First, Mark "Cap'n Slappy" Summers and John "Ol Chumbucket" Baur started
Talk Like a Pirate Day.
Now, Cap'n Billy "The Butcher" MacDougall, co-author with Tim Bete of
Guide to Pirate Parenting, has created "Walk Like a Pirate Day." Never to be outdone by creativity, they've assigned September 20th as Walk Like a Pirate Day, the day after Talk Like a Pirate Day!
Here's the first part of the press release, and you can find the rest at
here.
"Walk Like a Pirate Day" is Sept. 20
In 1995, Mark "Cap'n Slappy" Summers and John "Ol' Chumbucket" Baur created Talk Like A Pirate Day, which is celebrated on September 19 each year. Now Cap'n Billy "The Butcher" MacDougall has declared the following day, Sept. 20, Walk Like a Pirate Day.
"At some point you have to stop talking the talk, and walk the walk," says Cap'n Billy, who's co-author of the new book, Guide to Pirate Parenting. "While Talk Like a Pirate Day is as much fun as firing at a merchant vessel, eventually you have to put yer legs where yer mouth is, so to speak."
Cap'n Billy says you can start Sept. 20 by pretending you have a peg leg or your toe was bitten by a bilge rat. You could even put a live codfish down your pants, if you want to walk like "Crazy Legs" Johnny Jibson, the Captain's first mate.
"But walking the pirate walk means acting like a pirate in every way," says Cap'n Billy. “It’s more fun to be a pirate than just talk like one. That's why I wrote me book, Guide to Pirate Parenting: Why you should raise your kids as pirates and 101 tips on how to do it (2007, Cold Tree Press). Me book teaches parents how to raise their little powder monkeys as true buccaneers! It's also why I be declaring Sept. 20, 2007, the first-annual Walk Like a Pirate Day."
