Yacht Club

Jack-O-Lantern.

To think it started with Satan misjudging his competition and a turnip.

"The Legend of Stingy Jack

Legend has it, that there was a farmer, Stingy Jack, who had a reputation of being a drunk and a gambler, that played a trick on the devil.

One night, he was at his usual haunt, the alehouse, but had run out of money to buy any more booze. He persuaded the devil to turn himself into a sixpence so he could buy one last drink.

However, once the devil changed himself into a coin. Rather than paying for his drink with this coin, Stingy Jack put the sixpence (remember this is the devil in disguise) into his pocket.

Also in his pocket was a silver cross. This silver cross prevented the devil being able to change back from the coin to himself. Of course the devil was not happy.

Eventually Stingy Jack and the devil struck a deal. Jack would remove the cross so the devil could change back only if he promised to leave Jack alone for one year, and that when he died Satan would not claim Jack's soul.

After a year the devil came back to bother Jack. This time Jack tricked the devil into climbing an apple tree to collect the largest apple, where Jack trapped him by carving a cross on the tree bark.

They struck another deal, this time Jack would let the devil go if he promised not to bother him for 10 years.

Of course, when he eventually died, Heaven did not want him because he was such a bad character, but he could not go to hell either as the devil, true to his word, would not claim his soul.

The devil sent him away with a piece of burning coal, that Jack placed in a carved out turnip.

With the turnip as a lamp he roamed the earth for the rest of eternity. He was referred to as Jack of the Lantern, eventually Jack O' Lantern."

I assert that what I was lazy enough to copy and paste above is 1000 percent true in the literal sense and, furthermore, because the above photo is from a fancy schmancy yacht club (as is clearly evident in the accomodations,) in the littoral sense as well. Also, while I do not advocate laziness, I always root against the debil

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) er, sorry about that. I meant the Devil, so good for Jack!