
Why did the pirate fail his final exam?
He kept walking the plank instead of turning it in.
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Did You Know?
The joke plays on 'turning it in' meaning both submitting an exam and the plank being a pirate's fate. Real pirates rarely used walking the plankโit's mostly a myth popularized by 19th-century novels like Treasure Island, not actual historical execution practice.
