Pirates
Avast Me Hearties It's Rosh Hashanah
For reasons best known to the buccaneering community, September 19, 2009, also known as Rosh Hashanah, was declared International Talk Like A Pirate Day by the Talk Like a Pirate Webpage. They celebrated the Jewish New Year in a variety of ways, but with fewer apples, pomegranates or black-eyed peas than usually eaten by my family.
‘Schmooz Me Timbers!’: John Derbyshire’s Jewish Pirate Lexicon
Readers weighed in with a few more. My favorite: “Goniffs of the Carribean.”
