Chicago. The Windy City. Home of the Cubs, deep dish pizza, the Sears Tower, and the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Mayor Daley now wishes to add to that list by proclaiming verily that Chicago shall spawn the first Talk Like Shakespeare Day on Thursday next. Ummm… yippee?

Somehow, it just doesn’t lend itself to the sort of fun for all ages that Talk Like a Pirate Day brings. I just can’t see me coaxing the boys into donning Elizabethan collars and sending them off on the school bus. Let’s see, swords, rum, and salty talk vs. angst, death, and fruity talk. Hmmm…

Methinks this stands not a chance of catching on.