Which S word do you use when you see a train on a coaster at a point not moving for a while on a lift or mid course brake?
I hear most people say it's stuck , but I tend to think that that means it has hit some gum on the track and it will never move. A more technical term could be that it's set up . Depending where it's at on different rides you could that it's stacked .
There are many more like stationary, silent, still, stagnate, stopped, sputtered, standing or stet.
The philosophical type might say that it's sedentary , but I would rule that out because I think the train call's the station home. For Drama, you could say it had a shortcoming on its trip. To be impressive and score 2 points (like in Scatagories) use a double S word like "it's in a standstill " You could also say that it's suspended , but the Iron Dragon in always in that state.
This is more of a question, in that I would like to know the different technical terms depending on where it's at during the ride. Even if it's not an S word, that's OK.
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Joe
*** This post was edited by Joe E. on 2/10/2001. ***
*** This post was edited by Joe E. on 2/10/2001. ***
It looks like you've been listening to the subliminal vocabulary builder tape that Homer Simpson threw out when he discovered that he was gaining weight instead of losing it.
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How about "silly" or "strange" or even "sandwich!"
(sandwich has nothing to do with the question... i just needed another "s" word!"
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-The Pants Has Spoken
"Yellow line? What Yellow Line..."
Strange is a good one, since you rarely see a (insert S term) coaster at the point, except maybe Mine Ride.
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Joe
If we get stuck, set up, suspended...WHATEVER...on one of our lifts on the Gemini this summer, there's a four letter "S" word I'll be using a few times... :)
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Question: How do you explain the actions of millions of people who wait hours upon hours to be dropped down a hill???
Answer: You don't...
Shark! (S word)
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"Sorry, gotta go, my damn wiener kids are listening."
~From the brilliant mind of Homer J. Simp
Well it's not 4 letter long, but in that situation, I'd shout Shuboygin!--just something people yell around our school.
What exactly does that word mean anyways.......
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Trim brakes-a necessity???
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Splunge?
For the python fans!
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"And now for something completely different" MPFC
A little bit of strategery!
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"They invented laziness, but I perfected it!"
For your information Chris and CP_bound, "Sheboygen" is the name of a city in Wisconsin.
I don't know, it's just a funny word people just yell out of no where to make everybody laugh.
How about saying "It stopped."
:-p
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-The Pants Has Spoken
"Yellow line? What Yellow Line..."
If I have been waiting for two hours, and it happens the train before me, and I must leave the line, that 4 letter S word is said numerous times.
That has never happened to me (thank goodness)