Amidst a sea of oh so clever puns and metaphors, Office Pirates is cast away...nice one, huh?

Keith J. Kelly of The New York Post must have peed himself a little when writing the first paragraph of "This Pirate Flopped," breaking the news that Time Inc.'s fledgling humor Web site targeting young men had been given the ax by the corporate giant:

Officepirates.com, a new Time Inc. Web site, has hit a reef and sunk to the briny depths of Davey Jones' locker after only a seven-month voyage.

Nice one, Keith. The article goes on to explain that Time Inc. has decided to "put its money elsewhere" given the site's poorish performance. Lord knows it does cost a ton of booty — good one — to fund all that paper and ink and the 100-strong headcount of editorial and sales staff that it takes to run a humor site. Not to mention the millions that goes into PR and promotion. Oh, wait. You mean Office Pirates had a staff of about five? Sports Illustrated's sales staff was responsible for the business end of things? PR was by word of mouth not a real ad campaign? Web sites aren't even printed on paper? Hmm... Good thing Time Inc. pulled the plug before it was too late. Someone might have had to say no to a corporate card lunch at Cite.

On another note, what The Post callously neglected to mention is that the closing of Office Pirates also puts Drink at Work's very own Sean Crespo out of a job...again. Having enjoyed the sweet, sweet taste of freelance humor writing for the past five weeks, our comrade-at-arms looks forward to refamiliarizing himself with the wonderful world of juice delivery and filing.

You comedians...you must laugh all day long.