George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
He remembered in the cartoons when Charlie would try to kick the football and Lucy would pull the football away at the last minute.
So, he pondered a way to do this with pirates.
“What if I make someone walk the plank, but just as they’re about to walk the plank, I pull it away and they end up falling in the shark-infested water?” said George.
“Then they’re still in the shark-infested water anyway,” said the captain, walking away.
George went back to his bunk and sulked for days.