# Major Kong: Vegas or Dallas?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-kong-vegas-or-dallas/974709>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** movies\
**Created:** [November 10, 2022, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-kong-vegas-or-dallas/974709 "2022-11-10T20:54:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-kong-vegas-or-dallas/974709/21 "2022-11-11T16:01:18Z")

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> [@Dr.Strangelove](#):
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> I think the joke ultimately works better with Vegas.

Is it that it works better in 1964 or that it aged better over the years?  
I voted for Dallas because that is Major Kong’s style. Remember he talked about harelip[ping] everybody on Bear Creek. I also suspect Major Kong is the type of soldier/sailor/airman/marine that only knows about things from their small rural hometown and the military i.e. no worldly view.

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**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-kong-vegas-or-dallas/974709/22 "2022-11-15T00:51:30Z")

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> [@Kent\_Clark](#):
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> Not when the movie was released two months after the Kennedy assassination, no. Would anyone have released a movie with the line “Let’s party on top of the World Trade Center” two months after 9/11?

Coincidently, my new hire group and I were trapped in Dallas during 9/11 (w[hich was obviously a better place to be than our office in Lower Manhattan](https://www.911research.wtc7.net/~nin11evi/911research/wtc/evidence/photos/docs/gz_hd1391p36.jpg)). We did a lot of partying that week.

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**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-kong-vegas-or-dallas/974709/23 "2022-11-15T01:43:31Z")

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> [@Saint\_Cad](#):
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> Is it that it works better in 1964 or that it aged better over the years?

Well, that I couldn’t say, since I was -14 years old in 1964. While I agree that Dallas fits with Kong’s provincial style, I don’t think Vegas is out of place. It wasn’t exactly obscure, even for a small-town boy. And since the joke is about the kind of supplies that might come in handy in a party town, and not so much about Kong, I think it works better with Vegas.

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