Belated update on "Talk like a pirate day"

[chickenfeet]

We were discussing "talk like a pirate day" last Sunday in the dressing room after the game. Now Kevin B. was there. And Kevin be from Somerset. So he always talks like a pirate. Have you noticed that whenever actors want to convey that they are set in the 17th century they invariably put on a Somerset accent. Personally, I find it quite disturbing when I'm treated to a Wessex Oliver Cromwell but I think that, in fact, we are witnessing a deep seated symmetry. I figure it's that people in Somerset are still mostly in the 17th century and that therefore, according to some sort of law of conservation of something or other, etc etc.