Pirates are communication professionals
I was reading this BBC news on the Somali pirates, setting their Spanish prisoners free. I started thinking about the Pirates of the Carribean and Johnny Depp. Yeah, I know, I’m really tired and Brussels weather is not exactly helping me keep my thoughts on the right track. So, I was reading the article and the image of Captain Sparrow kept coming to my mind with every mention of the word ‘pirates’.
In the end, when I got to this part Pirate spokesmen who spoke by telephone to news agencies earlier on Tuesday said they were receiving a ransom of between $3.5m and $4m from the Spanish government I instantly burst into laughter, ’cause now Captain Sparrow was dressed up in a black costume, wearing a tie and announcing the press, from behind the lectern, that the pirates had received the 4m ransom.
I’m tired, I could laugh at anything right now… But don’t the words ‘pirate spokesmen’ sound amusingly strange to you? Nowadays, pirates are not what they used to be. They’ve learned doing things the nice way. They’re communcation professionals, too.
