Steve Laume wrote:Ok O.J. if you really are a pirate it is okay to fly the skull and cross bones, Steve.
Avast, me matey, I'm not a Pirate. My very good friend Pucebeard is the Pirate in question. Puce Beard just hides out in my area. I dare not tell anyone of his whereabouts. I understand that there is a bounty of 50,000 pounds sterling on his head.
Very often, Pucey uses my computer to get messages out to his cut throat crew scattered throughout the Western Hemisphere
I asked Pucey, (we're on a first name basis), if it is okay to fly the Skull and Cross Bones. My bad. He growled at me and bared his tooth. I guess that he was watching a group of blaggards from Pittsburg in some kind of sporting event and I disturbed him.
He snarled when he told me that not only was it okay to run up the Jolly Roger, but it was compulsory when pillaging in traditional Pirate waters. Something about scaring the knickers (accompanied with a few not so nice adjectives) off the foe. A real puce blooded Pirate would think of nothing less when pursuing the quarry.
I didn't have the nerve to farther ask the implications if the ship was documented or not. Maybe that will be for another day.
O J,
Friend of Pucebeard the Pirate