"Mango does not speak Pirate. Such is Mango!"
Posted on 09/19/2018 6:25:28 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts
Aye maties, 'tis the day we've all been waiting for:
International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
But avast! Before you grab your grog and parrot, let's get ye educated!
The idea for the day was born in 1995 on a YMCA racquetball court in Albany, Oregon. John "Ol' Chumbucket" Baur and his friend Mark "Cap'n Slappy" Summers began throwing around insults, just like pirates.
They selected Sept. 19, simply because Summers had recently divorced, it was his ex-wife's birthday, and he figured "the date was stuck in my head, and I wasn't going to do anything with it anymore," he told CNN in 2009.
Dave Barry caught wind of the idea and threw his support behind it in a September 2002 Miami Herald column that this rickety ship took sail.
"As the name suggests, this is a day on which everybody would talk like a pirate. Is that a great idea, or what?" Barry wrote back then. "There are so many practical benefits that I can't even begin to list them all."
(Excerpt) Read more at local10.com ...
Why are pirates pirates?
Because they ARRRRR!!!
I don’t see why lawyers should have their own special day just because they are shake down artists.
Why can’t pirate children sing the ABC song?
Because they can never sing past the letter RRRRRRRRRR
For those interested, check with your library system to see if they offer Mango Languages.
Mango will teach you how to speak “Pirate!”
"Mango does not speak Pirate. Such is Mango!"
Dave Barry’s original 2002 column:
https://www.miamiherald.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/dave-barry/article1928052.html
What’s a pirates favorite fruit?
AAARRRR-ange:-)
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