Well Blow Me Down!

New StatesmanJuly 31, 2009

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Their website, www.talklikeapirate.com, is the focus of the day's celebrations and impersonations. It boasts a vital resource in the form of a pirate glossary, which leads the ingnu beyond "Arrr!" and "Ahoy!" to more complicated parlance such as "bung hole" and "bilge rat".

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Well Blow Me Down!

Astronauts have had their time in the sun, and that time was the 1960s. Firefighters (the New York Fire Department aside) now seem prosaic after too many Sunday-evening dramas. And apparently you can train to be a pilot in only 35 hours - so where's the fun in that? The only childhood heroes who can claim to have k...

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