THE PROPOSAL

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Once upon a time, there were these two *lady pirates who used many fineries to adorn a large shelter providing canopy; wherein, they hoped would be warm, inviting, and have the “we’re pirates” ambience their buccaneers in crime longed for.  Whilst preparing this pirate adorned tavern tent the ladies realized they were in dire need of a custom wooden bar.   Enter, a tall, handsome pirate who apparently had hard-wood handling skills the two lady pirates were soon to be of privy too.

The handsome pirate quickly pounced at the prospect of offering the two lady pirates a custom wood work of his own making.  He pulled out his personal measuring sword and began constructing this new table that he would lay bare at the feet of the lady pirates. The lady pirates were stunned by the massive size of his wood table. It was so perfect in proportion; long, strong, and ready to get rum’d on.

During the staging of the new addition to the pirate tavern tent, the Captain and crew, looked to the vast sea-shore in front of them when they spotted a lonely mast, from a ships' wreck of the past. The mast had no crows nest seated atop.  “I will not stand for this”, said the Captain, “I shall acquire a crow’s nest!” and to no surprise of his crew the Captain procured a crows nest. The crows nest was perched upon the peak of the mast; until, a las a storm took the crows nest off of the mast.

Now there was a pirate of considerable sway, who was impressed with the handsome pirates’ wood table creation; so he did not hesitate, responding quickly and favorably to the handsome pirates’ offer to build a new crows nest. Melding and molding, his hardest wood ever; the handsome pirate constructed the crows nest of all crows nest. It was gently lifted up to the top of the mast by two dragons, one elephant, and several indentured servants. Once fastened in, there was no doubt this crows nest would be a place the pirates could shout.

The pirate of considerable sway, looked at the handsome pirate with an almost joking smile and said, “Can you build ships too?”.  "How fast, could we build, around this mast?"  Of course, the pirate of considerable sway had the mark of the English East India Trading Company carved into his arm; so, the handsome pirate knew he must be serious. The handsome pirate, slowly swallowed his rum and told the pirate of considerable sway, “I don’t know; let me work on it.”. 

And thus the seed was planted.