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At first an inside joke between two friends, the holiday gained exposure when Baur and Summers sent a letter about their invented holiday to the American syndicated humor columnist Dave Barry in 2002.[2] Barry liked the idea and promoted the day.[2] Growing media coverage of the holiday after Dave Barry’s column has ensured that this event is now celebrated internationally.

Baur and Summers found new fame in the 2006 season premiere episode of ABC’s Wife Swap, first aired September 18, 2006. They starred in the role of “a family of pirates” along with John’s wife, Tori.[3]

Actor Robert Newton, who portrayed Long John Silver in the 1950 Disney film Treasure Island, is the patron saint of Talk Like A Pirate Day.[1] As the association of pirates with peg legs, parrots and treasure maps was popularized in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel Treasure Island (1883), the influence of Stevenson’s book on parody pirate culture cannot be overestimated.[4]>