Full applause. This is a beautifully crafted joke. Genuinely did not see where it was going until the very last word. Top marks.

Reduce, reuse, recycle.

If Theseus was captured by pirates, who commandeered his vessel and named it “Booty Surprise”, and his family thinking that he was lost to sea, named another ship at port after him…

… if Booty Surprise comes to port and meets the new Ship of Theseus, is that selfcest?

always has been