The Lost PowerPoint Slides (Buccaneer Edition)

Roche Braziliano presents “Not a Buccaneer” –> slide 1 (circa 1655)

• “boucanier” is a French smoker of meat
• har, they smoke meat good there
• also, they smell like dead pigs
• now drink with me or I’ll roast you alive
• okay, maybe I’m a kind of buccaneer.

Jean-David Nau (François l’Ollonais) presents “Torture etiquette” –> slide 6 (circa 1667)

woolding

• fast and effective
• bind cord around victim’s head
• (always explain how much it will hurt first)
• tighten with wooden crank
• keep cranking until they tell you what you want to know
• or their eyes pop out
• either way, keep cranking!

Sir Henry Morgan presents “Exceeding Your Commission” –>slide 12 (circa 1674)

• no sea voyage is complete without a sacking of Panama
• not in my Letter of Marque and Reprisal, per se
• nor was using Jesuit priests as human shields (works well)

Sir Henry Morgan presents “Exceeding Your Commission” –>slide 13 (circa 1674)

• but I really didn’t know England was at peace with Spain
• thus, the knighthood
• arrrrrr!