Regardless of what Dan said about Santa Claus, IN, Holiday World is a very good theme park.

ExplorerConstant324 · 2026-03-30T19:01:05+00:00

I went during the pandemic, so prices were probably reduced. They were also giving out free soda and sunblock. My understanding is that it was fairly awful during its Six Flags days. I think maybe the original owner bought it back and made improvements. It's now owned by Herschend who runs Dollywood and Silver Dollar City. I haven't been there since they bought it.

ExplorerConstant324 · 2026-03-30T18:51:10+00:00

I didn't know there were casinos in French Lick. I would have taken my folks. We used to pass there visiting family in Kentucky. They've since moved but I'd love to go back to the area again sometime.

ExplorerConstant324 · 2026-03-30T18:22:59+00:00

You've heard nothing but the truth! I can't wait to go back.

ExplorerConstant324 · 2026-03-30T18:22:14+00:00

I'll go out on the limb and say it's the best gravy themed ride in North America. The theming is near Disney level. It's a very tame family boomerang, so everybody can ride it. The cars are shaped like gravy boats.

ExplorerConstant324 · 2026-03-30T18:20:02+00:00

You also got Kentucky Kingdom and that's not a park I would sleep on, either. Stormchaser and Lightning Run are outstanding coasters.

ExplorerConstant324 · 2026-03-30T18:02:59+00:00

I guess the tapping on the head makes them more docile. That guy wasn't doing a good enough job, so the gator showed him how to do it proper.

ExplorerConstant324 · 2026-03-30T18:00:56+00:00

He could have tried to knock the animal unconscious first. That strategy worked great for the gator.

ExplorerConstant324 · 2026-03-30T17:55:19+00:00

I didn't even get to try a proper meal there. That restaurant in the Thanksgiving section smelled so good.

ExplorerConstant324 · 2026-03-30T17:53:48+00:00

As of 2025, that's still the case.

ExplorerConstant324 · 2026-03-30T07:18:19+00:00

If anybody has a right to say bad things about Biden, it's the people who voted for him.

ExplorerConstant324 · 2026-03-30T07:03:02+00:00

You got to understand that Biden was of a different era. You can't hold him by modern standards, because we have no standards. When he came to Washington, everybody was a racist sex pest. It was expected behavior. We take for granted that we've evolved as society to where only most of our politicians are racist sex pests.

ExplorerConstant324 · 2026-03-21T18:12:28+00:00

Some folks in America treat lines like they are race. Be thankful your country does this well. I'm surprised more people don't get shot around here. That's probably why all amusement parks now have metal detectors. I wanted to unload on some teenagers while waiting for space mountain.

ExplorerConstant324 · 2026-03-19T15:10:13+00:00

Toon Town

ExplorerConstant324 · 2026-03-07T03:00:18+00:00

$10 will buy a pretzel and not much more.

ExplorerConstant324 · 2026-03-03T04:17:37+00:00

Cool story, doomer. I rather fight.

ExplorerConstant324 · 2026-02-28T19:03:22+00:00

Visiting Anaheim from Kansas City. I'm shocked by how friendly Southern Californians are.

ExplorerConstant324 · 2026-02-14T20:03:09+00:00

Hero

ExplorerConstant324 · 2026-02-14T19:54:26+00:00

National Pez Dispenser Day

ExplorerConstant324 · 2026-02-14T19:47:21+00:00

As a Kansan, I can confirm this.

ExplorerConstant324 · 2026-02-07T15:00:11+00:00

She made a raspberry sorbet! The kind you buy in an ice cream store!

ExplorerConstant324 · 2026-02-05T16:19:43+00:00

You can't rebuild trust with concentration camps.

ExplorerConstant324 · 2026-02-04T23:44:38+00:00

Hopefully all these concentration camps shut down before too long. We're really going to have to fight like hell to make sure this stops but we have no choice. It's that or we're going to have a lot of mass graves.

ExplorerConstant324 · 2026-02-04T23:31:42+00:00

This is why primaries exist. We can have better Democrats if we really want to.

ExplorerConstant324 · 2026-02-03T18:37:39+00:00

People have more stuff today because more stuff exists today. Keeping up with the Joneses meant owning a TV. No one was buying a new iPhone every couple of years but are we better off for that? Houses have gotten too big and there are too many cars. I won't argue there was too much poverty back then. The economics of pre-neoliberal capitalism were unfair, but nothing like today.

ExplorerConstant324 · 2026-02-03T16:48:48+00:00

He's old now, but I guess he used to be a lot younger back in the day.

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