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Friday 19th September is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. From Wikipedia:
International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD, September 19) is a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur (Ol' Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap'n Slappy), of Albany, Oregon, U.S., who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate.
Further:
According to Summers, the day is the only holiday to come into being as a result of a sports injury. He has stated that during a racquetball game between Summers and Baur, one of them reacted to the pain with an outburst of "Aaarrr!", and the idea was born. That game took place on June 6, 1995, but out of respect for the observance of D-Day, they chose Summers' ex-wife's birthday, as it would be easy for him to remember.
At first an inside joke between two friends, the holiday gained exposure when John Baur and Mark Summers sent a letter about their invented holiday to the American syndicated humor columnist Dave Barry in 2002. Barry liked the idea and promoted the day.
They even have their own official web site complete with an English-to-Pirate Translator.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by zafiro17 on Friday September 19 2014, @02:22PM
I submitted this over at Pipedot: http://pipedot.org/story/2014-09-19/friday-distro-trisquel-gnu-linux [pipedot.org] just for laughs. Some got the joke; others got their knickers in a twist about it.
Lighten up people, it's just the Internet. This is why nerds don't get invited to the fun parties. And probably never will.
"Friday Distro" is a regular feature. Search on the word "Distro" in the title for a half dozen others.
Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis - Jack Handey
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 20 2014, @12:35PM
People didn't like it because what you did was dumb. No offense meant, but you intentionally made the summary harder to read. That's just not helpful.
Nerds don't get invited to fun parties because they often do stuff like you did. Normal people and most intelligent nerds just don't find stuff like pirate talk and ninjas and fedoras to be funny or cool. They think such things are childish and stupid, which they are. They don't want to be subjected to crap like that.