pirating

[Jim Battle]

Jim Leonard wrote:

> Jim Battle wrote:
> 
>> You misspelled a few of words there:
>>
>>     "you're"     --> "I was"
>>     "you pirate" --> "I pirated"
>>
>> It is an easy mistake to make because spell checkers won't catch it.  
>> Something that was undoubtedly true got needlessly turned into a 
>> provably false statement.
> 
> 
> I was speaking figuratively.  

Huh?  If I call my coworker a moron and then say I as speaking "figuratively", 
it doesn't change the fact that I called him a moron.

> There is nothing wrong with the statement 
> "When you're broke, you pirate."

There is nothing wrong with it except that it is a blanket statement and isn't 
true.  Most people, when broke, do without.