King Arthur Goes to Disneyland!
There's the amusement park that has the ride that has the cars that go through the house that is filled with the ghosts that are shot by the guns that are on the cars that go through the haunted house. It's a great idea for an amusement park ride--a ride where you don't just sit back, but rather have to do something. And try to remember where things jump out at you so whomever you're on the ride with doesn't laugh at you too horribly. But it's a wonderful conglomeration of two enjoyable parts of an amusement park: the rides and the games.
Each rider is given a gun that is used to shoot the ghosts. Each ghost you shoot gives you points, and the car keeps track of who has how many points (my best was around 700 points, the best of the group I was in was closer to 2500). It adds an element of competition to the ride, either against others in your group or simply against yourself. Or you can ignore the shooting part and just ride through the haunted house. Which is really silly to do, as it's pretty lame for a haunted house.
Competition would make any amusement park ride better, though. Finding the proper way to compete on these is the difficult part. Obviously, taken to a more extreme variation, roller-coasters could be improved by the same method. But they'd require more skill as they move more quickly, and to make things even more interesting the targets could also be moving. Ghosts are apparently rather sedentary. Parrots eat nuts and fruit. Then, of course, it'd be even better if there were multiple roller-coaster cars going at the same time, and you had to shoot the passengers in the other car. You know, extra competition. Sure, there was a laser-tag course there too, but you don't get the roller-coaster with that!
But, really, any ride could be made better with competition. Since you don't /have/ to compete to ride the ride, it doesn't even detract from those that prefer not to compete. So you got a low score? So what, you got to /enjoy/ the view!
Sadly, laser-tag-type competition doesn't work well for every ride. Take the ski-lift ride, you know, those really slow-moving things? Guns wouldn't improve that much. But it seems a great way to practice your jousting.
posted by Silik at 9:55 AM
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I think to add even more to the roller coaster competion, riders should get their choice of how they want to be strapped in-siiting, standing, by one leg....
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...blind-folded with a red scarf....
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...and a monkey on their head...
...wearing over-sized yellow polka dotted shoes...
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...on her feet and tail...
...eating truffles...
...made in Albania...
...by little midgets wearing yellow socks...
...between 8am and 1:53:25pm...
...but not on Sundays...
...unless there's a full moon...
...and french fries to eat...
...in the rain...
..but no thunder...
...if there's a rainbow...
...with a pot of Cadbury Mini Eggs at the end of it...
...in the middle of a grassy knoll...
...in the middle of a grassy knoll...
(It seems to have eaten my previous response, I'm attempting again. So we may have a grassy knoll inside a grassy knoll, which'd be fun too.)
...where thousands of butterflies...fly...
(all is fair in grassy knoll war-fare.)
...causing gusts of wind that tear down houses in Italy...
...but uprights the Tower of Pisa...
...causing global outrage and starting a war...
...fought with Super Soakers...
...filled with cherry soda...
..which red ants like very much...
...in miniscule quantities...
...in dainty wine glasses...
...which can be purchased for $8.43...
(this may double, too)
...from The Cheese and Taxidermy Store...
( and there REALLY is such a place )
...where everyone leaves stuffed...
...silly...KANGAROOS!...
...with boxing gloves...
...and green mohawks...
...that live in the penthouse...
...That has purple painted rooms...
...with green polka-dots...
...and furry red throw pillows...
...hanging from the bedposts...
...also strung with Christmas lights...
...with that one burnt out bulb you just can't find...
...and Wal-Mart has none in stock cuz it's summer...
...and they generally don't carry burnt-out lightbulbs...
(you don't think so? Hmmm)
...ecause then they would have to do a lot of refunds and that can cause...
...revolting pesants...
...who carry signs with spelling errors and they are kind of dirty people, too...
...although they have created a neighborhood program to help get their minds out of the gutter...
...but ends up feeding each person even more ideas...
...which is ok, since they're made of cherries...
...and yellow gumdrops....
...where is my post????... grrr at blooger....
...a yellow gumdrops...
...AND
not a
Blogger is messed. I posted that original post HOURS before my second...
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(Going back to the yellow gumdrops)
...that taste like chicken...
...beaks...
...supposedly, according to the village council...
...who are all vegetarian foxes,anyway...
...but are good enough at sitting around arguing...
...about who put the ram in the rama-lama-ding-dong...
...this week, since their vote settled it fairly well last week as Bob...
...Bob? Bob??? I thought he was...like...dead...
...making his feat all the more impressive...
...which was in Grasshoppers in...
...March of 1803...
...the most beautiful March day, brimming in gentle greyness. There was so many mice in the gutters though, so Bob...
...left his mind in the sewer...
...and the rats feasted until...
...the cows came home...
...eccept for that one jumping over the moon...
...because doing so takes a long, long time...
...sometimes it takes till dawn and the townspeople have to set up this womderful contraption to...
...catch the remaining moonbeams...
...which get put in the back of an armoured car every morning...
(sorry-a terrible week)
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...although noone knows where the armored car goes...
..except for President George W. Bush...
...who refuses to tell the reporters...
...because he secretly knows he cannot pronouce the scientific name for them so instead he...
...makes a sandwich...
..of ham and olives and...
...bread...
(LMAO)
...he always spread the mayo with his left hand...
...but does so no longer...
..because John Kerry...
...says that apes sleep...
..with their fingers stuck up their noses...
...during lectures...
...about anal drip...
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