I couldn't pass this one up. I thought tweeters would enjoy this one--I
hope.
Jerry Converse
Grand Coulee, WA

A grizzled old pirate stepped into a tavern to quaff a few slugs of grog
with
his buddies. After a few rounds one of them asked him how he got his
peg-leg.

"That came from a fight off the Barbary Coast. Me young helper on the
cannon
got shot and it went off and rolled over me leg and took it clean off.
But the
peg-leg works fine"

After a few more rounds another asked about the hook he had instead of a
hand.

"Now that came from a raid off the Spanish Main. We was a boarding
another ship
when this brigand with a great saber just took her clean off. But the
hook
works just fine"

After another drink or two, someone asked about the patch over his left
eye.

"Oh, well. That one I lost up in the crow's nest while on watch duty. I
heard
this noise up in the t'psail and looked up and a seagull pooped in me
eye"

"You mean you lost your eye from a seagull?" his cohort asked.

"Well no, ya see, it was the first day I had me hook."