3.12.2009

Windjammer (disambiguation)

What a fucking treat. This is the first time I've been greeted by the elusive "disambiguation" category on my wikrolling adventure. I haven't decided what to do in these situations, so, for now, let's take a look at all this cool shit named windjammer:
  • A huge boat with a million sails and a movie about a huge boat with a million sails. Looks like Swiss Family Robinson without the people. Boring.
  • An album by jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. With a name like "Windjammer," your album better be the highest-quality Yacht Rock, not trumpets, okay?
  • TWO basketball teams: The Halifax Windjammers and the Maine Windjammers. "Maine Windjammers" sounds awkward and not at all catchy...until you think about the fact that "main" is a kind of sail. And then it's not such a stupid name, is it?
  • A boat cruise line. From what I know, I think it's got a sort of skeezy tinge to it--kinda like Sandals, but on a sailboat. I picture it having an activities director named Kandace who's got lots of organized games like you'd play at your first 7th grade boy-girl party. Ya know, where you pass the orange down the line via necking? And then, before you know it, everyone's doin' it in the hot tub (on the cruise, not at the 7th grade party, I hope).
  • A surfing themed rollercoaster at Knott's Berry Farm that was "was known to be a mechanical nightmare," involving a problem with momentum that made the ride slow down to 5mph so it wouldn't be able to advance. Holy shit. Could you imagine if you were floating along in your SoCal-laid-back-palm-treed coaster car, listening to a looped track of Beach Boys hits and it just stopped right before the big drop? I imagine the ride was also shut down frequently due to people soiling themselves. Sick.
This is why the soft breezes and cool melodies of the ocean shore should only be reserved for the albums of Christopher Cross. Or Andy Samberg/T-Pain. Oh, and maybe this guy.

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