1: Because it is a vile drink that turns even the most respectable men into complete scoundrels.
2: Because that signal is over a thousand feet high. The entire royal navy is out looking for me, do you think there is even the slightest chance they won't see it?
Sparrow asks this rahter rhetorical question to Miss Elizabeth Swann Keira Knightley when she starts burning all the rum to make a signal for the British Navy so that she and Sparrow could be rescued.
1. Paula Cole tune from the late 1990's; not so surprisingly, a big hit with feminists and frustrated single women everywhere. Go figure.
2. Justin Bieber - NOT a cowboy.
'I go do the laundry, while you go have a beer'. Yippy I, Yippy A !
Where have all the cowboys gone ? Simple. They're all women now - minus the penises.