PR people don’t do sarcasm, Pumpkins, and that’s a good thing. Their role in life requires a perkiness that’s positively pharmaceutical. Apparently, writing a press release requires regular use of breathless adjectives like Unique! Bespoke! Elegant! Luxe! And they probably get a chuckle thinking about the word wonks who have to remove those adjectives in the faint hope that the few remaining words actually contain news.
We recently received a strange PR missive from social travel website TripTogether.com, which told us it had the answer to the vexing question of, “Why the warmer months are the best time to meet new travel companions on vacation.” The site says a traffic surge confirms “that warmer weather brings out the best in those hoping to meet overseas.” Do you know what that means? I don’t. Probably sometime in October we’ll receive a release from the same peeps confirming that “colder weather brings out the desire in people to be somewhere warm.” We’ll keep you posted.
Now, I was just using sarcasm there dahrlings. I may have tendencies to be a sarcastic b****, dahrlings... but that may actually save me from serious trouble because the U.S. Secret Service (shhhh!) has announced it is working on a sarcasm detector, designed to wade through our communications in search of people who are actual threats, rather than 14 yr. olds without a filter. The world is getting to be a better, safer place, isn’t it Pumpkins?
Speaking of sarcasm, last week’s blockbuster Ivanna on how travel pricing is ‘wack’ sparked a veritable flood of Pumpkin venom. Several asking where ACTA or their consortium leaders are on this issue... or maybe they were just being sarcastic.
