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With 2025 finally getting out of here my humor blog has been able to do a bunch of silly year-end recaps that are fun to write because all I need is a premise and I'm done. Plus, The Tale of Jimmy Rabbit reached a climax none of us saw coming! Please enjoy all this and some Popeye adventures here:
- MiSTed: The Tale of Jimmy Rabbit, Part 20: Jimmy Grows Too Cheeky
- Statistics 2025: Your Most Successful Cleaning Projects Of The Year
- Statistics 2025: Top 1920s Slang Of 2025
- Statistics 2025: Top-Rated Consumer Interactions of 2025
- Statistics 2025: Top Reactions To _Crankshaft_ For The Year
- What's Going On In Olive and Popeye? Is that the _Popeye and Son_ stuff? October - December 2025
- Statistics 2025: Top Rare-Earth-Metals News Of 2025
- MiSTed: The Tale of Jimmy Rabbit, Part 21: A Queer Cure
And now to pictures, where I share two or if you're generous three roller coasters from Plopsaland De Panne!
Back at K3 Roller Skater, here's a train cresting the lift hill, and you can see the giant speaker, so what's going to happen next?
Well of course! ... Actually from the angle I was photographing at, I'd expected the train to leap out from the speaker but they have to go with the track they have.
Giant doll and even more giant conversation heart as part of the ride scenery. Put this in your Roller Coaster Tycoon scenario.
And now, back to Nacht Wacht and the dragon-themed coaster inside, the one with those overhead tracks we saw earlier and ... oh.
So, we couldn't ride the coaster, an extra shame because it had great theme elements like this dragon shield outside.
And here's the (closed off) stairs to the ride; that ghostly pointing hand is a great element. Also huh, so they have line-cutting technology too. Didn't see much of it.
Here's another roller coaster, Anubis: The Ride, with a theme of I guess we're starting in a Victorian or Edwardian manor home of some Egyptomaniac.
My one not-awful picture of the interior (we hustled through the queue), with taxidermy animals and other stuff of that ``we'll put together a drawing room cozy mystery'' style architecture in theme park form.
View from the front queue gate of the ride. It's a linear synchronized induction motor coaster, like Cear Point's Maverick, so there's no lift hill, just sudden motion.
Ride operator's station, which looks about like you'd imagine. There seem like fewer buttons than you might imagine but really you just need a couple for a ride like this.
Afterward we went and got some spiral-cut potato-on-a-stick to eat and were joined by a very large seagull on the table. Here's their feet alone.
And here's the seagull, towering over the spiral-cut potato chip sign.
Trivia: Radio show Fibber McGee and Molly used the running gag of opening the closet door (``don't open that door, McGee!'') to unleash a great cacophonous mass of noise and clutter 128 times. Fibber himself opened the door 83 of those times. Source: On The Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio, John Dunning. Which is a stunning figure to me since I can't swear I have ever heard a door-opening gag where anyone besides Fibber opened it. There are clearly important episodes I have missed.
Currently Reading: A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War II, Maury Klein.
