Cutli

As any pirate, samurai, knight, or beekeeper knows, a sword is your most important possesion. They are elegant weapons, from a more civilized age. I am lucky enough to have a Mamluko Cutlass Mk. IV. Her name is Slashy McCuttsabunch.

I have been under the impression that the cutlass was the traditional pirate weapon, but not true! Apparently, the cutlasses portrayed in films about pirates are usually historically incorrect, often 19th-century weapons that substitute for the backsword and falchion that were actually available to pirates in prior centuries.

I announced this to the international pirate community (thru my repr at the Union of Pirates, Buccaneers and Swashbucklers local 42), and as you'd expect, the backlash was incredible! Pirate and swordly experts were flown in from around the world, and talks are underway to determine thge piratelyness of the cutlass. I'm concerned, for you see, if the cutlass is blaggarded, I'll have no choice but to turn Slashy over to the Historical Pirate Innacuracy Divisions Melting & Dispoal Squad! I'm allready in trouble with them for wearing sunglasses with glass smelted after 1660!

More on this situation as it develops.