Tampa Bay's International Talk Like a Pirate Day

31/12/2021

Happy New Annum from Pyrates Life Fer Me & PirateFoto Digital Photo & Graphics

28/12/2021

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YOHO YOHO YOHO....

17/10/2021

REASONS WHY FALL IS #1:

09/02/2021

Super Bowl boat parade Wednesday to honor Tampa Bay Buccaneers

TAMPA (WFLA) – The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are ready to show off the Lombardi Trophy and party their fans!

A celebration with the public is scheduled to take place on Wednesday afternoon. The city has maintained that it will be a socially-distanced event.

Official details will be released to News Channel 8, Your Official Bucs Station, today. The exact route of the 2020 Lombardi Trophy Boat Parade has yet to be released.

This parade is expected to be similar to the one held by the Tampa Bay Lightning in September following their Stanley Cup parade.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are ready to party with the Lombardi Trophy with their fans!

31/12/2020

Tampa Bay Bar Review

Happy New Year Everyone... BOTTOMS UP!🤟🥃🍸🍷🥂🍻🍺🍹🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾

30/06/2020

A Salty W***h Indeed

26/12/2019

Pirate Directory

27/05/2019

MEMORIAL DAY HAS ITS OWN SET OF CUSTOMS.

General Orders No. 11 stated that "in this observance no form of ceremony is prescribed," but over time several customs and symbols became associated with the holiday: It is customary on Memorial Day to fly the flag at half staff until noon, and then raise it to the top of the staff until sunset.

Taps, the 24-note bugle call, is played at all military funerals and memorial services. It originated in 1862 when Union General Dan Butterfield "grew tired of the 'lights out' call sounded at the end of each day," according to The Washington Post. Together with the brigade bugler, Butterfield made some changes to the tune.

Not long after, the melody was used at a burial for the first time when a battery commander ordered it played in lieu of the customary three rifle volleys over the grave. The battery was so close to enemy lines, and the commander was worried the shots would spark renewed fighting.

The World War I poem "In Flanders Fields," by John McCrea, inspired the Memorial Day custom of wearing red artificial poppies. In 1915, a Georgia teacher and volunteer war worker named Moina Michael began a campaign to make the poppy a symbol of tribute to veterans and for "keeping the faith with all who died." The sale of poppies has supported the work of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

25/01/2019

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07/01/2019

🏴‍☠ 𝗣𝗶𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗝𝗼𝗸𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘆
Just a little reminder to be careful what ye wish fer!
𝘽𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙗𝙮: 𝗵𝘁𝘁𝗽𝘀://𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆.𝗰𝗼𝗺

22/06/2018

Pirate Directory

HEAR YE HEAR YE - ANNOUNCEMENT - PROCEED WITH FERVOR & ILL INTENT

19/09/2017

Talk Like a Pirate Day: The Five A's

Avast! Get a load of the Bowsprit on that fine beauty!

The Pirate Guys, Ol' Chumbucket and Cap'n Slappy teach ye lubbers the basics of talkin' like a pirate

19/09/2017

Fake holidays like Talk Like a Pirate Day are as old as me peg leg, savvy?

Friends John Baur and Mark Summers came up with International Talk Like a Pirate Day on June 6, 1995, when they began using pirate slang while playing racquetball "for reasons we still don't quite understand," they say on their website.

They had so much fun talking like pirates they "decided then and there that what the world really needed was a new national holiday."

Talk Like a Pirate Day remained a buried treasure, known only to Baur, Summers and their friends until they shared the idea with Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Dave Barry. Barry plundered the b***y and shared the riches with his national audience in a Sept. 8, 2002, column: "Arrrrr! Talk like a pirate or prepare to be boarded."

"I was just looking for a column, I had no idea what was going to become of it," Barry told USA TODAY. "I'm pretty confident 50 years from now nobody will have any idea who I was, but people will still be celebrating Talk Like a Pirate Day."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/09/18/made-up-holidays-talk-like-pirate-day/533398001/

It feels like every day, another National (fill-in-the-blank) Day is being pushed on us by marketers, advocacy groups, tweeters and complicit journalists. Here's why.

19/09/2017

APPY' Parlay Like a PIRATE DAY Mates!

Wherever you celebrate this day... Luv the one ye brung... or the one ye with...

Pirate Code! (More like guidelines than actual rules mate)......

01/09/2017

Tampa Bay's International Talk Like a Pirate Day

25/01/2017

Attention all Scallywags, Sailors, Pirates, W***hes and Wannabees...

The Crewe of Bobbie C. Davis, "The Sailingest Crewe" presents CBCD’s Talk Like a Pirate Gasparilla Party featuring Trop Rock Icon Eric Stone, Friday, February 3rd, 5:00 – 11:00pm

At The GetAway at 13090 Gandy Blvd……The Talk Like a Pirate Gasparilla Party is a fundraiser to benefit Bay Area Hospices.

$20.00 DONATION ...gets you GREAT Trop Rock live music featuring Eric Stone, beer and drink specials, GetAway food specials, pirate contests, raffles, prizes and more!!

24/01/2017

Arrrgh... Mon! Click on ye button below to purchase ye tickets for The Trop Rock Gasparilla Talk Like a Pirate Party, Friday February 3rd at The Getaway. Ye best be used to wearing yer pirate outfit now, and this gives ye scurvy bums one more chance.

18/01/2017

Tampa Bay's International Talk Like a Pirate Day

HEAR YE HEAR YE - GASPARILLA TALK LIKE A PIRATE PARTAY!

Attention all Scallywags, Sailors, Pirates, W***hes and Wannabees...

The Crewe of Bobbie C. Davis, "The Sailingest Crewe" presents CBCD’s Talk Like a Pirate Gasparilla Party, Friday, February 3rd, 5:00 – 11:00pm

….. at The GetAway at 13090 Gandy Blvd……The Talk Like a Pirate Gasparilla Party is a fundraiser to benefit Bay Area Hospices.

$20.00 DONATION ...gets you GREAT Trop Rock live music, beer and drink specials, GetAway food specials, pirate contests, raffles, prizes and more!!

Join us and all the pirates from both sides of the Bay as we invade The GetAway on February 3rd….

FOR MORE INFO, to buy tickets or make a donation GO TO: www.cbcd.org or PLEASE VISIT AND LIKE US at www.facebook.com/TampaBayTalkLikeaPirate AAARRGH!!!

18/01/2017

HEAR YE HEAR YE - GASPARILLA TALK LIKE A PIRATE PARTAY!

Attention all Scallywags, Sailors, Pirates, W***hes and Wannabees...

The Crewe of Bobbie C. Davis, "The Sailingest Crewe" presents CBCD’s Talk Like a Pirate Gasparilla Party, Friday, February 3rd, 5:00 – 11:00pm

….. at The GetAway at 13090 Gandy Blvd……The Talk Like a Pirate Gasparilla Party is a fundraiser to benefit Bay Area Hospices.

$20.00 DONATION ...gets you GREAT Trop Rock live music, beer and drink specials, GetAway food specials, pirate contests, raffles, prizes and more!!

Join us and all the pirates from both sides of the Bay as we invade The GetAway on February 3rd….

FOR MORE INFO, to buy tickets or make a donation GO TO: www.cbcd.org or PLEASE VISIT AND LIKE US at www.facebook.com/TampaBayTalkLikeaPirate AAARRGH!!!

18/01/2017

Gasparilla News

06/10/2016

Thar be a Storm a Brewin mateys! Batten down the hatches, stock the larder and beat to windward on a Southerly Course to: The Fort Myers Beach Pirate Festival!
Possibly one of the safest places to be in Florida this weekend and with a pirate festival to keep ye mind off all the bluster & plunder of Matthew.
http://fmbpiratefest.com
http://www.fortmyersbeach.org
SMILE FOR THE PIRATE! - PIRATEFOTO.COM
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15/09/2016

PirateFoto.com & The Foto-Pirate (Scott Pooler) are proud to announce that we have been selected as the official Photographer of the 2016 Fort Myers Beach Pirate Festival!
USA Today's Selection as the #2 Family Friendly Pirate Fest in the Nation and a might fine place to plunder! fmbpiratefest.com/
The Foto-Pirate will be on hand for all the daytime events and festivities looking for families and fun to FotoGraph at Pirate Fest!
See You There! and remember....
SMILE FOR THE PIRATE!

PirateFoto.com & The Foto-Pirate (Scott Pooler) are proud to announce that we have been selected as the official Photographer of the 2016 Fort Myers Beach Pirate Festival!

USA Today's Selection as the #2 Family Friendly Pirate Fest in the Nation and a mighty fine place to plunder! fmbpiratefest.com/

The Foto-Pirate will be on hand for all the daytime events and festivities looking for families and fun to FotoGraph at Pirate Fest!
See You There! and remember....
SMILE FOR THE PIRATE!

12/09/2016

Pirate Directory

Tis where this party got World Acclaim.... Read On Me Hearties... Read On!

This may not be where International Talk Like a Pirate Day Got it's Start.... But this article by the World Famous Dave Berry is where it got it's true launching onto the High Sea's or World Consciousness!

"Arrrrr! Talk like a pirate -- or prepare to be boarded"

BY DAVE BARRY

(This classic Dave Barry column was originally published Sept. 8, 2002.)

Every now and then, some visionary individuals come along with a concept that is so original and so revolutionary that your immediate reaction is: ''Those individuals should be on medication.''

Today I want to tell you about two such people, John Baur and Mark Summers, who have come up with a concept that is going to make you kick yourself for not thinking of it first: Talk Like a Pirate Day. As the name suggests, this is a day on which everybody would talk like a pirate. Is that a great idea, or what? There are so many practical benefits that I can't even begin to list them all.

Baur and Summers came up with this idea a few years ago. They were playing racquetball, and, as so often happens, they began talking like pirates. And then it struck them: Why not have a day when EVERYBODY talks like a pirate? They decided that the logical day would be Sept. 19, because that -- as you are no doubt aware -- is Summers' ex-wife's birthday.

Since then, Baur and Summers have made a near-superhuman effort to promote Talk Like a Pirate Day. As Baur puts it: ``We've talked like pirates, and encouraged our several friends to, every Sept. 19, except for a couple where we forgot.''

And yet, incredibly, despite this well-orchestrated campaign, the nation has turned a deaf shoulder to Talk Like a Pirate Day. In desperation, Baur and Summers turned to me for help. As an influential newspaper columnist, I have the power to ''make or break'' a national day. You may recall that almost nobody celebrated Thanksgiving until I began writing about it in the 1970s.

I have given Baur's and Summers' idea serious thought, looking for ways to improve it. One variation I considered was Talk Like a Member of the Lollipop Guild Day, on which everybody would talk like the three Munchkins in the film version of The Wizard of Oz who welcome Dorothy to Munchkin Land by singing with one corner of their mouths drooping down, as though they have large invisible dental suction devices hanging from their lips. But I realized that would be stupid.

So I have decided to throw my full support behind Talk Like a Pirate Day, to be observed this Sept. 19. To help promote this important cause, I have decided to seek the endorsement of famous celebrities, and I am pleased to report that, as of today, Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, Britney Spears, Brad Pitt, Oprah Winfrey, the Osbournes, Tiger Woods, Ted Koppel, the Sopranos, Puff Doody and the late Elvis Presley are all people who I hope will read this column and become big supporters. I see no need to recruit President Bush, because he already talks like a pirate, as we can see from this transcript of a recent White House press conference:

REPORTER: Could you please explain either your foreign or your domestic policy?

PRESIDENT BUSH: Arrrrr.

To prepare for Talk Like a Pirate Day, you should practice incorporating pirate terminology into your everyday speech. For example, let's consider a typical conversation between two co-workers in a business office:

BOB: Hi. Mary.

MARY: Hi, Bob. Have you had a chance to look at the Fennerman contract?

BOB: Yes, and I have some suggestions.

MARY: OK, I'll review them.

Now let's see how this same conversation would sound on Talk Like a Pirate Day:

BOB: Avast, me beauty.

MARY: Avast, Bob. Is that a yardarm in your doubloons, or are you just glad to see me?

BOB: You are giving me the desire to haul some keel.

MARY: Arrrrr.

As you can see, talking like a pirate will infuse your everyday conversations with romance and danger. So join the movement! On Sept. 19, do not answer the phone with ''hello.'' Answer the phone with ''Ahoy me hearty!'' If the caller objects that he is not a hearty, inform him that he is a scurvy dog (or, if the caller is female, a scurvy female dog) who will be walking the plank off the p**p deck and winding up in Davy Jones' locker, sleeping with the fishes. No, wait, that would be Talk Like a Pirate in The Godfather Day, which is another variation I considered (``I'm gonna make him an offer that will shiver his timbers'').

But the point is, this is a great idea, and you, me bucko, should be part of it. Join us on Sept. 19. You HAVE the buckles, darn it: Don't be afraid to swash them! Let's make this into a grass-roots movement that sweeps the nation, like campaign-finance reform, or Krispy Kreme doughnuts. I truly think this idea could bring us, as a nation, closer together.

But not TOO much closer. Some of us will have swords.

29/08/2016

Tampa Bay's ITLAPD Party Promo WMNF - Clyp

This is Capt. Scott with a WMNF community announcement.

AHOY there Tampa Bay – Mark Ye Log Books for Friday, September 16th!
Sail on Down to the 4th Annual Tampa Bay International Talk Like a Pirate Day party!
Benefiting Hospice & sponsored by: the Gasparilla Crewe of Bobbie C Davis’
Come Invade Gaspar’s Grotto in Historic Ybor City.
OPEN TO ALL PIRATES AND LANDLUBBERS ALIKE!

Food & drink specials. Live Music, Pirate contests & more.

Secure info & Tickets @ cbcd.org ....

https://clyp.it/balhv104

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29/08/2016

TBITALPD Party Promo - Orrrrrgrgggh - Clyp

AHOY there Tampa Bay – Mark Ye Log Books for Friday, September 16th!

Sail on Down to the 4th Annual Tampa Bay International Talk Like a Pirate Day party!

Benefiting Hospice & sponsored by: the Gasparilla Crewe of Bobbie C Davis’

Come Invade Gaspar’s Grotto in Historic Ybor City.

OPEN TO ALL PIRATES AND LANDLUBBERS ALIKE!

Food & drink specials. Live Music, Pirate contests & more.

Secure info & Tickets @ cbcd.org https://clyp.it/rq5on5bl

Listen to TBITALPD Party Promo - Orrrrrgrgggh | Clyp is the easiest way to record, upload and share audio. No account required.

26/08/2016

Hurricane preparedness tip: 1. Buy several kegs of beer 2. Drink beer 3. Wait for flooding 4. Drop kegs in water 5. Float to safety.. :)

17/08/2016

Pirate Directory

Arrrrr

11/08/2016

PirateFoto.com Foto of the Day! Scallywags Amongst Us!

Gasparilla Parade 2016 Aboard the Parade Float SeaSail : Crewe of Bobbie C. Davis.....

05/08/2016

4th Annual Tampa Bay's International Talk Like a Pirate Day Party

Tampa Bay's International Talk Like a Pirate Day Event in Ybor! The actual time frame of this Piratical Partay is 6PM @ Gaspar's Grotto Till YOUR SHIP SAILS!

https://tb-talk-like-a-pirate.ticketleap.com/4th-annual-tampa-bays-international-talk-like-a-pirate-day-part/ =_

PIRATES will be PARTYing at GASPAR'S GROTTO! OPEN TO ALL PIRATE AND PIRATE WANNA-BES! Join us for this annual party where we TALK, walk and even drink like the pirates we want to be! There will be live entertainment, rum and drink specials, food, pirate contests and more!. The 4th Annual Talk Like…

04/08/2016

Talk Like a Pirate Day.... YBOR.... GASPARS GROTTO...SEPT 16th - SHENANIGANS COMMENCE!

03/08/2016

Tampa Bay's International Talk Like a Pirate Day's cover photo

01/08/2016

Ahoy Mates... This year we will be holding Tampa Bay's Official International Talk Like a Pirate Day Party on September 16, 2016. We are still confirming a few details at the moment, but mark your calendars and say....Arrrrgggh!!!!

18/06/2016

Plant Your Flag! Savvy?

http://piratedirectory.com/add-listing

07/06/2016

CBCD.ORG - PirateFoto.com Foto of the day! Gasparilla Invasion 2016 Crewe of Bobbie C. Davis - What a Krewe!