This tale is by Terry Morrison, author of “Mattress-ide and Other Grammatical Atrocities”.
Queen Isabella watched proudly as the ships left the quay. A large part of her Treasury had gone into the construction of the fleet but it was necessary to keep those damn Englishmen from invading her country. They were a nuisance, no doubt about it.
But Her Highness had another, more practical reason for having such a fleet. The New World had just been discovered and she … Read the rest...