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We’ve been on one since the inauguration.
Love roller coasters but none can compare to rappelling out of a Huey with an M-16 in one hand.
You only live once, but...if you do it right, once is enough.
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Kings Island was full of them
Six Flags in Gurnee too
In GB there's one. Zipping Pippen - was Elvis's favorite coaster.
^^^^^^^^^^ Go on this with my Grandkids.Bay beach rocks for a cheap day with kids.
Its all right to be white!!
Stupidity left unattended will run rampant
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The Hulk at Universal Florida
I've been on that one. I think that's the one that when it starts, it shoots you out of the top of the thing about 100 mph. It pulls a couple of G's.
"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem."
Ronald Reagan
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My first job was on the cleanup crew at the original Elitch Gardens in Denver. It was in 1962, I was 16 years old, and I pushed a broom for 8 hours a day for $1 an hour. One day they had done some work on their rollercoaster, the Wild Chipmunk, and needed some weight in it, so a couple of other guys and I rode in it for about 7 hours straight.
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Several, but never again.
We were on one in Florida once that broke down when we were at the top of one of the "hills". Sparks were going everywhere. The kid running it killed the electricity pretty quick and came to check it out, wife and I got on the wooden catwalk and got off the thing ASAP.
Never, never, never again.
'Four legs good, two legs baaaad."
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"Jimmy, some of it's magic,
Some of it's tragic,
But I had a good life all the way."
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Most exciting rollercoaster ride I had was a high angle attack in a Cobra. Serious rush that is. ‘Coaster +P+
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
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American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
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Locally (90 miles away) in Branson, MO we have Silver Dollar City (referred to as Steal Your Dollar City). Old timey arts and crafts plus multiple roller coasters and various other rides and shops every 10' to take your money. Company I work for gives everybody and their family a day pass each year, we upgrade to season pass, and then go once a month or every other month. Try to find a weather forecast with some rain in it to keep the crowds away. My 8 and 11 year old kids love the roller coasters and various rides. Especially when they can get their mom to vomit.
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I used to go with the kids on all of them,now ? After 2 knee replacements,both feet held together with pins and screws my rollercoaster days are over.Now my oldest daughter goes on with the younger ones.I don't like them online alone or to ride alone.
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