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My heart doesn't break, but my blood sure does boil. I wouldn't hate Stitch so much if Disney didn't treat him like he was on par with Mickey or Goofy or something by plastering his face E.V.E.R.Y.W.H.E.R.E. AWESOME? You and I are no longer friends. Hmph.

I dunno, if I were a computer thief, the first thing I'd do would be to find out what forums the owner of the laptop reads, create a bunch of clone accounts on the geekiest one (i.e. TPR), then vote for the same guy that the laptop owner voted for in some random survivor game on the appropriately-named random thread. I mean, I hypothetically stole the poor kid's laptop - it's the least I can do to pad the vote in a game he already got kicked off of. Thieves have hearts too, you know! And it's not like that'd be a colossal waste of time, or anything. Besides, what kind of thief would steal a laptop just to pawn it for drugs or money? Or to actually use it for his own benefit? That's just crazy talk.

I've got a vat of mayonnaise that tells me different.

WHAT?! I haven't voted for YOU yet. Oh, it's on now. As soon as Wes is out of the way YOU ARE GOING DOWN.

^^Wow. I think you just murdered humor.

^AHAHAHAHA. Turkey. Gobble. I don't know if you meant that, but it cracked me up. Man, I am easy to entertain today.

NO.

^Atlas Shrugged. Or maybe it would be funnier if I just let you think that Wes is SO into this that he wrote that entire speech just to convince people not to vote him off.

Psh, forget that. I wanna see a wooden Aquatrax.

The news tonight showed it as being $6.00 in Greensboro, NC, which is an hour away from me. I saw it at $4.99 just down the street though.

Whew, I thought I somehow got killed off last week and didn't realize it.

^^I've yet to ride a coaster I wasn't allowed to wear my glasses on, so long as I had croakies. ^^^That is a good point, though, about the sunglasses. I don't have transition lenses or a prescription pair of sunglasses, and I fully expect to go blind by the time I'm 35.

I gotta go with glasses, but only because I think I look better with them than with out. Now, I've had them since I was 10, which is over half my life, so perhaps I'm just used to them at this point, but man, I feel so NAKED without them (and blind, of course. Very, very blind.) But depending on what YOU look like, maybe you'd look weird in glasses. Or maybe you'd look weird in contacts. I dunno. This is definitely one of those things where you just gotta figure out what works best for you. As for some of your cons for glasses... I don't know what kind of girly glasses you have (haha), but I've never had a pair break on me (now that I've said that, I'm sure I'll break mine tomorrow, though). Maybe try something a bit more sturdy next time? As for the scraping your face part, what do you mean? Are the arms of your glasses made of razor blades, because I don't really have a problem with this either.

^YES! I'm so glad someone got it. I was worried it might be too obscure. There, Jason. Now you know, too! Oh, no, no, no. That's what everyone does in their trip reports. I'm too much of a rebel to do the typical and obvious. Plus, my camera is actually called a Rebel, so I don't think I have much of a choice, anyway. Well, thank you. And I haven't forgotten about SFGAdv (that day it forever ingrained in my memory as well as sliced into my foot). I'll probably end up making an entirely separate trip report for that park, though, since it's not actually part of the Behemoth trip.

Day 4: Marineland and Waldameer First of all, sorry it's taken me so long to update this thing. What's it been? three weeks? Yeah, that's borderline unacceptable, I'm sure, but in my defense, I started school, school wasted no time beating me into submission, and because of my crushed spirits and broken dreams, my general feelings of completing this trip report at most points in time since then have been along the line of I JUST DON'T WANNA MMMK? BUT! Here I am now, and I thank you for your patience, those of you who are still around. Lord willing, it shouldn't take me so long to get the final day of the trip up. Of course, that LHC thing in Switzerland might just kill us all tomorrow, and then I won't even have to worry about it. And let me tell you - what a weight off my shoulders that would be. Also, I typed a good portion of this IN school right now, so haHA school! You can break my spirits, but NOT MY WILL TO IGNORE YOU AND PLAY ONLINE! That's right - me failing: that will show 'em. Onto the photos. I'm just going to let the photos/captions do the talking for these parks. Finally, the station of Ravine Flyer II during night ERT, pre-thunderstorm of death. Didn't ANYONE get a photo of all of us soaked to the bone that night? Of the thousands of B/RF TRs, I've yet to see any photographic evidence of the event. Anyway, coming up next (at some point) - Idlewild, Lakemont, and DelGrosso's. Did the best I could without a tripod. Looks like I had a bout of the shakes here, though. After I took this shot, the ferris wheel stopped, and I sat there for about 10 minutes waiting for it to start up again so I could get a second chance, until I finally realized - D'OH - the ride closed for the night. BUT NO ONE CARES BECAUSE WE DANCED ON THE STAGE WHERE TREVOR ONCE STOOD OH MY EFFING GOSH WE CAN ALL DIE HAPPY NOW blah blah blah More of this thing Oooo....a neon phallus. Nice choice, Waldameer. Nice choice. "WHAT THE HECK IS THIS CRAZINESS?!" Yeah, that seems about right... Neil does indeed have a soft spot for woodies. Double entendre totally intended. And it did NOT disappoint. Trevor aside, Ravine Flyer II was pretty much the highlight attraction at the park. Tyler: "Chicka, chicka, chickabee. Tay an me an tay an me. Ressa, ressa, ressa me. Chicka, chicka, chickabee." TPR whore takeover! Uh oh. You know what this means... It was a clone, but for some reason, Steel Dragon just didn't measure up to the one at Seabreeze. I think Trevor stole the show from the entire park, really. There's been a lot of parks in this trip report so far, so I just want to throw in a mid-TR reminder of where we are for all those who can't keep up. I'm big on helping people. Annnnnd taken on the way down. Jake looks like he's about to hurl, but Neil has never wanted his mommy more than he did at that moment. Taken on the way up. Notice how everyone is generally feelin' good and carefree? This hellish thing. Doesn't even stop at the top. Do you know what that means? YOU DON'T KNOW WHEN YOU'RE GONNA FALL OMGFTW. Aw, Brooke finally got to meet a celebrity! TREVOR! TREEEEEEEVVVVVVOOOOORRRRRRR!!! ...THIS IS RIGHT NEXT DOOR. Some people were excited about this, but I don't see why when... Good thing I brought my walker then. This was clearly a day for fist pumping. Now onto Waldameer, where they slather you in lead paint. This one is just too flashy for me. Eh, Canada's Wonderland's version was more impressive. The amount of track you see in this picture is only about 4% of the entire coaster. It's THAT long. But yes, Niagara Falls. There it is. Okay, so I am NOT a big fan of heights. I actually had to give myself an intense pep talk for about 15 minutes to get on the drop tower in elevator mode. Even then, once I got on, I pretty much had my eyes glued to the viewfinder on my camera, which I kept pointed straight ahead. I didn't even have the guts to take a picture looking down at my feet. But I lived! And I didn't have a panic attack! Look at me grow as I conquer my fears! Only, what? 384 to go? Damn. The one that got away, you know? Elevator mode! I took this shot as soon as I reached the top of the hill. Then I passed out. This hill nearly killed us all. You can see it starting to take its toll on Brooke as she tends to the stitch in her side. I think Erik is even limping a bit. SRSLY, THERE IS NOTHING AT THIS PARK! Honestly now, if you didn't know this was a park, wouldn't you think this was just some road in an undeveloped rural subdivision? Even I have embraced the credit whore within me. But no one else in this group has any shame either. Dan gives whoring two thumbs up. Standing at nearly 20ft tall, this was one of the tallest rides in the park. It was also one of two rides in the park, so...there you go. Kix: Bear tested, mother approved. Hmmm. Didn't know bears were all that marine-ish. 'Course, they are in water. *shrugs* The station really needed background music. Or at least some growling/roaring noises. One of these people has a butt for a stomach. Guess which one. No Robin Hoods Allowed. Must be a Capitalist amusement park. Mmm, I like it. Man, if I didn't know any better (and I usually don't, so props to me on this one), I'd think I was about to ride Dueling Dragons. HARK! A RIDE! They DO exist here! Yes, the sign points the way to "Friendship Cove," but what it DOESN'T say is that it's still another 8 1/2 miles away. Oh, sorry. I mean 13.5 kilometers. I forgot what country I was in there for a second. Or, you know, whatever the metric unit for time is. Those Canucks and their crazy measurements... Looks like Erik the Enthusiastic just wet himself with excitement. This is pretty much what Marineland looks like. Lots of trees (they should call it "Forestland & Whale Pool." They're just fooling themselves with this *Marine*land nonsense), a random turret here and there, and a few attractions scattered about that only trained Olympian athletes can get to without needing medical attention and a Red Bull along the way. Wait, this ain't America? You mean I gotta spend another day in a land of fer'ners?

I hoping that instead of a black hole, it will cause some sort of physically-harmless explosion that will actually cause some humans to have their gene mutated X-men style so that I can FINALLY levitate stuff. You have no idea how long I've stared at things, willing them to move.

YES. My Italian teacher in college. He didn't even have an accent, so I can't even blame it on that. Plus, he was probably at LEAST 15 years older than me. But goll, was he ever handsome and funny.

But perhaps the school Bristol attended doesn't use abstinence-only sex-ed (maybe they do, but again - something we can't assume). Parents aren't the only people who teach kids/teens about sex anymore. Either way, I think that we can both agree that neither program works 100% of the time 1) because no birth control is 100% effective and 2) while abstinence IS 100% effective, not 100% of kids will remain abstinent. While I know that this isn't what you meant, I just gotta say that abstinence DOES work. I mean, except for Mary, I can't think of any other people that had spontaneous pregnancies or STDs. And abstinence IS possible - I personally can attest to that.

^^What I'm saying is how do we know that they didn't use protection? You can still get pregnant while on the pill or using a condom (even if her mother didn't let her get on the pill, she couldn't stop her daughter or her daughter's boyfriend from buying condoms without her permission), so you can't prove that the couple didn't use any sort of contraceptive. And that's information that we'll probably never be privy to, so we'll probably never know. But just to assume that it was her mother's abstinence only beliefs that got her daughter pregnant, while ignoring the possibility of a broken/defective/ineffective condom simply isn't a fair accusation to make. P.S. I'm a sarcastic person in all areas of life. My sardonic personality is not limited to political debates, but is used equally among all topics on this roller coaster forum. Look around. You'll see. I like to think I'm very well-rounded with my sarcastic remarks, thank you very much. Just don't hold them against me when everyone else around here is using them too.

^Whoa, whoa, whoa. You call ME out on sarcasm, and yet ignore supertrooper's? And the way he's judging people? Does he know the Palin family personally? And whether he knows them or not, does that give him the right to classify them (or ANYONE) as "trash?" How in the world is he NOT equating Republicans with "Jerry Springer quality trash?" And he's basically saying that if you have a pregnant teen in your family, then you're obviously trash. How could you possibly take it any other way?

^Like I said a few pages back, McCain is for merit pay for teachers too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_john_mccain#Education Also: Yes, because we KNOW they didn't use a condom or other means of birth control, obviously, since those are 100% effective. You know what assuming does, right? At least the family practices what they preach. She's having the baby and facing the consequences head on. What more do you want out of a pro-life family? To get an abortion just so you can call them hypocrites? And yes, because no non-"trash" families ever have pregnant teens. God, stereotype much?

No, it's the PMW club. This really should be a commerical: "This is your brain. This is your brain on PMW. [insert footage of someone hoping a fence and getting coaster pwnd]"

^ EXACTLY. And this drives me crazy to no end. When that happened, Conan O'Brien talked about it by quoting Obama and then saying "When he heard about it, President Bush said, 'Ha ha, he forgot Alaska and Hawaii." (Paraphrased. My memory isn't spot on). I know that there have been one or two jokes about Obama (nothing too harsh or direct, mind you), but had it been Bush who said that, the media would have been ALL OVER IT. Instead, it was Obama said it, and still it was used to pick on Bush. Really now, Bush says enough stupid things - you don't need to put any words in his mouth to make a joke. So grow some balls and pick on ALL the candidates. Obama isn't the untouchable Messiah, you know!

^^ He wasn't making fun of middle-class America (thin-skinned, maybe?), he was making a joke about the people who inaccurately attack him for ignoring the lower/middle classes.

You DO know that he was being sarcastic, right? You know, like "Ha ha ha?"