George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
How did he know this?
Well, the captain was always telling George that he wasn’t a very good pirate.
And his crewmates kept telling him that, too.
The constant criticism annoyed George, driving him completely mad.
One day, in the middle of a dressing-down, he tossed a lit match into the powder room.
It immediately went out.
“Oh, come on!” said a passing crewmate. “That’s now how you set off the powder room and blow up the ship. Here, let me show you…”
Mercifully, the captain stopped him mid-demonstration.