In my youth, my only association with pirates was seeing Captain Hook in the Disney movie Peter Pan, and I didn’t care much for either Hook or Peter, the geek who flew around in tights. So here I am, x years later, trapped in a world of pirates.
Two of my three children are eagerly anticipating Sunday, or “International Talk Like A Pirate Day” (every September 19). I should add these are adult children. My wife, who has one eye so sensitive to light she should be wearing a patch over it, has a mild obsession (oxymoron) with Jimmy Buffett, who sings about pirates when he isn’t singing about margaritas.
Whose idea do you think THAT picture on the right was? The phone conversation between mother and sons on Sunday will be of a world with which I am unfamiliar.
And, my next-door neighbor, a great guy of unbelievable skills, has a hook where one of his hands used to be and he has my never-ending admiration. It’s just that he reminds me — and my granddaughter — of the Captain.
And now this.
A survey commissioned by the Passenger Shipping Association of Britain wanted cruise ship passengers to identify which celebrity they would most like to share a cabin with (after their spouse or partner, of course) and half of them — we are assuming “them” are female passengers — chose Johnny Depp and the other half chose Jack Sparrow.
Okay, I embellish. They actually chose Jack Sparrow for their Captain’s Dinner on the last night of a cruise, but it makes for a better blog because Johnny and Jack are the same person…or pirate.
The men in the survey chose Jennifer Aniston, who could never look like a pirate.
Where would my vote have gone? Well, as I said, I’m not crazy about pirates.