YOU OWE DAVY JONES YOUR SOUL!!!

We've all heard (or at least all of us who have watched 'Pirates of the Caribbean') of the sailor term "Davy Jones Locker." But I ask you..... who is this Davy Jones? Some long lost ancestor of Dustin's perhaps? Perhaps not?

I took my Kent-style investigative reporting and came up with some interesting possibilities of which I pose to you, dear friends, which do you think is the more likely scenario? Or do you have a theory of your own?

1)One legend suggests that a particularly fiendish pub owner named David Jones used to incapacitate hapless drinkers in his ale locker, and send them off aboard ships. Sounds like a handy way of disposing of your enemies.

2)Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable offers an interesting linguistic take on the issue: Davy is a (sorry no other word seems to fit here) bastardization of Duffy, the West Indian term for ghost. Jones comes from Jonah, the prophet who spent a few uncomfortable days lodged in the GI tract of a whale. And a locker, loosely defined, is a place to store valuable things. So the phrase "He's gone to Davy Jones' locker" (i.e., he cashed it in) loosely translates as "He's safe with Duffy Jonah now."

3) Duffer Jones was a notoriously myopic sailor who often found himself overboard.

4) Davy could also come from the horned one himself, the Devil.

5) The shortest sailor on board usually impersonates him during the Crossing of the Line, a bizarre naval cross-dressing ceremony. The less said, the better.

Pirates of the Caribbean:Dead Man's Chest premieres July 7, 2006.... can you say YOUTH GROUP TRIP!!! oops... I said that a little loud I meant to say...youth group TRIP TO THE MOVIES!!!