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Vol 932 - August 25, 2010 - Strange Las Vegas Trivia
Twice weekly E-letter - StrangeCosmos.com - 3 NEW WEBSITE ENHANCEMENTS! We have added three new features that you have been asking for. 1. GAMES UPGRADE - TOURNAMENTS - NEW FORMAT - WIN CASH & PRIZES “NEW! Play free online games on Strange Cosmos now! Play your favorite games like Diner Dash, Cube Crasher and Bubble Town with your friends or by yourself. You can now invite your friends from Facebook to play and compete in Cash Tournaments and win fun prizes; get ready to compare each others’ scores!” NEW "OLD" GAMES ADDED! CLASSICS - FROGGER - PAC-MAN - ASTEROIDS !!!! http://www.strangecosmos.com/static/games.html 2. Auto Image Centering - no need to scroll down and center the image anymore! 3. New Utility Bar on top right and bottom of each image page which allows direct connect to 12 POPULAR Social Networking and News sites - FaceBook - MySpace - Reddit - Twitter - Digg - Stumbleupon - Yahoo - Google. Now it's easier than ever to share and store your favorite images and jokes! ------------------------ Are you ready to review the Best Humor, Coolest Pix and Political Parody on the Internet? Get ready to jump into something "Strange!" ================================== Strange "Marriage" Quotes: When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. - David Bissonette After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together. - Sacha Guitry By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them. - Anonymous The great question... which I have not been able to answer... is, "What does a woman want?" - Dumas I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. - Sigmund Freud 'Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.' - Anonymous 'There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.' - Sam Kinison 'I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me, and the second one didn't.' - James Holt McGavra Two secrets to keep your marriage brimming 1. Whenever you're wrong, admit it, 2. Whenever you're right, shut up. - Patrick Murra The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.... - Nash You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to. Anonymous My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. - Henny Youngman A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong. - Rodney Dangerfield A man inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: 'Wife wanted'. Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: 'You can have mine.' - Anonymous ================================== Today's Featured Humor : -) - Las Vegas Trivia Las Vegas means "the meadows" in Spanish. In Nevada, there are more than 209,000 slot machines normally operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The first neon sign appeared in Las Vegas in 1954 at the Boulder Club. The bell is the oldest symbol still used on today's slot machines. The average annual temperature in Las Vegas is 66 degrees. It would take 288 years for one person to spend one night in every hotel room in Las Vegas. Shrimp consumption in Las Vegas is more than 60,000 pounds a day. That's higher than the rest of the country combined and adds up to 22 million pounds per year. The Stardust was the first hotel in Vegas to add a sports book to its casino. Nickel slots on the Strip pay back anywhere from 86.9 percent to 92.8 percent of what they take in. Las Vegas casinos never use dice with rounded corners. It's estimated that every day Las Vegas casinos give away $3 million of freebies (more than $1 billion per year) just to get customers through their doors. It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas. The Horseshoe was the first Las Vegas casino to install carpeting. A vagrant once turned a $400 Social Security check into $1.6 million playing blackjack in a Las Vegas casino. According to suppliers, purple is the favorite ink color in daubers used by Las Vegas Bingo players. The beam of light atop the Luxor in Las Vegas is made up of 39 individual lamps. Each xenon lamp costs $1,200 and will last about 2,000 hours. The electric bill for the Luxor beam is $51 an hour. Las Vegas has the highest number of unlisted phone numbers of any U.S. city. The iconic, waving neon cowboy, located at Vegas' Pioneer Club downtown, is named Vegas Vic. Frank Sinatra was the first Vegas headliner to earn $100,000 per week. More than 110,000 marriage licenses are issued in Las Vegas each year. Elvis and Priscilla Presley were married at the original Aladdin hotel. The Silver Slipper was the first casino to hire female card dealers on the Las Vegas Strip (in 1971 Submitted by Pasadena Phil ================================== Most Popular - Parody - News - Pix ================================== STRANGE ANCIENT WEAPONS - OVER AND UNDER FLINTLOCK PISTOL - http://www.strangevacations.com/content/item/165608.html STRANGE OLDE POLICE REVOLVER CAMERA - 1938 - http://www.strangemedical.com/content/item/166794.html STRANGE 3-D PHOTOS & IMAGES - 1 - http://www.strangecosmos.com/content/item/166857.html STRANGE SCARY INSECT PHOTOS ELECTRON MICROSCOPE - MEAL OR FLOUR MITE - http://www.strangecollege.comcontent/item/166932.html THE 30 WORST BASEBALL CARDS IN HISTORY - GLENN HUBBARD - http://www.strangeblondes.com/content/item/167214.html STRANGE PALS - FERGIE - A DWARF AND PARIS HILTON - http://www.strangeamericans.com/content/item/167245.html SPICE BUSH SWALLOWTAIL CATERPILLAR - 5 - http://www.strangefarmer.com/content/item/167286.html FARMING & RANCHING FUN - BRONCO RIDING - http://www.strangefunkidz.com/content/item/167314.html STRANGE OLDE ROBOT PICTURES - 2 - http://www.strangeoldepictures.com/content/item/167360.html JUDY GARLAND - WIZARD OF OZ - WE'RE OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD - http://www.strangecelebrities.com/content/item/167386.html STRANGE WEATHER PHENOMENON - CLOUD RAINBOWS - http://www.strangepersons.com/content/item/167403.html STUNT PLANE LOSES WING - SAVED BY PARACHUTE! - http://www.strangeracer.com/content/item/167460.html STRANGE GLASS BOTTOMED HOT AIR BALLOON - LOOKING DOWN - FREAKY! - http://www.strangedangers.com/content/item/167472.html STRANGE GLASS BOTTOMED HOT AIR BALLOON - FROM THE SIDE - http://www.strangebusiness.com/content/item/167474.html GREAT GOLF HOLE - 16 PEBBLE BEACH - SURF BREAKING - http://www.strangegolf.com/content/item/167511.html WATER SLIDE - IT'S HUGE - 10 STORY DROP! - http://www.strangetravel.com/content/item/167515.html STRANGE FOOD PREP - MACHINE GUN BACON - ONLY MEN COULD THINK OF THIS! - http://www.strangemilitary.com/content/item/167518.html STRANGE OPTICAL ILLUSION MAZE - SCARY - http://www.strangefunvideos.com/content/item/167519.html ================================== The Featured Pix Category This Week - SS - MISC - ALL SPORTS - GYMNASTICS - HORSE RACING - SKYDIVING http://www.strangesports.com/content/category/100032_1.html ================================== The Top News Articles & Humor for the Week 10 Strange Laws Around the World - http://www.strangepolitics.com/content/item/167246.html The 20 Dumbest John Madden Quotes Of All Time - http://www.strangevehicles.com/content/item/167371.html Strange Justice - 10 Notorious Criminals Proven Innocent After Execution - http://www.strangesports.com/content/item/167572.html Strange Laws Around The World - http://www.strangezoo.com/content/item/104346.html Frenchisms! - http://www.strangeracer.com/content/item/111905.html Top Ten Punchlines to Dirty Irish Jokes - http://www.strangepolice.com/content/item/114763.html ================================== The Featured New Category This Week - Strange Lists - Crazy Numbers - Crazy Stuff http://www.strangeracer.com/content/category/111_1.html ================================== Be Sure to Check Out All of the Recent New Additions at the "Strange" Family Websites New! --------------- NEW STRANGE WEBSITES!------------------- Old Pictures & Images - History - http://www.strangeoldepictures.com/ Farmers - Crops - Tractors - Farm Animals - http://www.strangefarmer.com/ Racing! - F1 - NASCAR - Dirt Bikes - http://www.strangeracer.com/ Blondes - Celebs - Models - Musicians - http:www.StrangeBlondes.com/ -----------NEW -------------New! ---------------New! ---------- Travel - Cruises - Destinations - http://www.strangetravel.com/ Kids - Teens - Moms - Parents - http://www.strangefunkidz.com/ Bad Bosses - Employees - Ads - http://www.strangebusiness.com/ Cops - Police - Criminals - Felons - http://www.strangepolice.com/ Weird and Goofy People - http://www.strangepersons.com/ All Your Favorite Folks- http://www.strangecelebrities.com/ Autos - Trucks - Nasty Accidents http://www.strangevehicles.com/ Hockey - Football - Soccer http://www.strangesports.com/ Troops - Jets - Warships - Tanks http://www.strangemilitary.com/ Pets - Dogs - Cats - Wild Animals http://www.strangezoo.com/ Politicians - Parodies - Liberals - NeoCons http://www.strangepolitics.com/ Hurricanes - Lightning – Tsunami’s - Dangers - Crashes http://www.strangedangers.com/ ========================== ********** This message printed on recyclable media*********** (Think about it!) 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