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?

2003: Elizabeth Swann "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl"

See Also: But why is the rum gone?

When you eat dirt for the first time and leave your family to build a shack in the woods

famous line by Captain Jack Sparrow Johnny Depp from the Disney 2003 summer blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

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) A question used when one wants to know why the rum has gone
2) A very funny line used by Johnny Depp in the most recent pirates of the carribean when he plays Jack Sparrow.