The Pirates! In an Adventure With Napoleon

This is the fourth adventure featuring the Pirate Captain (he of luxuriant beard, an open face, a stentorian nose, and fickle whims) and his crew: the pirate with a scarf, the pirate in green, the pirate with a nut allergy, the pirate who likes kittens and sunsets, Jennifer, and more. In previous (mis)adventures they rubbed elbows with Charles Darwin, Captain Ahab, and communists. Here, the Pirate Captain finds himself in competition with Napoleon to become the next head of the St. Helena Residents' Association. This stuff is extremely silly and I giggle nearly constantly as I read it. Like the previous books the chapter headings have nothing to do with the story and include such titles as Crashing Zepplins For A Living, Under Brazil By Submarine, Inside a Hydrogen Factory, and Why Are Bridges? This book also includes a helpful index which has no real relation with the rest of the book and includes such entries as:

Big leaves, 121

Ukulele, PC mistakes for guitar and assumes he has grown giant-sized, 155

I'm also fairly certain that the author is a clever fellow (though perhaps lonely) due to footnotes such as this:

Finding out people's opinions on neurophysiology can be a great way of deciding whether they're idiots or not. For example, if your boyfriend or girlfriend ever claims that “we don't even use 90 per cent of our brains!” then you should leave them as soon as possible.

and bits of conversation such as this:

Napoleon frowned. “Surely by that logic anybody can declare themselves a success no matter how useless and ineffectual they are? You know, like homeopathy.”

I may have to re-read some of the earlier books in this wacky series. It's been five years since I read the first two anyway.