I’ve lived enough and read enough self-help books to see the inspired wisdom in the song “You’ve Got to Put Down the Duckie (if you want to play the saxophone)”  That’s so much easier to grasp than being told to let go of the past, stop stopping yourself etc.  Which would you rather hear?

My all-time favorite life lesson in song is below – the doo wop tragic saga with the inarguable truth “stoplights and love can be cruel.” Don’t I know it.  This stuff is wasted on four-year olds! Part of Sesame Street’s concept is to include bits that adults find interesting to get the parents interacting with their kids, but what about those of us without kids? Thank God for Youtube. Now adults can get their Sesame Street fix without having to wade through the letter of the day and other extraneous material meant for the target preschool audience.

Just like Halloween I always leave preparing for this holiday until too late, but not this year.  Although September 19th will be here before you know it. So it’s time to start practicing pirate talk and making sure you have a good pirate name picked out.  (I think I’ll be sticking with Black Bess unless I can come up with something really inspired…)

Much, much more information, tips, and resources are available on the official International Talk Like a Pirate Day site.  From experience I can say that the abilility to email and text in pirate talk is more difficult than you may thing and may require extra practice.  Some suprisingly ‘normal’ individuals seem to have an inborn talent to type with extra r’s and apostraphes.