George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
He had a gambling problem, too.
One day, he bet his boots, and he lost them.
All he had to wear on his feet were his roller skates.
He thought he’d be as agile as a carhop at a drive-in hamburger shack.
Instead, he was pitched and tossed around the deck with every wave, knocking over his crewmates and ruining their aim as they fired their cannon at another ship.
At least it didn’t take much effort to get him to roll along the plank and into the water.