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From Neatorama, 5 amusement parks that are no longer amusing. (This link made me all nostalgic for Action Park.)
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Anyone know anyone who fell for one of the 8 craziest email hoaxes?
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The 35 greatest works of reverse graffiti—an art form that removes dust or dirt rather than adding paint. (Via Funny Pages 2.0.)
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Flossy quizmaster Brett Savage just started a new job as New Media Editor for New Jersey Monthly. Since he’ll be in tune with all the crazy NJ news, we hope he’ll send us more stories like this: “Plan goes awry for anti-drug ‘ninjas.’”
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A gallery of photos that changed the world.
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This site kills me: “Falindromes are fake palindromes. Although they cannot be read the same forwards and backwards (like their sister palindromes), their peculiar structure make them appear as if they can.”
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Here’s some exciting news for fans of The West Wing: Aaron Sorkin Announces New West Wing: The Santos Administration Animated Series. (OK, not really.)
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Make Sandy+Kara’s 5 Questions part of your morning routine/balanced breakfast.
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And finally, Ransom Riggs explores the fine art of whale disposal.
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Action Park. The place where a part of the action. True in my case. Like when I scraped all the skin off my thigh when some idiot in front of me on the Alpine slide stopped his cart way before the end and I had to hit my brakes and wound up sliding down the track without my cart. Also the place of my only broken bone. I broke it when my inner tube flipped over backwards on one of the falls. Ahhh memories. :-)
posted by Sheldon Siegel on 8-26-2008 at 8:00 am
The photo gallery was fantastic. One of the better links in some time.
posted by Ryan M. on 8-26-2008 at 10:33 am
The theme park article prompted me to look up the local independant themepark from my childhood. Still going strong- though for some reason it added a real, live tiger exhibit instead of opting to improve its rather poor selection of rides!
posted by Zach on 8-26-2008 at 10:43 am
Isn’t it odd that Mental Floss has a link to a page on Mental Floss?!? Next to last “Morning Cup O’ Links”.53d
posted by Mike H on 8-26-2008 at 10:52 am
I have a couple of friends that fell for the “cell phones popping corn” hoax. …my friends are idiots -_-
posted by Sawicki on 8-26-2008 at 11:26 am
Dogpatch, USA – Oh my! I hadn’t thought about that place in a long while. On a childhood vacation with the family, complete with aunt, uncle, cousins and grandparents, we went there to have something fun to do for me and the great grandkids. I remember my mom had fried chicken and chipped a tooth. I was maybe 12 or 13, and thought the man playing L’il Abner was positively dreamy! I have a Mammy Yokum charm on my charm bracelet! Back when charms were charms, and not just a tile in a bracelet! I may have to try to find those photos. So sad to see it was just left to nature.
posted by Lynda on 8-26-2008 at 12:14 pm
I fell for the Bonsai Kitten hoax, but in my defense I was 10 years old at the time…
I never knew by falling for it I’d be part of gullible sucker history.
I was an impressionable child with a penchant for cuddly animals. :D
posted by Paula on 8-26-2008 at 1:22 pm
A friend (read: person I used to be friends with who now only contacts me by sending me chain letters) sent me the Bill Gates scam the other day. Five minutes on Snopes and it was on its way back to her.
posted by Pointy-Hatted Geek on 8-26-2008 at 2:45 pm
Yeah, we used to go to the Boblo Island amusement park back in the day. Get on the Boblo boat in Detroit and go to the island!
I think there is stil a space needle deteriorating there, but it is mostly vacation homes now.
posted by Dave on 8-26-2008 at 4:50 pm