International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD)
is a parodic<
/a> holiday<
/a> created in 1995 by John Baur (Ol' Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap'n S
lappy), of Albany, Oregon,[1]U.S., who proclaime
d September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk
like a pirate.[1] For example, an observer of th
is holiday would greet friends not with "Hello," but with "Ahoy, matey!" The holida
y, and its observance, springs from a romanticized view of the Golden Age of Piracy. It has become a holiday for members of the Church of
the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
According to Summers, the day is the only holiday to come into being as a result of a sports injury. He has stated that during a racquetball game between Summers and Baur, one of the m reacted to the pain with an outburst of "Aaarrr!", and the idea was born. That game took place on June 6, 1995, but out of respect for the observanc e of D-Day, they chose Summers' ex-wife's birthday, as it would be easy for him to remember.< a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_like_a_pirate_day#cite_note-websi te-0">[1][3]
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