Monday, October 10, 2011

Strengths and Weaknesses: Christopher Columbus

In honor of my 4th favorite explorer's eponymous holiday, I'm introducing a new segment called Strengths & Weaknesses, where I'll assess someone's, um, strengths and weaknesses. Maybe the name needs some work.

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

STRENGTHS
  • Made 1492 way the best year of the 1400s.
  • Has his own holiday. Suck it, Magellan.
  • Made it across ocean without GPS.
  • Reincarnated as famous director.
  • Italian, but not the fist-pumping kind.
  • Would probably have won gold medal for long-distance sailing if such a thing existed.
  • First and last name start with same letter, so twice as likely to have been a superhero.
  • Sturdy sea legs, including ridiculously well-defined sea calves.

WEAKNESSES
  • Always thought the term was "circlonavigate."
  • Mistook Bahamas for Indies... and his girlfriend for not a whore.
  • Little known 4th ship, The Columbinator, sank on 2nd day of voyage.
  • Lost race to be "1st to discover New World" to the indigenous people of New World.
  • Forgot to pack sun-tan lotion.
  • Kinda destroyed an entire civilization.
  • Never could remember which side was starboard.
  • Is dead.

12 comments:

  1. Should probably be a little more serious about this. I get wanting to have fun while doing this kind of thing, but some people (me) are trying to find real websites for a paper we have to write. and this is just a false trail, which is so bogus it'll never be used

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  2. dude im tring to.write a report be more serouis

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  3. dude im tring to.write a report be more serouis

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  4. ong be moree serious

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  5. You should be more serious im literally writing a report

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  6. THIS WEBSITE IS HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!

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  7. this website is stupid

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