[Dean's World] Ron Coleman: Cutting Six Flags a break

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Posted by Ron Coleman:
Cutting Six Flags a break
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1152032519.shtml


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   We've all agreed that Six Flags hasn't done anything wrong with its
   rental of a theme park to a group of Muslims who want to have some
   kosher family fun. Indeed I have attended smaller-scale amusement park
   rentals for my own set (set, not sect!) and I understand the idea
   completely. (Culturally and values-wise, I have more in common with
   many Moslems than I do with many readers of Dean's World. On the other
   hand, there are, shall we say, some serious areas of divergence.)
   Evidently [1]this is not unique to New Jersey, either.

   Now I realize that Six Flags probably needs all the help it can get,
   thanks to [2]this article in Slate which explains that sales, revenue
   and the stock price are down since the company was taken over by the
   owner of the Washington Redskins. He evidently thought he could work
   the same magic he did with that organization, the NFL's most valuable.
   Unfortunately, what worked with skyboxes, even for a fair-to-middling
   team with [3]trademark problems, doesn't work with cotton candy:

     Lobbyists won't pay for a luxury ride in a 20-year-old roller
     coaster at a Six Flags park. Fortune 500 companies won't rent out
     parks so that their executives can rub shoulders with senators on a
     water slide, no matter how big it is. And upscale adultsâ-at least
     the upscale adults I knowâ-will go to great lengths to avoid
     amusement parks in the summer, with their sweltering heat, long
     lines, screaming kids, and expensive, unhealthy food.

   Maybe if they'd go all-Halal, all the time, it would be a better
   business model!

References

   1. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/01072006/323/islamic-group-books-theme-park-muslims-only-day.html
   2. http://www.slate.com/id/2144783
   3. http://www.likelihoodofconfusion.com/?p=330