Fun:Nevada
Nevada is Las Vegas, Area 51 and tumbleweed. And Reno. And, er...
[edit] Fun things to do in Clark County that don't involve gambling
Okie, here's what you do. Git yerself a pan. And an old Filson hat. And a pick. And a mule. (The mule is optional). Find yerself a crick. Pretend it's 1870 and you're an old prospector. Start panning for silver and...hey wait a minute, that's gambling, isn't it?
Take a bath in the Las Vegas real estate market, and...hey, wait a minute, that's gambling too.
Mount Charleston is a nice snowy, cool, forested getaway from the oppressive heat of Las Vegas. Don't bother trying to buy a home up there though, because if you have to ask how much one costs, you can't afford it.
Blue Diamond has 282 hippies and about 5000 feral mules.
Boulder City is a great place to sit in your backyard and peer down on Hoover Dam Boulder Dam Hoover Dam, where with the aid of binoculars you can ogle tourists and keep a close watch out for any terrorist activity. The dam has something to do with Herbert Hoover, but we're not sure what. If you take a dam tour, make sure you keep up with the dam group and take all the dam pictures you want.[1]
Nelson is south of Boulder City, which is a great place to hide out from the New World Order (it did in fact function as such a hideout during the Civil War for both Confederate and Union troops); a little further south is Searchlight, whence comes Senator Harry Reid, the current leader of the Free World.
South of Searchlight can be found the thriving hamlet of Laughlin, best known for the occasional shootout involving the Hells Angels.
Squirrels, unfortunately, quickly find the hot dry climate and the lack of trees inhospitable and move on to more inviting areas.
[edit] Nevada in popliar [sic] culture
- Viva Las Vegas!
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Hunter S. Thompson.
- Leaving Las Vegas: Nicolas Cage's best movie appearance is also his most depressing
- The original CSI
- In the 50s, one of Las Vegas' attractions was open air nuclear bomb tests.
- "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" (along with your money...)
- Reno apparently has some really inept cops.
- Bill Maher thinks "Vegas was better when the Mob ran it".
- Area 51 is north-northwest of Las Vegas and can be reached by driving toward Tonopah and turning right at [THIS SECTION DELETED BY THE U.S. DEPT OF HOMELAND SECURITY].
- Pahrump, Nevada, also known as the Kingdom of Nye, home of Art Bell when he isn't in the Phillipines.
- Winnemucca is NOT pronounced "win-a-much-a" and its name predates legal gambling in the state.
- "In a beautiful gesture by the beautiful people of beautiful downtown Goldfield, this radio station was named Kowalski, in honor of the last American Hero...for whom speed means freedom of the soul...the question is not when he's gonna stop, but who is gonna stop him."
- The worst traffic in the state is the steady stream of cars headed to and from Wendover every weekend from the neighboring state of Utah. Hmm...
[edit] Footnotes
- ↑ I have a question: where can I get some dam bait around here?
