By Baur and Summers

John Ol’ “Chumbucket” Baur and Mark “Cap’n Slappy” Summers, a pair of friends from Oregon, came up with the idea of an international holiday on which everyone is not just permitted but encouraged to talk like a pirate all day long. Their idea went around the world faster than Francis Drake. The English sea captain took almost three years to circumnavigate the globe; Talk Like a Pirate Day required just weeks to circle the planet. Millions of people on all seven continents—yes, even Antarctica!—got aboard and for the last three years have filled the air every September 19th with “Aarrrs!” and “Avasts!” and “Yo-hos!,” among many other nautical phrases. Now the pair will share their booty of pirate lore and high-seas hijinks in Pirattitude: So You Wanna Be a Pirate?