pirate "Jolly Roger" <was Re: The Bogan Commentaries>

In a message dated 2000/05/28 01:09:59 AM, I wrote and forget a footnote:

>In a message dated 2000/05/27 11:15:35 PM, DaW wrote:
>
>>Jolly Roger (I forgot, it is for a pirate or his ship?)
>
>Neither. It's for his/her * battle flag... usually black field with white (or
>red)
>skull'n'crossbones. IIRC "jolly roger" is a mispronounced French phrase of
>which I do not recall.
* there were quite a number of female pirates, some even were captains of
ships themselves (& even a couple were leaders of small fleets of pirate
ships)

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