Saw a Jolly Roger flag flying today

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I went out this morning to fill up and get my car washed. I saw a restaurant flying a good-sized Skull and Crossbones flag on the 25'+/- flag pole along side their building. It was fairly prominent.

I haven't seen the Jolly Roger fly in quite some time. I used to see them while out and about on the boat occasionally. Strangely though, this restaurant is a pizza-kinda-southwest cowboy-sorta-Mexican-like-place. Their menu is a hodgepodge of different cuisine, none of which is seafaring or pirate themed and he's about 10 miles from any navigable waters!

Does anyone have an opinion on the Skull and Crossbones flag? Did I miss the PC police making it taboo to fly it at some point? Has it fallen from "fashion"? Do you guys see them around?

I was just a bit surprised to see it and don't know what to think about it. I'll stop into that joint tomorrow for a quick lunch and ask the owner "what's up with that".
 
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I hope that you re-post after you talk to the restaurant owner.
I'm kind of curious myself why he would be hoisting the "Skull
& Bones". Political statement?:confused:
 
We've flown this version on our front porch for 15 or 16 years, but just on halloween. Yeah, it's a bit cluttered.
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MOONDAWG said:
Go to Ft. Walton Beach, Florida's "Billy Bowlegs" festival and you'll see lots of Jolly Rogers flying.:cool:

They're quite popular in Florida's semi tropical environment.
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A few flying at the GASPERILLA festival in TAMPA :D
yo ho ho and a bottle of BEER:eek: go figure...��
 
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Some of the original Jolly Roger designs are rare to see as they've been relegated to 2nd place by the more popular skull and crossbones. Folks fly them as symbols of rebellion, and the way things are going, I bet there's going to be lots more flying in the near future.

As a side note, I had a Jolly Roger flying when all my firearms were lost in a boating accident.
 
Years ago in california a guy robbed a jewelry store in the mall. The deputys were hot on his tail and he ditched his car near a cheap trailer park out of town. He ran in the park and was going to break in a trailer and hide. The woman in it almost beat him to death with a shovel. Like a rat killing! The deputys had to save him! It cracked me up when the reporter backed the video out as he was talking to the woman. She had that jolly rodger flag along with a confederate flag on top the trailer!
 
mc5aw said:
Some of the original Jolly Roger designs are rare to see as they've been relegated to 2nd place by the more popular skull and crossbones. Folks fly them as symbols of rebellion, and the way things are going, I bet there's going to be lots more flying in the near future.

As a side note, I had a Jolly Roger flying when all my firearms were lost in a boating accident.
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Sorry for going off topic, but between you & Rags, I've learned
never to take my guns boating!:)
 
mjr said:
We've flown this version on our front porch for 15 or 16 years, but just on halloween. Yeah, it's a bit cluttered.
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Black background means quarter will be given if there is no resistance, sword/knife over heart alludes to pain that could be inflicted, the skull and crossbones or skeleton symbolize no fear of death by the pirates, and the hourglass means that your time is short on which way you will decide. A red flag would indicate no quarter would be given. Lots of meaning in old symbols.
 
timn8er said:
Sorry for going off topic, but between you & Rags, I've learned
never to take my guns boating!:)
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Whats that funny little motorcycle on yur aviatar, Its almost as kute as my K1-GSXR-1000? I must confess, I have thought seriously about turning to Piracy after fishing on Kentucky Lake, this after some drunk boarded the bassy boat I had tied up to a Willer tree at 3:00 AM, the look on his face after I rose up from behind the console was priceless, only wish I had my Old Colt to thumb the hammer back, but would have only added to the sump pumps already nasty work?

but really, nice little blown big block on a V-drive, glossy black with a couple Jolly Ranchers on the stern. and a couple of browning fiftys on the bow? Billy Magg
 
Mike7.62 said:
A red flag would indicate no quarter would be given.
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Some say "Jolly Roger" is a corruption of the French joli rouge, "pretty red," referring to the red flag which--if it went up--meant you really were out of luck. Unless you were one of the pirates, of course.
 
That's very true. "Joli Rouge" being *******ized into "Jolly Roger" by the English. Piracy has always been rampant, especially in the South China Sea, the Straights of Malacca, and the Indian Ocean. In those waters pretty much every vessel that has the men and arms to overcome a larger vessel turns pirate.

Most of the pirate lore that we-meaning Americans-are familiar with comes from the era of the "boucaniers", or "buccaneers" as he English called them, that plied their trade in the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico from the mid 1600's until the early 1800's, Jean Lafitte being the most well known of the latter day ones, and Henry Morgan and Edward Teach being famous in the earlier times. "Boucaniers" got their name from the fact that they used to smoke meat on "buccans" or wooden frames near the Ile a' Vache and Hispaniola. Morgan used the Ile a' Vache as a base for many of his adventures, which included the sack of Porto Bello or Panama City, Panama.

Any way you cut it (no pun intended), they were interesting, though bloody, times.
 
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