Sunday, October 25, 2009

Vegas Photo Roundup

So, I have a few other odds and ends about the Las Vegas trip worth mentioning, in the form of this handful of pictures I took while I was there.

First, there was this cheapo souvenir stand on Fremont Street:



I wonder how long that place has been there with the word "Legends" misspelled. I wonder how many people even notice. Or maybe the phrase "Rock & Roll Legends" is actually trademarked by someone, and the misspelling is deliberate?

Actually, Fremont Street was prime turf for strange signage. One of the casinos was running a promotion where you had a chance to be randomly selected to attempt to crack open a safe full of money. But I think their slogan was a little off:



But the image that gave us the most consistent laughs on the trip was this:



Magician Lance Burton has been playing at the Monte Carlo for a while now. This sign advertising it was everywhere -- in front of the casino we saw every day, on a billboard on the walk between hotels that two of my friends had to make to meet us. And to us, it kind of looked like Lance Burton was about to do that stupid old uncle trick of "watch me pull off the tip of my thumb!"

Okay, maybe you had to be there, but we got a lot of laughs going... "ooooooo" as we "pulled off our thumbs" and bragged about how we could headline at the Monte Carlo.

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