Harrrr!
YARRR!
Pipe down and belay that. It’s not September 19th yet.
It’s like a full moon. People start acting weird in anticipation.
I’ll be captaining a 120’ schooner that day. Avast ye scurvy dogs we be keelhaulin’ the lot of you in the morning.
Arrr. I be anticipatin’ wi’ great trepidation!
Me Roger is already jolly! Me sails cannae
stay furled ferever. I canna be waitin’ sae
long far me measure a’ grog, is all I’m sayin’.
Budhcad badeed maalin waxba maanta, axmaq!
Ok. No PRE-Talk-Like-a-Pirate festivities, please. If we’re going to have a Talk-Like-a-Pirate day, by implication, I think, other days are all DO-NOT-TALK-LIKE-A-PIRATE days.
Right you ARRR, matey! 
(Actually, your logic doesn’t work. It’s like saying, “I have an apple, therefore there are no other apples.” 
)
I’m almost ready. Practicing my Somali swear words as we speak.
I believe you’ve put your finger on the problem
with celebrating in small increments. Once, there
was a full 12 days of Christmas and no one winged
that the marketplaces displayed French hens and
turtledoves in October. Then we pared it down to
one day, and look what happened.
I don’t think Johnny Depp needs the money. Consider giving it a rest.
It has naught to do with him. A wannabe. A poseur.
Yeah, nothin’ to do wi’ the stupid movies. Riiiiiiiiiiight…
The holiday was started in 1995, long before the movies came out.
I think it was made popular in 2002 when Dave Barry wrote a column about it.
The pirates of the Caribbean came out in 2003.
Man, I could have saved myself some time if I just went to the wiki.
http://www.miamiherald.com/283/story/100129.html
Huh…well, it didn’t hurt. Also, you had all those leftover RenFair bawds and bums looking for something to do in their frilly cuffs…
International Talk Like a Pirate Day, and piracy in general, is celebrated by all devout Pastafarians (i.e., those who have been touched by His Noodly Appendage). It’s a Holy Day.
Yes. By that logic we should sing A Very Merry Unbirthday to You until your head falls off.
That is IFC material.
First I read a post about the sailor’s hornpipe* and now I see this. It is an Alice in Wonderland day. I must be mad.
*Yes, the Disney movie was an abomination mixing Through the Looking Glass and …Wonderland, and the sailor’s hornpipe was given words that never were part pf the tune, but here I am, so I must be mad.