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Yo ho ho, a Pirate's Day for me

Put a parrot on your shoulder, strap on a peg leg, hit the rum and start bellowing “Shiver me Timbers!” (if you aren’t already), for today is International Talk Like A Pirate Day. 19 September is our once-a-year chance to don an eye patch, sport a ridiculously large hat and keep on saying “Arrrrr.”

It all started back in the 1990s as a cult joke between two American friends - John ‘Ol Chumbucket’ Baur and Mark ‘Capn Slappy’ Summers - but really took off when columnist Dave Barry got to hear about their surreal festival.

Summers said: “We tap into that need for whimsy in people’s lives.”

International Talk Like a Pirate Day has its own website at www.talklikeapirate.com, where all self-respecting swashbucklers are urged to show “pirattitude.” The UK has its own pirate hideout at www.yarr.org.uk, hosted by an individual known as Mad Cap’n Tom.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .