until you comment (and that required thought!) i hadn't at all thought of 'capers' (the spice).

a caper is a lark-- a not quite legal, a prank.

(like when the local teens planned a heist and stole the 20 ft high ronald mcd. inflatable off McD's (and didn't make off with him.) they just carried him arcoss the street and set up so he over looked McD's instead of sitting on top of it.

that is a caper..(and i am sure the english navy captains, who saw fishermen, in long boats, were unconcerned.. and quite surprized when they fishermen took out guns, and commendeered the ship!--a bit more serious business, but a neutral observer would have found it quite amusing.


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