Norman,

Thanks for the very generous offer... but I'm afraid if I get a strike, I might start collecting them. I've only been doing this for 1 1/2 months and I'm looking at over 1,000 chips to the left of me stacked in piles (my 2-year-old son really likes the piles too)! Please feel free to do whatever you'd like with the strike... give it to a new collector (so they start collecting and I stay married ), donate it to the next Bruce Landau Memorial Auction or whatever you see fit. I truly appreciate the offer, but I'm too scared to bring in more casino items... next thing you know I'll have matches, ashtrays, playing cards... nobody in their right mind collects these! We all know chips, strikes and tokens are the only "real" casino collectibles.

Thanks again!

Larry