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Johnny Depp Actor

BOOK RETURNED WITH PIRATE IN MARGIN

"I am merely between lines," says a bookmark, speaking on his behalf, "and the rum is in chapter nine."

Existence confidence provisional
A generated photo of an anonymous stranger. It is not the person named.
Johnny Depp waits for a bus outside an Osaka convenience store, swaying slightly, as though the pavement were a deck.
Location
Page 212 of a library book returned to the Oxford park-and-ride bus shelter
Currently
Trimming the hedges of the margin with scissor hands
Last confirmed sighting
Left margin, beside a pencilled 'nice' and a crumb
Observations
Can sway across a full page without touching a single word of the text.

Johnny Depp now lives in the margin of a library book returned to the Oxford Thornhill park-and-ride shelter on a Tuesday. He is roughly two centimetres tall and still wears his rings, scarves and hat, all drawn in biro. Librarian Hilary confirmed he sways along the gutter every morning at ten.

Staff tried tilting the book, shaking it gently over a desk, and reading aloud to coax him out. He only came as far as the page number, shouted 'Why is the rum gone?' and sat on the 4. A rubber was considered and rejected, as he has trimmed the nearest footnotes into small topiary animals.

Experts disagree on whether he is a pencil annotation or a marginal pirate, since he walks like the latter but has underlined things like the former. One conservator insists the captain's hat is a coffee ring. A second believes the scissors came with the book, and that nobody should ask what they are for.

Guidance for the public

Return the book promptly, and do not lick your thumb to turn the page.

Actual status (not satire) No death recorded as of 22 October 2026. Born 9 June 1963. Source: Wikidata

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