It's time to review my humor blog for the past week. Which, if you've seen on your Reading page or followed by whatever your RSS reader is, you know saw the end of this intense block of Robert Benchley posting. Why did it end? For one, because our very busy time from the end of May to the start of July has passed. But also? Read on and you'll see the hint I got.
- MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 47
- Robert Benchley: Nature’s Noises
- Statistics Saturday: Some Adequate Cartoons Of Our Past
- Robert Benchley: Owl Data
- Robert Benchley: As They Say In French: Other Times, Other Customs
- What’s Going On In Judge Parker? Why is April Parker in Norway? April – July 2025
- Statistics June: Robert Benchley Is Somehow Less Popular Than Me
- MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 48
And now please enjoy returning to Michigan's Adventure and the end of a regular season on another impeccably lovely day.
As always, we rode the carousel, little suspecting that the next time we rode it the ride would go ... backwards?!
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bunnyhugger riding the fiberglass white rabbit.
bunnyhugger pointed out the nice work done on painting the trappings and so I stopped and noticed that, like, yeah, that's a nice picture to put on the zebra's saddle blanket there.
The cat, again with a bunch of nice decorations. Also a fish in its mouth because classic carvers never thought about how it was showing the mount as having killed another creature.
Here's the tiger, and the blanket there is quite well done despite being part of the fiberglass body.
Of course we always like seeing the sea horse. This time I paid attention to the orca on its saddle.
Now over to Thunderhawk. There was a longer line than usual, giving me time to take a picture of the train coming out of the station and beginning the ascent of the lift hill.
View from the station back to Wolverine Wildcat, which you'd think you could just cut across to walk to and can't. There must be something unstable about the soil that direction.
Photograph of some of the controls of Thunderhawk, revealing that the roller coaster is a big 10CC fan! I'm surprised the station isn't playing ``I'm Not In Love''.
Arty picture of local trees and spiderweb against the blurry background of Wolverine Wildcat. You can see the train going by in the upper right corner.
The swan boats are an attraction on this side of the park, past the entrance to the water park, and I liked how the light came here.
I have to assume this promises some Snoopy meet-and-greet but we never saw it.
Trivia: Otis Elevator demonstrated the world's first working escalator at the 1900 Universal Exposition in Paris. Norton Otis, representing the company, was awarded the Legion d'Honneur. Source: Otis: Giving Rise to the Modern City, Jason Goodwin.
Currently Reading: American Scientist, May - June 2025, Editor Fenella Saunders.
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Date: 2025-07-11 12:00 pm (UTC)