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Date Posted: 13:22:34 04/16/02 Tue
Author: Coaster Quoter
Subject: Re: PORTAL TO DIMENSIONAL HELL UNLEASHED!!
In reply to: Doctor Usarian M. Felchsplotter 's message, "PORTAL TO DIMENSIONAL HELL UNLEASHED!!" on 13:14:06 04/16/02 Tue

No.... no, I don't buy it. I don't see it at all.

I also have a memory of riding Colossus (+1) from the back, at night, way way back when Colossus was new, and the biggest, baddest, most impressively terrifying monstrosity to ever be let loose upon the public. I remember getting off the train, shaken and giggly, and telling grandpa about the trip, saying "The back wheels came off the track!" See, from the back, going down that first humongous drop, I distinctly remembered feeling that just for a second, the train back there stopped rumbling, and just sort of "floated" for a moment. Of course, years later, I realized what a ridiculous statement that had been. Wheels don't come off the track. That would be absurd. People would die. But then even more years later, once I got heavily into coasters and studied how they actually work, I realized that I was right the first time, dammit! The wheels did come off the track, with nothing but the upstop wheels under the track to keep us from flying off that giant mountain of lumber. I was right! I knew what had happened, even as a seven-year-old! Then the significance of that moment dawned on me: that was my very first moment of airtime! Obviously, the saying is right: "You never forget your first."


--CQ

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