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    Thursday, August 30, 2007

    Walk Like a Pirate Day is Sept. 20

    Me good friends Mark "Cap'n Slappy" Summers and John "Ol' Chumbucket" Baur were geniuses for creating Talk Like A Pirate Day, which is celebrated on September 19 each year. (Personally, being a pirate and all, I celebrate Talk Like a Landlubber Day and say things like, "Let's drive to the mall and catch a movie" and "I'd prefer an expensive bottle of water to a ration of rum." Me crew thinks talking like a landlubber is hilarious!)

    While Talk Like a Pirate Day is as much fun as firing at a merchant vessel, at some point you have to stop talking the talk, and walk the walk. No, not off the plank, me hearty. I mean it's more fun to ACT like a pirate than just TALK like one. That's why I wrote me book, Cap'n Billy "The Butcher MacDougall's Guide to Pirate Parenting: Why you should raise your kids as pirates and 101 tips on how to do it. It's also why I be declaring Sept. 20, 2007 the first-annual Walk Like a Pirate Day. (Since you'll perfect your pirate voice on Sept. 19, you're already one step ahead of the game.)


    Ye can start Sept. 20 pretending you have a peg leg or that yer toe was bitten by a bilge rat. You could even put a live codfish down your pants, if ye want to walk like "Crazy Legs" Johnny Jibson, the first mate on me first ship. But "walking the pirate walk" means acting like a pirate in every way.

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