Pleasureland Southport - Amusement park including the Traumatizer suspended roller-coaster. Information about the rides and attractions, a brief history, information about facilities, special offers, and job vacancies.
Silcock Leisure - Operators of family amusement centres and fairground rides. Includes photos of their historic rides.
Southport Zoo - Includes information about their education services and many of the animals.
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- Frank Lloyd Wright This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
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-- Ken Dodd I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
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I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Attractions "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
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Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
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-- Pope John Paul I Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
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Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
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aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Attractions
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Attractions There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Attractions
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
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-- General Douglas MacArthur Attractions An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Attractions
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
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-- Shirley MacLaine Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Attractions I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Attractions
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Attractions The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
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Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Attractions Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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