Pirate ships didn’t make people walk the plank in real life. If they wanted someone overboard, why go to the trouble of preparing the plank when they could just throw them overboard?
While rare, it *did* occur (there are historical records), as, perhaps, a sadistic form of entertainment, or as revenge by mutineers against brutal, sadistic officers.
While I don’t actually know how much the plank was ever used, it would provide the advantage of being harder to grab onto post-push and it being easier for people to foil said grabbing attempts.
I suspect the usual method of moving them along was a few lashes with the ‘cat,’ or a poke in the butt with a cutlass, but Adam’s depiction of a frustrated sigh is so much more entertaining.
Pirate ships didn’t make people walk the plank in real life. If they wanted someone overboard, why go to the trouble of preparing the plank when they could just throw them overboard?
Which is nicely explained in Baggywrinkles #4: http://nauticry.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/baggywrinkles-4-is-here/
While rare, it *did* occur (there are historical records), as, perhaps, a sadistic form of entertainment, or as revenge by mutineers against brutal, sadistic officers.
While I don’t actually know how much the plank was ever used, it would provide the advantage of being harder to grab onto post-push and it being easier for people to foil said grabbing attempts.
Well I suppose you could threaten them with a cannon if their taking too long to go off the plank.
I suspect the usual method of moving them along was a few lashes with the ‘cat,’ or a poke in the butt with a cutlass, but Adam’s depiction of a frustrated sigh is so much more entertaining.
I just pictured Pirates Of The Carribean having a soundtrack produced by Tom Jones…
I’ve never seen a loop de loop water slide.
It was tried. The results were not pretty:
http://goo.gl/tA8xSZ
I see no earrings on the bug pirates. Do we ever see bugs with earrings? Anyone? Bueller? No ears on bugs, hence no earrings?
We’ve seen antenna-rings. Like in the last panel of https://www.bugmartini.com/comic/writers-blockade/.
“It’s not unusual to walk the plank for anyone”
Nice!
Oh no. Ear worm. I’m going to be singing that all day now.
Is it easier to walk a diving board than a plank?
Wow tom Jones must be older than I thought, though “It’s not unusual to…”
Yeah, I was going to say, the first Tom Jones joke in ages that isn’t older’n Tom Jones himself.
Or something.
Strangely, most sailors in those days couldn’t swim one bit.