I am often dumbed down by my friend’s son. Today was no different. He spent the night with my boys last night and when he and my older son, DramaBoy, woke up, I guess C started telling him some old ghost stories and legends. Later on, after breakfast, C was telling me how he had told my son some cool old ghost stories like the one about the Flying Dutchman.

I was like, “Oh yeah, like that one on SpongeBob, right? They have a flying Dutchman on Spongebob!”

He paused and said, “Uuum, no. As in the Legend of Davy Jones… you know?”

Once again I looked like an idiot to an 8-year old.

Then, to make matters worse I had to Google “Davy Jones and the Flying Dutchman” just to figure out what it was. I had heard of it before but not in any way that would explain the legend or that it was even a legend.

That is when I found a small semblance of satisfaction and a return of my pride… care of Wikipedia.

In the Spongebob Squarepants episode “Born Again Krabs”, Davy Jones’s Locker is shown to be the underwater equivalent of Hell, being “the resting place of all bad undersea folk”, literally being a gym/school style Locker, and also containing smelly socks belonging to Davey Jones himself (“…he works out a lot”). The Flying Dutchman takes Mr. Krabs to Davy Jones’s Locker after he is fatally poisoned from eating a rotten old Krabby Patty, and Krabs begs him to give him one more chance, promising that he will no longer be cheap.

SEE! I was right! Sort of…

Everything I need to know I learned from SpongeBob. All hail SpongeBob.

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