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We're getting deeper into the March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thingy so my humor blog is full of all sorts of nonsense. Hope you enjoy:
- MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 32
- March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: Quicksand versus Believing Rumors
- Statistics Saturday: Some Classic _Looney Tunes_ Characters and What Kind of Genie They Would Make
- March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: Spelling Out Your Acronyms versus Gemini 3
- March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: Lists versus Roleplaying
- What's Going On In The Phantom (Sundays)? Who's writing The Phantom now? December 2024 - March 2025
- March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: Regrets versus Seeds
- MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 33
Last time I shared Kings Island pictures we were getting to ride The Bat. And how's that turned out?
Here's The Bat, returning froma ride. It, uh, doesn't look like the front-seat passengers enjoyed the ride this time. Maybe they're disappointed it was this short. Let's go with that.
Got another look at the Ultra Boom after we rode and, hey, they just bought one off of Art's Rental? Did they swipe this one and figure Art couldn't say anything?
Another look at the train returned and just past the brake run.
Returning along the hilariously long queue. You can see in the cement where they once had even more overflow queue capacity.
Returning the main body of the park at last. The Sol Spin area is in the background here. We're getting near a swinging ship ride that we didn't go on.
The swinging ship brings us to the Festhaus. I believe at one point the park had a substantial Oktoberfest area that's been parted out to other sections now and this might be the last holdout, or it might be considered part of the International Midway or something.
Here's the floral calendar, so you know where we were just over nine months ago.
Sculpture detail on the Grand Carousel building.
And a look at some of the rare non-shield horses on the Grand Carousel.
I think there are actually only three horses on the outer row with PTC Shields like this --- it's not Idlewild's carousel, after all --- but this is a nice example of an understated shield.
Here's a more prominent PTC shield and that also features the horse's head, lost a bit under the painting.
The horse I rode. Not sure what CEB means; possibly it's honoring a donor or sponsor for the horse.
Trivia: The first league-wide baseball schedule was adopted by the National League the 22nd of March, 1877. Before then clubs arranged the dates and locations of matches on their own, which among other things allowed flexibility when injury or illness made it impossible to field nine players. Source: A Game of Inches: The Story Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball, Peter Morris.
Currently Reading: Seriously Curious: The Facts and Figures That Turn Our World Upside-Down, Editor Tom Standage.
