Over on my humor blog this week I declared pants bankruptcy, to use a phrase that I think one person ever has ever used, but that I'm amused by. If you comment around here, you'll know how dreadfully pants-bankrupt I am. But for now, you can find the declaration among this selection of postings:
- MiSTed: Jaded Views, Part 9
- Lest You Think I Was Being Held for … Oh, What's the Word …
- Statistics Saturday: People Named In This List As Possibly The Pseudonymous ‘Olivia Jaimes' of _Nancy_ Fame
- I Am Feeling Called Out by This _One Big Happy_ Repeat
- Statistics May: How I Am Punished For My Bad Blogging Etiquette
- What's Going On In The Phantom (Weekdays)? Is Mike Manley coming back to The Phantom? March - June 2024
- It's Probably Not Going to Make the Monologue, but the _Meanwhile_ Segment? Yeah, It'll Probably Run There
- MiSTed: Jaded Views, Part 10
(The term was coined by someone I believe on LiveJournal back in the glory days of blogging. It was meant to refer to being so behind in comments and reading other people's posts that they would never catch up and had to accept all this writing that they had hoped to read and reply to as lost, and carry on. I believe the word ended up being a typo or autocorrect for ``posts bankruptcy'', but you can see why the alternate term would last in my head the way a normal name for this otherwise )
And now some more of the Festival of the Forks, in photo form. Or Phestival of the Phorks, in foto phorm. As you like.
Here's the Go-Gator kiddie coaster, which we did not ride for several reasons. One is that we weren't sure unaccompanied adults could ride it. Another is that, as you can see, they were hard at work fixing it.
That is the Go-Gator grimace that says ``men are using socket wrenches to whack my hips''.
They did a lot of this. We would see the coaster running a bit, so it was successful for them.
Goats. This wasn't a county fair-style gathering of animals but they did have a couple of petting zoo-grade animals.
See? Take your pick and pet a hooved animal. Sorry, you can't reach that goat that's hoping the picnic is a better offer.
That is one happy-looking sheep, isn't it?
Back to the rides, which were very kids-oriented. See the bounce house here.
Here's the station, and trailer, for the Go-Gator. Or, Go Gator!!.
Now that is a cute-looking Go Gator!!.
When there's not a Festival going on the park hosts a Frisbee Golf course and here's one of the targets.
And here's the star of the show, to ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger's eyes: the Heart Flip. Haven't seen a ride like it in ages; I'm not sure I have ever seen its like before.
Cute logo, huh? It's neat they could get the Walt Disney Signature font to write out 'Heart Flip'. (Almost; the 'A' is wrong. I have no explanation for this phenomenon.)
Trivia: Five wind tunnel complexes --- one at each of the three National Advisory Council on Aeronautics laboratories and two at the engine test facility that would become the Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center in Tennessee --- were covered by the National Unitary Wind Tunnel Act of 1949. Source: NACA to NASA to Now, Roger D Launius. (This to develop supersonic wind tunnel capabilities.)
Currently Reading: Michigan History, May/June 2024, Editor Katlyne Danko.
