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Beemer - I'm not a "true" 'Canes fan, but I have to admit that I like them. They aren't a team that I despise like Notre Dame, Michigan, Ohio State, Florida, Florida State etc. etc. I kind of call them my number 2 team. But if it is the Lions against the 'Canes, you know who I've got. Jay "I even have a Miami hat" Willis

Either this or next Thursday, I'm planning on day tripping La Ronde in Montreal (it's about a 5 hour drive each way for me) and I was just wondering what a good gameplan for the park would be, and if I could get a good experience from the place in about 7-8 hours at the park. Thanks for the help in advance.

Beemer, you totally lost any argument just by posting a pic of Irvin. And if we are going to get into a college thing, let's go PSU. WE ARE!!!!!...... well, you know.

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^ I thought it was four, but I could be very wrong. It is probably 2 or 3, but I just couldn't keep track. Larry, I'll probably be going up within the next couple of weeks, but, it will be during the week and I'm sure you have to work. It is very easy to find the way I go up - just taking 87, it is just a couple of miles off the exit, but I believe that I took exit 6, not 5.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I was definately to that point, but for some reason I got well beyond that point very quickly.

I'm not going to vote, but I have to say that I like everything but country.

This place isn't that bad. It call it character.

Oh come on Lou. How many shoes could you possibly want to buy!? Jay "Actually, I could buy sneakers all day, come to think of it" Willis

So I decided to head up to The Great Escape today. I wasn't sure if I was going to go, but checking the weather report, there was only a slight chance of rain in the afternoon. I figured I would do this park and then hit up Hoffman's Playland on the way back home, because I hear that they have the world's best Lusse Auto Skooters in the world, so I figured I would check them out to see if the person that I heard it from is just plain crazy, or an evil genius. The trip up to Lake George is about 2 1/2 hours for me. About halfway through the trip, it started to pour. Not rain - pour. It was a freakin monsoon. I figured I was halfway through, so there was really no turning back. It didn't let up. I got there figuring that the place would be closed or something, but to my surprise it was open and rides were actually running. We know how to do it up here in the north. Anyway, I spent 4 hours in the park before realizing that I was drenched and couldn't take anymore. I then made it to Hoffman's, finding it without a problem thank you very much. Sadly, it was closed. I waited around for a few minutes to see if there would be a miracle and the skies would clear up, but they didn't, and I will have to save them for another time. It should be soon though, because I REALLY liked The Great Escape, and I might head up there within the next couple of weeks again. Needless to say, about 15 miles down the road, the sun came out, but I didn't feel like turning around to go back to Hoffman's (yes, I'm stubborn). It sucks though, because I was really excited for those things. Oh well, like I said, it will be soon enough. Don't make me go back out there! Here is a sexy shot of my drenched legs and tight, wet shorts. I don't know what that white stuff was, but I swear it was somehow rain related. Don't get the wrong idea out there you pervs. OMG! The rumors are true! It is a hostile Disney take over! Run for your lives!... Nope, for some reason Six Flags is just selling Disney stuff. Weird. The park is a great mix of old and new and is very family friendly, which is probably why Shapiro is so in love with the place. like dead horse, maybe a dog with a saddle, skeleton guy. Mildly amusing for the longest wait of the day (15 minutes) due to the horrible capacity. But once again, a very good theme job... More of the cool theme stuff. I thought the theming was great for the ride though, which is something that I was very impressed with throughout the park. AKA - The most pointless coaster of all time. I was excited about this one because I have this thing about relocated Great Adventure rides, but it was closed. I really like this park, but the layout is so confusing. First, there are 3 ways to get everywhere (short, normal, long - I managed to take the longs). And you have to walk through the water park. It's like water park, then not, water park, then not. I usually really like rain, but this was just crazy, as you can tell by my attempt at a worn out face. Lukily my girlfriend's hoodie was in the back seat of my car... too bad it didn't help much. So yeah, I got a little photo happy with the Comet. And I waited 10 minutes to get this shot, so you better like it dammit! Those turnarounds are pretty relentless though. See the fear on those people's faces. Oh wait, that's not because of the turnarounds - it's because they are getting pelted in the face with hail! Those two little hills are jackhammer city. I had heard a lot of great things about this ride, but I found it to be merely a decent ride. After the flats, I made my way back to the Comet. Since it was absolutely POURING out, the coasters were just starting to test when I got to the park at about 11:30, but some flats were open. I hit up this scrambler and it was run very well. Way to go Todd! Welcome to Lake George! More lodge goodness from the bridge to the park. I love how the water slides go out of the building. This is the new Great Escape Lodge that just opened this year. Shapiro is a big fan of it, and from the looks of it, so am I.

You don't know me, but I'll say Happy Birthday Lou!

Awwwww.... that's not nice. Now you have offended all of the flaming bags of crap out there.

Has anyone thrown a flaming bag of crap onto someone's doorstep?

I've always gone against the whole argument that video games influence people, but I'm sure that a game as realistic as Deer Hunter is very influential. I'm actually kind of starting to change my opinion of the whole video game thing. I mean, I used to play Grand Theft Auto, and one time after just ignoring the object of the game for an hour, I just started stealing cars and running them into things. It was a great time. After that, I took a drive to the grocery store. I had this weird urge to just start ramming my Lumina into everything in sight. Now obviious, I had enough common sense and restraint to not do it, but I'm sure that games like Grand Theft Auto and others can be influential. I mean, I had a relative that set a kid on fire after playing a video game. He just went and got a match, some gasoline, and went out and set a kid that he got mad at on fire. He was 17 years old and I would think that he would have enough common sense to not do something like that, but he was never really right in the head and was easily influenced. He saw it on the game and decided to just do it. Games can be influential things to some people. I'm not saying to all people, just some, especially younger people whose minds are developing. I don't want to get jumped on for some kind of animal rights thing for this. I know what the arguments are going to be. I am just generalizing this to be video games in general and with a select amount of people.

No need to thank me, to be honest I'd be inclined to disagree with many of your views, but you and a couple of others in particular, and many more to an extent, have argued your points intelligently and articulately, and I don't see why it should descend into some immature name-calling discussion, which is what seems to happen whenever goleafsgo posts here. Probably the best thing to do is to just ignore his posts in this thread and carry on around him, IMO. Oh, no no. I wasn't implying anything that you were agreeing with me or anything. I was just thanking you for posting in a respectable manner and notciing how stupid things had become. And I also wanted to thank you just for simply reading the thread, which I think that a few people that are/were posting in it were not doing themselves. I agree with this for the most part. I think that it is horrible that there are PETA followers and some "leaders" within the organization that give it a very bad name through acts like this. It is kind of dumb to go into a farmhouse or something, try to blow it up and then end up killing most of the turkeys or chickens or whatever that were in their either by the initial explosion or by the mass chaos that persues. They say it is to either get attention and raise awareness or to prevent future mistreatment at that site, but what about the animals that are killed in the possess? Not to mention that bad name that the organization gets. I think that from a business and ethical aspect PETA is good. Although, I have heard some horror stories from past employees. They do advocate that employees do things that they don't necessarily want to do, using the line "The problems are so bad that you should do whatever it takes." To tell you the truth, I didn't like the game before I got into animals rights. I just never "got" hunting in general.

Good, because that would really be over-extending themselves.

Thanks Lou. Should I start a global warming thread to go along with the stereotyping thread

No. I'm saying that PETA is for that. http://www.peta.org/mc/factsheet_display.asp?ID=134 http://www.peta.org/feat/cap/ http://www.peta.org/about/hamptonRoads.asp Call me gulible, but I actually believe their financial data and believe they use as much money as they can into what they do. I believe their highest paid are their lawyers, at about $60,000. Their president set her salary somewhere around $25,000 I believe (of course, the funds are paying for her travel too).

Rich Hall is actually still working. However, he has done a few below average specials and even worse TV sitcoms as of late and has really fallen off the map.

Try working in a kitchen that is about the size of a walk-in closet for 6 hours with the ovens and stoves blaring, the dish washer steaming and hot water in the sinks.

I would go back to the times of the Crystal Beach Cyclone, Great Adventure in the late 80's or the old school Rye Playland.

I have to say I'm looking mighty sexy in my sweat drenched Ursinus College tee shirt.

I would assume you mean PM because I was out at about 7AM it was was just creeping into the high 70's then. Let's see, still 90 degrees at 9PM.

It's kind of hard to let domestic animals run free and wild since they have been domesticated. The best that can be done is to is to help control the pet population since there are so many without homes already, it is kind of senseless to have cats and dogs bred when there are plenty of animals in shelters. You know, just do it Bob Barker style.

97 with a heat index of 111.