Mahiedine took off his shirt in the last

Mahiedine took off his shirt in the last meters of the 3000m Steeplechase & got disqualified. Out of protest Pierre the accountant resolved to take off his shirt whenever

a polar bear drowned due to global warming. Pierre was shirtless. The French stumble bum realized he'd need to get a six pack if the children were going to stop tormenting him.

So Pierre decided to ditch the pain au chocolat and book a spot at a world class Parisian gym. His new personal trainer wasn't going to cut him any slack, so the Polar Bears would

have to fend for themselves on the Left Bank. That was fine with the Polar Bears. They were surrounded by all that French talent. They were fine. Pierre & his personal trainer got

the troupe togehter for a puppet show. The stage was two overturned brandy casks with the cabin boys unders for a curtain. He would miss them, being drowned an all that. The show

was a risible success, with many a discourteous jab at the coast guard. Our nautical ventriloquism caught the attention of Somali pirates and senile delinquent cruise ships alike.

Tying strings to the jaws of our wooden figureheads, we became a pirate navy of floating ventriloquist dummies. We called our ship "Chatty Cathy". My, she was yaw! And lippy as she

was full of pollywogs. Which was good or bad depending on which side of the bucket you were on. As ventriloquist dummy pirates we would shanghai some rich landlubber to "speak" for

forcing them to use outlandish pirate accents at the point of a cutlass. There's nothing a pirate ventriloquist's dummy likes more than listening to a terrified landlubber singing

dirty sea shanties at the top of his lungs when his life is on the line. And so, they all stayed like that for months, trying to appease the dummy, but, eventually, he snapped.