Wednesday 31 December 2014

Marbel

Marbel: verb. To gaze wonderingly at the surrounding world with at least one fake eye. During the age of piracy, it was common for sailors, who had suffered a head wound to marbel at the world they got to sea (sea what I did there (and there)) as they sailed around. It actually became illegal under Henry Morgan, as there was a risk of the false eye falling out as the seamen marbeled, which would render them even more useless then they had been up to that point.

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