Time to hoist the black flag...

[Saint Bastard]

what's so jolly 'bout a roger?

in a related note, jolly roger was the skull and cross bones.

there was also the skull and scimitars, skull and sabres, skull alone,
skelleton, three skulls, a hanged man and a skull with crossed
tampons instead of swords (renegade female pirates...)

pretty much, a pirate flag was a black flag. that's what made it a
pirate flag. it had to be black. why? because the black flag in and of itself
is the flag of defiance, of non-allegiance (anyone else catch that subtle
irony?)

what was on the flag itself was just a signature, pretty much. a pirate's
harold or tartan or coat of arms, etc...all cows are cows, but the branding
on the cow just let's you know who owns it.

everyone had an icon, a sig, a symbol, a brand, a trademark or some
other such means of leaving an identifying mark.

my personal black flag has a chaos cross on it with a cube at the
centre of the cross, the golden spiral inside the golden rectangles to the
left (spiraling out the 13), and my zen name in a bastardized, simplified
hieroglyfic alphabet to the right.

for alli care though, your 'pirate flag' could have a duche and cross tubes
on it. doesn't matter. what matters is that it's your black flag.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

what's so jolly 'bout a roger?

HEY!

[Trollax]

well, Mine would be this

and the Kinora family motto