Close to Home by John McPherson for May 28, 2021

The local tattoo parlor is having a sale on ear piercing – a buck an ear.

Yaaaarrrrr!!!!!

Almost looks like the one in blue is holding Blackbeard’s hand!

“As long as it’s for pillaging. But none of that cops and robbers rubbish! Where we live there’s robbers and robbees. No cops!”

Yarr… He’s grounded until he cleans out Davey Jones’s locker! It’s a mess in der!

I don’t wanta be flotsam. Can I be jetsam? Sounds more rugged…

I don’t care if it’s me time at the helm! Me nap time is me nap time!

Hello, Mr. YellowBleeb.

Sorry, Junior is only allowed to plunder this week.

Ok, but I’ve got you pegged, little boy! Better be home by 10:00! Auuuuugh! Take Bleeb with you…..so he can keep an EYE on you both!

“Yes as long as he’s back after 10pm with some of the booty, arr.”

Okay, so now I wonder. Did Edward Teach(Blackbeard) have any kids? What about relatives. I mean really, with all that pirate stuff you’d think you’d hear more about the line of Teach.

AARH- Like father like son! Family traditions are great!

Bleeb says “Hi”…

“It’s Captain Blackbeard, matey!”

Arrrrrrrrrrrrr, no! He be cleanin’ his room, he is….….come back in a shake, and the likes of both ya scalawags can plunder to yer fill, Arrrrrrrrrrrrr!….

… Oh, but you’ll have to be back by four, junior has a piano recital and his mother’s at the beauty parlor, so he has to have time for a snack and a juice box before we leave!

Oh, and uh… Arrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Ya scurvy knave!

Figures that Junior would have a beard, too…

I don’t think I care much for the people Bleeb has been hanging out with lately.

I’d hate to be pillaged. Mabel Stanley (Kristy McNichol) in the Pirate Movie

“Sure he can matey, I’m off to a business meeting on the Hampton River”

Junior be over at Applegate’s for pieces of eight!

Is that a Bleeb in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me.

Blackbeard didn’t have a peg leg. He had all of his limbs intact, right up to the day he was killed.

yeah he’ll pillage you