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Time for the weekly recap of my humor blog, by listing titles and nothing to tempt you into actually reading stuff. Well, the titles of the pairwise bracket contests give you a good idea whether that one's going to be of interest, I suppose.
- MiSTed: FX Down To Mobius, Part 8: A Call To Arms
- March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: Folksy Expressions vs Being The Drummer
- Statistics Saturday: Some Popular Math Number Days
- March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: Ides vs Allergy Relief
- March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: Regular Daily Exercise vs Pig Latin
- What's Going On In Judge Parker? Who arrested Randy Parker and what for? December 2025 - March 2026
- March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: Tea Kettles vs Secret Compartments
- MiSTed: FX Down To Mobius, Part 9: The Squadron Assembles
It's a full day of pictures at Dutch Wonderland! Hope you like.
The maker's plate, as promised for the carousel Dutch Wonderland has. Maximum speed of five and one-half rotations per minute which would be a great ride. I think it was running at an ordinary four.
Some of the carousel horses as seen from the inside. Also oh, caught a picture of a kid looking happy for the ride.
The park has a couple of animated puppet shows, like this one showing a quilting bee among Pennsylvania Dutch women.
The new roller coaster: Merlin's Mayhem. Mayhem is the dragon.
Merlin is the guy in the video screen here, doing the safety spiel while explaining the premise, which is that Mayhem has gone missing and you might be able to spot him from the ride. (If you can I missed it.)
Couple of pictures of Mayhem growing up (there's also one of him hatching) and causing cute pudgy dragon trouble.
The loading station, startlingly, blocks you off from the ride, the doors opening only when the train is ready to load. It's done up in a Tudor Or Something style, and is much darker than you'd think from this picture (you can infer the sensitivity and duration of the exposure from the girl's hands blurring), so it really does kind of look like you're off in some medieval castle and then suddenly there's a roller coaster through the doors.
Joust is another of their roller coasters and fortunately we rode it last time, because it was out of operation the day we visited.
Here's the lift hill of Kingdom Coaster (formerly Sky Princess), and a drop for their old-school log flume.
Train freshly dispatched. While Kingdom Coaster is in the main a wooden coaster, they've replaced part of the track with metal box and, for some reason, done it on the segment leading from the station to the lift hill, the least rattling and stressful part of the ride. Maybe they wanted to test the material out without risking anything.
Here's Kingdom Coaster, seen from the front. It's a logo that says, ``we were on deadline''.
Kingdom Coaster is next to Joust and here's the inactive coaster from the one we rode.
Trivia: When first distilled in the mid-1600s the drink was known as ``kill-devil'', but by 1651 was also called ``rumbullion'', from southern English slang meaning ``a brawl or violet commotion'', before being shortened to ``run''. Source: A History of the World in Six Glasses, Tom Standage. Englishman Richard Ligon described it as ``infinitely strong, but not very pleasant in taste''.
Currently Reading: The Book on the Bookshelf, Henry Petroski.
