Talk Like A Pirate Day
Tuesday September 19th is International Talk Like A Pirate Day.
The 'patron saint' of this is Robert Newton, who invented what we think
of as the way pirates talked. Exaggerating his West Country accent, he
was to play the same role over and over, starting as Long John Silver in
Treasure Island with Bobby Driscoll, above. Since pirates came from
every nation and walk of life this is a stereotype, but a very good
one. Newton drank himself to death at the age of 50, Bobby was found
dead in an abandoned building in NYC, 1968. https://misterscribbles.blogspot.com/2016/11/bobby-driscoll.html
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