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[austin_dern]

Hey, remember my mathematic blog? I'm not writing about that right now. It's my humor blog instead. See? You have this right on your RSS feed. Anyway, if you haven't been paying attention to it then this is what you've missed this past week:

• On Not Having Any Idea What To Dress As For Halloween which is this week's major piece and features a picture of the real live and true me! In case you needed one.
• Suddenly Clickbait Gets Me Worried because I paid attention to a picture.
• Leaf Shortage Continues (it started in the piece two items down)
• Meanwhile In The Archie Newspaper Comic Strip, Which Exists I notice something odd by paying attention.
• In Which I Probably Just Stir Up Trouble with the leaves.
• Statistics Saturday: Text Messages Received On My Cell Phone, truer than you realize.
• The Hardware Store, A Play In Three Scenes that's funny because it happens like that sometimes.
• The Triangle Code, last week's major piece, in which I find something amusing in the Pythagoreans once again.

A little park, and smoking area, on the way far end of the park. The loop of the miniature railroad is visible at the far end there. It's also just past the end of the Hoosier Hurricane roller coaster. It feels deserted. Note the mid-century minimalist fountain that's functional but also pretty rusty.

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Looking back from the little park: the station for the Wabash Cannonball miniature railroad. It's underneath the Hoosier Hurricane roller coaster.

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The biggest queue in the park: Lost Coaster of Superstition Mountain, a wooden roller coaster built, incredibly, into the buildings that used to be a dark ride. It was closed for the 2015 season and erratic for years before that. The park's new owners got it up and running and I guess everybody wanted to ride it, as they should, since it's a fantastic ride.

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Date carved into the ``boardwalk'' concrete. This is part of a relatively quiet stretch of the park. April 1955 is when the park really expanded. Before the war it had been mostly a beach with a picnic area and attractions like a dance hall. In 1947 it got a Kiddieland package, and in 1954 reclaimed land from the river/lake. That marked its transition to being a real amusement park.

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Ice cream shop, as I remember. It was opened up later on. I did not see I B Crow appear in person at all.

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Finally, something for your Ninja Turtle to snack on!

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Trivia: 1907 was the first year that preprinted scorecards used the Cubs as the nickname for the Chicago National League team. 1908 first had an emblem of a bear holding a bat on the uniforms. Source: Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History, Cait Murphy.

Currently Reading: Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans: A Brief History, Charles H Kahn.

Comments

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

Sorry you didn't get to see the crow... but glad you caught a few nice sign photos!

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

We did! Got some nice sign photographs, and we got a nice plush at the end of the night. Maybe on a weekend or during the busy season of July and August they have a walkabout mascot.

[moxie_man]

Finally, something for your Ninja Turtle to snack on!
Dude! None of these are pizza-flavored! :)

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

I was hoping HUmphrey Slocombe might have been able to oblige, but, sadly not. Mind, the flavors they do have (http://www.humphryslocombe.com/now-scooping/) are rather nomptious sounding..

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Goodness, that's eccentric.

It happens that a live stage show presentation of Are You Being Served? went through Lansing last week. But I didn't know about it at the time and, must admit, I never got the charms of Are You Being Served? Ice cream, that I understand.

[moxie_man]

I have to agree with austin_dern, several of those flavors are eccentric. Of course, I'm a bit spoiled. We have several wonderful season ice cream shops here in Maine. Must be all the tourists. Of course, they have to be good to compete with our best known brand, multi-award winning Gifford's.

And then there are places here in Maine just as eccentric. For example, Ben & Bill's in Bar Harbor, best known for their Lobster Ice Cream. I'll pass, thank you. Yes, this Mainah doesn't eat lobster. I have a shellfish "sensitivity".

Pointless trivia as of a decade ago, not sure if it still holds-up. The six New England States (Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut) consumer more ice cream annually than the rest of the USA combined. I'm sure part of that is due to all the summer tourism.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

You know I don't remember if we ran into any Gifford's ice cream during our slightly-too-fast New England Parks Tour. I think we must've been aware of it at least.

I'm surprised by the ice cream consumption statistic --- bunny_hugger's father alone has to have had something like a quarter of all the ice cream eaten in July --- but such clusters of things will happen. I imagine New Jersey dominates in pork roll consumption although in that case the chances for the rest of the country to compete are limited.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

None of those on the sign, but who knows what's ready inside? We never got a look ourselves.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

You will, I trust, ensure you see I.B. Crow on your next visit. ^_^

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

I'll be doing all I can, at least. No control over what I B is up to.

bunny_hugger remembers there being a female counterpart to I B Crow, but not what her name was. Given that this was years and years ago and the park's been through what could have been an extinction event it's understandable there's no clear mention of her in the available materials.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

I see he has, quite appropriately, a Twitter account: @IBCrow (https://twitter.com/ibcrow), though he doesn't seem to be a very talkative type. Could be worth enquiring directly..

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Ah, too bad. But given how much the park's been through I do understand prioritizing all sorts of things over their social media presence.

bunny_hugger found some pictures of an I B Crow suit, although the critter doesn't look like much besides ``generic bird mascot''.