Over on my humor blog we got through the end of that enormous Safety First MiSTing, and as you know if you read it through RSS started another MiSTing. Plus some other stuff in-between, to wit: MiSTed: Safety First (part 16 of 16) In Which I Do Not Envy The Neighbors Statistics Saturday: Stanley Kubrick Movies, By Century 60s Popeye: Hoppy Jalopy, the racecar cartoon I'm Sure Once They Hear the Concept They'll Agree It Has to Be Made What's Going On In The Phantom (Weekdays)? Did Captain Savarna have kids with The Phantom? May - July 2022 Some happy news from the neighborhood MiSTed: The Jovian Jest (part 1 of 4) Let's get back to Livonia Spree. At least that's where I'm heading. I know that this goat looks like they've got three horns but it's an optical illusion. They have four horns. Yeah, who knew that was a thing outside fan characters? Back to the rides! Here's the Wacky Worm, the other roller coaster for adults at the Spree and one we didn't know would be there. So we got an extra roller coaster credit going there, which is nice. They had the carousel back, with these small and nice glossy horses on it. This year the attendant let us ride on the animals; in 2018 we were only allowed on the chariot (but weren't charged tickets for it). We didn't ride the Bumble Bee Bop, but I find the car design pretty cute. Makes me think of a 1930s cartoon character. The Typhoon, the Musik Express/Himalaya type ride, had this Pirates of the Caribbean But They're All Women In Leather theme going. You can just make out on the sign, though, that there's some writing covered up by the current logo, and a lot of writing at that. If we had a notepad and no line behind us we might have tried to decipher it. Here's the Typhoon as seen from the inside. Fun lighting. Trivia: Eleven Boeing 247's were completed in May 1933; ten in June; eleven in July; and the last ten of the original order in August. Source: The Boeing 247: The First Modern Airliner, F Robert van der Linden. Currently Reading: An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942 , Peter Grosse. Wow, Australian locals complaining about how disruptive it is the Americans are sending so many Black troops. When you're being way more self-destructively racist than the United States of 1942, you've got issues. Heck, you've got whole magazines.