Amy wrote:ChaChing wrote:Oooo, a churro is something like a fried doughnut but in stick-form and it's usually sprinkled with cinnamon (sp?) and sugar...nothing beats a warm churro...Especially with the chocolate sauce from the Crepes kiosk! You gotta give it a try sometime!
The doughnut part sounds good, cinnamon also good, but I think the chocolate sauce needs to be on the side - that doesn't sound like it would go together very well.
Back on topic so I don't get subsonic-ed, I also like the tombstones outside the haunted mansion - those are clever...
Here's the list of tombstones and the real identities of those "buried" there:
Requiescat
Francis Xavier,
no time off for
good behavior
R.I.P.
Imagineer Francis Xavier "X" Atencio - writer of the theme song's lyrics and attraction storyline.
Dear departed
Brother Dave,
he chased a bear
into a cave
Dave Burkhart - the model builder for the Haunted Mansion .
At peaceful rest
lies Brother Claude,
planted here
beneath this sod
Imagineer Claude Coats - came up concept sketches and the layout of the OmniMover ride track for the Haunted Mansion.
Some of the "dearly departed"
In memory of
our patriarch,
dear departed
Grandpa Marc
Imagineer Marc Davis - a designer and artist responsible for almost all of the concept art for the Haunted Mansion.
Master Gracey
laid to rest,
no mourning please
at his request
Farewell
Yale Gracey - responsible for many of the special effects seen in the Haunted Mansion , including the stretching portraits and the séance room.
Rest in peace
Cousin Huet,
we all know
you didn't do it
Cliff Huet - an architect and lead interior designer.
Here lies
good old Fred,
a great big rock
fell on his head
R.I.P.
Fred Joerger - an art director that worked on the Haunted Mansion and is also honored with a window above Main Street, USA .
Here lies a man
named Martin,
the lights went out
on this old Spartan
Bud Martin - the director of the Imagineering special effects department.
R.I.P.
In memoriam
Uncle Myall,
here you'll lie
for quite a while
Chuck Myall - a designer at WED Enterprises.
Wathel R. Bender,
he rode to glory
on a fender
Peaceful rest
Wathel Rogers - an innovator in the area of Audio-Animatronics who programmed many of the figures in the Haunted Mansion.
R.I.P.
Mister Sewell,
the victim of
a dirty duel
Peaceful rest
Bob Sewell - one of the modelers at WED Enterprises.
Good friend Gordon,
now you've crossed
the River Jordan
Gordon Williams - sound effects designer for the Mansion and also worked on the Audio-Animatronics programming.
Dear sweet Leota,
beloved by all
In regions beyond now,
but having a ball
Leota Toombs Irvine - an artist at WED whose face was used as the model for the head in the crystal ball for the seance scene, and therefore the character was named "Madame Leota" in her honor. This tombstone was the last one added after the original tombstones that opened with the attraction.