Thanksgiving travailles

[Trixie]

I have been to many strange and exotic locations around this lonely blue planet,

but none have been stranger, nor more exotic than the evening I just spent in the Fandango Casino, in Carson City, Nevada, USA.

This is not the United States as I know it, but then again, I live in a very sheltered part of the country. Imagine a gigantic den of purple and pink neon (Formerly a Wal-Mart store, until it moved to a BIGGER location!), decked out in artificial tropical foliage. Now imagine chain-smoking dowagers in "World's Best Grandma" sweatshirts, good ol' boys with mullets and gigantic silver belt-buckles,

and an assortment of old geezers wearing patriotic doo-dads, all lined up one after another at the digital slot machines.

As a soundtrack, we have a live band alternating country Top40, old heavy-metal hits, and CCR standards.

I don't mean to sound disparaging... but sometimes the strangest, most startling cultures are to be found in your own back yard. The former cannibals I met in Vanuatu seem positively down-to-earth compared to the Fandango spectacle.

On a brighter note, did you know that there exists a "That Girl" digital slot machine? If you get three yellow gerbera daisies, you are rewarded with extra credits, plus the scene of Marlo Thomas tossling her hair jubilantly as the credits add up!

Proof of Gay Life in the American Heartland!

 

La Trix

[noviceny]

WoW!!!! Sometimes it better to not go home !!!

 

Great Images !!!

[+ deej]

You just described almost every casino in the US.

 

Sure, some of them raise the bar a bit on decor but for the most part it's neon, neon, and more neon. And some add their own quirks. At Circus Circus in Vegas you get all the aforementioned gaudy glory plus live trapeze performers! (In tites, even.)

[bigguyinpasadena]

Yeah-some are pretty amazing places to observe the absolute worst in U.S. culture-the one near me in Highland Ca. has the most despicable assortment of low rent whites,blacks right out of a exploitation film,and hispanic gangbangers.

Each is unified in an unclean atmosphere of greed and gluttony.

Been there once=never again.

The casino in Palm Springs(downtown)gets a slightly better dressed crowd with quite a few gay guys and gals.

I have seen the I dream of Jeanie slots,but never the That Girl.There are also Bewitched and Gilligans Island slots.

Won $150 last weekend playing Men In Black.

There are also a couple of male stripper Slots-the one called Chickendales is a lot of fun.

[AaronScottDC]

>Now imagine chain-smoking dowagers in "World's Best Grandma" >sweatshirts, good ol' boys with mullets and gigantic silver >belt-buckles, and an assortment of old geezers wearing patriotic >doo-dads,

>As a soundtrack, we have a live band alternating country

>Top40, old heavy-metal hits, and CCR standards.

 

 

Gee, Trix, this sounds an awful lot like a description of the town I went to High School in. But, it was actually on the east coast. There certainly is a wide variety of people in this country..... and not all of them are located in the places you would normally expect. It keeps things interesting, I guess!

 

 

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[Guest RandyRon]

Other than the gambling, it sounds like Saturday night at the clubhouse at any retirement trailer park in the US.

[+ Charlie]

Trix, I assume you were there only because the Reno airport was closed by the snowstorm last night, and not because you wanted to be part of the scene, with all that flashing fruit. (I spent 24 hours in Reno last year, and found it unutterably depressing.)

[+ deej]

The variety of "themed" slots has always amazed me.

 

I have friends in the video game programming business (which includes slot machines). They have FRIGHTENING statistical studies that show EXACTLY how many seconds they have to convert a patron from a passer-by to a player, and part of the formula is including vast variety and hitting every pop culture nerve. Casinos always look like jumbled and disorganized messes but they're actually designed with scientific precision to hook you and take your money. (Just like any Disney park! ;-))

 

Personally, I don't play traditional slots and I stay away from the tables. But I ALWAYS make money playing video poker. Go figure!

[+ glutes]

La Trix, this was a excellent & entertaining description!

This is on track with a foreign friend calling me after seeing a helicopter shot on CNN, of people lined-up at 5AM to shop at a Walmart on 'Black Friday'. Then to see them storm the store after the doors opened, all I could say was "Yes, that is our middle Americana out there having a commercial orgy".

[bigguyinpasadena]

I have never understood that thing about the day after Tday!Why the mass hysteria to make sure you get the new Betsy Wetsy,this years Epileptic Elmo,or save 20 on a piece of junk DVD player?

I just am so burned out on retail that I shop for gifts online whenever possible,and get airline miles for it as well!

[+ Lucky]

RE: Thanksgiving tomahawk

 

For centuries, poor, oppressed American Indians have been trying to struggle through with life on the paltry leftovers of their conquerors. Now they have managed to find a way to come unto their own and we have a whole thread here denigrating the kind people who go to Indian casinos to donate to the poor braves. So sad.

[+ glutes]

RE: Thanksgiving tomahawk

 

>For centuries, poor, oppressed American Indians have been

>trying to struggle through with life on the paltry leftovers

>of their conquerors. Now they have managed to find a way to

>come unto their own and we have a whole thread here

>denigrating the kind people who go to Indian casinos to donate

>to the poor braves. So sad.

 

Lucky, I concur, however look what other conquerors have done with their indigenous peoples:

Australia - move them to the Outback, ply them with money & alcohol

South Africa - apartheid, now some reconciliation, but the Afrikaaners still rule

New Zealand - they have done the best over all with the full integration of the Maoris

[Trixie]

RE: Ah, ah, ah....

 

Now, Miss Trix will not have her light- hearted post hijacked by you dour socio- political types. I have enough reasons to not want to get up in the mornings, please don't add my lilly-white ethnic heritage to them... no Cherokee Princesses in this family tree!

Besides, this was NOT an Indian-run casino... just the plain old mafia type.

 

Trix

[+ deej]

RE: Ah, ah, ah....

 

>just the plain old mafia type.

 

Oooh! Italian boys!

 

They do tend to fold when tickled.

 

Good call!

[FourAces]

RE: Thanksgiving tomahawk

 

>For centuries, poor, oppressed American Indians have been

>trying to struggle through with life on the paltry leftovers

>of their conquerors. Now they have managed to find a way to

>come unto their own and we have a whole thread here

>denigrating the kind people who go to Indian casinos to donate

>to the poor braves. So sad.

 

Lucky you used to be such a happy lad.

 

RT

[bigguyinpasadena]

RE: Thanksgiving tomahawk

 

Have you folks never heard of SATIRE? jeeesh!

[+ Charlie]

RE: Thanksgiving tomahawk

 

The ugly truth is that Lucky went to one of those Indian casinos the other night, and instead of donating to the cause of the poor braves, he took home a pot. (I'm sure he donated his winnings to a charitable cause the next day, like a home for retired impoverished escorts.)

[+ Lucky]

RE: Thanksgiving tomahawk

 

Thanks, big guy. I knew someone still understood my warped brain!

 

I did go to an Indian Casino to donate, but they were so happy to have someone named Lucky there that they paid me for attending!