Is this really interesting: Talk Like A Pirate Day 2008

Just before International Talk Like A Pirate Day 2008!

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The Pirate Guys and associated wenches have been busy getting ready for Talk Like A Pirate Day 2008.

NOTE: The Pirate Guys are on the road on the East Coast for Talk Like A Pirate Day 2008, so their availability for live interviews and other last-minute requests is limited.

The Pirate Guys will be spending Talk Like A Pirate Day 2008 in the City of Brotherly Love as guests of The Franklin, in conjunction with the Real Pirates exhibit from National Geographic.

Take a look at our partial list o’ previous interviews !

Ol’ Chumbucket is workin’ on setting up his first reading/book-signing event in his new Island home.

Salmon Arm The Salmon Arm Health Centre’s preschool speech and language program is throwing a Talk Like A Pirate Day party for children.

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It’s bon voyage to the Chumbucket clan as Ol’ Chumbucket, Mad Sally and all the little Chumbuckets plus one cat and one mother-in-law hoist anchor and set sail for a move from Oregon the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Be aware, though, that the closer it gets to Sept. 19, the busier the Pirate Guys get In an effort to save our sanity, we’re trying to plan ahead for 2004, so if ye want an interview, visit our pressroom to get in touch.

They’re booked pretty solid, so last-minute requests for live interviews may go unanswered.

Pirates of all ages are invited to dress up and join us for games, songs, pirate tales, plank-walking and pirate talking.

Visit our International Talk Like A Pirate Day photo gallery and send us your photos, too!

While a lot of fun can be had ce;ebrating TLADP in a church setting we’re suggesting that those of a more secular bent consider celebrating Talk Like A Pirate Weekend.

A chumbucket is the bucket which would hold the chum.

The Marie Curie Cancer Care team in the UK was first out o’ the gate, urging folks to organize piratical fund-raisers to support their efforts to provide research and end-of-life care for cancer patients.

September 19th falls on a Friday this year, so some folks are partyin’ all Talk Like A Pirate weekend.

The nifty pirate cartoons can be purchased from ClipArt.com fer a pittance; the TLAPD countdown clock is an adaptation of a nifty little javascript doohickey written by Jim Tucek, and available free from his Web site.

If ye’re still at a loss, visit our Pirate Booty store at cafepress.com, where ye’ll find a wide variety of excellent garb to help ye commemorate International Talk Like A Pirate Day.

Avast ye pavement dwelling coffee slurpers and have a bit o fun.

Or perhaps you’re one of the millions of people from South Africa to the South Pole, from New York to the Pacific Northwest, who’ve made it your own personal excuse to party like pirates every September 19th !

We recommend: Pirates & Privateers, Cindy Vallar’s terrific on-line review of pirates and maritime history.

Fort Langley The BC Renaissance Festival’s Crew of the Jade Dragon is hosting a TLAP event at the Fort Winery from 5-9pm.

We don’t, as a rule, do banner exchanges, either.

Operation Care Packages, the volunteer group dedicated to making sure US soldiers deployed overseas get mail from home, is encouraging schools, bars, businesses and other groups to throw Talk Like A Pirate Day parties to collect booty for overseas care packages.

Talk Like A Pirate Day is an original concept created in a moment of temporary insanity by John Baur and Mark Summers.

Find some of ‘em on our Pirate Links page.

Since two members o’ Team Pirate are former members o’ the Fourth Estate themselves, we figger on makin’ the job a bit easie by puttin’ our press kit on line.

This year, the Pirate Guys are urgin’ their fans around the world to use their Talk Like A Pirate Day parties to pass the pirate hat for a worthy cause, be it social, humanitarian, cultural or political.