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ReginaldReginald When I am Pres., I will createthe Department of ______Registered User regular
edited March 2011 in Social Entropy++
Las Vegas!

Las Vegas is a city that I would say 50% of Americans love, and 50% hate (sourced via theonion.com)

Regardless of this statistic, we can all agree that Vegas contains many flashing lights, and Celine Dion. Also it probably contains a lot of crime, a-la the movie Casino.
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Anyways, I am going to Vegas in 3 weeks. I am looking forward to the Bellagio:

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as well as the crushing shame of losing the yearly salary of a member of the country Chad. I'd like to hear some Vegas suggestions, as well as stories recounting SarahStilleto and iplaybass. Pouring a beer out for my homies here.

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Pinata!

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  • ReginaldReginald When I am Pres., I will create the Department of ______Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Nooooo, not pinata. Piñata!

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  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Do your best not to commit suicide.

    Go see Penn and Teller.

    Visit a couple of brothels.

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  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    chico will you guide me on a tour around vegas

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    vegas is a shithole

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Visit the underground hobo tunnels.

    Seriously google that shit it is crazy.

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  • BEARDBEARD Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Thirty million dollars are spent annually to produce those little cards advertising whorehouses that the mexicans standing in the gutters try to hand you as you walk down the street

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  • ReginaldReginald When I am Pres., I will create the Department of ______Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    My best to not commit suicide includes:

    1.) Don't make that noose!
    2.) Oh god why did I buy this rope.
    3.) Seriously, I need to learn how to tie knots, why not start with a noose!
    4.) That chair seems pretty wobbly.
    5.) Ok time to gamble all my cash away!

    Am I prepared for Vegas?

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  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Beasteh, you and I will make our own Vegas.

    We will make it in another popular G.I. stop-over

    My butt.

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  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    i like what you've done with the place

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  • ReginaldReginald When I am Pres., I will create the Department of ______Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Pip, if you come to vegas wif me, I will give you a kiss. On your lips.

    smmoooooch.

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  • mensch-o-maticmensch-o-matic Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    There's no way that a city with the catchline 'Whatever happens here, STAYS here!' can go wrong

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  • ReginaldReginald When I am Pres., I will create the Department of ______Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Even babies? Do babies stay there?

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    All babies lead to Vegas

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  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Why do you think the buffets are so cheap?

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  • WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Had to go through the Vegas airport once and the whole concourse was filled with smoke and people sleeping on the floor, wedged up against every wall, signpost, slot machine, etc. Felt like a homeless village.

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  • Lord DaveLord Dave Grief Causer Bitch Free ZoneRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Hey we stayed at the Bellagio like two weeks ago
    The Cirque du Soleil show they have there is extra freaky

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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2011
    I wanna see Terry Fator.

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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    BEARD wrote: »
    Thirty million dollars are spent annually to produce those little cards advertising whorehouses that the mexicans standing in the gutters try to hand you as you walk down the street

    Pussy is big business, brother.

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  • BEARDBEARD Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Vegas really has no good reason for existing. I spent a week in the Vegas suburbs campaigning for Obama. Saddest people I've ever met.

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  • ReginaldReginald When I am Pres., I will create the Department of ______Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Wait what did Monty do while his parents were in Vegas?

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  • molefacemoleface Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Got back from Vegas a couple of days ago, had a great time. Things to do include

    Gamble
    Drink
    Walk through all the casinos, lots to see and do in all of them - rollercoasters, rides, animals etc
    Gamble
    Freemont St - where the action was before the strip became the big thing
    Hoover Dam - half an hour drive from the strip. Just don't drive down there on a Sunday due to traffic
    Grand Canyon - fly over it if you are short on time. Walk along it or even inside it if you have the time (seriously, make the time. This thing is amazing)
    Drink
    Lots of clubs
    Lots of free shows in or around casinos. The Bellagio has a big fountain show outside it several times a night thats worth checking out. Treasure Island has a pirate show outside it several times a night too. The Rio has a show on the ceiling of the main casino floor on a regular basis. There's probably more shows too that I haven't seen
    Gamble & Drink

    It's probably not the type of place you'd want to vacation at lots unless you are serious about your gambling, but for the first time you are gonna have a total blast

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  • Lord DaveLord Dave Grief Causer Bitch Free ZoneRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Reginald wrote: »
    Wait what did Monty do while his parents were in Vegas?

    He had sweet parties with his cousins
    It was like an 80s teen movie but with dogs

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  • TenTen Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Seconding Penn & Teller, also you should definitely see a Cirque du Soleil show while you're there, do they still have the R-rated one? I'm still pissed that I didn't get to see that one when we went last year.

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  • WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Instead of going on a Vegas trip I just watch Ocean's 11

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  • StaleStale Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    The shark reef at Mandalay Bay is ok if you really dig on fish.

    Thomas Keller has a restaurant there, The French Laundry. There is also a Delmonico's there if you feel like having a ridiculously priced, but ridiculously good steak dinner.

    Blue Man Group is at Luxor, though, if you've ever seen them, and I mean ever, you've seen the show. They haven't updated that shit in 10 years.

    The strip clubs are some of the best and most expensive, but hey, if 150 dollar lap dances are your thing, worth it.

    If you like to rent fine automobiles and drive stupid fast on flat desert roads, yeah. you can do that. you can rent stupid fast cars.

    If you like guns, The Gun Store will let you rent out full-auto rifles and subs on their range. Pretty fun really.

    The shopping at Ceasers is amazing and always worth a trip.

    You must, and I do mean, YOU MUST have the breakfast/brunch buffet at The Paris. It is balls-on-my-chin amazing.

    Get a hotdog and a giant beer at O'Sheas and play nickel slots. It's an experience.

    Get a 36" tall margarita and stumble around the strip. This is State Law, everyone must buy one.

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  • TenTen Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Oh yeah, we went to The Gun Store while we were there, fired off some pistols and automatic rifles, that was fun as hell. I'm pretty sure that was the place we went to anyway.

    Ten on
  • FirmSkaterFirmSkater Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Netflix keeps suggesting I watch Casino

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  • skettiosskettios Enchanted ForestRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I want to go to Vegas!
    See a bunch of shows (penn&teller, cirque du soleil, etc)
    Gamble
    Drink
    See the dam and/or canyon
    went when I was in 5th grade, that doesn't count!

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  • premiumpremium Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Last time I was in Vegas with my wife we found out she was preggo. Oh well at least I got to drink for two.

    Fremont street was an excellent place to wander around at night, there was a neat lightshow on the roof and some bands playing on free stages on the street.

    The stratosphere has a nice view if you like being above everything.

    You can pet the stingrays in the mandalay bay shark reef.

    If you are not driving be sure to get a multiple day pass for the busses to save a headache.

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    viva pinata

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  • ReginaldReginald When I am Pres., I will create the Department of ______Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    You found out in Vegas your wife was preggo? That must be an awesome doc.

    Hi everybody, I'm Dr. Nick! Also, you're pregnant, so no more complimentary waiting room martinis!

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  • premiumpremium Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    It was more she was feeling sick and I suggested she was knocked up as a joke but hahaha the joke was on me when the pee stick turned blue. We didn't confirm it until we got back to Canada so that we could pretend it might have been a false positive.

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I went to vegas one time

    it was ok but we weren't there long enough and we were kind of broke

    my goals upon return

    - stay at the circus circus

    - get trashy double married to my wife at an elvis chapel

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    oh and

    - gamble

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  • Lord DaveLord Dave Grief Causer Bitch Free ZoneRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Penn and Teller are indeed pretty great if you get a chance
    I like Smith and Wollensky

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  • AphostileAphostile San Francisco, CARegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    BEARD wrote: »
    Vegas really has no good reason for existing. I spent a week in the Vegas suburbs campaigning for Obama. Saddest people I've ever met.

    Bahahaha, what? Really.

    I was born and raised in Las Vegas.

    Go to "The Gun Shop" shoot off fully automatic weapons. It's fun.
    There are no brothels in Las Vegas, because it's illegal in Clark County. If that's something you're interested in you're going to have to go to a different county.
    Don't go to Fremont St, it's tacky, the casinos are old and crappy, and it's not fun. And you're more likely to get jumped than have a good time there. For that matter, don't go down sidestreets unless there's lots of people.
    Don't buy any of those giant margaritas, they're horribly expensive. Buy some booze at a store off the strip.
    Don't gamble at the big casinos unless you have lots to spend, nearly all of them have way higher minimums than the smaller casinos off the strip.
    If you want to go clubbing, see if there are people in your hotel giving out bracelets or something to the hotel's dance club that night.
    Go to the Ghost Bar at the Palms, if only for the view.
    If you go to a strip club, don't go to the ridiculous high end ones, they're not that great.
    If you're going to see a Cirque show, see "O". If no Cirque, then go see Penn and Teller.
    The buffet at the Rio is good.
    If you want cheap drinks in the casino, go to a penny slot machine and put a dollar in. Sit there for a while then when the drink girl comes around order whatever, then tip her a couple bucks. Much cheaper than buying it at the bar.
    Say hi to my mom and brother.
    Reginald wrote: »
    You found out in Vegas your wife was preggo? That must be an awesome doc.

    Hi everybody, I'm Dr. Nick! Also, you're pregnant, so no more complimentary waiting room martinis!

    Right because one of the fastest growing cities in the nation doesn't have hospitals or doctors or anything.

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  • MrDoctorProfessorMrDoctorProfessor Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Langly wrote: »
    Visit the underground hobo tunnels.

    Seriously google that shit it is crazy.

    When I googled Vegas Hobo Tunnels, this thread was the first thing that popped up.

    But yea, you can pretty much have an excellent time just wandering through the casinos and walking up and down the strip. The only place on the strip I didnt care for was Circus Circus. It just seemed...really dirty and trashy to me.

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  • premiumpremium Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    The Excalibur has a neat dinner/tournament where you get to eat a whole bird(cornish game hen I think) without utensils while some actors joust/swordfight, that was fun.

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  • EndEnd Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    Langly wrote: »
    Visit the underground hobo tunnels.

    Seriously google that shit it is crazy.

    When I googled Vegas Hobo Tunnels, this thread was the first thing that popped up.

    Damn you goooggggllee!

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