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.
Celebrating Talk Like a Pirate Day is easy – tal
Can't get enough high-seas drama? Check out this post from Running Scared, the news blog of our NYC sister paper, The Village Voice:
The crew of the M/V Maersk Alabama acted quickly to take
control of key areas of the vessel after Somali pirates attacked on
April 8, according to a crewmember's account obtained by the Voice.
The insider's emailed account of the initial day of the drama offers
details that have been somewhat overlooked in the articles about the U.S. Navy rescue of the ship's capt
