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In my humor blog this week, I finally got around to mentioning how Ripley's Believe It Or Not had been in unexplained reruns for weeks and right away the strip came out of reruns with an explanation. And what was that? You can find out by reading below.
- MiSTed: FX Down To Mobius, Part 5: Freddy Gets a Message
- Nobody Knows Why _Ripley’s Believe It or Not_ Is in Reruns, Nor Why These Reruns
- Statistics Saturday: Some Theories of History
- Robert Benchley: Eat More Worry
- So It Turns Out Kieran Castaño Quitfired _Ripley’s Believe It or Not_
- What’s Going On In The Phantom (Sundays)? Is this an anniversary retrospective story? November 2025 – February 2026
- I Was Sincerely Angry at This Dream for Like an Hour After I Woke
- MiSTed: FX Down to Mobius, Part 6: Freddy Finds a Meteorite
That entered, let's now enjoy some Six Flags America pictures as some weather rolls in on our extremely hot and muggy day.
Supermain train ready to dispatch. We waited for a front-seat ride and naturally wouldn't regret that when a heavy storm rolled in and shut down the train.
Batwing: a roller coaster we only ever saw closed, and that was only erratically up all season. But we felt encouraged because --- well, computer, enhance.
See? That's definitely a crew there, which wouldn't be if they figured there was no hope of getting the ride up. We would not see it up.
Ride of Steel's entrance and dramatic lift hill, seen as we walked back from the storm-closed ride.
The area has a gift shop with a Metropolis theme, thus the Daily Planet labelling of the floor.
The skies look fitting for the Gotham City area, though.
Storm clouds rolling in on The Wild One.
Oh, but I did get a peek behind the construction fence at that no-longer-there ride by that fountain earlier. As you can see it's ... nothing discernible there.
Another spot near The Wild One that looks like it might have once held a ride but now doesn't have anything recognizable. Given the small footprint I wonder if it wasn't a maintenance shed or something.
The clouds continue rolling in on The Wild One.
Oh yeah, you maybe saw a tower that wasn't the Wonder Woman Lasso of Truth in that picture of The Wild One a couple pictures ago. It's a drop tower, called Voodoo Drop, that doesn't feel at all like maybe we should be thinking about our use of a religion as a comical spooky-scary playful fun thing.
Exiting the Mardis Gras area gets us to this sign with the Lakeside Park-esque ``Revenir'' message.
Trivia: The images of microscopic phenomena Antoni van Leeuwenhoek included in the written texts of his letters to the Royal Society were not drawn by him, but by a series of Delft artists and draftsmen, drawing what they and he agreed they had seen. Source: Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution, Lisa Jardine.
Currently Reading: Lost Popeye Zine, Volume 85: Dragon or Overgrown Lizard?, Ralph Stein, Bill Zaboly. Editor Stephanie Noelle.
