Email: 9/19 Talk Like A Pirate Day [EH]

I think boys are really into pirates because of the Johnny Depp (and Orlando Bloom) movies. Quite popular. It's an Internet-spread holiday that's been gaining attention these past few years (thanks to newspaper articles that mention it as an oddity, I'm sure). I can't imagine what purpose it serves beyond historically anachronistic novelty. (Most people have no idea of what real historical pirates talked like, and the pirates of today are vicious murdering thugs whose prison/sailor vocabulary is less colorful, if you get my drift.)