International Talk like a Pirate Day Open Thread

Wordsmith

12 years ago

Ahoy thar, ye band o’ scurvy scallywags! Today be Talk Like a Pirate Day.

Feel free ta discuss anything ye’d like in this ‘ere open thread; just make sher ye talk like a pirate, or yer landlubbin’ comment will find itself walkin’ the plank! Aaarrrrgh!

President Barack Obama “meets” with speechwriter Cody Keenan, who dressed as a pirate for an Oval Office photo taken for use in the President’s humorous speech to the White House Correspondents Association dinner May 9, 2009. “But as I said during the campaign, we can’t just talk to our friends. As hard as it is, we also have to talk to our enemies, and I’ve begun to do exactly that,” the President said in his speech.
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza.)

President Barack Obama reacts to seeing speechwriter Cody Keenan outside the Oval Office on May 8, 2009. Keenan dressed up as a pirate for an Oval Office photo shot for use in the President’s speech to the White House Correspondents Association dinner May 9, 2009

So grab some grog and pull up an empty chair and start Eastwoodin’!

Did ye blogganeers know that our 44th president got his early start as a pirate?

Friends and family of Stanley Ann Dunham
Barack Obama with his mother in Hawaii.

Mayhap he is secretly Somalian and not Kenyan? Aaarrrrr…..

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A former fetus, the “wordsmith from nantucket” was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1968. Adopted at birth, wordsmith grew up a military brat. He achieved his B.A. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles (graduating in the top 97% of his class), where he also competed rings for the UCLA mens gymnastics team. The events of 9/11 woke him from his political slumber and malaise. Currently a personal trainer and gymnastics coach.

The wordsmith has never been to Nantucket.