Words and Thoughts: Pretend This Headline Looks Like a Roller Coaster

Words and Thoughts, in that Order Stav – Knudsenen – Week of October 13, 2025
Words and Thoughts, in that Order
Stav Knudsenen
Week of October 13, 2025

500 Words, please pretend I used Word Art to make the title look like a roller coaster

Hello again, alleged readers!  Last week I found my old Roller Coaster Tycoon CD-ROM.  See how I said, CD-ROM, instead of Compact Disk Read Only Memory?  That’s how you can tell I’m computer savvy, using abbreviations like CD and ROM, because I’m hip to what’s chill.  Anyway, last week as I was violently shaking my modem, that I keep behind the computer machine, to get it to “dial up” so I could access the world wide web, I saw something shiny wedged between the tower and wall.  I had to clear out all of the shredded packing peanuts I usually keep piled up around the tower to keep it warm to see what the shiny thing was, and to my absolute astonishment, it was, as foreshadowed a couple sentences ago there, my copy of Roller Coaster Tycoon that I assumed was lost forever!

How stupid I was to assume such a thing, because forever is a very long time, I’m told.  Always bet “the under” on forever.

Needless to say, the ONLY thing I’ve been doing since last week is playing Roller Coaster Tycoon.  However, I realize that I am obligated to put together roughly 500 words and fax them to you all every week.  So I, for the first time in a week, am taking a break from the roller coasters and such to correspond with all of you alleged readers.

Unfortunately though, I don’t have much to correspond with you about, on account of the computer game completely consuming my recent existence.  Alas, we must persist and get to about 500 words.

Words!  Yes, words about words will no doubt help get to the quota.  Here is a list of words that I think are ridiculous, and why:

Timber – It’s a noun, and an exclamation you yell when felling the noun.  Ridiculous.
Queue – The letter “Q” would suffice.  Shorter the better, especially when referring to queues.  Ridiculous.
Bundesliga – The top tier German soccer league?  Yes.   Absolute shenanigans after saying it aloud just a couple times?  Also yes.  Ridiculous.
Tuberous – C’mon.  Rhymes with ridiculous.  Is ridiculous.
Tibetan Fox – The word, or words, are not ridiculous.  But have you ever seen a Tibetan Fox?  Ridiculous.  Ol’ Stav here knows that Ol’ Stav is not what you might describe as a “looker”, but Tibetan Foxes are, without a doubt, factually, undeniably, objectively, ridiculous.
Ridiculous – The word ridiculous is starting to look and sound ridiculous.  Ridiculous.  See??

OK, that’s probably an exhaustive list of all the words that are ridiculous.  Still a couple dozen short here though overall.  Doesn’t have to be 500 unique words though, which is nice.  As such, how crazy is it that “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” is a grammatically correct English sentence?  Truly brilliant that the Wikipedia page on this sentence, as of the time of drafting this fax, includes a picture of both the City of Buffalo, and picture of bison (aka buffaloes), to presumably help people understand the sentence.

OK, that’s right around 500.  Back to the roller coasters.

Please tell my boss that I say “Hi” if you see him out and about.