International Talk Like a Pirate Day 2010 is Sunday, September 19. If you are wondering why your friends are saying 'Ahoy, matey' instead of 'Hello' it is because they are celebrating a day that people around the world have converted to pirate-speak since 1995.
That's when John Baur (Ol' Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap'n Slappy) of Albany, Oregon proclaimed 19th September each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate.
International Talk Like a Pirate Day seems to be popular -- it is ranking as a hot Google trend today.
If you are a Facebook fan, you can convert your language to pirate-speak under your account settings. It might throw people off, but once they find out it's International Talk Like a Pirate Day 2010, they may follow suit.
Get your Pirate on for International Talk Like a Pirate Day 2010 by watching a great pirate movie
- Hell Harbor(1930)
- Pirate Treasure(1934)
- Treasure Island(1934)
- Captain Blood(1935)
- China Seas(1935)
- Captain Kidd(1945)
- The Spanish Main(1945)
- Pirates of Monterey(1947)
- Peter Pan(1953)
- Fair Wind to Java(1953)
- The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd(1953)
- Prince of Pirates(1953)
- Raiders of the Seven Seas (1953)
- Pirates of Tripoli(1955)
- The Buccaneers(1956)
- Davy Crockett and the RIver Pirates(1956)
- The King's Pirate(1967)
- Blackbeard's Ghost(1968)
- The Light at the Edge of the World(1971)
- Treasure Island(1972)
- Il Corsaro nero(1976)
- The Pirates of Penzance(1983)
- Treasure Island(1985)
- Shipwrecked(1990)
- Treasure Island(1990) (TV)
- Hook(1991)
- Treasure Planet(2002)
- Peter Pan(2003)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl(2003)
- Captain Sabertooth(2003)
- Pirates(2005)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest(2006)
- Pirates of the Great Salt Lake(2006)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End(2007)
- Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge(2008)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides(2011)
- Pirate Latitudes(2011)
Enjoy International Pirate Day 2010!
Comments
uh oh - I thought it was Dance like an Egyptian Day - not Talk Like a Pirate Day 2010. Now all the strange looks make sense!
Ha! Well, if you try to combine both, people will be even more confused!
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