incandescens | I'm not a morning person either

Aar, me hearties.

Okay, so this is because they've found Blackbeard's flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge. I find this cool and entertaining. Aaarh.

Now how many Doctor Who crossovers will this spontaneously generate?

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We have it on the authority of Defoe (and who can doubt Desperate Dan for a moment?) that Anne Bonney once observed irritably of a lover, as he was dragged out to the gallows at dawn, that if he had fought like a man he need not have been hanged like a dog. Neat and pithy, and it must have cheered him up no end, but the real significance of her remark at such a time has hitherto been overlooked by scholars, the dumb clucks. Not any more though; we've spotted it: plainly she was not at her best first thing in the morning.

This is borne out by her reaction on waking up nude, cold, wi' coated tongue and a head like a burst cushion, to find herself lying on a mattress ripped to shreds, and her room in wild disorder. Her first bleary ecstatic thought was: Gad, that new slave is something else! - and then she realised that the Madagascar cross was gone, and that the smooth long rat must have slipped giggle-juice in her loving-cup. Her bliss evaporated in frothing rage - not only robbed, then, but scorned! Small wonder that Onslow, bringing prunes and poached eggs in response to her bellowed oaths, should have tottered out again with the breakfast tray wrapped round his head and the impression that her instant requirements were a pack of hounds, a horse-whip, and a cauldron of hot tar in the backyard.

-- The Pyrates, George MacDonald Fraser