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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.
The band was started in 2008 by Björn Malmros and Peter Mollwing, who gathered several other musicians with the idea of playing pirate folk music. [7] Today, the band amounts to nearly 30 members. Their first self-produced album, Songs and Curses, was released on 19 September 2012 for the International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
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]
(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
Born on a Pirate Ship was awarded gold status in the U.S. in 2000. The title and front cover photo refers to a vulgar joke that was popular around the time the band members were children. One kid would instruct another to pull back the corners of their mouth with their fingers (but not stick their tongue out) and say, "I was born on a pirate ship."
Sure, your friends might get annoyed if you spew too many at them, but true friends (the ones we think are worth keeping around) will answer these question jokes with a few funny guesses before ...
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