Argh! I Be a Pirate!
What a title! I love it! I love exclamation points! Weeeee! K-before my white-coated friends take me off, I had a random thought…as usual.
So, there’s been a lot of pirate talk these days. I don’t know if any of you saw it but a U.S. ship was hijacked yesterday and taken over by our fiends from the sea. See below:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/04/09/ship.hijacked/index.html
Sad, I’m sure, for our brave sailors…but really? Do you expect any of us to really take this seriously when we call the bandits “pirates”? My first thought was, “Cool. I want to get hijacked by pirates!”.
There’s got to be a better term for us to use. How about “Somali maritime terrorists” or “sea monkeys” or something a little more dignified? The word pirate only makes me think Jonny Depp is going to pop out soon. And wouldn’t that be fun?
April 10th, 2009 at 6:12 am
Sea monkeys would be a bad idea. Everyone would laugh at them. Pirates or Somali Maritime Terrorists just sounds bad ass. Makes me scared just saying those names.
April 11th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
They can’t be terrorists, because technically terrorists have a political agenda, whereas pirates just want to steal stuff. However, I thought you should know that there was a funny (although serious) link headlined, “Women Flock to Somalia to Marry Pirates” or something like that. I was dying. I wonder what “Ahoy mateys!” sounds like with a somali accent?