March 19 Council planners to meet on boat

The small man starts his Powerpoint presentation, lights are turned off and a graduated blue screen with black writing appears:

Objective : To ensure the private council discussions are kept private.

The gathered men in suits nod to themselves. A click and the slide dissolves into a series of boxes moving medium fast from left to right revealing another slide with different words but the same font.

Rationale : The words we speak by moonlight register subliminally as private. Deep down our neurons understand that what we say and hear is to be treated in confidence.

The presenter looks towards the audience, it's hard to gauge their reaction in the light of the projector, another click and the third slide is revealed. there are no words, just a photograph of a wooden boat on a lake somewhere picturesque. Inside the boat are crudely cut and pasted photographs of the individual council members, their relative sizes awkward, the boat too small to accommodate it's load.

'Obviously the sky will be dark, but I couldn't find a photo of a boat in the dark that you could still tell was a boat'.