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At first an inside joke between two friends, the holiday gained exposure when Baur and Summers sent a letter about their invented holiday to the American syndicated humor columnist Dave Barry in 2002. [5] Barry liked the idea and promoted the day, [5] and later appeared in a cameo in their "Drunken Sailor" Sing Along A-Go-Go video. [6]
When the real pirates of yore first landed on America’s shores in the 1600s, little did they know that one day, they would become some of the best punchlines for jokes in history.
(In fact, let's use this entire introduction to talk like pirates, eh?) In case ye hadn't noticed, mate, today be International Talk Like a
Also, YouTube blurred the distinction between a spoken and recorded joke, in that the narrator is actually present. [5] Limor and Lemish observe that internet humor is a part of the participatory culture, where the consumers of jokes may reciprocate by generating and transmitting humor, i.e., act as producers and distributors. [8]
"Shiver my timbers" was most famously popularized by the archetypal pirate Long John Silver in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island (1883). Silver used the phrase seven times, as well as variations such as "shiver my sides", "shiver my soul" and "shake up your timbers". Another pirate, Israel Hands, also uses the phrase at one point.
Image credits: pplazzz #2. Norm told this best: A duck walks into a pub and orders a pint of beer and a ham sandwich. The bartender looks at him and says, "Hang on!
In the 1930 cartoon "The Haunted Ship", from the Aesop's Fables series, Davy Jones is depicted as a living skeleton wearing a pirate's bicorne hat. Raymond Z. Gallun 's 1935 science fiction story "Davey Jones' Ambassador" tells of a deep-sea explorer in his underwater capsule who comes in contact on the seabed with a deep-sea culture of ...
The clips ended with “Morning Joe” cohost Mika Brzezinski calling out Hinchcliffe’s “extremely vile so-called jokes,” which Stewart quipped was the name of his first comedy album.