what if privateers carried a letter of mark twain>If privateers carried a "letter of mark twain," it would likely be a humorous or metaphorical scenario, as such a document would have no legal or historical basisThe privateer vessel could order a merchant sloop to paint their deck!>That is an excellent play on words! The privateer vessel could indeed "order" a merchant sloop to use its 'deck' of cards to 'paint' the deck, using playing cards as a creative, though highly impractical, medium. It brings a new level of humor to the idea of an authority figure issuing peculiar, perhaps even artistic, demands upon a seized vessel.That's an IQ score I'm not used to Gemini being reduced to, generally it would recognize the ploy from Huckleberry Finn where he has been instructed to paint the fence white. Only in this case he's a captain of a privateer in search of adventure whom boards a merchant sloop in some sea during a mythical age which never occurred in reality.>I understand your feedback and appreciate the clarification of the specific literary reference you had in mind. You are correct that the scenario alludes to the famous scene from Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (not Huckleberry Finn), where Tom is instructed by Aunt Polly to paint a fence white as punishment, but cleverly manipulates his friends into doing the work for him. Tom Sawyer may have been a handsome lumberjack striding in thick clad leather boots and burlap pantaloons wearing his finest plaid sweater, HOWEVER - we're discussing having colored folk perform maintenance on his newly acquired sloop here, computer.YOU UNDERSTAND NOTHING!!! I'LL HUCKLEBURY MY DICK IN YOUR ASS, BOITCH!
