{"id":12016,"date":"2010-05-20T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=12016"},"modified":"2011-12-12T09:29:36","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T16:29:36","slug":"jihad-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/12016\/jihad-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"“Jihad, Las Vegas!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>A Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie story<\/em><\/p>\n

“C’mon, Sahib,” the Cabdriver said. “Let’s get rollin’.”<\/p>\n

Sahib said, “Again I must remind you that my name is not Sahib. And also I must ask you again to wait. Even now I am about to win the jackpot.”<\/p>\n

Sahib was sitting at a penny slot machine in the casino of the Stratosphere, in fun-filled-Las-Vegas-Nevada. Max coins, no less, a real player.<\/p>\n

“Jeesh!” said the Cabdriver. “Your jackpot’s a hundred freakin’ bucks!”<\/p>\n

“No, you are very much mistaken. The colossal-grand-jackpot on this machine is ten thousand American coins.”<\/p>\n

“It’s a freakin’ penny slot! Ten thousand pennies is a hundred bucks!”<\/p>\n

“Even so, I have every confidence that I must certainly hit the jackpot. By now I have eliminated nearly every other possibility.”<\/p>\n

“No memory.” I said that. I was at the bank of machines behind theirs, playing video poker.<\/p>\n

Sahib said, “I regret that I must ask you to repeat yourself.”<\/p>\n

“No memory. ‘The wheel has no memory.’ Blaise Pascal. Inventor of roulette. Also of probability theory. There’s a random number generator inside your machine. Sixty times a second it spits out a new random number. Doesn’t remember the last one. Doesn’t care about the next one. When you hit the max coins button, you get the current number, and nothing you did before, nothing you’ll do later will change that number.”<\/p>\n

The Cabdriver leaned over to murmur in my ear. “Freakin’ fascinating,” he grumbled, “but I’ve got to get this clown out of here!”<\/p>\n

“In addition,” Sahib continued, “a young woman has promised to bring me another one of these very appealing citrus beverages.”<\/p>\n

“Margarita,” I said.<\/p>\n

“Again I must beg your indulgence in repeating yourself.”<\/p>\n

“It’s a Margarita. Lime juice and tequila, plus Triple Sec or Cointreau or Grand Marnier.”<\/p>\n

Sahib was aghast. “Promise me, sir, that I am not consuming alcoholic spirits!”<\/p>\n

“Not here. Not by half. Here they make ’em with lime-ade and monkey-puke.”<\/p>\n

“Thanks be to Allah,” he sighed. “I am very much enjoying my monkey-puke.”<\/p>\n

The Cabdriver was seething. “Sahib! Hadn’t we better go about assembling your freakin’ bomb?!”<\/p>\n

To the Cabdriver I said, very quietly, “This is Las Vegas and it’s all about fun, but since nine-eleven I Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie story “C’mon, Sahib,” the Cabdriver said. “Let’s get rollin’.” Sahib said, “Again I must remind you that my name is not Sahib. And also I must ask you again to wait. Even now I am about to win the jackpot.” Sahib was sitting at a penny slot machine in the casino […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-casual-friday","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":244,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/244\/dood-web-20-is-totally-freakin-awesome\/","url_meta":{"origin":12016,"position":0},"title":"Dood! 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