Balthazar

Is this Jeremy Kubica, noted asteroid finder?!

I thought the one on white's far right was named "'Arry the H pawn".

"Let's go to bed so these people can go home."

There was no one standard pirate flag. Different pirates used different flags, often with similar themes (black, skull, etc). The idea was to be intimidating: it was cheaper and easier if your target gave up without a fight.

Their favorite letter is "arrrgh".

Didn't it used to be that at the grocery store, if an item is advertised on the shelf for a different price than what it scans for, they give you something like half the difference? But there's no code of ethics like that on the interweb.

No, thank you.

"It's all about the big, 'bout the big snow shovel."

Whether mandatory voting is bad or not, certainly it's way better than the American situation, where one particular party's strategy to win elections is to discourage and actively prevent people from voting. In Australia, every political party seeks to win by collecting votes.

Pretty sure the curve should turn up on the right side at some point.

Looks like OP is using a form of Hungarian notation in the post title...