Sunday, August 13, 2006

We Be Jammin!

Is the word "jammin'" back? There's a commercial (one of those for the Philly cream cheese where you're not supposed to be creeped out by the fact that the hot chick angels in it are in fact dead- probably from heroin overdoses or something) where one clumsy angel drops her jelly-covered bagel onto another angel's cheese-covered bagel. Like peanut butter combined with chocolate, an unholy fornication results. The angel is probably banished from heaven later, but we don't see this. Instead, we cut to a narrator informing us that new "Jammin' Swirls" are now available.

Yes, the mixing of jelly and cream cheese in one convenient plastic bowl is enough to merit the adjective jammin'.

The only other time I've heard "jammin'" in popular usage is in the musical works of Bob Marley.

Marley: Hey, mon! You got commercial distribution in my traditional reggae!
Music Exec: Hey! You got traditional reggae in my commercial distribution!
Marley: Jammin'!

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