"Honor Blackman, aka Pussy Galore... what a fucking misnomer"

Like I said above my swallow tattoos, the stupid Pirates of the Caribbean movie told pop culture that the traditional swallow tattoo was a sparrow. This was due to the main character Jack Sparrow having a swallow tattoo and flashing it when he said his name. I believe it also had the lettering sparrow on it. So now everyone who's seen that movie is a bit less intelligent. I've even caught myself saying it a few times.

Sailors got swallows tattooed on them because they wanted to return home, you know the song "When the swallows come back to Capistrano". It was a luck thing hoping they'd make it back home like swallows do.

Another popular misnomer that pisses me off is the goatee. I'm a bit of a facial hair aficionado... Well not really, but ever since I've been able to grow facial hair I've had it in one form or another. The main reason is that I'm lazy and I hate to shave, the second being it makes me look a bit older and more distinguished, and the final it makes me look better in general.

Back to the misnaming of facial hair, if you look at the chart below you will see the true definitions of what facial hair is what.



Now what most people call a goatee, isn't the true definition of the goatee. It's kind of a Van Dyke minus the side burns, or a Hollywoodian minus the extra stuff on the sides. I was wearing a 21st century goatee back in the late 90's, but I've switched to the short boxed beard since every tool box who dabbles in facial hair has gone to the 21st century goatee. I don't know that I could ever go to the moustache since I look like a bad used car salesman or a sex offender when I wear one.