FAIR SHAKE The word in Las Vegas last week was that the «short, chubby man from Connecticut» who made 50 straight passes at a Dunes
crap table not long ago (SCORECARD, Oct. 30) and collected $ 25,000 might have been using dice coated with cobalt - 60 — a radioactive substance — along with a small electronic device that would control their fall.
Not exact matches
If I walk past the
craps table in Vegas and somebody throws 11, I don't slap myself on the forehead for
not betting.
The thing about our house - with - toddler that drives me nuts is how packed with
CRAP our
table surfaces have become (and high bookshelves) because it's where everything the child can't touch goes.
In the living room / dining room area alone I have an infant swing (
not used in weeks), box of toys, art easel, exersaucer, Johnny Jump Up, Boppy, Breastfriend, play kitchen with associated
crap, and two dinning room chairs used for kids (one with a space saver infant chair (it can't fit up to the
table) and one with a booster).
Don't buckle her in or anything — the idea is to give her one less thing to fight about at the
table, so show her how little of a
crap you give about the «getting up after five minutes» game.
As at the
craps tables at the nearby casinos, in the end you just can't win.
Things have
not gone well lately, and
not just at the
craps table.
Gerry is the yin to Curtis's yang in this often adroit character study about losers on the brink of becoming winners,
not so much on the
craps table or at the roulette wheel, but in their journey to some measure of self - realization.
The third choice, which is to hire an editor based on what you can afford, typically far less expensive than the other two choices, is
not much better than going to Las Vegas and trying your luck at the
craps table.
The fonts are
crap Times New Roman, the formatting is all wrong, there is no frontispiece or professional
table of contents, the covers are poor quality, made with fuzzy images at far too low a resolution - all hallmarks of someone
not taking their time or researching how a good book looks.
But there are any number of adventures you can take part in on and around the Strip; after all, at its heart, this is a city that has a passion for both risk and extremes, and those qualities need
not be limited to the
craps table or the dance floor.
With odds like that, who wouldn't put his kids up on the
crap table as collateral?