A device found aboard what is believed to be the Queen Anne's Revenge, Blackbeard's flagship. Apparently, the common wisdom was "A night with Venus, and a month with Mercury".
Kind of brings a tear to your eye, don't it? ;-)
49 posted on 12/08/2006 10:22:40 AM PST by LongElegantLegs
(...a urethral syringe used to treat syphilis with mercury.)
53 posted on 12/08/2006 10:35:45 AM PST by F.J. Mitchell
( Is not death also victory in a war against an abomination so vile you could never live with it?)