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xoxoxoBruce 05-30-2007 01:48 AM

Not smart ones. The smart ones watch the fools drive off the cliff with their jacket caught on the door handle.

Urbane Guerrilla 06-02-2007 04:29 AM

Going to Vegas tomorrow morning -- will look for scooters.

Shawnee123 06-02-2007 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by rkzenrage (Post 347287)
Good way to get shot.

Tipping cows? Can cows legally own firearms now? Kidding, I kid! ;)

richlevy 06-02-2007 11:06 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 348439)
Not smart ones. The smart ones watch the fools drive off the cliff with their jacket caught on the door handle.

Nice Rebel Without a Cause reference.

xoxoxoBruce 06-02-2007 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 (Post 350060)
Tipping cows? Can cows legally own firearms now? Kidding, I kid! ;)

Kidding or not, legal schmegal, it's their natural right.

Urbane Guerrilla 06-04-2007 01:56 AM

Just got back from Vegas; did not prowl the Strip proper, but did some poking around its peripheries.

The Vegas Hilton has a really fun Star Trek themed, uh, enterprise. (ba dum bump) A wonderful place to be fannish. You've got a couple of simulator rides themed on Next Gen and Voyager -- Klingons on one, Borg on the other -- and a pricey restaurant that will serve you Romulan -- um, okay, it's not an Ale but a bright blue Pilsner -- and some major serves-four multishot mixed drinks that arrive in what looks like a goldfish bowl, and many supper dishes none of which are Swedish meatballs. It's called Quark's Place.
Strolling costumed Klingons, Borg, and Ferenghi add to the fun, chatting the clientele up in character, while people in Federation uniforms run the simulator rides and admonish the riders to quit playing with the control buttons "unless and until the in-cabin controls have been disabled..." We see every kind of comedy except Borg humor -- which is doubtless something like multiplex-channel punning.

The only guy I saw in a scooter was a middle-aged double amputee.

Now, the crowd at the funpark end of Vegas does constitute a walking, milling cautionary exhibit of bad habits which will in due course put a lot of them on scooters -- the rolling wounded anyway, rather than the ones permanently put away by a fatal heart attack -- but when they toddle back to wherever they came from and return to seriousness, there's still the hope they'll take up jogging and eating their vegetables.

lizzymahoney 06-04-2007 07:16 AM

Damnm, UG, I'd bet that scooter guy was Ferenghi. He probably was faking it, too.

Urbane Guerrilla 06-04-2007 09:38 PM

:lol:


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