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The Chip Board Archive 14

YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM LAS VEGAS WHEN.... NCR

1. You have no idea what a scarf does, but think it looks good

2. You know how to get to any casino on the strip without taking Las Vegas Blvd

3. You know where the natural history museum, art museum and zoo are. (The new people say, "Vegas has a zoo?")

4. You can now predict where the construction signs will be misleadingly placed.

5. Stop signs and red lights mean very little

6. the last time you went to the strip, except to work, your cousins were in town last summer

7. You become nocturnal between the months of April to October.

8. You know the seasons: Really hot, 2 weeks of nice, not so hot, 2 weeks of nice.

9. Your favorite chocolate is Ethel M.

10. When you go to different cities, you're amazed things aren't open after 9 pm

11. You've never seen a closed gas station

12. You can get hard liquor any day of the week, any time of the day.

13. When arriving home from vacation the slot machines in McCarran are comforting

14. You are still asked "smoking or non?" when you go out to eat.

15. You laugh at people playing the slots at 7-11

16. You have no idea how a lottery works

17. What is a last call?

18. Your most prized possession as a Nevadan is your blue and white license plate.
19. You know the spaghetti bowl has nothing to do with food

20. You know never to merge right when driving north on I-15, it'll end anyway.

21. You think a pile of rocks is a nice lawn

22. The term Lake Las Vegas doesn't seem redundant in the slightest.

23. You remember the lion (Actually they didn't remove it because it was ugly; they removed it because there were some Asian superstitions that made it bad luck! Bad luck is bad for gambling revenue. (True fact!)

24. You give directions to your house based on location of closest casino

25. You need to walk through a casino to see a movie.

26. You go in circles through McCarran on purpose

27. You can spot a tourist from 3 miles away

28. Limos are an everyday sighting

29. You laugh at people taking pictures in front of the "welcome" sign

30. You don't own an umbrella

31. Sixty degrees is cold enough to wear a jacket (Try 70)

32. You can wear pants in the summer and shorts in the winter

33. You've never HAD to pay for parking.

34. You are outraged to pay more than 9.99 for prime rib and a lobster tail.

35. You remember when the 215 was a secret.

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YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM LAS VEGAS WHEN.... NCR
RALPH THANKS FOR THE LAUGH = vbg
Ralph, got the chips today, Thanks

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