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What park is your home park?
jackskellington101 replied to coasterguy618's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
My home park is WDW...even though it's 14 hours away by car. Technically, my home park would be SFA, but I never go there because, well, it stinks, in my opinion. Stuart "Home away from Home" Newsom -
Oh, something that just happened here that's now is really on my nerves. Ok, I'm in my room, just waking up, it's 8:00 in the morning here. I usually wake up around 8, so I'm still groggy but just awakened. Then, out of nowhere there comes... BREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE My reaction in my semi consious state::shock::shock::shock::shock::shock::shock::shock:, followed by wtf! Fire drill. At exactly 8:00AM! It wasn't even some body who pulled the fire alarm to be funny. It was the school sanctioned fire drill. And just to be spiteful, London nature decided it would be funny for all of these college students standing outside in the 50 degree weather in their pajamas if it just started to rain on them too. Eerg. What a way to start the day. Stuart "Good Mornin" Newsom
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The "Say Something Random" Thread
jackskellington101 replied to robbalvey's topic in Random, Random, Random
The lights...from the BT tower...outside my window....shiny... pretty colors...I need sleep...bad. -
Game- A series of Random Events
jackskellington101 replied to benzo41190's topic in Random, Random, Random
he found Trafalgar Square was closed for rehab so disappointed he... -
New Photo Update!!! Orlando 2005!
jackskellington101 replied to robbalvey's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
Great stuff as normal Robb. Expect nothing but the best. Good use of Photochop contest too! I wonder how the Beverly will be effected by the removal of Ice Station Cool to Club Cool. From what I've heard, the vending machines will be gone in this new thing. So no more Beverly. Stuart "Never experienced the power of the Beverly" Newsom -
Woman gives birth to her 16th child!
jackskellington101 replied to buttonman700's topic in Random, Random, Random
It's like George Foreman and all his kids names are "George". Heck, his daughters name is Georgina. I believe spelled that way too. But with 16 kids, imagine the food bills! I can only imagine their Thanksgiving. Pretty soon they're going to have to do it Jonathan Swift style... Stuart "It's only a modest proposal" Newsom -
On Ride Photos
jackskellington101 replied to robbalvey's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
I actually very recently found my 04 Rock N Roller Coaster Ride Photo. Everyone seems to be just finding these. Stuart "Hurray for memory" Newsom Chillin out on Rock N Roller Coaster, all by my lonesome. -
I don't know, I still think I'll stand by my iPod Photo. I'll need to look into this more though. Possably I could put all my downloaded TPR files on it. That's a good selling point actually... Stuart "New shade of brown nose" Newsom
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"Must be 48" to ride this Millenium Force bizniches! Word to your Mother." Stuart "Ice Ice Baby" Newsom
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I concur, it is the classic Steel Phantom in Kennywood. I, though, have had the luck to have ridden it before it turned into Phantom's Revenge. It was quite good, though the butterfly inversion was pretty rough. But Steel Phantom has a special place in my memories, having the incredibly funny scene of a guy with way too slicked back hair go all the way to an aerodynamic point because of the speed of the ride. It took all of my fiber not to laugh at the dude. Stuart "Love the TR!" Newsom
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So they announced the video iPod. Hmm. Very interesting. That seems to be a really stupid move, business wise, for Apple to do. They just undercut the Nano sales. It's too close an announcement. With a video iPod, who's going to buy the Nano now? Stuart "I'll keep my 60GB iPod Photo, thanks" Newsom
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Theme Park hauntings and ghosts
jackskellington101 replied to AllisonY2K's topic in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, & Donkeys!
Personally, I think the only thing haunting SFA is the specter of Death and his brother the phantom of Suck. But that's just me. I'm originally from the Baltimore/DC Metro Area and, in the many times I've been there, have never had a good experience at SFA. The only haunting I've heard of and believed was the picture of the orb taken at the gates of the Haunted Mansion in WDW. I saw it a long time ago and either it was a real orb or an extremely good Photoshop job. Either way, it looked incredible. Sadly, however, it's been lost to me in the deep bowls of the Internet for quite a long time. Stuart "Who ya gonna call" Newsom -
Ok, please be gentle, it's my first time. So, yesterday, when I have no classes and a whole lot of time on my hands, instead of studying or working or anything, I decided to totally become a college student and walk about central London armed with my camera. I took pictures of mainly the things that struck me odd or funny, though I did have some of the standard photographed things too, which I will spare you. Hope you enjoy it! Stuart "I hope I did this right" Newsom And finally, on my way back to my dorm, I noticed this. I walked by it many times and never once paid attention to it till now. Cheers. In London. I'll repeat that. Cheers. In London. Doesn't that seem like a conflict of interest, putting a Boston based t Wow...you have to love totally politically incorrect advertising. It certainly caught my eye. I wish I could see what the reaction would be if this just magically appeared in the states in a major market somewhere. See, they already gave this statue in Trafalgar Square head pigeons! He needs to get to a nurse before it spreads to the rest of the statues. But I did see the pigeons meeting in Trafalgar Square, formulating a plan to take over London, seeing they must out number humans 500 to 1. I swear, if avian flu becomes contracted to pigeons, London is doomed. Now, through the magic of the Internet, I teleport us from Covent Garden all the way to Trafalgar Square! Poof! Well, as you can see, Trafalgar Square is under rehab too. See the lovely sign the put up for us. I think it's cleaning for the fountains and s Wow...I gues they're going to get a different cut than we Americans get. Further past Covent Garden, I came across this ad. Hurray for America, we're shipping the Daily Show over here! The Brits have no idea what's coming. But wait, something doesn't seem right... Now, to Covent Garden, when you can find street performance of all kinds, including a full street opera that was going on at the time, and this very happy cab. It's a very happy cab indeed. It's quite joyful. Now, from Leicester Square to Covent Garden. From there I noticed these in a window of a shop. Now, personally, I don't have any piercings of any kind, but I would think those would weigh you down a little bit. Onward to Leicester Square, which is officially Elissa friendly. Well, onward! Past the London Trocadero, which is an attempt at a central London entertainment and shopping center which seemed to fail miserably. One of the few stores left is this candy store where the air alone is enough to put people in diabetic comas Ahhhh, that explains everything. Look at all the dead pixels on the sign! It looks really out of shape. I wonder who could have made it where the pixels dies in such a way... First stop, Piccadilly Circus! One of the most photographed things in London, besides St. Stephen's Tower (Big Ben), The London Eye, and Jordan. But something is amiss... Here's how I set out. I'm such a stupid American tourist.
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Carnival and fair coasters frighten me. They don't feel all that safe. When I see rusted out track, not too happy. Also, the rides at Ocean City, MD also make me very tedious. The Looping Star and Tidal Wave are good examples. Everything of this variety as well. Stuart "Down with rust" Newsom
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Best...TR....EVER!!! That package got more action than most of us have had in a month! Of course I can only speak for myself. Will that come with the DVDs as well? I'm also very happy to see the framed Nightmare Before Christmas poster in the background of Robb trying to kill Dan in a true death by chocolate. Further proof that the Alvey's have good taste! Stuart "molestation costs extra" Newsom
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Hmmm, I guess what tops my "stupid stuff" list is something that happened at school back in the states. I was messing around with my school id card, flinging it around outside, late on a Friday night. The id card was, and still is, the thing that controlled everything. It was my meal plan, my school account, and the way to get into the residence halls. It was also on those little lanyard things, so I was spinning the lanyard around on my fingers, not paying too much attention to it, until I hear this snap sound and see my card go flying off the clip. It majestically spun through in the air as I started sprinting to catch it. It flies right out of my grip and right down the drain. Luckily, the drain it fell into has so water or current or movement or anything, just a lot of multiple year old leaves. So now I'm id less. I could have gotten a new one but it's time and money I don't necessarily want to spend. So, I somehow get myself back into my hall, into my room and I go to bed, thinking I think of a way to get it back in the morning. I wake up the next morning and I have a full on, light bulb over the head, epiphany. I leave my room, tape roll in hand, and find a yardstick bubblegum box in the trash. I then went back to the drain, where my card was still laying thank God, and began to channel Richard Dean Anderson. I took the tape, made one of those tape loop things, stuck it to the end of the gum cardboard wrapper thing, and fished out the id. After about 10 minutes of very patient fishing, I finally got it out. Not only was the stupidity losing the card to start out with, but also for the fact that after I got it back, I felt extremely accomplished. Stuart ""Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh" Newsom
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It looks rather interesting. I wonder how it'll work in the real world. For example, will it get lost along with the rest of the remote looking objects in the world? How with the proximity thing work? Biggest thing I can think of is will people take the time to learn it? How will the learning curve affect the use of the product?