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I managed to avoid making this time of year nothing but Rankin/Bass thoughts on my humor blog. There was some thinking, yes, but I think I kept it in reasonable control. Also, The Tale of Jimmy Rabbit reaches a curious new point!
- MiSTed: The Tale of Jimmy Rabbit, Part 19: A Dance Without Music
- The Time of Year I Have Most of My Rankin/Bass Thoughts
- Statistics Saturday: Some Christmas Songs Ranked By Number Of Jingle Bells
- Robert Benchley: My Trouble
- Nothing to Sneeze at Either
- What's Going On In Judge Parker? How Old Is That Charlotte Kid Supposed to Be? September - December 2025
- Guilt About the Christmas Cards Is Long, Long Passed
- MiSTed: The Tale of Jimmy Rabbit, Part 20: Jimmy Grows Too Cheeky
If that's all read, then, you can go ahead and look at pictures of Plopsaland De Panne, in its last weeks of that identity:
Here's a lovely little castle that's also a restaurant which we ended up not eating in. Note the kid wearing a Stitch hoodie in the corner there.
And the gardens opposite the castle. This probably looks amazing from the balcony.
An elevated swings ride that I was game for going on, but that was closed every time we were nearby.
Don't know who the kid with the spaceship is, but it looks good.
And now we're getting into some of the areas themed to some ... probably young-but-can-watch-TV-on-their-own kids.
And here would be our first roller coaster, and the park's oldest: the #LikeMe Coaster.
The station has this school theme that we figure must match whatever the show is.
It was a very convincing high school, though!
Several of the prop doors had TV screens showing loops of animation which does a lot to convince you the place is bigger and more real than it is.
And here's the cars; it's a kiddie coaster and a tight fit.
The coaster runs along the terrain so it's very very high off the ground, but this makes things like that bank on the right very exciting since you get a better sense of what speed you do have.
And under the track I could see this ghost marking, of cryptic origin and purpose.
Trivia: The National Advisory Council on Aeronautics, established 1915, did not have an actual seal until 1953, five years before the council would be remade as NASA, and only then because of a need ``for use on the certificates issued to graduates of the apprentice training courses conducted at the NACA laboratories, and also for use on the commissions of appointment to NACA technical committees and subcommittees''. Source: Emblems of Exploration: Logos of the NACA and NASA, Joseph R Chambers, Mark A Chambers. Monographs in Aerospace History, number 56.
Currently Reading: Volume 80: Popeycatapetl! or Th' Demon Idol O' Inkypoo, Ralph Stein, Bill Zaboly. Editor Stephanie Noelle.
