[AnAmericanMother]

Pirates in general, have been so romanticised that its ridiculous. These were NOT nice people, they were NOT jolly and just kind of rough-around-the-edges; robbing you with a twinkle in their eye and sending you on your way. They were murderous thugs.

Guess we can blame Howard Pyle for starting the whole thing. Although HIS pirates look pretty villainous . . .

[PJ-Comix]

Who is Howard Pyle?

[Riley]

Good thing that I was never a pirate. With my warped sense of humor, I'd have the dreaded plank rigged as a powerful springboard. The poor victim gingerly edges out onto the thing, and WHANNNGGG!! He's flung over the rigging, dropping into the sea a hundred feet off of the other side of the ship.