It's been a week of found comedy on my humor blog. Please, enjoy reading some.
- MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 39
- Anyway Now I Have My _Strange New Worlds_ Spec Script
- Statistics Saturday: What's Happening In Your Neighborhood This Weekend
- This Also Supposes There Could Ever Be a Right Time to Have Explained
- It's Probably Not as Juicy Fun as the _Peyton Place_ Board Game Is
- What's Going On In Dick Tracy? Who Put That Guy's Wallet in the Collection Box? February - May 2025
- Mostly I Did Not Expect Their Revenge to Be Sweet Like This
- MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 40
Now it's time for some more Kennywood pictures; enjoy.
View out from the carousel pavilion, with the restored Kangaroo in nice, convenient view.
Kennywood has reintroduced the 1970s mascot Jeeters, although a lot of the use has been stuff like this, bars that take the place of midway games.
And now to Thunderbolt! They repainted the Thunderbolt mural and like everyone we were worried about replacing a classic old one with whatever modern concept they'd have. And this is ... you know, not bad. I do like its kiddie-psychedelic-show-of-about-1970 vibe. Haven't found a hidden George Washington yet but at least Kenny Kangaroo there is doing the classic Pat Lawlor Mysterious Button pose with his right hand.
Kennywood had new National Historic District signs last year, replacing ones that dated to .. not sure when. I believe the text was mostly copied over, but I'll have to go find older pictures to be absolutely sure.
The park has also added a digital wait-time sign to many of the rides. I'm not fond of line-cutting schemes, but wait estimates are nice to have.
Ride operator trying to manage a very busy crowd or, based on his open mouth and single outreached arm, about to break into his big show-stopping musical number.
Looking back from the Thunderbolt platform at the infield, with the T logo in flowers. That's the area where years ago we saw some rabbits and we never stop looking to see if there's rabbits again.
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bunnyhugger most wanted at Kennywood was their Double Header cone, the square ice cream coated in chocolate. And then we got there and this baffling sign gave us horrible news. The situation is odd and the explanation seems to make less sense than no explanation at all. It seems to imply ice cream cone manufacture is seasonal, which all right I guess that's fine, but why would they stop in the summer season? If the factory burned down or the company went bankrupt or something that would make sense but then why not say that? Everyone can understand ``factory out of operation, sorry''. How does this cone situation happen?
Kennywood had one of the first Kiddielands in any park, and they even have some rides that have been there since their Kiddieland opened in the late 1920s.
There are a couple of midway games left. In the backdrop of one of them are these Skee-Ball patents. Note this is the original Skee-Ball design, without the controversial targets on the left and right side up top.
This ice cream stand here had its top catch fire in April 2024, just before opening day. Nobody was hurt and the stand stayed open.
Well, guess it's Noah's Ark time again. Let's go get swallowed by a whale for some reason!
Trivia: In 1807 Johann Schroeter reported the asteroid Pallas showed regular changes in its brightness, with changes of light intensity visible after only forty minutes. Its brightness in fact does not change appreciably to human eyes in that short a while, but the report that asteroids rotate was correct. Source: Asteroids, Clifford J Cunningham.
Currently Reading: Miscellaneous comic books mostly picked up on Free Comic Book Day, although some of them I paid for.
