Today: September 19th, It Be Talk Like a Pirate Day

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The record shows that eleven years ago today the first Talk Like a Pirate Day occurred.

And it was 121 years ago today in 1892, on the front page of the Gloucester Daily Times, the North Shore paper of record, reported that the last words of James Merry when he be gored by a bull in Dogtown the day before were, “Arrgh!” and “Arrrgh?”

Coincidence? Or did the madness begin in the Curtis pasture with Patrick Nugent’s bull on yonder drumlin in 1892?

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Pirate Ducks dressed to the nines on the Rubber Duck Sacred Holiday: Talk Like a Pirate Day.

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One thought on “Today: September 19th, It Be Talk Like a Pirate Day”

  1. I had no idea that today was “Talk Like a Pirate Day” yet last night I switched the sound of my alarm to the theme from “Pirates of the Caribbean”…

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