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Every so often, you hear about an all-but-imaginary holiday, like Eat Your Green Vegetables Month or Woodchuck Appreciation Week.

Chances are, a few employers created National Boss Day with the help of Hallmark.
Badminton and broccoli don’t deserve holidays. And I harbor some suspicions towards anything requiring large amounts of chocolate, flowers or money.

Avast, ye scurvy dogs!

I’ve finally found a holiday that suits me: Talk Like A Pirate Day.

The concept, created by John Baur and Mark Summers in 1995, is simple: Spend all day talking like a pirate. “Yes” become “aye,” “hello” becomes “ahoy” and “black-hearted blaggarts” … Well, you get the point.

At the duo’s Web site, www.talklikeapirate.com, you can purchase pirate-themed clothing, check out pictures from the first-ever PyrateCon, and browse the children’s book, “A Li’l Pirate’s ABSeas.”

(For the dedicated buccaneer, there’s also “Cap’n Billy “The Butcher” MacDougall’s Guide to Pirate Parenting.” Author Tim Bete, offers advice on topics ranging from removing a large octopus from your child’s hair to administering the “Flying Dutchman Wedgie.”)

Today, The Tribune even posted its own Talk Like A Pirate Quiz.

Test yer knowledge o’ the high seas and learn some pirate lingo here. (I qualified as a Master Shipman, which I guess is pretty darn good.)

Forget months dedicated to dolphins, noodles and maple sugar. I be advocatin’ an entire Talk Like A Pirate Week!

– Sarah L.