How do you say your home park?

Instead of saying "Knott's Camp Snoopy" people say "let's go to the Mall."

Instead of saying "ValleyFair" people just point and grunt.

Instead of wailing "Can't we all just get along?" Nitro Dave is refining his (bleep)slap.

Welcome to the fun, buddy. ;)

-'Playa

A lot of people around here (I'm in school, real close to GAdv.) refer to Six Flags Great Adventure by whatever their home park is. People call it Magic Mountain, Great America, Six Flags, Worlds of Adventure....

I call it "the place where I go to get away from you all."

I call all parks 'Hell.' That's how this hobby started, because people are always telling me to go there.

I call mine HersheyPark!

'Playa, I've been watching too much Chapelle's Show lately...just can't seem to get the five fingers to say anything but SLAP! to the face. ;)

--Dave, who definitely isn't bitter anymore,
but definitely isn't Rick James either, b---h.

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MIA = Hey, let's go the park today.

CP = Let's go ride some coasters.

Simple, easy language. The other parks I actually use names for. ;)

Cocaine is a hell of a drug. -- R. James

"I didn't just get up and grind my feet on no couch, thats stupid. Yeah, I remember grindin my feet on his couch":)

My homepark in Sydney Australia (which is closing at the end of the month), is called Wonderland Sydney but we just call it "pissweak world" with an awesome coaster collection of a crappy Vekoma Boomerang and a terrible woodie, the name is justified.

As my daughter says:

"Daddy, lets's go SEE-DA-POINT"

It is so cute, I don't have the heart to tell her the real name.

We used to call CP "See-No Point" back in the mid-80s. KI was better (and closer - a bonus when you're not old enough to drive yet :))

Magnum XL-200 changed that.

Around here though, surrounded by CP, PKI, GL, and with Wyandot Lake being the closest, you have to be specific. You say "the park" and everyone thinks monkey bars and dog poop. But Geauga Lake was ALWAYS "Geauga Lake", even when it wasn't.

Up through senior year of high school, nearly everyone I new went to Great America, and nearly everyone I new called it Great America (with a few Marriott's and Marriott's Great Americas thrown in for good measure).

Now, nearly everone I've met in college who's from the Chicago area calls it Six Flags.

But I "correct" them! ;)

I've never known anyone from around Chi (and around my age) to call SFGAm anything *but* Great America. Though I *do* distinctly remember one year the park being 'officially' named BALLY's Great America. It sticks out because I remember that Pac-Man also carried the Bally's banner and I thought it was cool that our park was associated with Pac-Man.

Anyway, around here it's Kings Dominion for PKD, Six Flags or Adventure World for SFA, Hershey for HERSHEYPARK, Busch Gardens for BGW, and Ocean City for Trimper's Rides.

lata, jeremy

Many people in the NYC area actually say Great Adventures Many also think all of the Six Flags parks are called Great Adventures. Eg.....[a question my friend asked me] Is your Great Adventures in LA as good as the one we have here?

For Valleyfair! we say valleyfair.

For mall of america most people say mall of america but since that's way to long I just say moa but i don't say it like M.O.A. I say it like moe-a. That generaly gets people confused.

I say Michigan's Adventure and people say "what???" Hopefully that will change, someday.

I say Cedar Point or CP and everyone knows what I'm talking about.

And what people call the SF parks is greatly determined by their age, I would imagine. Afterall, if you grew up with Magic Mountain or Great America, that's what you would call it. Tacking the SF onto it wouldn't be "natural".

People round here call SFOG Six Flags, Dollywood Dollywood, and Lake Winnipesauka(sp) lake winnie.

Um, I just call mine Camden Park. :-)

-Tina

Is that the same Camden Park getting a Giga Coaster next year?

I call mine Cement Point, Six Flags Waste of an Afternoon (now known as Cedar Flags Worlds of Amazement Park), Six Flags Tragic Mountain (SFMM), Six Flags Ghettoland (SFA), and Six Flags Mis-Adventure (SFGA).

Wood - anything else is a imitation