This just in via email from Craig, a reader of this blog out in Wisconsin:

Happy “Talk Like a Pirate” Day!

I wish people would tell me these things before I go to work in the morning. A whole day of normal talk wasted… wasted I tell you.

ARrrrrgggh.

Thank ye fer tellin’ us, matey. So, dear readers, don’t be wastin’ the rest of yar day — start talkin’ like the pirate you truly arrrrr, shiver me timbers.