Aye Matey

While searching for something totally unrelated I stumbled upon a site containing some origins of odd holidays,you know,like the ones I make a monthly planner out of at the beginning of each month? I was particularly impressed to find out that "Talk Like a Pirate Day" originated in Oregon. Two friends were playing a game of racquetball when for reasons they don't recall they started using pirate speak. This happened on June 6,1995 which is also D-Day so they chose September 19 to be "Talk Like a Pirate Day". For seven years the duo pretty much were the lone celebrants of the holiday until they reached out to humor columnist Dave Barry to share their tradition. Dave wrote a column about their holiday which  in turn made it into a cult holiday and the rest as they say,is history.