I was interviewed for this piece last week, and it’s interesting to see how it all came together. I’m glad I’m not the only one who didn’t think that this proposal made no sense. From Arkansas Business:
If a proposed constitutional amendment allowing Texas businessman Michael J. Wasserman to build casinos in Arkansas sounds like a license to print money, you don't know the half of it.
When Arkansas Business sent Wasserman's proposed amendment to gambling experts, they were gobsmacked by the proposal, which they described as so tilted toward the casino operator that it would be unprecedented, if not completely unrealistic.
via Casino Proposal Termed ‘Nirvana’ for Businessman – ArkansasBusiness.com.
Read the article–it is quite a fanciful proposal for casino legalization.
Is this a real article and not an early April Fool’s Day joke? (A hypothetical question showing my disbelief at how ludacris it is, for you literalists out there.)
And is “gobsmacked” in the mainstream lexicon now?
Nirvana–indeed, I hope he means “non-existence”!
I’m going to print this one out (on my own coin) and pass it out to impressionable youngsters. Thanks.
Google Trends seems to indicate that the term “gobsmacked” has had recent surges of popularity. Doesn’t look like it is quite mainstream, but maybe it is up to the trendsetters, at least until it snowballs, if ever. (See the graph at http://www.google.com/trends?q=gobsmacked )
Compare this with the seemingly necessary word “neen,” which even the technoliterati (or whatever) ignored: http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/Neen/
(Now testing my hypothesis that a comment with web addresses in it will be held for moderation….)
Yes MS.
Comments with URLs are held back for moderation – JTLYK (just to let you know). That’s a new abbreviation I just invented (thru the process of ‘Telic Neening’). I think I’ll call that JTLYK abbreviation “JitLick” and use it every chance I get.
I’ve always been a JitLicker and an FYI-er. [Definition FYI-er. A person who deems it very important to provide weird "heads up" notices to other people]. JitLickers and FYI-ers usually have kind-hearted intentions, which many times (unfortunately and mistakenly) are interpretted as trying to be a KIT (Know It ALL).
[JitLick] Web addresses are held back for moderation to avoid potential Spam insertions and to act as a sort of ‘ten second delay (like network TV uses)..to keep people like Kenye West from ‘high-jacking the public consciousness for personal reasons’. Kanye West is a HJTPCFPR-er (That’a pronounced:”HedgeJetPickCafFahPer” in the ‘Telic Neening & Text Messaging Pronounciation Guide’) [JTLYK].
It was very nice (and truly insightful) of you Miss Schopie, to provide this bit of FYI on the words “Neen” and “Telic”.
I think I’m a Neener…and that’s a good thing to realize. As the definition states: “Neen is Telic that went nuts”.
BTW: I am always impressed by you Miss Schopie (in this case, for using a website called “Knowledge Rush”). That’s an excellent term for the feeling that certain people (like us) get from their ‘addiction to main-lining new info into their noggins’. BTW & FYI. That syndrome’s abbreviated term is ATMLNITN.
[Pronounciation: "AtMelNiten"].
Yes Shoey. I am very glad you provided this introduction to the new words “Telic” and “Neening”. I now understand (much better than before [MBTB] {pronounced “MubTub”} how my method of blogging is, in fact, a
Awh heck. The funny ending about my use of Neening got cut off. Oh well. No biggie.
10-4. Over & out to you Meighan.
MS: the last line that got cut-off was this:
‘Case of Neening Just Outta Brotherhood’ [CONJOB].
haha.
Well, FYI, in this case, no need to be so neenly impressed for “knowledge rush,” IMHO; I had heard of “neen” from an actual flesh-and-paper book, and just used the first pertinent Google result to get my point across. I don’t think I’ll mention the author, though, for fear of impressing people. But I did get the book at American University Cairo bookstore, which may be impressing in a different way.
What was this post about again?
Neener neener neener,
fhqwhgads
Schopen-Hopen
I thought this post was about a Kurt Cobain revival in Little Rock. Mayne I was reading too thoroughly thou.
Then I got diverted by the concept of Neenerism (“the opportunistic reuse of technologies for purposes other than those for which they were designed).
I’m Neenering the heck out of this blog and was glad you (perhaps inadvertently) brought that to my attention.
You Funny Schopie…hitchiking to Cairo for new books to read.
TTYL
(Talk To You Later…in Internets-Speak).
The World’s Weird Web. The Information Super-Highway that Bill Clinton talked about. Look what it’s wrought.
BTW: It will take me months to decipher what “fhqwhgads” might mean.
I think you two need to get a room, or at least your own blog.
OK. I’ll reserve the Egghead Special they offer at the Gold Spike. Or else I’ll just revive my blog-site…being as how I can’t get Jenny’s phone number anyway.
But…JTLYK (just to let you know)J-I-OKC… the attraction is simply intellectual and Schopie is one of the few people I’d invite on an Egghead Adventure anyway.
OK. Now that you’ve mentioned it I’ll get my blog going again. I’ve been reluctant to do that…because I intend to make it a closed forum with no comments allowed or wanted (pro OR con).
It will be run in a Hitler-esque Fashion with no comments allowed to disrupt my soap-boxing dictatorship, non-democratic, no-inputs allowed blog.
And whoever cares to stop by can say “Uh-Wow” to their wall…cuz, I don’t have time for the criticism or the comments of people so intent on social-correction.
I once had an aunt who used to try keeping people in-line just thru her eye movements. She had Body Language that was stricter than a nun. She used to cast-a-glance that would make even Robin Williams and Don Rickles behave like choir-boys and ‘straighten-up-and-fly-right’.
It really bugs me when people have to comment on my comments. You know BY NOW that you aren’t going to like what I say…so I don’t know why people just don’t scan over the Erik2020 comments. Especially on this one particular post that had no previous comments posted here on the subject anyway.
Instead people seek social-correction or banishment. Okay. So I’ll shut-up and not post here anymore and I’ll go start my blog.
For awhile now I’ve been thinking of doing a blog called ‘Vegas Ripping’ where I’d do a parody of the various Vegas websites that go into great detail and debates over various billion-dollar deals that OTHER PEOPLE are swinging….or critiquing the bathtub soap at Encore.
But I’d get bored to quick doing that.
Instead I’ll go start another $10-a-month website…maybe talking about all the many things I actually LOVE about Las Vegas. I’ll show you what I can do with 10 bucks, a 2001 camera, no state-the-art-software and a computer that’s slower than 1 1926 Edsel.
Okay Jeff. Consider yourself the Final Straw that drove me away from Dave’s fine web-blog.
In the meanwhile apologize for the remark you made mentioning the damsel. She is innocent, stands on her own, and is not to be lumped into anything I say here.
Okay. Time to blog.
I bid farewell to the few gentlemen I’ve met here (Paul being one of them who never got-on-my case).
Adios One and All.