Beyond the sociological significance of demonstrating that a truly frivolous notion can get propagated easily on the web, Talk-Like-A-Pirate Day, as championed here by Dave Barry, is a truly pointless, frivolous notion. Sorry to be a stick-in-the-mud, but I can’t see dignifying it. But, then, I don’t see the point to flash mobs either (although I suspect it has something to do with the fact that the usual assembly point for the latter is the local watering hole…)