Industry Terminology Thread

[Mikey]

This is the official industry terminology thread. Feel free to add your own below.

One Way Trip - What happens on a shuttle coaster when the train fails to return to the station. See Valley.

Fixed to love Up Ratio - The rate of items fixed vs the items that are in a state of disorganization or disrepair.

Stupid Ass Backwards - When the person in charge repeatedly chooses to do things in uncommon or elaborate way resulting in chaos, riot, and/or dismal failure.

Short Stop - What happens to a train that comes into the final brake run after the E-Stop has been activated. See Painful.

Super Stack - When you have stacked up multiple trains to a point that one is stranded in a MCBR.

Skip Block - What happens when a train blows through a block segment regardless of the brakes position is open or closed. Generally bad.

Valley - Getting a unit stranded in between one hill and another. Mr Bill is going to be winching all night.

Trim Brake - The device that increases a maintenance budget by 25% and causes coaster enthusiast to whine. Also causes rides to operate below their normal performance profile.

The Bar - Where you can find the operations team on a Friday night.

Elbow Grease - What you send new-hires to look for on their first day.

Racing the Clock - How you run at maximum capacity by dispatching the second the next block is clear.

Steel Rain - What happens when your train comes back with less bolts then it left with.

Height Stick - Device primarily used for enforcing a rides height requirement but has also been known to be used for;

Beating Guest
Unlocking Restraints
Testing PX Switches
Crowd Control
A Lightning Rod
A Replacement Fuse
A Dildo

[slosprint]

Robb Alvey - the term most often used when a guest is acting like a complete douche

Asshat - the term most often used to warn operators that Robb Alvey is coming.

[Metazoanhaddock]

Jew-guest who refuses to pay admission

Jewish-park that overcharges for admission

Atheist-Somebody whos smart enough to pay no church tax

^epic win

I feel like some of the people here completely missed the humor in the original post...

i just refused to acknowledge its very existance and decided maybe the topic should ACTUALLY be helpful.

Bizarro-Grave of S:ROS

And Medusa...

[AyTrane]

Originally posted by dcs221

I feel like some of the people here completely missed the humor in the original post...

Nope. Just decided to actually be helpful.

Originally posted by slosprint

I heard Medusa was actually improved.

I loooveeed the effects on medusa, but HAAATEEE the ones on bizarro.

[Dirk_Ermen]

Originally posted by Mikey

Elbow Grease - What you send new-hires to look for on their first day.

That's cruel and hilarious at the same time!

[Mikey]

Roll Back - What happens when the monkeys miss a decimal point on the launch configuration.

Trouble Light - The light that comes on to indicate its break time.

Park Radio - The voice which barks orders and takes names but never leaves the office.

Power Disconnect / E-Stop Button - The big red button. When you push it, candy drops out of the main operator panel.

Shrapnel - Whats left of the electronic devices people loose on rides.

Warewolf - Warning Signal / Ahem, Because you just can't unsee a hairy vag***.

Signal 10 - Hot chick.
Signal 100 - Exposed Hot Chick (Can be combined with signal warewolf)

Speil - The act of conveying safety information to guest in the shortest, funniest, and most universal way. If you did it right, the guest might remember it just long enough to fasten their seat belt.

Operator - The underpaid overworked employee who can kill you with a push of a button.

[slosprint]

[Coasterkidmwm]

Originally posted by Metazoanhaddock

Jew-guest who refuses to pay admission

Jewish-park that overcharges for admission

Wow I leave for 3 weeks and you people resort to this for "humor".

It's like watching Saturday Night Live nowadays, just terrible beyond belief.

[slosprint]

just him and LOEA I think....

[Coasterkidmwm]

Originally posted by Dirk_Ermen

Originally posted by Mikey

Elbow Grease - What you send new-hires to look for on their first day.

That's cruel and hilarious at the same time!

They had the poor sap go to Home Depot for striped paint where I worked.

Originally posted by Mikey

Trouble Light - The light that comes on to indicate its break time.

See also "Warning Light" but yea.

[Mikey]

I have made a decent attempted to salvage this thread because I am seriously considering adding a terminology dictionary to coastercrazy.com

Rather then having it be dull and normal, Given the state of the world right now I figure a little humor is in order. If you can't following along with the gist of the program, then please refrain from posting anything at all.

Continuing -

Panic at the Disco - What happens when somebody pulls a fire alarm in the que house.

Self Loading Cargo - The nickname given to guest riding the train.

Cow Catcher - Reference to a lap bar that can't lock due to a guest of extraordinary size.

Soul Harvest - A codeword used during Halloween in place of throughput. Eg, We have harvested 950 souls this hour.

Vomet Comet - When the train comes back completely covered in vomit.

Collateral Damage - What happens when someone throws up in the front row, and it proceeds to land on each subsequent row, and/or on guest waiting in the que line below.

BWC - Code word for when guest Bitch, Whine, Or Complain.

Running of the bulls - The large gaggle of guest traveling at a high rate of speed towards the latest and greatest and or biggest attraction in the park. Do not stand in front of the bulls or you probably will end up as a stain on the concrete.

Poh Poh - Security.

The Vet - First Aid.

SOAP - Safe Operators Always Pray
Smart Operators Always Pull Out

Ice Cream - The only thing safe to eat in the employee cafeteria.

Bumper Cars - Where they send operators to die.
A nick name for GoKarts or similar driving rides.

Rat in a Hat - When you see someone wearing Mickey ears at a non-Disney park.

Religion - What you will find after doing safety check on a 300 ft tall ride in 45 knot winds and freezing snow.

[slosprint]

Originally posted by Mikey

Rat in a Hat - When you see someone wearing Mickey ears at a non-Disney park.

I know exactly what you're talking about.

Fireboner: Six Flags's way of getting horny

^...I don't get it...

Yeah... what?

[gouldy]

It seems to me like he just has sex on the brain... when that is the case, I'm not sure anything has to make sense.

Mehhhh f*** it. I swear it made sense in my head. I think it'd make more sense if I had said:
Fireboner-What Six Flags gets when it gets horny (cause they love their fire and all).
But yeah, twas stupid. So to make up for it:
...actually, I've got nothing. Sorry mateys!