Who is Parkeology?

There are literally tens, if not dozens of parkeolgists around.  You may see them at the supermarket.  Passing you on the freeway.  Working in the cubicle next to you.  At this moment, a parkeologist is hiding in your closet, ready to jump out and scare you.

Simply put, anyone who loves theme park details is a parkeologists.  This website happens to be run by a couple of the less serious ones.

In the late 1990s, Shane and Teevtee faced off in perhaps the longest Disney Trivial Pursuit contest on record.  This was conducted via AOL Instant Messenger.  Their brains were so evenly matched, their intellects so keenly honed, that no winner was ever declared.  Their knowledge of Disney theme parks was simply unbeatable, so they decided to team up and become a secret theme park crime-fighting organization known as the League of Wienies (a clever theme park in-joke about Walt Disney's term for an attraction or landmark that drew people to various areas of the park).

They discovered two things:  1) Disney security guards actually do a pretty good job on their own fighting crime in the theme parks.  2) They were getting snickered at.  A lot.

Real mature, Ed Wynn.

With no other option open to them, they decided to launch a blog that would hopefully purge the painful memories, as well as allow them a creative outlet for all the useless theme park knowledge that had been building up for most of their adult lives.

Shane lives in Orlando, so he gets to spend the most time at the parks.  Teevtee is the more well-rounded traveller, having visited Paris, Tokyo, and Hong Kong.  When not studying parkeology, they both have semi-normal jobs and families.

Incidentally, Shane really did win the Trivial Pursuit game, but in true Bubble Boy fashion, the game screwed him out of the victory by saying that Old Yeller caught rabies from a herd of pigs.  Dude, it was totally from a wolf.  Shane has obviously moved past this egregious slight to his Disney knowledge.

"The card says 'Moops!' "