The Buzz

We're everywhere: International Talk Like A Pirate Day has truly entered the mass media lexicon. Practically every media reference to the 2007 "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie mentioned the holiday, numerous museums around the US referred to TLAPD as part of a rash of pirate exhibits, we're informally affiliated with pirate festivals all over the world, and we get new Google Alerts to TLAPD references in the news weekly. Here are just a few of the latest media hits:

A fan reports that in a Sept. 18 concert at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Jimmy Buffett acknowledged "Talk Like A Pirate Day" several times, followed by a few, "Arrrghs!"

On the Sept. 19 Today Show, Our Close Personal Friend (And Pulitzer Prize-Winner) Dave Barry, appearing to talk about his new book, Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far).got host Al Roker to talk like a pirate. Later in the day, on NPR's Talk of the Nation, he and host Neal Conan talked like pirates for a bit, too. We can always count on Dave.

Craig Ferguson opened his Sept. 19 Late Late Show by announcing it was a great day for America - because it was Talk Like A Pirate Day!

Fox & Friends (on Fox News) opened their Sept. 19 broadcast with a mention of "National Talk Like a Pirate Day" complete with a voice over doing an "Arrr Mates!"

Our musical mate Tom Smith, who penned the Official TLAPD Song, got blogged by his hometown paper, the Ann Arbor News...

Reuters News Service featurized th' day on News Of the Weird, and their reporter did it all pirate-like, by cribbin' straight from this site an' making it look like he talked to us.

PC Magazine provided a list of "10 Mighty Pirate Gadgets" for technogeeks in honor of TLAPD.

The Cartoon Network once again celebrated with a day of pirate-themed cartoons.

The History Channel rebroadcast pirate specials for TLAPD.

Photographer Mary Schwalm offers some great photos from the Salem Pirate Faire.

One-Minute How-To features the Pirate Guys demonstrating how to ... Talk Like A Pirate!

HoboTrashCan features a long interview with the Pirate Guys and Mad Sally

Florida's Emerald Coast publication features an article by the Pirate Guys on incorporating pirattitude into the classroom.

Let the cartooning begin: Doug Savage checks in with his third-annual TLAPD series at Savage Chickens. Because what could be better than pirate chickens?

The Baltimore Department of Public Works sends out a calendar with its recycling and garbage pickup schedule; this year, it lists Talk Like a Pirate Day.

Spotted on "Jeopardy," May 25, 2007: Alex Trebec: "You'll be talking like one of these when this international holiday comes around every September 19th!" Contestant: "What is a pirate?"

The September, 2007 issue of Reader's Digest features Talk Like A Pirate Day (on p. 53). Says Ol' Chumbucket, "When you've made Readers Digest, that's about as mainstream as it gets!"

Media

Broadcast (and podcast) interviews
Blogs
- Blogger News
- Ann Arbor News blog
- The Daily Skwib
- Men's News Daily
- RBlog
- MetroCoUK
- The CityPaper blog, Columbia, S.C.
- Lost Weekend/Brit Blokes On Tour
- (see more on our TLAPD 2007 page)
Print stories appeared in:
- San Diego (Calif.) Tribune
- The Edmond (Okla.) Sun
- The Age (Australia)
- Gainesville News-Times, Florida
- The Detroit Free Press ran a feature about one o' our fans, Becki Carr, mentioning her TLAP plans!
- Columbus (Ohio) Ledger and Enquirer: "Ahoy and arrrgh and all that"
- The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash., wrote about pirates, pirattitude and local re-enactors in advance of TLAPD.
- The Mercury newspaper, in Tasmania, has interviewed the guys for a feature on TLAPD
- Maine Campus Online: "One day that should be regarded above all others"
- PyrateCon planners celebrate Talk Like A Pirate Day
- Fayetteville, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
- Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal
- The Brunswick News, Georgia
- The Denver (CO) Post
- Salt Lake (UT) Tribune)
Still more media
- NPR's Morning Edition and Day to Day programs both mentioned TLAPD on Sept. 19.
- Fox 4 News in Kansas City TLAPD ontheir No. 1-rated morning news show. Meterologist, Don Harman, dressed up as a pirate and reported on the schools in the area who have pirate mascots. "We played pirate songs on the show and generally just laughed ourselves silly.
  See the video.
- The Sept. 19 morning show on the Stealth, KNMZ-FM, 103.7 in Alamogordo, New Mexico was all pirate, all the time.
- WKRC-TV, Cincinnati: 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 19, 7:30pm - Host Jen Dalton explores the Cincinnati Museum Center's "Real Pirates" exhibit for Talk Like A Pirate Day.
- WUWM-Milwaukee Public Radio 89.7 or at WUWM.com are celebrating TLAPD on the Lake Effect show (available on line the afternoon of Sept. 19
- KLSDam1360, San Diego- they were talking like pirates on the Stacy Taylor Show. Take a listen! (The pirate talk be near the end o' the episode)

2006 buzz

Rumors and reports of Sept. 19 activities. are pourin' in! If you have any, or run across an article, Web site, blog or broadcast that mentions Talk Like A Pirate Day - let us know!

The big news for 2006:

Ol' Chumbucket and Mad Sally, the Lusty Wench, appeared on the season premiere of ABC's Wife Swap on Sept. 18

Mad Sally writes about the experience for Keep to the Code
The local newspaper has a story and podcast on the whole "WenchSwap" experience
Ol' Chumbucket gets his say in a podcast on iTunes

Ol' Chumbucket is beside himself with word-geeky glee: He was invited to serve as guest "editor" for theTalk Like A Pirate week edition of A Word A Day. Subscribers can expect pirate vocabulary-builders in their e-mail boxes all week...

Live interviews

Both Amazon.com and CafePress.com are featuring Talk Like A Pirate Day in their September promotional mailings! Arrrrrr!

Long John Silver's restaurant chain once again observes Talk Like A Pirate Day. Get a free pirate hat with yer meal on the 19th and visit their Web site for pirate fun.

Pirates on TV: PinchyLobster, a new media-related site, has rounded up a list of all the pirate-related TV programming they can find in the days leading up to Sept. 19 - including the ABC Wench Swap episode!. Check out their list (warning: dark text on a black background may be hard to read; try highlighting the page to see what it says)

Blog like a pirate

Jezebel, the Webwench, came out o' the brig (we keep her chained up during Talk Like A Pirate Week, ye know) to do an interview with the Yahoo! Publisher Network blog.
Our Close Personal Friend and Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Dave Barry, off on a book tour in the wilds of Minnesota, nonetheless took time to blog about the holiday he helped make happen.
iTom, Tom Smith's Song-A-Week Blog - The world's fastest filker, and the guy who wrote the official Talk Like A Pirate Day song, has a new tune for TLAPD 2006. Don't miss "Hey, It's Can(n)on," based on the little-known fact that Hermione Grainger was born on Sept. 19!
Comics Should Be Good showcases some classic pirate panels
The Webwench's favorite Long-Haired Wierdo applies pirattitude to the current political climate
Balls & Walnuts lets (ahem) Captain Morning Wood shanghai his blog for TLAPD
GearLog blogs about gear with pirattitude
The Skwib - plans a whole week o' piratical posts, startin' with a lecture from Billy Bones at Pirate University.
The group blog Pererro will observe Talk Like a Pirate Day not only as part of their daily column "Today is...", but also by having their very own Pererro Pirate (also known as Capt'n Pererro) officate posts for the day.
The OpenWriting Webzine: Eric Shackle writes about The Day
Shipmate RichardG, over on the Newsvine newsblog, explains TLAPD for his readers
The Weekly Dig's "Found Footage Friday" dug up six of the strangest pirate videos to be found on YouTube. (We feel lucky they didn't choose one of ours!)
Army of Mom posted photos of her own wee pirates
Son of Cheese blogs about the day - with audio!
The 2006 Challenge Transit Yacht Race blogs like a pirate
Viking pirates!

Liz Schier, the Pirate Guys' editor at Penguin New American Library, is the winner of the 2006 Hotties of Publishing award sponsored by the GalleyCat blog. We knew that all along!

News with pirattitude

(Thanks to Google Alerts fer keepin' us on top o' the news! Here's just a sample:)

CNN Live (live interview with the Pirate Guys)
Lone Star Times, Texas
MetroUK
The Washington Post
Norfolk, VA, Pilot
Dayton, Ohio, Daily News
Columbus, Ohio, Ledger-Enquirer
UWM Independent (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
SUU Journal (Southern Utah University)
Louisville Courier-Journal
Contra Costa (Calif.) Times
Battle Creek (Mich.) Enquirer
Sacramento Bee
The Statesman Journal, Salem, Oregon: Salem man might be descendant of infamous Captain Samuel Bellamy - with a sidebar on the Pirate Guys
The Cyprus Mail in Nicosia, Cyprus, featured a column about Talk Like a Pirate Day
Another quoteworthy item from The Oregonian: "Aarrr! Hoist the Jolly Roger and salute as Oregon's own "Talk Like a Pirate" guys get another blast of national attention. You'll be recallin' that Ol' Chumbucket and Cap'n Slappy are the Albany duo who invented International Talk Like a Pirate Day ... the pirate gospel will be spread even further when Chumbucket -- aka John Baur -- and his wife, Tori "Mad Sally" Baur, are featured on the ABC series "Wife Swap."... come 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 18. Which is, conveniently enough, one day before International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Be there -- or be a bilge rat!"
An 87-year-old correspondent for OhMyNews, an international news and entertainment site out of Korea, reports on Talk Like A Pirate Day. Now that's pirattitude!
Inland (California) Press-Enterprise: "Special days honor not only the quirky, but also recognize professions. "
The JewishJournal - "Ahoy, Mates - thar be Jewish pirates!"

August:

The Scottish press caught on to the Official Ship's Chaplain:

The Pilot (Southern Pines, NC): Columnist, mystery writer and sometimes country lawyer J. D. "Dusty" Rhodes examines the pirate phenomenon

A brand-new Webcomic, "A Pirate's Life For Me," makes its debut on Sept. 19th, naturally!

July-September: With the release of Disney's second Pirates of the Caribbean movie, the reviewers and pundits who've just figured out that, hey, pirates are cool couldn't seem to help mentioning our favorite holiday. Check these reviews:

Alberquerque (NM) Tribune ("The "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise is just a portion of this perfect cultural storm, the best of which is International Talk Like a Pirate Day (Sept. 19), one of the most brilliant phenomena in forever.")
The Oregonian "Here, on the deceptively peaceful banks of the Willamette, pirates roam among us all year long. Some pursue gold. Others slam back grog with 18th-century gusto. Still others belt out sea chanteys in nightclubs or on street corners. Where you or I might say, "Have a nice day," they're likely to bellow, "Fair winds, and thanks fer yer foine pirattitude!"
Film Australia: " Speaking as a previous owner and bathtub mariner of the Playmobil pirate ship and accessories, I can tell you that there’s a certain dilated escapism that comes with all things pirate-ised; a fond response that adventure on the high seas and its related skulduggery elicits in people. And it’s not just me: notably, check www.talklikeapirate.com for latest updates on International Talk Like a Pirate Day, purchase a book on ‘Pirattitude’, or (worryingly) play Buccaneer Bachelor. But despite this, Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl was, in some ways, a curio as much as it was a box office event... "
Dallas (Tex.) Morning News/WFAA.com
Palm Springs (Calif.) Desert Sun
Atlanta (Ga.) Creative Loafing
Lawrence (Kans.)Journal/ LJWorld
The Fort Worth Star Telegram
Senior Journal
CreativeLoafing.Com (Atlanta, GA)
Louisville Courier-Journal
Pirate Guys interviews related to the Dead Man's Chest opening:
- NPR's Weekend America
- The Satellite Sisters
- Chicago Tribune
- USA Today
- Portland Oregonian
- Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
- KVAL TV , Portland, Oregon
- Riverside Press Enterprise, Riverside California
- Journal Newspapers, North Seattle
- Bluefield (W. Virginia) Daily Telegraph
- Potomac Daily News, Virginia
- Eugene Weekly, Eugene Oregon
- Santa Barbara News Press, California
- CBC Radio, Vancouver, British Columbia

Other media mentions:

July: Blogged by Geoffrey Chaucer! (the Webwench's No. 1 favorite blog).

Burlington Free Press columnist Chris Bohjalian pays tribute to TLAPD while writing about his town's Kids Pirate Festival.

Spot On, a European teen magazine published in Germany, featured our Web site in its July issue in a big feature on the popularity of pirattitude.

March 2006: Mastercard's on-line magazine, Priceless, ran a nice feature on our favorite pirate store, 826 Valencia in San Francisco, with links to International Talk Like A Pirate Day.

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