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Holiday: Talk Like A Pirate Day
Date: September 19, 2011
History: "Talk Like A Pirate Day is an original concept created in a moment of temporary insanity by John Baur and Mark Summers." The history of how this "holiday" came to be is quite entertaining and we just cannot do it justice here. So please head on over to http://www.talklikeapirate.com/about to read how this phenomenon got started.
Interesting Facts: This is Talk Like A Pirate Day, not Dress Like A Pirate Day. According to the Pirate Guys, there is already a Dress Like A Pirate Day...it's called Halloween. Also, there is no special term for a woman pirate. "Oh sure, you can refer to a woman as a 'wench,' and that has a piratey feel. But technically, a woman pirate is still a pirate. In fact, using the term 'woman pirate' as if that's somehow different than 'pirate' completely misses the point: your cargo's been stolen, your ship is sinking and you might be dead. That's the point. Everything else is just details."