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[piratedan]

The phrase "E ticket ride".

Are you familiar with it?
Do you know what it means?
Do you know from whence it comes?

[EDIT: There are spoilers in the comments section.]

(Note: this has nothing to do with flying on a plane after booking and e-ticket, or any such thing.)

Comments

[dilletante]

i always assumed it had to do with disneyworld, which had "e" tickets for a class of rides at one point.

[fengshui]

And disneyland as well. My parents had a couple of old books hanging around.

Growing up in LA, everybody knew what that meant, even if I don't think I ever went to disney when they had tickets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_ticket

[moominmolly]

I do not know this phrase at all.

[piratedan]

Well, your husband does.

Disneyworld (and, I suspect, Disneyland) used to have different classes of tickets for different rides, in ascending order of awesomosity. So, for instance, a C ticket would get you a ride on decent rides like Dumbo or the Tea Cups, or Mission to Mars. However, to get onto the best rides, such as Space Mountain, Pirates of the Caribbean, or 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, you needed an E ticket. Hence, E Ticket rides are the best rides there are.

[gravitrue]

She looked so pretty in pink chiffon (chiffon)
Riding the float with her tiara on (tiara on)
Holding this humongous bouquet in her hand (bouquet)
She looked straight out of Disneyland

You know, like the Cinderella ride,
I mean definitely an E ticket, (E ticket)
The crowd was cheering, everyone was stoked (was stoked)
I mean it was like the whole school was totally coked or something
The band was playing Evergreen
And all of a sudden somebody screamed

Look out! The homecoming queen's got a gun!