Cruise Ships and Vegas

1durphul · Post by **1durphul** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 10:07 am

I'm just curious about the overlap...

junglesmacks · Post by **junglesmacks** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 10:35 am

The bigger question is what kind of bank roll you're coming with. Both are great, but Vegas is only Vegas if you are bringin' the wad in your back pocket. Other than that, it's just a bunch of blinking lights that take your money. Pass.

Fire_Moose · Post by **Fire_Moose** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 10:41 am

junglesmacks wrote:...it's just a bunch of blinking lights that take your money. Pass.

Isn't there something else in the desert like that?

junglesmacks · Post by **junglesmacks** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 10:43 am

Fire_Moose wrote:
junglesmacks wrote:...it's just a bunch of blinking lights that take your money. Pass.

Isn't there something else in the desert like that?

Yeah but the BJ's cost less out there. Hell, I just show up.

Post by **Eric** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 10:51 am

junglesmacks wrote:Yeah but the BJ's cost less out there.

Hmmmm.

This is the one area where I feel sorry for straight men.

Fire_Moose · Post by **Fire_Moose** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 11:12 am

...because we don't get to feel the beard stubble?

junglesmacks · Post by **junglesmacks** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 12:21 pm

Fire_Moose wrote:...because we don't get to feel the beard stubble?

Speak for yourself!

Bounce530 · Post by **Bounce530** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 12:31 pm

Fuck SmungleJacks! Really?! During lunch hour..huh, really? You owe me a sandwich now.

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 1:10 pm

Are there any cruise lines that stop in Vegas? I'd be into that.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 1:21 pm

Sssshhhhh, Dougly! You say stuff like that and you end up with a canal from the gulf of California!

Post by **Eric** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 1:58 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:Sssshhhhh, Dougly! You say stuff like that and you end up with a canal from the gulf of California!

Well, geologically Nevada is spreading apart (thus making the basins & ranges of the "Basin & Range" provinces of Nevada & Arizona), so if you wait long enough the water will get there on its own.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 2:49 pm

Eric wrote:
theCryptofishist wrote:Sssshhhhh, Dougly! You say stuff like that and you end up with a canal from the gulf of California!
Well, geologically Nevada is spreading apart (thus making the basins & ranges of the "Basin & Range" provinces of Nevada & Arizona), so if you wait long enough the water will get there on its own.

hhhmmm........I thought the Great Basin was compressing, ergo, the "compression ranges" that are all the strings of mountains there........

I hesitate to google, but, now wonder if I remember correctly.

Post by **Eric** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 3:24 pm

ygmir wrote:
Eric wrote:
theCryptofishist wrote:Sssshhhhh, Dougly! You say stuff like that and you end up with a canal from the gulf of California!
Well, geologically Nevada is spreading apart (thus making the basins & ranges of the "Basin & Range" provinces of Nevada & Arizona), so if you wait long enough the water will get there on its own.
hhhmmm........I thought the Great Basin was compressing, ergo, the "compression ranges" that are all the strings of mountains there........

I hesitate to google, but, now wonder if I remember correctly.

Nope- it's stretching. It's actually the area with the thinest crust on the North American plate, and the most likely area for the plate to pull apart.

Here's the USGS overview of the region.

I also highly recommend John McPhee's "Basin & Range" as a great resource on the area, even though it was written when plate tectonics was a new theory.

edit: fixed some singular/ plural action...

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 3:46 pm

Pssst, Eric. I think Plate Techtonics is one theory and takes the singular.

Post by **Eric** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 3:55 pm

Oops. Thanks Fishy- I'm too busy pontificating on multiple subjects as a way to avoid cleaning the house. See what it gets me?

Bounce530 · Post by **Bounce530** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 3:57 pm

Enough of yer book learn'ed jibber jabber, where's JS with mah samitch?!

junglesmacks · Post by **junglesmacks** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 4:10 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:Pssst, Eric. I think Plate Techtonics is one theory and takes the singular.

Nope. It's with an "s". It's not a theory, it's a concept. Like physic"s".

Post by **Eric** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 4:42 pm

junglesmacks wrote:
theCryptofishist wrote:Pssst, Eric. I think Plate Techtonics is one theory and takes the singular.
Nope. It's with an "s". It's not a theory, it's a concept. Like physic"s".

I think it's technically a "theory", just like gravity is.

The confusion comes from The Masses thinking that "theory" means just a speculative idea, a "maybe", whereas in science a theory means a scientifically acceptable principle based on a rational and careful evaluation of the facts to explain different phenomena (ie: Theory of Gravity, Theory of Relativity, Theory of Plate Tectonics, Theory of Evolution, Wave Theory of Light..)

Thecatman · Post by **Thecatman** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 5:00 pm

Well, in about 10,000 years or so, maybe more, the Dodgers and Giants will be crosstown rivals, again, just like they were when they played in New York. Thanks to the San Andreas fault.

Underneath all the mountains in Nevada sits an earthquake fault so maybe in a few thousand years Las Vegas will have beachfront property.

Snow · Post by **Snow** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 5:19 pm

Never been on a typical cruise, so not sure how to answer that one.

All this geology talk is making me hard as a rock. Nevada is indeed stretching (east-west), which helps create our N-S trending mountain ranges. This is refered to as horst and graben terrain. Which if I remember correctly means headstone and grave in german. The playas occupy the grabens. Here's a diagram to save me a few thousand words (the arrows represent relative motion http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/glossary/?term=horst

Maybe someday Vegas will be on the Sea of Cortez. It'll be like Mazatlan but with casinos.

junglesmacks · Post by **junglesmacks** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 5:39 pm

Whatever the hell it is, it's plate tectonics. Not plate tectonic. Did you study physic in high school?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_te ... ected=true

Post by **Eric** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 5:55 pm

JS-Read my post- the "s" is there. Still a singular subject, however.

Post by **Eric** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 5:58 pm

and you just have to love ePlayans- not many boards where you can actually get intellectual discussion amongst the dirty jokes.

junglesmacks · Post by **junglesmacks** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 6:40 pm

Lol exactly

Toss in some grammar nazis, a few sexual inuendos, random drug references and a side order of GFY and we've got a winner!

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 6:43 pm

As a proud Citizen of Terminal City, I am a Grammar Communist!

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 6:43 pm

Or maybe a communard. I get confused.

Post by **Eric** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 7:03 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:Or maybe a communard. I get confused.

Is your voice high-pitched enough to be a Communard?

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Bounce530 · Post by **Bounce530** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 9:37 pm

Or just some hungry dude...Roast beef, pepper jack, mustard, on sourdough Junglesmacks!! forget that, I want a jumbo jack from Jack-in-the-box now JSmacks!! WTF did you ploink me, or what JS?! I'm not forgettin' this shizzy s'macks you owe me a sandwich!!

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 9:47 pm

Eric wrote:and you just have to love ePlayans- not many boards where you can actually get intellectual discussion amongst the dirty jokes.

yeah, and, someone usually knows the correct answer, and, at times, shares it.

Thanks Eric, I stand corrected........

Elorrum · Post by **Elorrum** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 10:30 pm

re: Vegas and Cruise ships.. ahem.

they gots lots a sammiches.

some blinky lights too. Only been to vegas once. I had to work long days cleaning up a store that was near the annual corporate wing ding. Scraping double stick tape off beams, and painting bollards, mainly. woo hoo vegas. They put us in a nice quiet hotel near the tram line, but not within walking distance of anything. I got to see some nice impressionist paintings at Bellagio I think. It was nice to find a quiet place. Casinos mainly impressed me with their charged air of WANT and noise.

I have a lottery fantasy of a Cunard Suite on a world cruise.

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