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Why is the rum always gone?

I'd imagine it would have something to do with the distance of the shore and the bottom of the bottle never being in equal distance, as one wished it were.

Aye, could be that. Is that. Make a lot of sense, there, mate.

Eh. Ever find a cure for that as it were?

Finding one-self capable deck-hands, often reduces the need for 'medicinal' help. I also usually favour making it a point to know all ships courses leaving port; who are carrying a well-stocked hull of liquor. When there is a danger of the rum running out, a sea encounter is often placed on the agenda.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say because you don't ration very well. Or there's a hole in your bottle.

Ration the rum? Ration the -- ?

There's not a hole in me bottle. Or there better not be. My bottle.

. . how do you expect it to last if you don't ration it? I suppose you could carry more.

RATION it? It's rum. It's -- aye, carry more! More's of it is always good. More rum! Drinks all around! Now you're thinking, lad.

Thanks. I think. You spend most of your time drunk or close to it, don't you.

Because you clearly don't have enough of it, sugar.

That would be the problem.

perhaps you should drink ... something else...

Because you always drink it Jack.

If I didn't drink it, it be because it weren't there at first to drink and thereby by being undrinkably missing there wouldn't be any rum at all, which still leaves with the problem of the rum always gone.

Maybe I just set fire to it.

Just as profittable and progressive as the flaming firing of that drink of choice that choice were, there shall be no more of it on my watch, Miss Swann. Or it is Mrs. Turner now?

So either way there is no rum and you're just complaining of the fact? I think I prefer your majesty. *smiles*

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