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Did everybody have a good Talk Like a Pirate Day? I know I did. Some people needed a little coaxing, but were able to muster up a respectable ARRRRR! after we all ganged up on them and roared at them all day.
 Others, like Wendy, well, what can I say? You plant a little seed of an idea, and she runs with it. These are Wendy and Peter. They are doctors. Not medical doctors, just the kind of doctors who stayed in school a bit too long. Peter runs the place, and Wendy is a research genius/pirate wench.
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She’s not a pirate wench ALL the time, just on Talk Like a Pirate Day. The rest of the time she’s perfectly normal. This is Wendy last week. She was delighted to be returning to work after a month’s holidays. She sang. She danced. She celebrated. See? Perfectly normal.
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Talk Like a Pirate Day has something for everything, including our office knitting club. Lookie here maties: two Knit Like a Pirate websites!
We also downloaded the original Talk Like a Pirate song and played it over the speakers first thing in the morning.
I had lunch with David Scrimshaw today, who is very, very good at emailing like a pirate, and whose name is remarkably piratey, and who in fact reminded me just yesterday that today was Talk Like a Pirate Day, which is why my coworkers were back at the office watching Pirates of the Caribbean at lunchtime.
As I left the office after work, I passed by the smokers from the 8th floor and I growled almost automatically: “ARRRRR!”
They looked a little mystified: “ARRRR?”
“Arrr,” I said, “You know. Arrr. It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day.”
They had no idea, but they were naturals. They launched into Piratese like it was their first language.
Me, I’m tired of talking like a pirate. That’s why I’m not even writing like a pirate. But if I had me some rum, I’d be drinking like a pirate right now.
*Some names have been changed to protect the identities of people clearly identifiable in the photographs.Â
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yikes. What have I done by connecting zoom and scrimshaw?
Aye wench, what evil hast thou wrought?
(Wait…that’s not piratese, is it??)
I think that’s a slumming British baron of some sort, trying to talk like a pirate….
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