Abandon all hope, ye who enter here, for there’s dark waters ahead for any hearties that don’t heed the annual call of International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Is it September 19 again already?
TLAP Day was started on a whim by John Baur and Mark Summers, known in the piratical world as Cap’n Slappy and Ol’ Chumbucket, way back in 1995, but it was humor columnist, Dave Barry himself who helped popularize the mainstream farce of a holiday.
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From the indomitable Dave Barry:
...a man armed with a knife held up a Taco Bell and got $2,300. The robber wore a ski mask to disguise his identity. This plan would have worked flawlessly, except that, during the robbery, the robber made one teensy mistake: He pulled one of the Taco Bell workers aside, lifted his mask and said, "It's me, Tim." Yes. It turns out that the robber used to work at this Taco Bell, and he chose that particular moment to say hi to a former co-worker.
