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"Bring me the Baron alive, but do what you

  • "Bring me the Baron alive, but do what you want to the rest," said Capt. Purplebeard from the crow's nest. The pirates cheered in unison. "Dress-up!" They forced pillagees to wear

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  • Bjork's swan dress and sing Steely Dan. When the pirates tired of this, they'd feed the pillagees to the shrieking eels. Capt. Purplebeard entertained the Baron in his quarters,

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  • also singing Steely Dan (all pirates are big fans, particularly of the song "Peg"). The Baron was impressed by Capt. Purplebeard's talents, but when the shrieking eels drowned out

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  • "Do It Again,' the pirates became angry. The Baron steadily rested his tanker of grog on the table and raised his hand to the loud pirated. He said, "It look like Capt. Purplebeard

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  • After being snookered. " He loved playing snooker and table tennis. Baron Munchausen also loved biscuits and famously polished them off so fast his wife and kids got nothing.

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  • This arrangement went on for years until the baron suffered a heart attack from eating all of those biscuits, and died in the middle of breakfast.

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  • The baron’s fatal heart attack didn’t go over well with the Bob Evans waitress who had served him all those biscuits. Now she would never get a decent tip. After the baron’s dead b

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  • -ody was covered with a tablecloth, she snuck her hand under and removed wallet. "Take that, Dead Baron!" she smiled as she planned her retirement from waitressing. But there was

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  • a hiccup in the wallet that she never expected. A hiccup that could and did raise a dead man. The moment she opened the purloined wallet it let it out. The Dead Baron stood up like

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  • a broken spider finding its legs again, and then found his strength. He smiled and blessed her with the sign of Uncrossing, then left to seek the pleasures of this world.

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2 Comments

  1. LordVacuity Mar 20 2018 @ 22:37

    So she got to keep the wallet and retired?

  2. BlastedHeath Mar 20 2018 @ 23:00

    I wouldn't worry too much about her ...

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