Comments on: Morning Cup of Links: Abandoned Amusement Parks

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:50:20 +0000

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.

By: Pointy-Hatted Geek

Pointy-Hatted Geek — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:45:41 +0000

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.

By: Paula

Paula — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:22:37 +0000

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

By: Lynda

Lynda — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:14:15 +0000

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.

By: Sawicki

Sawicki — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:26:06 +0000

I have a couple of friends that fell for the “cell phones popping corn” hoax. …my friends are idiots -_-

By: Mike H

Mike H — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:52:35 +0000

Isn’t it odd that Mental Floss has a link to a page on Mental Floss?!? Next to last “Morning Cup O’ Links”.53d

By: Zach

Zach — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:43:17 +0000

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!

By: Ryan M.

Ryan M. — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:33:12 +0000

The photo gallery was fantastic. One of the better links in some time.

By: Sheldon Siegel

Sheldon Siegel — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:00:56 +0000

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. :-)