QUOTE: “On July 5, 2009 two trains in the same Disney monorail line crashed at about 2 a.m. According to the National Transportation Safety Board. Monorail Purple pilot Austin Wuennenberg, 21, died at the scene.”
Wasn’t there a documentary about an American water park where people got maimed and also several deaths because of the rides but people still wanted to go there because that was the attraction?
I was a docent at the Bronx Zoo when they opened their Asian exhibit, which involved a monorail and several different habitats. We went on a pre-opening day ride. The Siberian tigers’ area had several trees lying on the ground. Someone asked why they were there and the keeper said “that keeps the tigers from getting a running start and jumping into the monorail.”
I must be showing my age. I have heard in my youth, the expression Ride em Cowboy, in John Wayne movies and the like, (remember Bonanza?) but I have never heard anybody say ride or die?
I’m still trying to figure out if New Hampshire’s slogan, “Live Free or Die” is a declaration, an exhortation or a threat. (My husband’s from Maine, and when I asked him which it was he said, “Yes.” sigh.) (What does being from Maine have to do with it? Well, y’know…New England.)
rekam Premium Member about 4 years ago
A man before his time.
Enter.Name.Here about 4 years ago
They ended up going with"Ride AND die".
QUOTE: “On July 5, 2009 two trains in the same Disney monorail line crashed at about 2 a.m. According to the National Transportation Safety Board. Monorail Purple pilot Austin Wuennenberg, 21, died at the scene.”
I Mad Am I about 4 years ago
I think I need my mind to be bleached. I went and read the Urban Dictionary on the true meaning of that phrase! I need to hunt down a scrub brush too!
GoComicsGo! about 4 years ago
Wasn’t there a documentary about an American water park where people got maimed and also several deaths because of the rides but people still wanted to go there because that was the attraction?
Troglodyte about 4 years ago
That would be an apt slogan for our Indian roads…though it might have “any which way” added for effect.
Skeptical Meg about 4 years ago
I was a docent at the Bronx Zoo when they opened their Asian exhibit, which involved a monorail and several different habitats. We went on a pre-opening day ride. The Siberian tigers’ area had several trees lying on the ground. Someone asked why they were there and the keeper said “that keeps the tigers from getting a running start and jumping into the monorail.”
dcdete. about 4 years ago
I must be showing my age. I have heard in my youth, the expression Ride em Cowboy, in John Wayne movies and the like, (remember Bonanza?) but I have never heard anybody say ride or die?
bryce.gear about 4 years ago
Makes ya think. lmao
R.R.Bedford about 4 years ago
DCDETE, I believe it was a take on “marche ou mort*” allegedly the unofficial slogan of the French Foreign Legion…(*march or die)
nosirrom about 4 years ago
Could work for Mad Max.
micromos about 4 years ago
One has to go there to get the joke.
sandpiper about 4 years ago
Meh
bwalk7217 Premium Member about 4 years ago
Disney’s Animal Kingdom doesn’t have a monorail, never had one, never planed to install one.
dogday Premium Member about 4 years ago
I’m still trying to figure out if New Hampshire’s slogan, “Live Free or Die” is a declaration, an exhortation or a threat. (My husband’s from Maine, and when I asked him which it was he said, “Yes.” sigh.) (What does being from Maine have to do with it? Well, y’know…New England.)
gfredrickson85 about 4 years ago
I thought that was the slogan for the Haunted Mansion at Disney World?