Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Class Action Park
by Greg at 2:38 PM
This is currently my favorite Wikipedia page. It's for an amusement park that is no longer open. Here are some of the highlights...
Action Park was a popular waterpark/motor themed park open from 1978 to 1996 in Vernon Township, New Jersey, on the property of the former Vernon Valley / Great Gorge ski area, today Mountain Creek. It featured three separate attraction areas: an alpine slide; Motoworld, where patrons could operate motorized vehicles on land and water; and Waterworld, with many water-based attractions such as waterslides.
Its popularity went hand in hand with a reputation for poorly-designed, unsafe rides; inattentive, underaged, underpaid and sometimes under-the-influence employees; equally intoxicated and underprepared visitors — and the poor safety record that followed from this perfect storm of circumstances. At least six people are known to have died as a result of mishaps on rides at the park, and it was nicknamed "Traction Park", "Accident Park", "Class Action Park", "Danger Park" and "Death Park" by doctors at nearby hospitals due to the number of severely injured parkgoers they treated.
Read on. It gets better!
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
You might not have known this but.....
by Greg at 4:42 PM
Steve Guttenberg now resides in rural Montana where he and his wife grow tomatoes.
T-shirts are so named because they gained popularity in the 1920's. Originally, they were known as Twenties shirts. Eventually that name was shortened to just "T-shirts".
David Duchovny enjoys spelunking.
Penny loafers were originally introduced by the Lincoln Shoe Company in Lincoln, Nebraska. The logo of the company was the silhouette of Abe Lincoln as on the penny, hence the name.
The addition symbol '+' is derived from the latin word texo, which means: to twine together, build. What we write as a plus sign is actually a lower case T.
Molly Ringwald is allergic to eggs.
Vaseline was invented as a laxative.
Christopher Columbus did not know how to swim.
Pringles chips are all the same size because they only use the parts of the potato that will make the chips that size. Proctor & Gamble sells the remaining potato pieces to the Frito-Lay company where they are used for Lays potato chips.
Blair Underwood's real name is Tootie Lowenstein.
...and that is why I'm not allowed to edit Wikipedia anymore.
