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  1. What would you do for a clondike bar???????
  2. http://www.forgottenoh.com/Americana/amcoasters.html http://illicitohio.com/SBNO/americana/page_0001.html hope these help.
  3. Death? What you know about Death. -tom berringer Platoon.
  4. ^LOL Ted. and what color are the bathrobes?????
  5. Here ya go. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius
  6. Excuse me, (sitting next to a stranger) but do the noises in my head bother you? (borrowed from Gods must be Crazy.)
  7. ^that avatar looks like BOB, church of the Subgenious.
  8. Disney Muslim Zone, or DMZ for short. Disney's appealed to almost every country on the Planet, so it should work. Yeah, BIG metal detectors would be a great idea. And any car/truck driving type ride should be monitored very carefully.
  9. look up the goddamn definition of racist and you will see that you sound like a moron for using it in this context. God I HATE people using that word when half the time what they are discussin has nothing to do with racism. BRAVO! This is probably the beginning of a worldwide trend. Secretly, pool owners have been sued over chlorine imperfections not preventing pregnancies. I wonder if they charge the women more for this? If might just be about money.
  10. Looks like someone used the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch on HolyLand. great pics
  11. I've seen this kind of thing before. An old girlfriend of mine was a lifeguard. She told me, and showed me what happens when too much chlorine is added to a pool. Burns do happen and breathing is not easy. In an indoor facility, it can be brutal even if you're not sensitive to it.
  12. Just only 7 years ago: This was the big problem: Six Flags: a red flag Theme park seeks more parking after Sunday's traffic nightmare By JARROD ZICKEFOOSE and BOB SANDRICK Staff Writers June 8, 2000 BAINBRIDGE — For people who live near Six Flags Ohio, Sunday was the realization of a long-feared nightmare. Patrons of the park got stuck in traffic and ditched their cars wherever it was convenient to walk to the park. The resulting random scattering of cars and confused traffic patterns trapped nearby residents and business owners for most of the day. Solon Police Chief Wayne Godzich said he received a call at 11 a.m. regarding heavy traffic backed up on eastbound Route 422. Traffic was moving, but slowly, on 422, and on southbound SOM Center Road between 422 and Solon Road. However, Godzich said there was no gridlock. "They were backed up because the influx of traffic was so heavy they couldn't get off the ramps and onto SOM Center Road very quickly," Godzich said. Around noon, traffic started backing up at the park entrance on Aurora Road, stretching west to Liberty Road, he said. By 1 p.m., Six Flags staff was directing traffic toward its last 500 spaces. They shut down the parking lot at 3 p.m. That's what caused people to park on the side of the road, mainly in Aurora, Godzich said. People were parking on side streets and walking through residential lawns, he said. Traffic remained sluggish until about 3:30 p.m. Geauga Lake Road resident Julius Ferencie said he wanted to go get gas for his chain saw Sunday. "But after a while I just said forget it," he said. "It was a disaster. You couldn't move. You can't imagine where they were parking. They were parking on lawns. They were parked everywhere," he said. Ferencie has feared such a scenario since Six Flags announced its intention to expand last December. And though both Bainbridge Police Chief James Jimison said it was the first time he had seen anything like it, Ferencie believed it won't be the last. He said upcoming picnics for the likes of Stouffer's, the United Auto Workers and the Cleveland Clinic will be repeats. Jimison said the bulk of Sunday's complaints came from businesses in the area whose lots became overflow parking for Six Flags. The owners of Sneakers Bar & Grill, on Aurora Road in Solon near the Bainbridge border, complained to Solon police that numerous cars on their way to Six Flags parked in their lot and walked to the park. Solon police towed five cars in the area of Sneakers because they had parked on the road or by fire hydrants. In Bainbridge, cars were parked alongside Aurora Road all the way to the park, Godzich said. Jimison said some business owners started charging for parking after realizing they would not be able to conduct business Sunday. Jimison said it was simply a matter of too many people headed for the park via a too-narrow road. He said many of the patrons had driven long distances to get Six Flags and were frustrated that they couldn't get in once they reached the home stretch. Ferencie said Bainbridge police have been a constant presence in the area since the park opened. However, they do not have the authority to tow vehicles illegally parked near the park. They only can write parking tickets and issue speeding violations. Jimison said he was talking with trustees about changing road signs in the area to read "Vehicles illegally parked will be towed." Even prior to Sunday's fiasco, residents of Geauga Lake and Brewster roads in Bainbridge have complained of illegal parking. Godzich said Solon will discuss placing no-parking signs on Aurora Road at tonight's meeting of City Council's Safety and Public Properties Committee. Additionally, Jimison said he was meeting with business owners in the area to encourage them to tow vehicles illegally parked in their lots. He said he planned to advise them on what the Ohio Revised Code read about private towing. But it's not just Six Flags that worries those who live near the crossroads of Bainbridge, Solon and Aurora. Ferencie said if Heritage Development Inc. builds a shopping center on Aurora Road near the park, the situation will be exacerbated. Heritage has three proposals on the table for that shopping center. "There is no way anyone could have gotten into a shopping center Sunday," he said. Bainbridge trustees will meet today with representatives from the state and county to discuss the Heritage project and, among other topics, state funding that might be available for road improvements. Jack Bateman, vice president and general manager of Six Flags, told Godzich the park had a labor union picnic at the park Sunday. He theorized to Godzich that families took separate cars instead of all riding together. A large crowd had been was projected for Sunday, but not an extremely large crowd. No other groups were scheduled Sunday. Bateman told Godzich that Saturday's attendance was comparable to Sunday's. On Sunday, he said the park attracted only a few hundred more people. Yet they came in a lot more cars. Godzich said because overflow parking was all the way to the east, in the back of the park, traffic patterns might have been disrupted once the main lot filled. Not only were there a lot of cars, they were being directed to different parts of parking lot, he said. Additionally, people walking through traffic caused stops and starts, he said. "It all contributed," Godzich said. Bateman was not available for comment. His receptionist directed reporters' calls to Shannon D'Sidocky, public relations manager for Six Flags. She said officials were actively looking at options for parking. Primarily, they are focusing on directing patrons to lots at Silverhorn Camping Resort and the Aurora Woodlands Hotel, then shuttling them to the park, she said. Both facilities and Six Flags are owned by Premier Parks Inc. She said this expanded parking would be available as soon as possible, but no date was available. "We're going to be very proactive," she said. She said the park might install signs along Aurora Road notifying patrons of parking conditions as they approach the park. Jimison said it was the first time in his experience there was not enough parking at the park. Godzich said Solon police got only two complaints from people driving to the park on 422. They called on their cellular phones to find out what the problem was. Godzich said no complaints came from Solon residents on Aurora Road, who often get blocked by park traffic in the summer. © 2000 Sun Newspapers Seems funny looking backward. Six Flags could pack 'em in.
  13. No, and I've been at work for four hours already. did it snow where you live today?
  14. Would: Alice IN Chains.
  15. I hate the Geico caveman commercials
  16. nope. Mythbusters tackled that one. Around here they even took off the "Don't use cell phone" signs on all the gas pumps after the show aired. -James Dillaman Beat me to it. Yeah, they showed that static shocks from getting out of the car is a more serious threat.
  17. Last week, while my girlfriend at i visited her mom in Solon, we stopped for gas at the station across from the park. The attendant told me that seven out of ten people that go there for gas and stuff ask him if the park is closing. Taking down rides and having an abandoned waterpark facing route 43 isn't a pleasant thing to see, especially after it's been rotting for three years. I told the attendant about the Cornhole thing they're putting. Here was his comment: What the hell does Beavis and Butthead have to do with a park? What's next, SouthPark: A-Probe, the Ride! Heck, the people i work with ask me if the park is closing. Their thoughts are if they're removing rides and only replacing them with either temp stuff (cornholing) or water rides, that the place is going down. Hard to convice them they're wrong. One other thing: The perception of people around here is: Fine, first they get rid of the animals, then they chuck a few coasters. What's next? Liquidation? When more and more parks are getting coasters, Gl is removing them. Great stragedy. Not. And while they're at it, they're increasing the gate cost?
  18. Geauga Lake topples a giant Locals worry coaster's move portends end of Cedar Fair park Thursday, March 01, 2007John HortonPlain Dealer Reporter The worker's power tool whirred from a perch high above Geauga Lake amusement park. It wouldn't be long now, crew foreman Bobby Fleek said between puffs on a cigarette. Five minutes, Fleek guessed while looking up. Ten minutes, tops. Then the thrill would be gone. Some of the last remaining sections of the X-Flight roller coaster's track disappeared from the park's skyline Wednesday, hoisted down by a crane in preparation for a move 225 miles south. The ride is bound for Kings Island, another Cedar Fair LP park near Cincinnati. In the next few months, another Geauga Lake giant - Steel Venom, just a few hundred feet from X-Flight along Ohio 43 - also will come down for relocation to an as-yet-unnamed Cedar Fair property. The shrinking skyline follows three lackluster years at Geauga Lake, which straddles the border of Bainbridge Township and Aurora. Attendance remained stagnant last year at about 700,000 visitors, similar to the 2005 and 2004 seasons, park spokesman Bryan Edwards said. During a February conference call to discuss Cedar Fair's fourth-quarter earnings, Chairman Dick Kinzel said that Geauga Lake made progress last year but still "fell below expectations." Kinzel said the park needed to reduce overhead costs and make adjustments to reflect visitation trends. Edwards said Geauga Lake could not justify keeping X-Flight and Steel Venom - both expensive to maintain and operate - given the lack of use. Together, the coasters gave roughly 438,000 rides in 2006. By comparison, that's less than the least-ridden adult coaster at Cedar Point in Sandusky. The dismantling of the rides is causing some in the community to speculate that Geauga Lake is in a death spiral. Customers at Sirna's Market and Deli across from the park's front gate have watched X-Flight get picked apart over the past few months. Assistant Manager Jerry Kotar said the consensus is that this is the beginning of the end. "People think they're shutting the door on it," Kotar said. "That's what they see." Local leaders - including Aurora Mayor Lynn McGill and Bainbridge Township Trustee Christopher Horn - acknowledge they have heard similar chatter but are convinced the park is safe. Edwards said that Cedar Fair is committed to Geauga Lake, which it purchased in 2004 from Six Flags. On Wednesday, the park issued a press release touting the upcoming season's new offerings. They include a pair of shows; additional restaurants and food offerings; more "VIP cabanas" at the $30 million Wildwater Kingdome water park that opened two years ago; and a version of the popular game cornhole. "When people come to the park this year," Edwards said, "they'll see that it has gotten better." Cleveland Plain Dealer. You sure can't see a postive differance when looking from Rt 43.
  19. ^Yeah, that'd be some list of movie titles, too. lol
  20. Wow, I guess I've yet another cold day in hell. Sorry, but i don't see this working....
  21. 15 minutes of work left today!!!!!!! HAPPINESS; DBDBDBDBDBDBD
  22. Birthday Masacre: To die for...
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