[Sca-cooks] national talk like a pirate day
Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise
jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
Fri Sep 17 09:22:17 PDT 2004
> Oh, no not again!!
>
> 98% of that whole "talk like a pirate" thing comes from Robert Newton's (Long John Silver, Treasure Island, Disney, 1951) decision to talk like the dock workers in his native Devonshire did when he was a child...
That's interesting factoid.
Brandu, rest assured that most people view 'Talk Like a Pirate Day' as
being the same as "Talk like a Klingon Day" or whatever-- based on
fiction, not fact.
Get yourself a rum and coke and kick back and relax.
-- Jadwiga, who is making a list of things she is going to kick back and
relax about. :) It's a loooonggg list. :)
--
-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
"I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining
at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top." Frank Colby
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