Oh lord...I hate to admit this.....
You know those orange "safety flags" people always have on their ATVs?
I replaced mine with a pirate flag.
[that's where the "pirates of the Appalachians" joke started]...;)
one of my AF bosses, on his 40th birthday, the theme was "A Pirate turns 40" (big Jimmy Buffett fan too). Guess what we all had to dress up as for his party? I had the coolest disguise, too. Plus, I grew up in PR, and the Air National Guard unit in PR is the Bucaneros (Buccaneers,) and for a little while in the AF, my call sign was Buc...