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Laugh ruefully?    Okay.

When husband was in hospital after his stroke and almost immobile, son and I decided to put in a chairlift on our staircase.   Chose the least visually objectionable among several options.    Contracted and paid 2/3 down.    Was informed that since custom crafted for our curved staircase it would take 6-8 weeks.

Fast forward, husband + rehap -> he is able to bounce up and down the stairs, the equipment was delivered to the local dealer and we postponed installation for over a month.      Finally let them set it up today.      As you might anticipate, it is butt-ugly and cost as much as a new small car.  

I keep telling myself that sooner or later it will be useful, and at a minimum the techs told us that, yes, it could be used as a dumb waiter, hauling up and down stairs anything less than 400 lbs per trip.    Cheers.

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34 minutes ago, voyager said:

Come ride my new indoor roller coaster, only 10¢ round trip!

You should hire a photographer to take pictures of people as they come down with their arms raised. There's even more money to be made!

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There is literally no amount of money that would entice me to get on the Cyclone.    I have spent half a lifetime subduing panic attacks, including mastering slaloming downhill runs so as to avoid schussing. 

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56 minutes ago, Sneakeater said:

I LOVE the Cyclone.  The fact that it looks and feels in danger of imminent collapse adds to its piquancy; it makes other roller coasters seem sterile.

Can I interest you in taking my kid? He loves roller coasters and has wanted to go on the Cyclone since he was five.

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1 hour ago, Sneakeater said:

I LOVE the Cyclone.  The fact that it looks and feels in danger of imminent collapse adds to its piquancy; it makes other roller coasters seem sterile.

I was practically born on the Santa Cruz boardwalk and am intimately familiar with tinkertoy-like wooden roller coasters.    Me?   I was queen of catching the brass ring on the carousel.   And not bad in the "bumpem cars".    Of course it helped to have a smashingly beautiful 9 year older sister whom all the guys wanted to impress.

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Latest Coney Island Cyclone breakdown is nothing to worry about, ride's die-hard fans say

 

https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-hits-coney-island-cyclone-operators-with-2-violations-as-iconic-ride-remains-shuttered

Have fun!!

In 2007, a 53-year-old man died in surgery after he fractured three neck vertebrae while on the coaster. The next year, an Arizona woman was injured on the ride and eventually won a $600,000 payout.

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1 hour ago, bloviatrix said:

I realized my kid pronounces the word ORGANIZATION like a Canadian with a long I. He used the word twice today and each time I stopped in my tracks.

either he got swapped out for one of them canadian clones or he watches too much canadian hockey

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10 hours ago, bloviatrix said:

I realized my kid pronounces the word ORGANIZATION like a Canadian with a long I. He used the word twice today and each time I stopped in my tracks.

His school is probably doing those transnational surgeries we've heard so much about. You drop off an American kid in the morning, and when you go to pick him up, boom, he's Canadian.

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On 11/25/2023 at 4:04 PM, Wilfrid said:

So I stroll past the Harlem Renaissance hotel on 125th, or rather past the old Victoria theater that serves as its lobby (same block as the Apollo) and I pause to read a sign about the Victoria restaurant inside.

It’s some weird blurb about celebrating the history of Harlem through Cajun cuisine. Similar sentiment to be found on the website (see below).

I showed this to my daughter who shrewdly suggested it should be soul food. Mm. But it’s worse than that, isn’t it? I have a dollar says whoever made up this nonsense thinks that Cajuns are Black.

Anyway, what the cooking of displaced, white French-Canadians has to do with the history of Harlem is a mystery to me.

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So now it’s representing Soul Food (it still has the gumbo) and offers dishes named for Ellington, Calloway and Holiday.

A different but I guess more acccurate way of being odd and inappropriate.

No James Baldwin sliders, sorry.

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