Somewhere a River of Happiness Flows

[austin_dern]

On my humor blog this week I finally wrapped up the Tale of Jimmy Rabbit and I just realized I forgot a joke I wanted to put in the closing sketch. Well, I'll just edit that in now and the newsgroup version will have to be out of date is all. Also, there's two comic strip plot recaps and some news about comic strip artists changing so you should be in good shape reading:

• MiSTed: The Tale of Jimmy Rabbit, Part 21: A Queer Cure
• _Nancy_ and _Thatababy_ Look Weird Because New People Are Drawing Them
• Statistics Saturday: Top Days Of 2026 So Far
• Robert Benchley: Hollywood’s Loss
• What’s Going On In Thimble Theatre? You forgot about Thimble Theatre, right? October – November 2025
• What’s Going On In Alley Oop? What happened to the dinosaurs and raccoons? October 2025 – January 2026
• I’m More of a Mustard Enthusiast, Which Is a Different Set of Problems
• MiSTed: The Tale of Jimmy Rabbit, Conclusion

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As usual for a Thursday now, please enjoy a dozen pictures from Plopsaland. Don't worry, there's only like twelve weeks left of this.

People being loaded onto The Ride To Happiness, but composed as if an album cover.

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And the steps back down, which look like the fancy queue gates you never use in Roller Coaster Tycoon.

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Train getting ready to depart the station here.

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And here it is, on a low-speed spiral and already spinning.

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More of the spinning car. Someone looks like they aren't quite having fun there.

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We went back to the elevated swing ride, the Nacht Wacht Flyer, and discovered that --- much like Windseeker at many Cedar Fair parks has done --- the winds were too much.

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Well, over to the spinning teacups ride, here doing its best to compete with Gilroy Gardens and d'Efteling for making the setting really good.

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A better view of the teapot and cups. Also the floor, which looks too good for an amusement park ride despite being basically what a carousel might have.

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Now we got on the train ride; here we are going past the #LikeMe Coaster.

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And we go past the sleeping giant of Meli Park.

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One of the other stations and the best view you're getting of the trash bin decor. It's a troll inside a gazebo or flat ride.

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The other side of that little city-driving kiddie ride, where you can see there's gas pumps that do something, though we didn't see what.

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Trivia: England's King Henry III esteemed the needlewoman Mabel of Bury St Edmunds, who made a chasuble in 1239 for him and an embroidered standard for Westminster Abbey in 1234, such that he commanded she be given six measures of cloth and a length of rabbit fur as reward, an honor usually reserved for knights of the realm. Source: Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle, Clare Hunter.

Currently Reading: A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War II, Maury Klein.