January 03, 2004 - 10:34 a.m. The Keelhaul Synchronicity Or, Why My Head Is Spinning Like I�ve Been Keelhauled! Keelhaul: 1. Nautical. To discipline by dragging under the keel of a ship. 2. To rebuke harshly. Yesterday in my entry for Thirteen and a Half Things�� That I Hereby Resolve For 2004 I stated the following: I Resolve� 5. To Sneak The Word �keelhaul� Into At Least One Serious Conversation Daily. I then went on to read my email, part of which was a message from fellow Groopie Charles Klein, in part stating �I hope no one made any silly resolutions just because it's the beginning of a new year. Resolutions should be made when the time is right (Talk Like a Pirate Day) rather than a specific date (Yak Shaving Day). � Now, we�d made a couple of joking references to Talk Like a Pirate Day during the year, a favorite non sequitur from Groo is when Drumm turns to his partner Pal and out of the blue goes �What Pirates? � in response to a question from a previous issue. So I decided I would start a countdown, �Only so many days until Talk Like a Pirate Day! � I Googled Talk Like a Pirate Day (finally, a link!!!) and was fish-slapped with the synchronicity of the following in the How To Talk Like A Pirate primer: Grog � An alcoholic drink, usually rum diluted with water, but �If some prissy pedant purses his lips and protests the word grog can only be used if drinking rum and water, not the Singapore Sling you�re holding, keelhaul him! What are the odds that I would pull the word keelhaul out of thin air and then end up reading the word again an hour later!!!? This is no �blue car syndrome� (a phrase I think I�m stealing from my pal Janet , although I can�t remember the context, but which basically means when you buy a blue car you suddenly start noticing blue cars everywhere). I mean, I used the word pretty randomly for humorous effect, and we haven�t mentioned Talk Like a Pirate Day since probably sometime in September! Oh, and by the way, Talk Like A Pirate Day is September 19, as any fool can plainly see, so there�s only 250 more days until Talk Like A Pirate Day! Add your own comments, I�d love to hear from you! Just v CLICK HERE v 0 comments so far Ahoy, mateys! Only until Talk Like A Pirate Day! previous - next All content except as noted copyright 2003, 2004 Lawrence C. Steller, all rights reserved. May not be reproduced in any form without express written permission from Larry, ok? email: