George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
To make up for his shortcomings, he used humor as a defense mechanism.
He started with silly nose-glasses, which distracted his enemy long enough for him to escape.
Or he’d wear a fight wig, or ask his opponent to sniff his squirting flower.
Over time, he refined his humor, and he had the British Navy rolling on the desks, clutching their sides from the pain of laughing so hard.
He always walked away with the loot, even when he slipped on a banana peel and fell into the water.