Posted by Jon on March 04, 2008 at 14:50:36 from 199.159.117.116 user Jon.
In Reply to: Re: Anomalies and stretching the elastic a bit too far posted by Peter Ceresole on February 29, 2008 at 20:14:31:
Exactly. In much the same way, children in the USA commonly played "cowboys and indians", or "soldiers". What more natural for children growing up "messing about in boats' than to play "Pirates"; the Amazons also did, although they didn't grow out of it (possibly due to social or geographic isolation from other vacation-time playmates, who might have introduced other interests).