Talk:Skull and crossbones (disambiguation)

Split this page

This page is a mess. For example the sections History of the symbol and Modern uses are to do with poison, and stuck in the middle between them is a section on military usage. I considered adding to the modern section a mention of the Jolly Roger by the Royal Navy Submarine Service but as the rest of the section is about poison that does not seem appropriate.

I suggest that this page is split into at least two articles and this becomes a disambiguation page something like this:

Skull and crossbones is a symbol consisting of a human skull and two bones (long bones) crossed together under the skull:

• Skull and crossbones (poison), is used as a warning of danger (usually in regard to poisonous substances).
• Skull and crossbones (military), variations on the symbol have been used by several military forces.
• Jolly Rodger, the name given to any of various flags flown to identify a ship's crew as pirates.

Other uses

• Crossbones (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain
• Skull and Bones, a secret society at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut
• The Jolly Roger is the emblem of the Royal Navy Submarine Service
• The sign of Skull and Crossbones is used in Freemasonry to denote a master mason

--PBS (talk) 10:45, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

OK I have made the split. I am putting some text here until I can work out where to put them:

A variation on the design is also made by the writers of "The Punisher", a comic book made by Marvel Comics.

The pricing game Danger Price on the US The Price Is Right game show used a skull-and-crossbones (and an eyepatch with a dollar sign on it) when the pricing game debuted. The skull-and-crossbones disappeared when the set was updated around 1986.

A well-known issue of the popular webcomic The White Ninja shows the titular character looking at a bottle of poison marked with a skull and crossbones. After taking a long draught, the White Ninja remarks, "This pirate juice is the ultimate refreshment."

--PBS (talk) 14:17, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

References

See also

This section is already quite long, but I think Human skull symbolism and perhaps Symbols of death would fit in there, too. Any opinions on that? --Trofobi (talk) 20:54, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

catholic

You really need to go to a catholic website to research what the skull and crossbones means. Your way off the orgins of this imagery — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.80.9.197 (talk) 20:48, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

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