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Do Something Randomly Fun Every Once In A While

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If your life seems humdrum or stuck in a rut, it's time to do something off the wall just for the fun of it, like celebrating ITLAPD (International Talk Like a Pirate Day), which is today, by peppering your talk with lots of "Arrrr!", "Yo Ho!", Avast!", and "Shiver Me Timbers!", and encouraging others to join you.

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ITLAPD has its own website, and is celebrated annually on September 19, but is enough fun that you could get away with it by celebrating randomly on other days, too.

- Submitted by MCJULIEO 9/19/2010 in Motivation | 2 Comments

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