# Things to do in Vegas when you're dead - a holiday MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [December 10, 2007, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-in-vegas-when-youre-dead-a-holiday-mmp/429459 "2007-12-10T10:38:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-in-vegas-when-youre-dead-a-holiday-mmp/429459/61 "2007-12-11T00:56:51Z")
[QUOTE=Noone Special] \*\*Haze \*\*-- I wonder, I have a (probably stupid) ides, but I wonder if it has _any_ merit at all… students will be told that all printed work will be scrutinized for plagiary with a fine tooth comb… but not so much (as in, only spot-checked – not given a complete pass) if they submit work the **old fashione** way – hand written! Then at least you’ll know they had to **copy** the material, word by word – and hopefully at least some of the stuff will sink in. Do you think this is a completely screwy idea? [/QUOTE] You haven’t seen what The Internet Revolution has done to handwriting, have you. Some of my students last year had such horrible chickenscratch I couldn’t even read their _names_. Just a summary left. Then spellcheck, beta reader and submission. And there better be a movie night tonight of my buddy’s not going to get his copy of **Best in Show** back until next year. Or bourbon balls for the group. Their loss. _Stop being pessimistic, Spaz, and finish your damn paper._ You can fuck right off, reason. Don’t make me cut you. Okay, when I start arguing with the voices in my head online it’s time to take a break. Summary time! ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-in-vegas-when-youre-dead-a-holiday-mmp/429459/62 "2007-12-11T01:04:26Z")
[QUOTE=SpazCat] _Stop being pessimistic, Spaz, and finish your damn paper._ You can fuck right off, reason. Don’t make me cut you. Okay, when I start arguing with the voices in my head online it’s time to take a break. Summary time! [/QUOTE] **Spaz** is gettin’ ready to rumble in her haid! 😃 Ima take some melatonin and go to bed cause I feel like it. Nitey Nite! ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-in-vegas-when-youre-dead-a-holiday-mmp/429459/63 "2007-12-11T01:06:09Z")
[QUOTE=SpazCat] You haven’t seen what The Internet Revolution has done to handwriting, have you. Some of my students last year had such horrible chickenscratch I couldn’t even read their _names_. [/QUOTE] Hah! That reminds me; my friend sits next to me at work, and we always pass each other our students’ quizzes in an attempt to decipher their handwriting. It’s like they wrote it blindfolded. With their left foot. Friend: Er, what does this one say? Me: Umm… Kunt? Oh, wait. Kant. Kant descr…ibes … the … cu … categorical em… embarassment? Oh, maybe that’s an i. Okay. Categorical im… imperative as an … un… unmentionable? Unmentionable in… initiative? That can’t be right. What the fuck is an unmentionable initiative? Friend: I dunno, but it sounds dirty. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-in-vegas-when-youre-dead-a-holiday-mmp/429459/64 "2007-12-11T01:14:50Z")
But **Hazel** –he Kant mention it! hahaahahahahahah I have sent my final into the cyber abyss. I have class tomorrow night (during which I fully plan to play Scrabulous online) and then I am done for the semester! Yahoo! Ice storm cometh. Or so they sayeth… ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-in-vegas-when-youre-dead-a-holiday-mmp/429459/65 "2007-12-11T01:16:07Z")
Poor **mmmmms** and **herbs** , hope you both have better days tomorrow. Glad to hear that you have so many viable options, **swampy**! Hope that the van is a-ok **FCM**. Today was just a laugh a minute here. I finally went to my postponed doctor’s visit for a lovely pap smear. Ugh. And this evening I have decided that it’s time to end my participation in the drug study. I’ve been on the full strength dose long enough that it should be fully in my system by now. As far as major depression symptoms, it really has helped. But it’s actually made my mood swings much worse. And because I’m not allowed to take a mood stabilizer in addition to this drug, my life has been a sometimes unbearable roller coaster. There’s some [research](http://www.psycheducation.org/start/BPIntro.htm) that says that perhaps it is better to take a mood stabilizer alone and completely skip the antidepressants. So I’m going to email that link to my doctor tomorrow and see what she says. I think that now is the time to do this because my employee whose hours I cut has picked up more hours teaching after the first of the year and will only be available two mornings a week. Most likely we will be relatively slow through the end of the year and I figure that our slow time is the best time to fall apart once again. And it will be better to do so when I know that there is someone available to cover for me if I can’t make it in. It’s not that I’m trying to set myself up for failure. I know that it sounds that way, but it’s just that I know how I react if I am not on any medication at all. It’s kind of like descending into the depths of a dark, black pit. I don’t want to go back there, but ironically, it seems like going backwards may be the only way to go forward. Of course, there’s another drawback. **Noonelunchspecial1** won’t be around to console me for a week. ☹ Alright, enough of my crap for now. I’ve got some work to do. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-in-vegas-when-youre-dead-a-holiday-mmp/429459/66 "2007-12-11T01:50:06Z")
I remember teaching in grad school. Mostly it was fun, but sometimes :rolleyes:. Hope everyone finishes up without too much pain. Wow, you were busy, **Bobbio**! Sounds like a solid plan, **Cutie Pie**. Hope everything cooperates so that you can feel better. I’ve read everything, but I’m really sleepy. I think I’m going to give in to that and get up early to do stuff. Hugs… GT ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-in-vegas-when-youre-dead-a-holiday-mmp/429459/67 "2007-12-11T01:54:45Z")
Well, I TRIED to renew, but the damned server keeps crashing on me. Stoopit SDMB. Bah. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-in-vegas-when-youre-dead-a-holiday-mmp/429459/68 "2007-12-11T02:30:57Z")
Okay, **Special One** , is [this HDTV commercial](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4noZTx8UIXE&eurl=http://chaptzem.blogspot.com/) running in Israel? Because it certainly seems aimed at your market. In a sick and twisted way. 😃 Good luck getting heat, **mmmmms**. And fighting the contracting idiots. It sounds like they’re really, really obnoxious – I hope you get it all straightened out ASAP. Hang in there, **Pie**. We’ll be here help you get through no meds. I realize **Special One** is an excellent consoler, but surely the rest of us can help a little bit! I’ve had a dull and boring day. Worked a little bit, didn’t work a lot more. The most exciting thing I did was run to the drugstore. What an exciting life I lead. I wish there was something worth vegetating in front of the TV for tonight; I’d go put my feet up in bed and relax. But alas, the TV has seldom been a more vast wasteland. I shudder to think what it’s going to be like if the writer’s strike goes on too much longer. I heard a song on the radio a few minutes ago that was possibly the most depressing Christmas song I’ve ever heard in my life. It’s written by Billy Joel (although not performed by him), and it’s called “Christmas in Fallujah.” Damn. I sure hope they don’t play that for our guys in the war zones; it was enough to put me into a massive depression just sitting in my driveway! Thanks a heap, Billy. :rolleyes: Even Weird Al’s “Christmas at Ground Zero” is a positive paean to cheeriness in comparison to this little number! ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-in-vegas-when-youre-dead-a-holiday-mmp/429459/69 "2007-12-11T02:34:24Z")
The paper, she be done. The movie night, she be apparently called off. The Spaz, she be about to play Simpsons and hang out with her buddy Jim from the pantry. I leave you from some gems from my sentence file compiled while I was teaching freshman composition last year. \*People are self-preoccupied, which means they want to benefit for themselves, and then settle down in marriage. I was my boyfriend of two years of two years who dropped out of college and worked for a trucking company and a pizza shop delivering on the weekends. One is playing it safe if they’re out of college at twenty-two, have their career up and running by twenty-three, married by twenty-four, and have 2.4 children by thirty-one. My parents have always told me not to get involved with a male subject before I was out of college. A lot of definitely feel pressured to accomplish a lot in a short time all the time. I on a personal level such as this have not had adequate experiences to be able to give a good explanation. Love is doing anything for someone, even if it is a hard decision for you. Love is just basically a bond that can overcome any obstacle that it is up against. Sex is a kind of a physical form of love only if you are in love with your partner. Society today demands so much from individuals, that competition has risen quite a lot.\* And that’s just from the first three pages! I have five more pages of this! ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-in-vegas-when-youre-dead-a-holiday-mmp/429459/70 "2007-12-11T02:41:33Z")
> [@](#): > > One is playing it safe if they’re out of college at twenty-two, have their career up and running by twenty-three, married by twenty-four, and have 2.4 children by thirty-one. Funny, it doesn’t _feel_ like I’m living dangerously… **CutiePie** , we can fill in for **Special1** on occasion. 😉 :: hits **rigs** with wet trout :: I have Ree’s chicken casserole in the oven. Smells gooooooooood. ---
**Author:** ![ems](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@ems](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ems)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-in-vegas-when-youre-dead-a-holiday-mmp/429459/71 "2007-12-11T03:04:02Z")
😃 On a brighter note I picked Libby up from the vets at about 5.30. She was spayed today…she is a cone head…no no no make that a drunk cone head. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA 😃 She managed to get the cone off in her carrier on the 10 min drive from the vets little bugger that she is. She is currently snoring under my bed. I will take pictures if she ever comes out ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-in-vegas-when-youre-dead-a-holiday-mmp/429459/72 "2007-12-11T03:04:51Z")
Thanks, guys. I appreciate you all. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-in-vegas-when-youre-dead-a-holiday-mmp/429459/73 "2007-12-11T03:11:33Z")
TGIM. I’m off tomorrow. I’m watching hockey, and surfing. When i was watching the game yesterday, i saw an ad for nitrogen in tires. i wanted to scream [Cite](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/070216.html)? Great OP, **BooFae**! **mmmmm** , hope you get warm soon. **Cutie Pie** , i can do consoling. **Herbs** , :eek: I hope the job gets better. **Sean** , just pretend you’re [me](http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e260/dogbutler/Hockey%2007/hockey192.jpg) Congrats on the decluttering, Shadow! **Spazcat** , [Tamarian](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmok) makes more sense than those phrases. **BBBobbio** , you make me feel like a slacker. 🙂 **LiLi** , kids eat _dirt_. I think **tinyninjachef** will survuive rregular detergent. ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-in-vegas-when-youre-dead-a-holiday-mmp/429459/74 "2007-12-11T03:21:17Z")
Hello everyone. That was a nice OP **BooFae.** I’d like to actually go to the Skybridge sometime. Vegas doesn’t interest me a whole lot, but there’s other stuff to see and do around there. I had to go to my daughter’s student led conference this evening. It was very good and her advisor had nothing but good things to say about her. He did gently chide her about making sure her portfolio is done, but that’s all. **Mr. Taters** is currently at MIL. Some crazy idiot (maybe drunk) drove through her front curbside garden and knocked her mailbox down. It was cemented into the ground, so I’m sure whatever vehicle hit it sustained a bit of damage. At any rate, the hubby wasn’t exactly thrilled about going there. It’s dark and it’s only about 30 degrees outside. He’ll temporarily prop the pole and box up with stones and rocks, and have to come back this weekend to properly cement it in. **ems,** I sure hope you get the heating situation squared away. That just sounds intolerable. I gotta tell you, I’d be blazing mad if it were me, and I’d be shooting flames up some backsides. I think I’m going to sit down and relax for a bit. It’s been a long, busy day. Hugs to all. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Blue-Sighted\_Shadow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@The\_Blue-Sighted\_Shadow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Blue-Sighted_Shadow)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-in-vegas-when-youre-dead-a-holiday-mmp/429459/75 "2007-12-11T03:24:35Z")
I am so glad to be home! The long meeting scheduled today went so far over, the rest of it had to be rescheduled. So I spent the rest of the afternoon trying to schedule the end of the meeting for Wednesday. Between you, me, and well, everyone, the rest of the meeting is never going to happen, not this year anyway. I know that, they know that, we all know that. But we have to pretend. So I got 15 minutes of overtime out of it, and got out of the office before it was completely dark. (Someone much higher up in the food chain than me is going round them up this weekend, so I don’t have to worry about it for a while.) After I escaped the office, I’m driving down the street and I am confused by what I see in front of me. Why are there headlights? This is a one way street, right? I have no idea how they got there, they had to be going the wrong way for a significant distance, but there they were, trying to turn :eek: at the intersection, going the wrong way. At the next intersection, a police horse goes trotting by, wearing a Santa hat. I decided that I really needed to get home before the weirdness caught up to me. Or is it too late? :eek: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-in-vegas-when-youre-dead-a-holiday-mmp/429459/76 "2007-12-11T03:47:28Z")
Ugh. Tired. But work went well. My coworkers seem to be a really nice bunch, and from all reports my new boss is as awesome as she seems to be. Learning all the ins and outs of the computer system will take a bit, but the basics don’t seem to be very difficult. All I did today was sit and watch and listen and tomorrow I think they want to get me on the phone and actually using the silly 'puter. Fine by me, the sooner I actually get going the sooner I will learn WTF I am doing. And then feel free to call me and book a room that is anywhere from (from my perspective) fairly expensive all the way to insanely expensive! _yawn_ I’m going to crawl in early. I’m getting sleepy, early, which is fine by me. More sleep is a good thing in my world! ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-in-vegas-when-youre-dead-a-holiday-mmp/429459/77 "2007-12-11T03:53:36Z")
Hey all! Just stopped in to say hi and give a little update: I got that library position I wanted, and I’m currently doing training for it. I finished up this semester’s classes tonight (thank Og for online submission of homework), and I get three weeks of not having class so I can get used to my new job. I’m excited about this and I just had to share. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-in-vegas-when-youre-dead-a-holiday-mmp/429459/78 "2007-12-11T04:01:28Z")
[QUOTE=nashiitashii] Hey all! Just stopped in to say hi and give a little update: I got that library position I wanted, and I’m currently doing training for it. I finished up this semester’s classes tonight (thank Og for online submission of homework), and I get three weeks of not having class so I can get used to my new job. I’m excited about this and I just had to share. [/QUOTE] Woo _AND_ Hoo!!! ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-in-vegas-when-youre-dead-a-holiday-mmp/429459/79 "2007-12-11T04:10:07Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] Woo _AND_ Hoo!!! [/QUOTE] ok- that was meant sincerely - sorry if it came off snide. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-in-vegas-when-youre-dead-a-holiday-mmp/429459/80 "2007-12-11T05:22:27Z")
Nelly gets her 15 minutes of [fame](http://www.stuffonmymutt.com/index.php?itemid=1288). 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-in-vegas-when-youre-dead-a-holiday-mmp/429459.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-to-do-in-vegas-when-youre-dead-a-holiday-mmp/429459.md?page=5)