Pirates are people too?

johnboy 3 November 2009 3 November 2009 6

[First Published on: Oct 31, 2009]

It dates from June, but this one has just come to my attention from the University of Canberra. Faculty of Arts and Design.

Good to see pirates getting the love they richly deserve.

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6 Responses to Pirates are people too?

anonymous gungahlian 7:29 pm 04 Nov 09

I am currently studying Media (in yr. 9) and I thought this was quite clever. I will be doing a movie trailer in a few weeks and I am looking forward to it, but hopefully it will have nothing to do with pirates.

Thumper 8:57 pm 02 Nov 09

AH.. UC, I’m reasonably sure that I once learnt something there ..

Mr Evil 5:04 pm 02 Nov 09

Meh, just more meaningless rubbish from UC…… 😉

YourMum 7:17 pm 01 Nov 09

Was that a copy of Windows 7 in his back pocket?

Ozi 10:06 am 01 Nov 09

Agreed: very well designed ‘ad.’

Good to see your kind being recognised, JB.

bd84 2:16 pm 31 Oct 09

Very clever

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