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Yes, it's International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
For those not immediately in touch with the 12-year-old boy inside of you, The International Talk Like a Pirate Day is that magical time when one can get away with bellowing such phrases as "Ahoy, mateys," calling acquaintances "scurvy dogs" and "scurrilous knaves," referring to any libation that might pass one's lips as "grog," and growling out "Argh" or some variation of it at each and every opportunity.
It began innocently enough, during a racquetball game in 1995 between John Baur and Mark Summers, who started tossing around faux pirate lingo during the game. It was done as a lark by the two until 2002, when Dave Barry wrote about it for his nationally syndicated humor column.
Other news outlets took up the story and the International Talk Like a Pirate Day became, well, international. The website Baur and Summers operate, which can be found
here, includes pirate talk in German and Dutch, as well as English.
Much of the suggestions of things a pirate might say that the form of pick-up lines, that perhaps sound more convincing when pronounced in a raspy, guttural tone.
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