Luz
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Ship mate (SM): Land Ahoy!
Columbus (C): See I told you lads. I told you we would hit land. You all thought I was crazy but I proved you wrong, I proved you all wrong! [Evil laugh]
SM: Sir?
C: Yes?
SM: Do you want to go ashore?
C: Just a minute. [Finishes evil laugh] Okay let?s go.
[One short boat trip and several capsizes later]
C: Ahh?(Smells the air)?India.
SM: Sir, this isn?t India. It?s America.
C: It?s India!
Native 1 (N1): Excuse me. [Native 1 walks past with a bag full of fish]
SM: Sir, it can?t possibly be India.
C: Why not?
SM: We haven?t travelled nearly enough miles for it to be India.
C: You and yours miles, when are you going to adopt the metric system?
SM: I don?t see how that is relevant.
C: That?s why your not captain.
SM: I know I wasn?t captain because you called it.
C: It doesn?t matter how I became captain all that matter is that I am captain.
SM: Yes, sir. [Whisper] Idiot.
C: What was that?
SM: Nothing. [Whisper] (censored due to vulgar language, it sounded Italian at least)
C: Okay, good. [Plants Spanish flag in the sand] I claim this land in the name of Spain.
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N1: Hey Steve, who are they?
Native 2 (N2): Explorers.
N1: What are they doing?
N2: Exploring I suppose.
N1: Exploring what?
N2: [Pause] Probably this island.
N1: Why are they doing that?
N2: I don?t know, maybe they?re European.
N1: Damn Europeans! Don?t they know this is our island?
N2: Apparently not.
N1: I think we should go tell them.
[Native 1 walks over to Columbus who is praying]
N1: Excuse me? [Native 1 taps Columbus on the shoulder] Excuse me? What do you think you are doing?
C: Praying.
N1: Praying?
C: I am thanking God for delivering us safety to the land of India.
SM: It?s not India.
C: Shut up!
N1: What?s India?
N2: Probably their word for land.
N1: Well listen here mate; you?re trespassing on our island.
C: Trespassing? But I have just claimed this island in the name of Spain.
N1: You can?t do that.
C: I just have. Look I have the flag and everything.
N1: But you can?t claim this island, it?s ours.
C: Do you have a flag?
N1: That doesn?t matter.
C: If you don?t have a flag then I can claim.
N1: Just because you have a flag doesn?t entitle you to go about claiming all the land of non-flag people.
C: Sorry but those are the rules.
N1: Who wrote these rules?
C: We did.
N1: Then you can change them.
C: Sorry but I can?t do that.
N1: Why not?
C: Listen I don?t try to understand the rules, I just follow them.
N1: So you can claim any land you like if you have a flag because that is the rule?
C: Yes.
N1: But that?s stupid.
C: That?s exploration. Now if you excuse me I have some enslaving to do. [Columbus and Ship Mate exit]