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My humor blog this week started with the silly, turned incomprehensible to people who don't know that I read something about Heroic Comics for a trivia item last week, went back to being So Random, and then took a turn into Peanuts news. So here's what you've been missing:
- MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 40
- Now the Weather Is Trying to Get Us in Trouble With the Neighbors
- Statistics Saturday: Stories of Kids Saved From Drowning In _Heroic Comics_ of 1951
- Also You'd Think They Already Do Plenty of Sit-Ups
- Or That People Would Have Generally More Hair
- What's Going On In Prince Valiant? Does Prince Valiant have a sister? February - May 2025
- It Seems Another Musical Is Upon Us, Charlie Brown
- MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 41
And now for more Kennywood, as of last July:
For this year they rethemed the Grand Prix bumper-car ride to ... the Potato Patch. I don't know why the cars are now fry baskets but there we go.
The far side of the wall is full of Kennywood materials, including a Lincoln Highway sign (the Lincoln Highway goes along a part of a British military trail used in the French and Indian War) and a jackrabbit crossing sign.
Kennywood and sister park arrows. The weight limit refers to the date of Kennywood's opening.
The Turtle gets a shout-out here, as does Potato Patch mascot Potato Man. I'm not sure the significance of the blobby traffic signal. Probably references some Kennywood thing I'm not hep to, like the Thomas the Tank Engine section (since rethemed).
Slightly better view of the fry-basket cars and somehow a more in-focus picture of the back wall.
And now the Kangaroo, last of the flying-coaster flat rides, with the car behind number five there showing why it's a flying-coaster.
It's not a big hop but it is a heck of one and you don't have other rides like it.
Picture of the car after landing back on the track.
Here's the new Kangaroo facade seen from behind.
Now over to The Whip, a ride nearly(?) a century old now, although not in this location.
The Whip is on the left, and that's the Pittsburg [sic] Plunge shoot-the-chutes to the right and above. And hey, what's the line for Exterminator like? If it's a reasonable wait we might just go in and enjoy ---
Oh, it's a 76-minute wait for the spinning wild mouse coaster. Never mind.
Trivia: 86 percent of French people [ as of about 2005 ] have never flown in an airplane. Source: The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography, Graham Robb. The book was published in 2007 so the data is likely accurate to two-to-four years before that.
Currently Reading: The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore, Evan Friss.
