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It's time to talk up my humor blog again, so, I got late-90s vintage Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan fiction, I got a bunch of rapid-fire pairwise comparisons, I got some comic strip news, I got a bunch of things one might observe as spring gets going, what's not to like here? Please, enjoy for yourself:

• MiSTed: FX Down To Mobius, Part 9: The Squadron Assembles
• March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: Sickness vs Health
• Statistics Saturday: Some Signs of Spring
• March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: Remastered Editions vs Caution
• March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: Fingernails vs Magnifying Lenses
• What’s Going On In Olive and Popeye? Did Emi Burdge leave the strip? January – March 2026
• March Pairwise Brackety Contest Thing: This Date In History vs Three Hole Punches
• MiSTed: FX Down To Mobius, Part 10: Joel’s Useless Superpowers

In Dutch Wonderland pictures, we're not off the monorail yet! In fact, we're about to get to the part of the park you can't photograph from any other ride ... confused? Look on!

A cool moment of timing: structure for the Kingdom Coaster while going past a lift hill for the log flume. There's even a log on the flume. Also note the Trabant in the distance.

Maybe the best view of the log flume's infield. It's mostly at ground level, the less-expensive way of doing things and also the way that makes things line tunnels practical.

bunnyhugger giving a high five to Kingdom Coaster, here on one of the latter parts of its course.

And I'm always going to share pictures of the Nuf Edils.

Showing off some of Kingdom Coaster's turnaround --- there's a train on the track --- and the Fun Slide.

And here we go, a nice view of the turnaround for Kingdom Coaster.

Here we're coming up to the monorail station outside the park, in the parking lot and what surely used to be an alternate way to get into the park.

Here's the park's entrance seen from a good distance away and above.

The highway sign, which is a bit weathered but not bad all things considered.

Another view of the entrance and the parking lot. You can see a string of little trees that separates out part of the parking lot.

Here's a side view letting you look along the whole moat. The Cartoon Network Hotel is in the far background.

And back in the park! Here's Merlin's Mayhem, although for once I failed to catch a train going over it.

Trivia: The first Kodak point-and-shoot camera --- which had no viewfinder --- took a circular image. It would be a later modification that made rectangular pictures. Source: Wondrous Contrivances: Technology at the Threshold, Merritt Ierley.

Currently Reading: Inspired Enterprise: How NASA, the Smithsonian, and the Aerospace Community Helped Launch Star Trek, Glen E Swanson.