? It's the birthday of the ex-wife of one of the holiday's founders -- Cap'n Slappy.
• The exclamation "Arrrrrrrrrr!" is preferred over "Arrrrrgh!" or "Yarrrrrrrrr!"
• The Patron Saint of Talk Like a Pirate Day is Robert Newman. The late actor played the "definitive" Long John Silver in "Treasure Island."
• The holiday should not be an excuse to wear pirate garb. As the creators point out on their Web site: "It's TALK like a Pirate Day, not DRESS like a pirate."
Foofie, this thread is just posted for the sake of diversionary humour and is not intended to be demeaning to jews.
Arr - rr
He'll be a walkin the plank if he starts.
Had a fellow come in to the store the other day with a parrot on his shoulder. Didn't look like a pirate -- well, except for the parrot. He had a lot of bird poop down the back of his shirt. Maybe he was just ahead of schedule.
What's a pirate's favourite letter?
"R"
@dyslexia,
Sure it is demeaning to Jews (see original post of thread). The whole concept of being Jewish is to graduate college and be a success at something, so one's family can kvell (puff up with pride). How many pirate doctors, lawyers, professors are there? I thought so. Being a pirate is a very Gentile occupation.
Occasionally, there might be a rebellious Jewish child that does something atypically Jewish, but not become a pirate. If an American Jewish child wants to be atypically Jewish, the child can go to Israel where there are a whole host of atypical Jewish occupations that Jews are doing. In the U.S. Jews tend to be in specific occupations. I say tend. Naturally, there are exceptions.
It was nice of you to start a thread about pirates and Jews. Thank you.
Just read a review of a book that sounds interesting to me on the economics of piracy - “The Invisible Hook” (Princeton; $24.95), by Peter T. Leeson.
The article -
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/09/07/090907crbo_books_crain
Oh, bugger! Missed it again.
Arrrrrrrrr!
@dyslexia,
Have thay gotten the co-operation of the ones from Somalia ?
david I'm going to assume that you can read but somehow just missed this comment from my opening post;
Quote:this thread is just posted for the sake of diversionary humour
@dyslexia,
dyslexia wrote:
david I'm going to assume that you can read but somehow just missed this comment from my opening post;
Quote:this thread is just posted for the sake of diversionary humour
OK then; tell the Somalians to forget about it.
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