Living in Las Vegas
Posted by Steve Yeich | Posted in Humor article | Posted on 08-09-2009
Tags: funny article about Las Vegas, funny stuff about Las Vegas, Humor article about Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Life in Las vegas
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I love living in Las Vegas. Having been here for 30 years and more than half of my life almost constitutes being a native. I am originally from Pennsylvania, who, apparently, for tourist luring reasons, likes to name their towns with sexual overtones. This is witnessed by name such as Virginsville (and there actually was one, although she did grow into her teens), Blue Ball, Intercourse, Beaver, Beaverdale, Beaver Falls, New Beaver, Beaver Meadows, Beaver Springs, Beavertown… (WOW!!), and then it’s lights out when Slickville meets Big Beaver! I don’t even want to think about the sporting events between their respective schools!
After looking at that I don’t know how they call Las Vegas “Sin City”, all we have are strippers, strip clubs, hookers and “dealers”, who knows what is going on in towns like Blue Ball.
Seriously though, I do love Las Vegas, and I’m proud of the slogan, ”what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas,” otherwise all of my out of state friends would think I fall asleep at 9:00 every night (which I do, but why blow my cover). We are one of the most unique cities in the world and have much to be thankful for, great weather, wonderful food, fantastic entertainment, and, most of all that the monorail was not funded with taxpayer dollars.
We are lucky enough to have a powerful and caring mayor who loves our city almost as much as a bottle of gin, and that is quite a tribute in this case. We have a governor who is nonpartisan as any politician could be, meaning he is equally hated by Republicans and Democrats.
When I was a kid growing up in Pennsylvania, I had to walk to school through high drifts of snow, sometimes even barefoot, as I always liked to tell my daughter (while at the same time asking her to “pull my finger”). In contrast, Las Vegas is a four hour drive from Disneyland – how are you going to beat that?
Where else but Las Vegas can you see very aesthetic mega resorts? We have mountains on one side and one of the largest man-made lakes in the world on the other side. We don’t have to worry about earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados or Cher performing her “farewell tour” year after year after year…oh, wait, we do have that one, but from the others we are pretty safe.
Oh sure there are the naysayers that complain that Las Vegas has all the debauchery of gambling, strip clubs, and billboards of naked women on every corner. To that I say, “So what’s your point?”
Many of the people who founded our great city may have been scoundrels but they were also visionaries and what they envisioned may not be what we currently have but we are pretty darn proud of it. And for those few who don’t care for Las Vegas, several government dignitaries have been quoted “off the record” as saying, “Bite me.”
If someone wants to have a nice vacation they might want to try visiting Blue Ball, Pennsylvania, but, if they want to have a GREAT vacation they should come to Las Vegas.
great post as usual!
Hello Steve,
Just read your comment on My Town – yes, was born in Vegas. I really like your viepoint. My dad is from Pennsylvania (the only thing worse than going to bed hungry is going to bed cold and hungry)
LOL – But not in Vegas!
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