dandaman

Yeah... "challenge". I'm the guy's age, and I pretty much hate/distrust/*other* my generation as it is. Teenagers think they're invincible and own the world, (old man rant etc. etc.), and I feel for everyone but the kid in question.

^That Freddie pic wins the thread.

I believe the aliens are of the Monsanto clan.

Holy Land's already there, in Orlando; has been for a few years now. There's apparently also a new (and different) one opening in Germany.

Funny... I've only been to CW once when I wasn't even into rides (back in '99) yet I still have the Ghoster Coaster, Taxi Jam and Fly credits. No (or at least minimal) whoring for me in August.

"The Racer remains an integral park of King's Island..." Well, at least we know the money didn't go to spell check.

...Is there significance to Dave & Falafel's Dollywood update to be dated December 31, 1969? (EDIT: If rides could be fixed that fast, TTD would have 100% capacity.) Great new layout, guys. The park index is really handy with the new options.

Don't they already have that type of thing on SLC's? Thunderhawk at ex-Geauga springs to mind: http://www.rcdb.com/ig489.htm?picture=4 http://www.rcdb.com/ig489.htm?picture=9

Finally got around to watching Robb's Thomas Town vid... I was reminded of how obsessed I used to be with Shining Time Station et al. because I recognized the song right away.

Someone should advise the park developers to have a look-see at our Holy Land Photoshop contest from a couple years back.

From your view, I would have been sitting to the right of Caesars, and just to the right of the white tent, a bit past the RenCen. I would have put on aloe on Saturday when I got home, but I got called in to work for a six-hour closing shift with lobster knees. Procrastinating on these photos... damn...

I was gonna hold off saying that until I knew it actually was saved.

Mmmmm, that's good reference. ...So the official statement says that the Courthouse was saved?

Sentiments also echoed from across the River, though a farmer's "tan" from hell is my proof of riverfront attendance. I should also have a few pics up within a couple of days.

The number of fingers held up totally add up to 23! [/nerdshowcase]

Try A&W. (Had to say it. )

Never been to Sonic, but Culver's might be the single greatest chain diner on Earth.

^I even realized that it was you near the left front before you said it just above.

Also 6'1", but I agree with the knee-jamming. Corkscrew seems bad to me just because there isn't enough legroom between what the wheel covers take up in your "riding area". Though, for the record, I do enjoy Wildcat, especially for its size. It might be the most underrated ride at CP! (Which still qualifies it as the best of its kind, apparently...)

...This is what happens when you think the post in question was referring to THIS weekend.

I thought Monday was calling for severe storms...? They are here, anyway, and usually whatever we get, Ohio gets about twice as worse.

Exactly! (To both. ) We played one last year that wasn't a movie score at all, but it had a Western/Native feel to it ("Pueblo"). I still say that was the best one we've done; I'm a sucker for Westerns. Ennio Morricone + Bruce Broughton + Alfred Newman = good time had by all. Also did a POTC medley last year that turned out all right. Our conductor/teacher had the wrong tempos IMO, but that's more or less because I'm trying to play the Klaus Badelt REAL version in my head while trying to play the other. P.S. Regarding our Arts Night tonight... conductor finally figured out that 1 first trumpet and 4 second trumpets don't balance perfectly. So I sight-read the music in rehearsal and came out unscathed; not bad for never seeing the first part EVER, high notes and all.

I never really got into music until a few years ago. Now it's all classical and movie scores, or anything that really tells a story. Rare is a song you'll find on my iPod that involves rock or something without a real meaning. Now, that having been said, I truly despise about 95% of all modern "music". My teachers all call me the Old Man of the Class, and I embrace it. We have our school Arts Night tomorrow, and we haven't done jack squat for it at all! (We're playing the three Musicfest songs though, so it should be all right.) P.S. Just noticed a certain flickering button near the bottom of your post... happy birthday, sir!

1. Trust me, we passed by it on my trip in Decmeber '06. It's still a stupid place to put an arena; no development around it for miles! 2. What an uplifting experience. 3. I'm actually as surprised as you are there's no Sens logos... maybe they all got put in storage once the unforgiving broom of Pittsburgh came to town. Wow... they seriously had no signage around that place that I could see, and I was looking just before I took the picture. Never been to the Nature Museum, and all I remember about the Mint was a million dollars worth of gold bars in a heavily guarded display case. Thanks again.

My relatives live in Metairie, and they got extremely lucky; somehow the only damages were to the windows and siding, with almost no flooding at all. Eerily enough, they could look down the street and see a completely waterlogged block of houses from their porch. Like I said, extremely lucky.