This week in my humor blog: a double dose of comic strip plot recaps, some useless home advice, and my dentist gets all clingy. Want to know more? Follow any of these links and you will.
- MiSTed: FX Down To Mobius, Part 4: Host Sketch
- What's Going On In Flash Gordon? Did Ming and Bok get atom-grenade-blasted? December 2025 - February 2026
- Statistics Saturday: Some Things You Ought Not Run Through The Washing Machine
- Robert Benchley: ``Name, Please?''
- Read to the End for the Most Blandly Shocking Revelation
- What's Going On In Mary Worth? What With the Pompous Axx? November 2025 - February 2026
- Keep on Smiling?
- MiSTed: FX Down To Mobius, Part 5: Freddy Gets a Message
Let's see if we can't finish that tour of Six Flags America historical panels and the grammatical problems count.
2014, they add the thing that one goes to a theme park in one of the Thirteen Colonies: a Mardis Gras section. No grammatical problems here but the Bourbon Street Fireball was a Larson Giant Loop and while there are people who call that a coaster we do not invite them to stay for dinner. Eight grammatical problems out of 13.
2016, they impose virtual reality on Superman: Ride of Steel. I'm dinging this for grammar because the phrasing suggests they had a virtual reality experience on Holiday In The Park, and also suggests that the virtual reality roller coaster ran five years. I can't find how long the virtual reality coaster lasted but I'm going to bet not that long. Nine problem panels out of 14.
2017: that elevated swings ride appears. Ten problem panels out of 15, as the sentence about The Wild One's centennial [nb] is a muddle.
2021: Delay from 2020, you say? And Spinsanity too the place of Dare Devil Dive, huh? Eleven problem panels out of 16.
And finally, 2024, the final panel in the park's historical parade, and we return to our old friend, the wrong it's. The tally stands at twelve problem panels out of 17.
There's no grammatical errors here, just a picture including a guy who looks uncannily like one of ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger's relatives, enough that we texted them to tease about this.
Back to SteamTown. We wanted to get on that weird ride you can see behind the enormous tree, but if I remember right, there weren't any operators around just then.
They apparently had Old West gunfighting shows! But not when we visited.
So back to the carousel, for some more pictures of glossy animals with numbers that suggest some of these mounts have been moved around.
Rhino looks like the sun is just too much for them.
There isn't a full rounding board but there are tiger heads disappointed in you.
There's also elephants who wonder how long this is going to go on.
Trivia: 112 people (athletes, officials, and spectators) received fractures or broken bones while maneuvering on the snow (over fifty inches!) at the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics. Source: Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement, Editors John E Findling, Kimberly D Pelle.
Currently Reading: The Red Planet: A Natural History of Mars, Simon Morden.
