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Nick's here with me now, and he's having a rest now after his trip and subsequent activities.
He arrived at ten minutes past eleven - or slightly before that actually, after which we went for a coffee and a chat. Or rather, he did, since I don't drink coffee. Well, I chatted of course, but didn't drink coffee. LOL! You know what I mean!
Then I took him on a tour of the river on the boat shuttle (after a brief waiting for the boat of half an hour, hehe, and a photo-op). I showed him the sights, or those I considered myself capable of pointing out anyway including the dock where the new version of the sailing ship Götheborg is being built. We then rode the tram/bus back to my place, had a nice thai meal for lunch and then tea in my apartement.
Nick needed a bit of a rest after that, which is understandable since he got up after only a few hours worth of sleep at like 3AM.  He said he just needed to close his eyes for about an hour and doubted he'd fall asleep, but it didn't take more than ten minutes until low sleeping-like noises emanated from the other side of the bookshelf that separates the computer side of my kitchen from the kitchen side. 
He's snoozing, alright. Out like a light, hehe. I'm going to let him rest now until he's had his hour, and then we'll see what we get up to. Pics n stuff will follow as soon as we get them out of his cellphone!
Take care everyone & hugs.
-L
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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You two have a great time and don't get in tooooo much trouble  Have fun riding those bikes and seeing the sights. Can't wait to see the pics !!
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Cool! Glad you two are getting together. I'll look forward to the pics. Oh yeah, regardless of what smith says, you two SHOULD get into way too much trouble. ;-D You both deserve it (well you deserve all the fun of getting into trouble anyways).
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think good thoughts,
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I took Nick to Liseberg, the largest amusement park in Scandinavia (and likely the prettiest too btw). It is actually rather large, with quite a lot of greenery and a rather big section of parkland as well. Of course, there's people and cuties as far as the eye can see, coming in all shapes and sizes.
There's rides too of course, also coming in all shapes and sizes... The biggest is probably Balder; the wooden roller coaster that was introduced this year. http://www.liseberg.com/document_collection.asp?tree_id=693
We rode the flume ride, which gives a nice tour of parts of the park and greenland, including two stomach-curdling drops towards the end that splashes up plenty of water over the passengers of the log-like craft they ride in. We liked that one, heh heh.
We also went on a river rapids ride which is more about getting passengers wet and less about sight seeing. The boat thingy itself is round and spins down this concrete canyon through which water flows rather quickly. It was fun too, and I got very VERY wet.
The ghost hotel is way cool, it's not a ride, it's a walk. Groups of people move at their own pace with hands on the shoulders of the one in front of them through dark, winding passages filled with strange sights and sounds and sudden surprises. Very slick, and rather scary for girls in particular!
No roller coasters though, Nick was sceptical of his chances of returning alive from such an ordeal, so we stuck with water instead! He is sillys! However, using his pretty neat cellphone camera, we got a few mementos, which are included below (both of today and yesterday).
Before the amusement park, I also took Nick on a stroll, during which I showed him the resting place of a whole bunch of vampires on an old church graveyard. Thankfully it was broad daylight, or those creatures of the damned would certainly have come crawling out of their coffins to devour our life spirit and turn us too into undead nightstalkers!
Take care everyone, and hugs:
-L
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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very nice pictures for a camara phone.
i loved to hear about your adventure.. sounds like you two had a lot of fun.
You don't love someone because they are beautiful, they are beautiful because you love them.
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and most especially ammusement parks that have alot of parkland. I go on very few rides and much prefer the shows and just people watching.
The park here in town very much stresses the need for parking lots and concrete. It has alot of rides and there are alot of plantings and gardens but not anything that could be confused as a park.
We do however have the largest collection of rides in the world, 16 of them rollercoasters...
alot of lines and bitchy people waiting in the hot sun too.....
and you should hear them when a ride breaks down especially after they waited in line for 5 hours.... LOL
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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I remember going to Cedar Point as a kid. The parking lot was HUGE.
My favorite rides were the Blue streak (part of the thrill was that the coaster was so old it felt like it would fall apart any second) and this mine car coaster that went out over the water. That was a long time ago, the rides are most likely not there any more.
(\\__/) And if you don't believe The sun will rise
(='.'=) Stand alone and greet The coming night
(")_(") In the last remaining light. (C. Cornell)
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Hehehe, waiting for FIVE hours to go on a ride??? Oh man, I'd never do that! It would have to be a roller coaster that stretches up into heaven itself for me to wait that long. I can understand they get pissed after waiting that much time, but it's important not to go overboard either, after all why did they go there in the first place? Hardly to get angry and irritated, that one can do at home for free.
Also, what I forgot to mention in my previous report, at the back of the ticket book Nick bought were two tickets to the lottery wheels (they have like a million of them dotted around the place) and we played the first one on the DVD lottery - used to be CDs and before that, LP records - shows how things change I guess, hehe. ANYway, Nick placed the ticket on number seventeen (after us having had a discussion over lunch of wether it's "best" to play both tickets on the same spin or on consecutive spins, and we decided it was more fun to do consecutive - plus the extremely remote chance of winning two times instead of just one).
The wheel stopped on...number seventeen YAAAAYYYY! NICK WON!!!
We picked "The General's Daughter" with John Travolta and when we got back home we discovered the DVD case was cracked. Oh well. But he won...! Wow...! That was way, way cool.
The second ticket, again placed on seventeen on the Daim wheel (chocolate crisp, very yummylicious), it stopped on thirteen. So, close but no cigar. Or chocolate.
Now I gotta finish up making breakfast, so take care every1!
Hugs:
-L
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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the blue streak is still there but now it is one of the smaller rides.
The big ones now are the millenium force rollercoaster (2nd tallest in america at 310 ft and 95 mph) and top thrill dragster which is the tallest and fastest in the world at 420 feet and 120 mph.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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when the latest ride "top thrill dragster" opened in 2003 as expected there were glitches to be worked out....
operation of the ride was sporadic at best and about 2 weeks into the season the hydraulic system failed. A new pump was built (in switzerland) and installed by Swiss technitians.
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1/ the ride was down for nearly a month.
2/ signs were posted at the entrances to the park that the ride would not operate that day.
3/ people still bought the $45.00 ticket and stood in line (just incase) for the entire 14 hour day.
4/ They would do this for the entire duration of their stay (some up to a week), adding the expense of travel, lodging (upwards or #300.00 per night) and meals.
Now that is what I call an obcession!!!!!!!!!
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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I used to go there every summer as a teenager. I loved the Blue Streak (it was new back then) and the mine cars (my fav). Sadly I haven't been there since about 1980 and I don't go to the ones out here in CA. Just lost interest I guess. But it was soo much fun.
Think good thoughts,
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One of the nicest things I like about cedar point is that they activly hire gay guys by the thousands!!!!
They are everywhere.... I swear you can't walk ten feet in any direction without running into one of them....
one day I left my video camera sitting on a bench in a nice shady place just at the off-load to one of the water rides and ooooooooh the sights to behold!
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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I never been to Cedar Point so i can't comment in that. However, i have been to Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California and i love the rides there. I love X-extreme since is one of the few roller coaster in which the sits can do a full 360 degree turn without going upsidedown. I also love Scream ( ur feet hang over the ground), Goliath(400 ft drop and you experience 4G's four times ur body weight), Riddler's Revenge (stand up roller coaster), Batman the ride, Déjà Vu, viper , along with many others. There are so many rides to chose from.. i been to every single ride in one day.
Link to see some pictures of the rides http://www.joyrides.com/sfmm/index.htm
The trick to get on all the rides in one day is to get to the park early ( 2 hours before or something so ur be first in line ), avoid water rides and don't waster time. I have done it before.. didn't make too much line ( longest about an hour ) i would get front row and by 2 pm i have been in almost all the rides in the park. I hate to make too much line so i'll try anything to avoid it
And lenny.. you lucky guys. I have never won anything before. I have such bad luck in lottery.
You don't love someone because they are beautiful, they are beautiful because you love them.
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having worked at cedat point I have to admit I didn't spend as much time in the park as most of the other employees. I don't really go on very many of the rides any more.
For the employees however the park has what they call "ride nights" where they leave two, sometimes three rides or sometimes a small section of the park open (after hours) for employees to enjoy rides without the interfearing yammering of the "mundanes".... Employees also have full access to rides during off hours but alas, access to the mundanes as well....
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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I bet is fun to have special privilages. I don't know if they do that Six Flags.. i'm sure they do.
You don't love someone because they are beautiful, they are beautiful because you love them.
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Afterwards, we went for dinner and came back quite late. We both felt too exhausted to make a post then, so that had to wait until today.
We set out from Saltholmen, which has a very nice marina as well as a number of ferry stops to the islands. The general area is quite posh too, and people with houses near the water sometimes have their own jetties for their expensive motorboats.
The first leg of the journey was ferry out to Skäret on Saltholmen - one of the larger islands. We spent a bit of time there eating fruit that we had brought before moving on, sitting in the sun and enjoying the greenery and the sea which was not that far away from our bench.
There's very little traffic on the island, there are some cars and tractors and such, but mostly mopeds if it's a motorized vehicle, or bikes if not. I saw a little kid on an electrical kickbike though.
Houses are fairly old in general and - as Nick pointed out - lack driveways, and the streets are quite narrow and not seldom winding also. The gardens are quite lush and pittoresque, if sometimes somewhat unkempt. Something else Nick pointed out. Seems the British are better at gardening. ;-D
We made our way across the island without hurrying to Tången, but we could have taken even more time if we wanted to because we had about thirty minutes or so until the next ferry arrived to take us onwards to Husvik on the island of Brännö. Waiting for the ferry, we had some pretty nice pie at a café right at the harbour so we could see the water and everything.
We didn't really have any clue in which direction to go on Brännö to end up at our final ferry stop, we just walked and hoped for the best. We passed more groups of houses - that due to the lack of motorized traffic gave a very calm and tranquil appearance - and then a small village with a gift shop where we did not buy anything and an ugly modern church located up a hill.
The probably most spectacular experience of the whole island journey still awaited us however; lookout point. It was just a dot on the map labelled as such, and after a bit of helpful advice from a local woman we found ourselves going up and up on a narrow bumpy path through trees, and then across bare rocks. Then we were there... Lookout point.
OMG! It was SPECTACULAR! One could see EVERYTHING!
We saw cargo ships moving in from far-away destinations heading towards the harbor, and an oil tanker as well, and sailing boats too! The view stretched far out to sea to the west with a big ship on the horizon, and back to the central parts of Göteborg in the other direction. There was a group of tall wind powerplants going at a good clip in the stiff breeze far towards the north (as well as oil storage silos and such) Then towards the south were the other islands, with tiny little houses placed on them looking much much smaller than Monopoly pieces.
We sat there chilling (!) in the pleasant sunlight on a bench with our backs to the warm wall of a red cabin that sat there on top of the hill. Looking inside, there were photographs of sea captains from many years past, and in a corner, a coathanger with a captain's jacket and peaked cap. Very neat.
We later made our way back down again and ferried back to the mainland and took the tram back to the city where we proceeded to buy some yummy fresh Italian pasta for dinner today before Nick has to leave.
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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Wow, what a fabulous day. Lenny is so lucky to live near such beautiful scenery. Here some pictures of our day, taken with my trusty cellphone.
(1) Saltholmen. Our starting point. There are some smart houses here with expensive boats. This boat is called - rather pretentiously we thought - the Queen Elizabeth 3.
(2) Ferry at Saltholmen. Our embarkation point. The ferries are part of the Gothenburg public transport system, so you can travel on them for the same price as a bus ticket. Or, if you have just come off the tram, as we had, it is actually free because it counts as a continuation of your journey!
(3) Jellyfish at Tången. OK Lenny insisted I put this one in! I have never seen so many jellyfish in one place. We decided not to go swimming!
(4) Ferryboat at Tången. Ready to take us across to the next island.
(5) View of Tängen from the ferryboat.
(6) Viewpoint in Brännö. OK, This was the highlight of our day. Awesome views. This is looking north. If you look closely - I mean very, very closely! - you can see the windills in the distance.
(7) Viewpoint in Brännö. Looking east this time towards Gothenburg. This pic really doesn't do it justice. Fortunately I'd brought my proper camera with me as well.
(8 ) Rödsten harbour.
(9) The parking lot at Rödsten ferry terminal! No cars, motorbikes or mopeds are allowed on this island. The only motorised vehicles allowed are motorised tricycles. Most people use a bike.
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This has got to be my favourite fish restaurant. I had a meal here on my last visit to Gothenburg and I absolutely had to come back.
I think this place has mixed memories for Lenny though (scene of his "date from hell"), so I was pleased he wanted to come back
We both had the same menu (pictures of each course below).
(1) Sjöbaren’s fishsoup with garlic bread. Absolutely delicious and really creamy with shrimps and chunks of salmon and white fish at the bottom.
(2) Wallenberger from the sea with Mashed Potatoes flavoured with Herrgård Cheese & Asparagus. Served with oven baked Beef Tomatoes, Lemon & Herb Cream. Really excellent. The fish was a bit like a salmon mousse, the mash was really tasty and I love asparagus!
(3) Rhubarb Pie with Vanilla & Cardemom Sauce & Italian Vanilla Ice-cream,. The sauce was especially nice and we each had our own little jug.
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Some of the pictures remind me of Cape Cod and the islands and some of them remind me of a place at the far north tip of Michigan calles Mackinac Island.
I miss Cape Cod so much. I have so many good memories from there.
I'm glad you guys are having such a good time.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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I was in such a rush to try and remember the day and the things we did I totally forgot about the evening and the totally fabulous meal Nick treated me to! It was incredible!
The good weather persisted though the temperature dropped a bit, but it wasn't uncomfortable. The restaurant itself is very small inside, but it has a nice outdoors section too with the sky above as a backdrop and turn-of-the-century wooden buildings surrounding. There are a couple trees too full of these tiny little brown birds that chirp away happily, and upstairs above the restaurant is the home of a boy's choir, though unfortunately they weren't practising that evening or else they provide an even better backdrop!
The food was amazing as always and we had a relly good time just relaxing and taking it easy after all that walking we'd done previously in the day, it was very very nice. Soup = divine, and the Wallenberger was succulent, and the rhubarb pie was crunchy, sweet and candy-like on top and tart underneath, which really stimulated the taste buds. Yuuuummm...
I hope Nick enjoyed himself at least as much as I did, thank you so much for a totally magnificient meal!
{{{hug}}}
-L
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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LOL.... The kids that work at the park are far from priviledged. They earn a tiny bit above minimum wage, work a minimum of 65 hours a week (with no overtime). Sometimes closing at 2am to me requires back to work by 6:30am. They get to live in "company housing" for a $25.00 per week fee with as many as 18 kids crammed into 3 tiered bunk beds in a room no larger than the average hotel room. They have also a company cafeteria where they charge employees (alot) to eat.
They also hire foreign students to come and work. For $1.00 less then minimum wage. They also forget to acclimate the foreigns about the differences in american food. Many of them can't or won't eat american food and as there are no redily available places to shop (let alone the time to do it) they quickly become ill from sustisting on junk food.
But not to worry, the company infirmary is there to attest to the fact that they are perfectly healthy and will return to work or rick being fired.
The little perks they provide are by far deminished by the darker side of park operations.
And all of these not-so-good-points are an industry standard. Cedar Fair, Six Flags and Disney all operate the same way. Hell there is an annual meeting of amusement park owners that gather from around the world to compare notes and ensure that they are all playing on a level playing field. After all, if one company gives an advantage to the drones that work there then the others will find it hard to hire.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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How do they manage to get around the laws concerning paid overtime and minimum wage? Don't know about Ohio (when I worked in Ohio it was required after 8 hrs in a day), but CA requires overtime be paid at time and a half after 40 hours are worked in a week.
Think good thoughts,
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Just came home from seeing off Nick at the bus terminal. I really hope he liked his stay, the change in pace and in scenery.
We took it easy today, I guess we both felt a little worn out so we took it easy in the morning with breakfast (and I didn't have any bread for toast either), so by the time we had finished it was past eleven. We took the bus downtown and then a tram towards Mölndal, the next county to the south, but didn't go all the way. I first showed him the place where I bought my bike, and I think he approved of that since he said it was a nice bike shop (they even sold jeans there which both of us have to agree we've never seen at such a place before, but I think it's a brand of jeans made by a manufacturer of cycling gear, so it's probably logical).
We continued up the hill - which had some greenery and stuff alongside it with mostly apartement buildings on each side - towards a persian bakery I had discovered the day before Nick arrived. Persian bread is very yummy! It's long and flat and about a decimeter and a half wide or maybe a little less, with small indentations in it, and sprinkled with sesame seeds
Unfortunately the bakery hadn't opened yet despite it was past 1PM. A guy was standing in the adjacent room kneading balls of dough, but nothing had been baked in the oven yet. Bummer!
Thusly we continued on. I guided him through the city until we came to the rear side of the Chalmers University of Technology, and we took a brief detour through parts of the campus area. Not many people around though since it's the height of summer. We went back out again and continued on to the Church of Johanneberg (John's Mountain); it looks very cool from the outside, and is made of yellow brick. I wish I could tell you what style it's built in because it's really cool. Nick took a pic of the belltower (complete with finger in a corner).
Further on our tour, we went downwards through Johanneberg (the general area of the city) to an old posh district where houses are large and expensive and generally constructed out of dark-brown brick, though no longer used as family homes. Some belong to the university, some are used as offices or a school. Finally we ended up at the university library building which has a neat park in front of it, a large green soft lawn and a pond and a playground for little kids. A fountain made of stone stair-steps flows down part of the lawn, and the day before Nick arrived when I planned out the route we would (then hopefully) take, I saw two nekkid little toddlers running around there. Today though there were no families around, just a dog splashing in the water and lying down in it on command by his master.
Then we went back home to my place, ate the fresh pasta sachets we'd bought the previous day along with the tomato sauce, then watched all of Pulp Fiction except the last half-hour because Nick had to go.
We went back down to the city again, waited for the bus to arrive, hugged and then he was whisked off.
Have a safe flight now my friend...
{{{HUG!}}}
-L
PS: This is Simon's Tree, taken with Nick's cell-camera:
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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Well there is a tax law reguarding hiring of temporary students.
and the parks that are open only during summer months fall under the same rules as seasonal workers.
As for California, I think you had better look into it a bit more closely....
And don't get permanant year round employees confused with seasonal workers as there are different sets of rules for each.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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Lenny,
You are never ever alone with good friends like that......
I am sure Nick's visit was a treasure that he will remember for years and years to come.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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For being such a great host.
I'm home now. Back to work tomorrow.
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nooo you're nto alone, you're never alone. that sounded like a real stellar trip and the pictures were really beautiful and i wonder if they have airplanes in heaven?
i so want a cellphone that takes awesome pictures like that. also a trainride. i'm glad you guys had such a great time, and nick that you made it home safely.
HUGS FOR YOU BOTH PLUS TWO.
my void does not want.
-- 2.13.61.
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I'd gladly bring you on a tramride too if I could, and to the islands and all that. It would be a pleasure!
Please take care of yourself and try to lurk on MSN sometimes if you can so we can have a chat okies?
Hug:
-L
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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I'm sure you find this fascinating, but this is MY thread ok?
Please start your own if you wanna talk American amusement parks and other topics not related to mine and Nick's posts.
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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now EVERYBODY KNOWS that in America we do things bigger and better (hehehe) so why not talk about American fun places..Marc brought back to me a very fond memory that I will always treasure.Ages ago my best friend called from ceder point and asked my to drive from detroit and bring him 500 $ so he could bail his buddies out of jail.There was a small airport that flew from the mainland to the island.The airplane was an old Ford tri motor that was about a thousand years old.Glass tubes,or sight gauges,located under the wings were the gas gauges.In flight,the wings would flap up and down about a foot or so,and my having mechanics *ears* ,the engines sounded like they were going to die.With heart in throat,the idea I would have to return on this same airplane wasnt a good thought.Thanks for the memory marc,Personally I think every post in this thread was well placed. sparks
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I asked politely the first time, but that will not last forever. Stop polluting my thread!
Americans, t-t-t...
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-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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marc
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Registered: March 2003
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Lenny,
I will comment to what I want, where I want, to whom I want and totally without a by-your-leave from anyone.
If anything is poluting your thread it is the vitrol you exude in postings like I jest read.
I was trying my best here to be supportive and yet include some information. If this doesnt jive with your delicate sensibilities then you dom't have to read my posts.... as I am totally sure you already dont.
There is no need to reply to this as I will not read it.
Thankyouverymuch.....
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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sparks
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Registered: January 1970
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WAY TO GO MARC i am and always will be your friend. sparks;-D
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Just like you don't start smoking in another person's house when he tells you to refrain from doing so, you don't go and start up a discussion about totally irrelevant and unrelated things in another person's thread either, ESPECIALLY when (nicely) asked not to.
You're fully capable of starting a thread of your own if you wish to talk about these things. Refusing to do so is like I said to Mr. Bryce over there, disrespectful, and considering the tone of your last post, rude.
I do read your posts, and I appreciate them when they are relevant to the topic at hand. I do not appreciate attempts to hi-jack the topic however. I also do not appreciate your attempt at picking a fight and then immediately running away. That will likely serve no other purpose than to irritate both of us.
You may think you can just do whatever the hell you like wherever you like, but there are other people in this world too you know, and we all have to co-exist somehow. Co-existence depends on following social rules, and one of them says "thou shalt not be an inconsiderate ass". So mull on that one for a while and let me know when you've learned your lesson, mmkay?
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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marc
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Registered: March 2003
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Lenny,
I mulled on it a bit, about 1 nanosecond, and came to the conclusion that you are wrong. You seem to think that you wrote the book of rules but in reality, there are no rules other than play nice.
Take this analogy, there are 100 people at a party and at the party there are 10 conversations. At one criticle point you walk into the room and everyone stops what they are doing and awaits what tidbits of wisdom you wish to empart unto them.
And then there is the real world where conversation run on tanjents and eddies according to ideas as they are presented and inclinations as they come to fruition.
Here we are at an impass. It is up to you to either live in the little world you created for yourself or become a part of the gteater community as a whole. It is your choice. You can either remain a pompus all consuming self inflated ass or you can be the nice person we all know you to be.
Your choice....
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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Re: Cedar Point is WAAAY Cool 
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