...it's a slot machine. And a damn annoying slot machine at that. The ones you see here where at the Vegas airport, but I sat at a poker table in the Palms for a few hours during my recent Vegas trip, and a rack of those things were within earshot.
I love John Williams' music, and I think his Star Wars scores are among his best. But I was absolutely sick to death of the Star Wars theme by the time I got up from the table.
I suppose it's better than the steady "plink-plink-plink-plink" you used to hear walking by slot machines. They've been spitting out receipts instead of coins for quite some time now.
(P.S. -- I thought about naming this post "A Death Star is Born," but I decided I'd flogged that pun enough in the last few days.)
4 comments:
The real question is, with you paying so much attention to the sounds from the Star Wars slot machines (are there Star Trek slot machines?), did it affect your poker game that day?
Jared
when I went to Vegas a few years ago, the Wheel of Fortune slots were everywhere. Haunting me from every corner of every casino was the new-puzzle sound "da da dee-da" each time a coin was dropped in the machine. which was like every .2 seconds.
I guess annoying repetitive noises are part of the stereotypical casino atmosphere...
the mole
Jared -- No, I was actually up for that session.
The Mole -- Oh, the Wheel of Fortune machines are still everywhere, and in full effect, and just as annoying as ever. It's just they weren't RIGHT by the poker rooms I played at.
Could be worse - It could have been a Jar-Jar, "You-sa won big-big!"
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