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Jest for Fun

22 September 2007

By Larry Mak

The first visit to a casino is like the first night of a honeymoon. The expectation is high, but the results are usually disappointing.

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The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you wake up and stops when you go to sleep or to a casino.

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What makes for a happy ending of some trips to a casino is that fact that it has ended.

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An optimist in a casino may be wrong, but he has more fun than the pessimist.

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There are three kinds of slot players: the smart, the lucky, and the majority.

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A barker in a circus offered a curious throng $100 if anyone could get another drop of juice out of a lemon after the circus strong man had squeezed it. Several men tried and failed. Finally a man came up and, after considerable effort, squeezed another drop of juice from the lemon.

"Here's your $100," said the barker. "If you don mind, sir, could you tell me how you did it?"

"Not at all," replied the man. "I'm the credit manager in a Reno casino."

Larry Mak
Larry Mak is a former science writer at the California Institute of Technology and he is currently a freelance gaming author.

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