Author’s note: due to late nights the past few weeks at my paying job, I have a bunch of articles started but not completed for this blog that will be forthcoming over the next few weeks. In the meantime, the following is a parody short I did in April of 2009 for a project my now-husband was working on. At the time, the big news items were the rapidly tanking American economy and the hostage situation on the high seas as pirates took over an American vessel. Enjoy.
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With the recent news coverage of the American ship captain taken hostage by Somali pirates, more and more pirate organizations are clamoring for the institution of a pirate guild. “They be givin’ us pirates a bad name,” lamented first mate Colonious Squidward of the Mighty Mouse. “They be thinkin’ pirating is jus’ lawlessness, but there be an art to it, matey. What with the swordplay, the drawin’ of treasure maps, and the plunderin’ o’booty, pirating be a hard days’ work. But these ruffians, they no be pirates. They’re no better than street gangs on the high seas, arrrrg.”
An unexpected result of the hostage situation is the incredible amount of inquiries for the deceased pirates’ jobs.
“It’s a shame that their careers had to end as violently as they did,” says Captain Scraggly Beard of the pirate ship Ananab, “but with the economy the way it is, we’ve been getting hundreds of resumes from wanna-be buccaneers willing to take their place.”
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