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artie_fufkin wrote:

forsberg_us wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

There's a "Hollywood Casino" in the Cincinnati area? I'm sure it's entirely reminiscent of the Sunset Strip.

There's actually a Hollywood Casino less than 5 miles from my house.

True story--in Missouri, the law requires casinos to be built on a waterway. Maryland Heights is flood plain for the Missouri River, so they couldn't build it immediately adjacent to the river due to flooding. They dug a huge trench, almost like a moat, built the Casion near the moat, and then built a huge levie between the river and the casino. The moat serves as the "waterway" for purposes of the law.

It's been there for more than a decade (it was a Harrah's first, and I've yet to walk inside.

 
I guess there's also one in Bangor, Maine, which is practically Greenland.
We don't have casinos here. As a designated nanny state, Massachusetts knows what's good for you, even if you don't. So our gamblers and their money go to Connecticut and Rhode Island every weekend.
Oh, and the city of Cambridge got rid of Columbus Day this week. It's now known as Indigenous Peoples Day.

Good to hear the people of Cambridge have checked their white privilege.

don.rob11 wrote:

Have the Cards been 4 games above .500 this year ?

Nope. They've been 3 games over eight times. Which means Finnegan will throw a 3-hit shutout tonight.

There's a tiny town near Branson in southwest Missouri called Rockaway Beach that twice tried to get voters across the state to approve an amendment that would allow them to build a casino on, I think, the White River. Twice it went down. Most of the opposition was based around how gambling would hurt Branson's image as a wholesome, religious destination. Branson isn't anywhere near as strong as it was even 10-15 years ago, so I wonder if that proposition will eventually come up again.

That is an interesting punishment. But is it really punishment if you get to watch the Presleys' Country Jubilee? Or the Glenn Miller Orchestra?

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artie_fufkin wrote:

tkihshbt wrote:

That is an interesting punishment. But is it really punishment if you get to watch the Presleys' Country Jubilee? Or the Glenn Miller Orchestra?

Without exception, any offering defined as a "jubilee" connotes something cruel and unusual.

Typical East Coast snobbery smdh.

Actually, just being around the mouth-breathers who flood Branson is cruel and unusual punishment. The parents of some friends of mine rent a time share in Branson and invite us to come hang out on Tablerock Lake and golf every summer. The dining options in Branson are limited to gluttonous chains, so a couple years ago we went to Golden Corral.

Mother of god. The sheer amount of people packed into this place -- that has an actual THEATER -- was ridiculous. Just fat, sweaty hump after fat, sweaty hump throwing thousands of carbs on their plate. It was a horrifying scene. Last year we had to go to Cracker Barrel. Now, I love Cracker Barrel, but the average male weighed at least 350 pounds and wore a tank top, while the average female wore the same thing and weighed probably 30-40 pounds less. I snapped a picture of a guy wearing a blazer patterned as an American flag.

And as bad as Branson is, when I was younger I had to take a 90-minute road trip from Branson into Eureka Springs, Ark., which has some sort of Christian play. The people of northwest Arkansas are terrifying.
 

forsberg_us wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

There's a "Hollywood Casino" in the Cincinnati area? I'm sure it's entirely reminiscent of the Sunset Strip.

There's actually a Hollywood Casino less than 5 miles from my house.

True story--in Missouri, the law requires casinos to be built on a waterway. Maryland Heights is flood plain for the Missouri River, so they couldn't build it immediately adjacent to the river due to flooding. They dug a huge trench, almost like a moat, built the Casion near the moat, and then built a huge levie between the river and the casino. The moat serves as the "waterway" for purposes of the law.

It's been there for more than a decade (it was a Harrah's first, and I've yet to walk inside.

Thats where the ampatheater is, correct?  I went to the casino, concert and david busters once.  Im not a casino person.  However last time i went i won enough to break even on a cardinals game....the time i went to the ampatheater we and the wife go so drunk we couldnt find our way across the little complex to the hotel.  I ended up paying a shuttle driver from a different hotel just to drop us off.  Fuck that was bad.

APIAD wrote:

forsberg_us wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

There's a "Hollywood Casino" in the Cincinnati area? I'm sure it's entirely reminiscent of the Sunset Strip.

There's actually a Hollywood Casino less than 5 miles from my house.

True story--in Missouri, the law requires casinos to be built on a waterway. Maryland Heights is flood plain for the Missouri River, so they couldn't build it immediately adjacent to the river due to flooding. They dug a huge trench, almost like a moat, built the Casion near the moat, and then built a huge levie between the river and the casino. The moat serves as the "waterway" for purposes of the law.

It's been there for more than a decade (it was a Harrah's first, and I've yet to walk inside.

Thats where the ampatheater is, correct? I went to the casino, concert and david busters once. Im not a casino person. However last time i went i won enough to break even on a cardinals game....the time i went to the ampatheater we and the wife go so drunk we couldnt find our way across the little complex to the hotel. I ended up paying a shuttle driver from a different hotel just to drop us off. Fuck that was bad.

Yep, same one.  That's all very close to our house.

artie_fufkin wrote:

"Last year we had to go to Cracker Barrel. Now, I love Cracker Barrel,"

OK, I'm confused. When I was younger, there was a mall near where I lived that had a Cracker Barrel, but it only sold gifts and packaged food, most notably something called a "Summer Sausage" that for teenage boys elicited a lot of warm weather dick jokes. Now I go on line and see there are only two left in Massachusetts. They appear to be restaurants now. Correct?
All I know about Golden Corral is that Jeff Foxworthy is the spokesman, from commercials I see on Extra Innings. I find Jeff Foxworthy as funny as Lou Gehrig's Disease.
 

You're right on both accounts as it concerns Cracker Barrel. It's still a store where you can buy random crap, but it's also a southern comfort food restaurant.

Foxworthy's humor is tailored to rednecks and southerners. You Yankees aren't sophisticated enough to understand it.

But that's OK, we don't understand northern stuff like the America's Cup or spending Summer's at the Vinyaaaaaaaaaad.

Last edited by forsberg_us (6/09/2016 4:53 pm)

forsberg_us wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

"Last year we had to go to Cracker Barrel. Now, I love Cracker Barrel,"

OK, I'm confused. When I was younger, there was a mall near where I lived that had a Cracker Barrel, but it only sold gifts and packaged food, most notably something called a "Summer Sausage" that for teenage boys elicited a lot of warm weather dick jokes. Now I go on line and see there are only two left in Massachusetts. They appear to be restaurants now. Correct?
All I know about Golden Corral is that Jeff Foxworthy is the spokesman, from commercials I see on Extra Innings. I find Jeff Foxworthy as funny as Lou Gehrig's Disease.
 

You're right on both accounts as it concerns Cracker Barrel. It's still a store where you can buy random crap, but it's also a southern comfort food restaurant.

Foxworthy's humor is tailored to rednecks and southerners. You Yankees aren't sophisticated enough to understand it.

But that's OK, we don't understand northern stuff like the America's Cup or spending Summer's at the Vinyaaaaaaaaaad.

 
Foxworthy's shtick consists of two things - The "You might be a redneck ..." jokes and observations about the differences between men and women. I don't understand most of the former and.the latter has been around since Adam and Eve.
The Vineyard is actually a lot of fun, and you could rent a beach house for less than $10,000 a week until the Clintons started going there. If you want to experience pretentiousness at the highest level, try Nantucket.