Mensa

[XXX]

What is 15 M on a D M C ??? It is definitely not 15 men on a dead man's chest !!!!

[ChrisHolland]

it must be '15 men on a dead man's chest'. This is a very common numbers/letters abbreviation question!

[suds]

Ya .. i get that. But it's not fitting in. can you think of more possibilties. - sudha

[Dazzler]

FYI from a site which has the lyrics of the song The song, sung by sailors when hauling ropes on their sailing ships, was included by Robert Louis Stevenson in his classic novel "Treasure Island" published in 1883. Dead Man's Chest is a tiny isle that forms part of the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea. Local history and folklore claims that pirate Edward Teach, known as Blackbeard, punished a mutinous crew by marooning them on Dead Man's Chest, which has high cliffs and no water and is inhabited by pelicans and snakes. Each sailor was given a cutlass and a bottle of rum. Teach's hope was that the pirates would kill each other, but when he returned after a month he found 15 men had survived. This would explain the verse: "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest. Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!"

[AmyM]

There's no apostrophe in "mans" - in other words, it would read: "15 men on a dead mans chest"