A friend of mine was trying to relate to her significant other the wonder of online fantasy. Her exact quote was "You can be anything you want to be, anything at all. You could be a pirate!"
I laughed at this, only because being a pirate had never entered into my own overactive fantasy ridden head. For the sake of friendship I opted to take a shot at it, let me know what you think.
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So I'm minding my own business, hopping from yardarm to yardarm, dagger in my teeth, when to my surprise, I spy a buxom wench tied to the main mast. Apparently she was the daughter of some sort of dignitary, promised to the prince, when she was kidnapped from a Spanish galleon to satisfy the carnal desires of Captain Bleh. Sorry, Captain Bleigh was taken, deal with it.
Her hair shone like spun silk in the early morning sun. It blew in the salt air like a mane. She wore only a blouse off the shoulders and a long skirt, which was also blowing in the same salty breeze. Her hands were tied behind her back, and her head was down. She was depressed, frightened, and just plain freaking tired of standing there tied to the goddamn mast.
I was so taken aback by her incredible beauty that I almost missed the crows nest. The Parrot on my shoulder cussed at me as I climbed in to keep my watch. Lookout duty sucked, not only were you stuck in this stupid basket for hours on end, but they don't allow any entertainment at all up here. It makes for a long day when you can't listen to your Twisted Sister records, the soundtrack to any good pirates life.
I settled back for a long boring day, whittling a pair of salad tongs out of Captain Bleh's spare wooden leg with my dagger, when suddenly I heard a female cry, EEEEEk, I do believe she said. I looked over the edge of my crowβs nest only to see the crew surrounding the young damsel.
Apparently all of the months at sea had scrambled their brains. They did not want to wait for Captain Bleh's sloppy seconds; they planned to help themselves to her feminine wiles now, no matter what the old kermungen had to say.
Being the company Pirate I was, I couldn't stand by for such a travesty. This was mutiny don't you know. So with a hearty YO HO, (god this is sappy), over the side of the crows nest I went to save the young damsel.
When I arrived on deck, things were starting to get nasty. My fellow shipmates were arguing as to who would be first to sample the young lady. She stood there in horror, breasts heaving under the thin fabric of her blouse, her eyes unable to believe how ugly and unkempt these pirates were. Her ears unable to believe the profanity coming from their mouths. Her nose unable to believe the incredible stench coming from the crew in general. Basically she was standing there in disbelief.
One large sweaty Pirate guy claimed to be of an incredible sexual prowess. He claimed to be able to satisfy any woman with the size of his ummm...Purple Helmeted Warrior, thought you would like that one. All of the other pirates argued, they all boasted of their experiences with various wenches from the alehouses in port.
Finally, knowing that I could not defend the damsel with violence, being I was outnumbered 20 to 1, I decided that instead I would use my wits.
I removed the dagger from my teeth and yelled, "Yo Stinky!β to the leader of the group, he turned and looked at me with disbelief. Not just because I called him Stinky, but it is kind of an unwritten rule on the pirate ship that when you say YO, HO usually follows it.