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[arethinn]

Am in the Las Vegas airport waiting to connect to Manchester, NH (going to Aeternitas, a Harry Potter con). The main thing this place makes me think of is the first Leisure Suit Larry game, which is set in the fictional town of "Lost Wages".

email sent to husband and mother:

This email is reaching you from FABULOUS LAS VEGAS. Actually the airport isn't that fabulous although there are slot machines (natch) and bizarre Best Buy vending machines (for all those times you wished you could buy an mp3 player or something - I haven't actually looked at the offerings - in an airport, I guess?) and scary posters advertising some place I can go to shoot a "real machine gun" just off the Strip. O.o

Mom, I got you a magnet to add to the collection. I think the fridge is going to tip over soon.

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[dragonzuela.livejournal.com]

I fly through Las Vegas a lot and that airport always skeeves me out a bit.

And Manchester is where I fly into when I go home. Say hi to the multiple Dunkin Donuts for me!

[arethinn]

The place is certainly rife with Dunkin, yeah. I'm always amused by the "America runs on Dunkin" ads on TV because I'm like, I think Dunkin exists out west, but I couldn't possibly tell you the closest location. (Kinda makes me miss Winchell's, which went out of business around here. Er, around where I live. You know what I mean. Apparently it still exists but the closest location is in Salinas!)

[dragonzuela.livejournal.com]

My roommates from Massachusetts and I have always had a reaction of "Why must you torment us so?" when we see those commercials.

[arethinn]

Their store locator only allows me to search a 50 mile radius and there are none in that. Quickly plugging in some other cities (including San Francisco and Los Angeles - no dice), the closest I can find is in Arizona.

[digitalsidhe]

Oh, hey, I remember those "shoot a real machine gun" ads! Kind of fondly, actually, for reasons I don't quite understand. I guess I'm really starting to like Vegas.

Not nearly as much as San Francisco, of course. But Vegas is fun for a vacation.

[feyandstrange]

You remember them fondly because they invariably featured a scantily clad hot chick with big plastic tits, sweetie. And you like your hot chicks to have (at least pretensions to) action heroine status, so hotties with guns gets your attention.

*smooches*

[digitalsidhe]

Okay, now I'm sorta confused. I actually don't remember the scantily-clad women on the ads. I'm just remembering the bold, white-on-red lettering. I mean, now that you mention it, I can easily imagine a bikini-clad babe posed next to the lettering, but I'm not sure if I'm remembering that or just mentally constructing it.

Maybe I forgot the babes because, hey, it's not like those were the only scantily-clad women I saw in Vegas?

[arethinn]

This is the poster in question:



Searching Google Images for "real machine gun las vegas" reveals several slightly different versions of the poster, but that's the one I saw (I, too, primarily remembered the lettering; I knew there was a woman but I couldn't recall how she was dressed).

[arethinn]

Plastic babe, yes; scantily clad, not so much. See http://arethinn.dreamwidth.org/1665921.html?thread=2575233#cmt2575233

[feyandstrange]

Those Best BUy vendors are making a mint off all the business travelers who forget a connector cable or charging cable for their cellphone or laptop or other critical hardware, actually. It's a pretty clever idea.

But Vegas airport is pretty nuts. SENSORY OVERLOAD STARTS NOW

Have good con!

[arethinn]

Those Best BUy vendors are making a mint off all the business travelers who forget a connector cable

Ahhhhhh okay. That's actually quite a logical idea for a business venture.

But Vegas airport is pretty nuts. SENSORY OVERLOAD STARTS NOW

Actually I didn't find it such. You were there fairly recently, right? Anyway, I dunno. Maybe it was that I was in the fog of it being 7:45 AM when we landed (and I'd got up at 4:30).

It was kinda neat being able to see the Luxor (I guess? the one with a giant black pyramid that made me think Illuminati, and a sphinx) from the runway when we took off.

[digitalsidhe]

Yup, that's the Luxor! I understand that, given the right atmospheric conditions, that beam can be seen from up to a hundred miles away.

[arethinn]

"Beam"? (keep in mind this was about 10:30 in the morning)

[popelaksmi]

Have a great convention! I am envious!

[istari.livejournal.com]

Yaaay for fridge magnets!

[arethinn]

Yay for mome raths!