I love how Wikipedia can take something so silly and describe it in such a dry clinical tone:

International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD) is a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur (Ol’ Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap’n Slappy), of Albany, Oregon,^[1] who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate.^[1] For example, an observer of this holiday would greet friends not with “Hello,” but with “Ahoy, me hearty!” The holiday, and its observance, springs from a romanticized view of the Golden Age of Piracy.

My favorite way to celebrate ITLAPD is with my officemates but it falls on a Saturday this year – for shame shiver me timbers!

The official website is www.talklikeapirate.com which has all kind of festive party materials booty and loot like this sign, useful for pestering annoyed coworkers into playing along:

The official website also includes a link on how to build a cubicle canon.

Yes, you read that correctly.

No, I don’t know what it involves. (And we at Element take no responsibility should you actually build said cubicle canon.)