Upon due reflection, his buffet companions agreed that, yes, it was probably one of the reasons they were all gathered around the pirate flag _ symbolic of the death of the Southwest Conference.
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His black-and-white logo, displayed at a stand at the Informatica computer exposition, resembles a skull-and-crossbones pirate flag, but with the familiar-looking apple in place of the skull.
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He joined one of Germany's most famous clubs, a place where a pirate flag hangs in the stadium because it's the team rooted for by the country's leftists, anarchists and former hippies.
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Use of the term " Jolly Roger " in reference to pirate flags goes back to at least Charles Johnson's " A General History of the Pyrates, " published in Britain in 1724.
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He quickly hauled a " Jolly Rogers " pirate flag up the mast of his " Cajun Queen, " a 38-foot Louisiana oyster boat converted into a party skiff that floated unscathed behind his home.
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The huge cardboard caricature of a pirate flag with da Gama's face, flanked with Coke bottles topped with a dish antenna symbolizing new methods of colonization, was burned 150 meters ( 500 feet ) away from the memorial.
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If the crew resisted, the red flag would then be displayed to indicate that the offer of amnesty had been withdrawn; no prisoners would be taken ( see also " Jolly Roger / Pirate flag " below ).
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Hyde wrote and illustrated a children s book, " Brave Davy Coon ", and published ( but did not illustrate ) two juvenile novels, " Under the Pirate Flag " and " Captain Deadlock ".
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The pirates are harmless enough ( somewhat, some would argue, like the Tampa Bay Buccaneers ), allowing kids to take a turn at the helm, create ships in a bottle, make pirate flags, walk the plank and throw intercepted passes _ oops!
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"From a computing standpoint the most important thing is that we have maximum system availability, " said Neal, whose office decorations include a giant Jolly Roger pirate flag and a model of the Harley-Davidson motorcycle he will ride into the sunset after the closing ceremonies.
