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Actually, it all starts to mess with you after a while. I read that on one of Rodriguez's marathons on EGF the ride actually started rattling his teeth loose. The human body did not evolve to be on coasters for weeks on end. I wouldn't attempt anything like this, and wouldn't want to either. I'd say the title "King of Roller Coasters" more properly belongs to a designer, say Werner Stengel.

Best of luck to you.

1- Call her at least 37 times per day. 2- Buy her a lot of stuff for no apparent reason. 3- Constantly compliment her, especially when it relates to various parts of her body. 4- Smile nervously and fidget often around her. 5- Tell her you want to marry her on the first date. 6- Pay no attention to your personal hygiene. Women love a rebel. 7- Invite her over to watch your Ultimate Fighting Championship DVDs. Or, if you're from Atlanta, take her to a dogfight. 8- Ignore the restraining order. She's just playing hard to get.

Because Wes is the principal avatar of the War on Christmas.

I like you dog. Let's get married!

Well, it's not really that big of a gamble for them at this point. A few Christian groups have tried to boycott Disney for years, and the efforts invariably fallen flat on their faces.

http://www.dollywood.com/rides-attractions/ride-detail.aspx?AttractionID=570 Timber Tower seems to still be on the page.

I never liked running gels anyway. That ranks up there with, say, column chromatography.

Lots of parks print names on e-tickets, but I've never seen a park that bothers to check IDs to see if you're really the person named on the ticket. If it was that big of a deal, they would check. Hershey certainly didn't check when we were there a few weeks back.

Yeah, I dunno. I'd be skeptical to travel to Alabama just to ride one CCI woodie. I'd be pretty disappointed if it turned out to be yet another unmaintained POS. With the exception of a few places it seems like CCI is French for "wooden coaster that we don't maintain". Nothing against CCI, of course.

This is an unbelievably offensive statement, but it represents pretty typical narrow-minded thinking. You're essentially insinuating that all non Judeo-Christian cultures are uncivilized. The fancy word for this is "pseudospeciation".

If the SFOG Gold Q-bot works like the one at Great Adventure you should be able to ride everything as many times as you want. You'll get all you can handle. We paid $106 for 2 people at SFGAdv, and didn't feel the least bit ripped off.

Can I just call you benzene (my favorite intercalator)?

Yeah, that ranks right up there with a dating site for science nerds.

You mean "liberate" his country with a bunch of bombs. Now I'm off to go eat some freedom fries.

You win for that caption. I remember that film quite well.

Where is the issue? If the guy refuses to comply with the safety regulations, he doesn't ride. His individual rights are NOT being trampled on just because he can't ride some stupid go karts. This case is such a waste of resources.

Yeah, my first ride on Storm Runner was after having ridden Maverick. I thought, "that's it? this is the great ride everyone is raving about?" Maverick is so much better than Storm Runner. But yeah, I do see the similarity. Maverick is sorta like Storm Runner on steroids. Dang it. Now I want to plan another trip to CP, just to ride Maverick some more. Had they been able to preserve the heartline roll on Maverick. OMG! I mean it's my #1 steel now (ahead of 4 B&M hypers, 2 Intamin hypers, Montu, DD, etc.), but I think it would have been a real contender for #1 on Mitch's poll with that heartline. Can we please come up with a better simile for such an awesome coaster? Perhaps one that doesn't scream obese ACEr.

Shapiro must really have some sweet connections to get an article written that says one of his parks is dirty, overpriced, insecure, and staffed by lazy, indifferent employees.

I'd also like to extend my condolences. This is a wound that never fully heals, but that you can eventually learn to accept. My mom is still a minor league theme park enthusiast. I've dragged her to Holiday World and Dollywood. I even got her to ride The Raven and The Legend, but she chickened out on the Voyage. She still occasionally taunts me about the credits she has that I do not, like the Screechin' Eagle at Americana and some obscure woodie in Maryland that got torn down in the 60s.

Had you bothered to read the article you would know that it is not laudatory.

Please explain this illogical comment! Maybe he missed the "six jeers" part and assumed it was some nice little puff piece that Shapiro pulled some strings to have MSN write. This article still amazes me with the guy trying to equate Six Flags gate prices to Disney gate prices. Who travels from MD to Orlando and hits one Disney park for one day? My Six Flags pass was like $60, and it gives me unlimited access to ALL Six Flags parks for 2007. Could you even imagine the cost of an equivalent pass for Disney? Better cash in some of that home equity.

This guy is a bit of a fruitcake; worrying about a deadly unattended backpack and all. MSN is pretty much the armpit of Interweb news. This article is typical of the lazy journalism featured on MSN. That being said, he does have some pretty valid complaints, but nothing everybody here hasn't already experienced first hand. The comparison to Disney is so disingenuous. Six Flags gives away the gate with their season passes, Disney does not. The cost is hardly the same. Not to mention the fact that he would have to pay to travel to Orlando to visit Disney.

Black Mamba not being a top ride does disappoint me a bit, but it's really not that big of a deal. I still have Nemesis, Katun, and Pyrenees to look forward to.