On Starting A Parody Business
Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?
I’m John Baur. Once upon a time, I was a normal guy, father and working journalist. Then I and my friend Mark – also pretty normal – came up with the idea for International Talk Like a Pirate Day and the rest is, if not history, at least a pretty good story.
What's your backstory and how did you come up with the idea?
International Talk Like a Pirate Day started on a racquetball court where two friends, John Baur and Mark Summers, were trying to get back in shape (as if we’d ever been in shape before. During the course of the game, we started insulting each other in pirate lingo and decided the work needed a holiday where every man, woman, and child talked like a pirate.
Our brainstorm (if that’s the word that applies here) came to the attention of Pulitzer Prize-winning humor...
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