Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for September 26, 2010

Las Vegas would be very very bad for Alice…

I guess that’s why I never went to Las Vegas.

I’ve been there, but didn’t gamble. And Alice might do fine – she could get three plastic whistles in a row and hit the jackpot.

Been to Vegas close to 70 times………..And I’m trying to remember if I gambled…………………*Ha* Did I ever!!!!!

I opine that Alice is already pre-addicted to gambling. If this isn’t corrected, she may face an unhappy adulthood. Don’t do it, Alice!

I know just how Alice feels. I once spent a week’s pay on the quarter slot machines in Vegas and ended up with a stinking plastic whistle too.

I won $300 tonight playing video poker. And that was at the grocery store.

I like the very precise sound effects of the gumball machine. Click Turn Drop

I once did great in Las Vegas. I arrived in a $20,000 car and left in a $200,000 bus.

When I was a child I had my eyes set on a miniture cigerate lighter…I kept trying always getting the little whistle. Then one day Halleluyah…I got it!

It really worked. Of course I didn’t smoke, I just wanted it to carry around.

They say gambling is the same as cocaine. I never drove my car into a tree coming home from the track.

My dad had to pay $28,000 in taxes one year for all he won. Tried to use his receipts for all his losses as a deduction………… He was old enough that he didn’t pay income tax.

This one’s a classic :)

No, Lew, but if you had had a slot machine in the car….

By the way, cocaine is less likely to get you to drive into a tree. Booze, on the other hand,…

Very funny, Randayn.

But it is truely sweet when you get that special item.

All I ever get is a spammer.

Talked to an old-timer in Carson City, NV who opined that if this country ever needed an enema, he’s pretty sure they would put the tube in in Las Vegas. Best description I’ve ever heard of that city.

I like her dress.

took me about 20$ bucks in quarters in one of those sugar loaf stuffed toy machines, but i finally got a mano neko (japanese lucky cat) toy - i collect the happy kitties had two kids watching me the whole time, saying, get the bear, no, the doll - my money my toy

last thing i got out of a machine before that was a moon necklace made out of real hematite

Love the watercolors, Richard!

Petey sees the horrible possibilities.