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I used to be the banker in the monopoly game and would cheap like a mofo growing up.

/secrets
//to be fair, the game took to long without cheating

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AWvsCBsteeeerike3 wrote:Don't have much experience with northern bbq. I will say we took a little trip to up near Pittsburgh the other month, and drove all the way taking about a week to go there and back and now that you mention it, I can't recall seeing a single BBQ shack up north. Drive 15 hours southeast, south (without hitting the ocean), or southwest and you can't go an exit without seeing something (except Florida).
Pittsburgh's food scene is its own particular brand of weird. All the meals are comically large. You could do a fun Wheel of Fortune/make your own Pittsburgh meal wheel that has slaw on an already too big sandwich, way too many fries on a sandwich, pierogies, ketchup, and Iron City beer. Spin until you get 3 of those things.

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When I talked to my gf on the phone today she told me she had been shopping and she had something special for me. My mind filled with all sorts of dirty and wonderful thoughts. I drove home quickly imagining my tall sexy goddess of a gf waiting for me in bed in some sexy lingerie and heels. I opened the door filled with the boyish excitement of a kid on prom night when he just knows he's going to get it. There she was, holding my brand new back brace.

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Looking at PD event photos for city events over the years -seems like most the people captioned in pics are from Illinois. From festivals, concerts, fair st. Louis and yes Cardinal games to Mardi Gras to St Pats or 5k cupid undie run -almost everybody is from IL.

No Ballwin or Des Peres or Ladue or Sunset Hills MO.

My theory- Illinois people like city of St. Louis more tham Missourians. Either that or they more jazzed about being in a photo

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IMADreamer wrote:When I talked to my gf on the phone today she told me she had been shopping and she had something special for me. My mind filled with all sorts of dirty and wonderful thoughts. I drove home quickly imagining my tall sexy goddess of a gf waiting for me in bed in some sexy lingerie and heels. I opened the door filled with the boyish excitement of a kid on prom night when he just knows he's going to get it. There she was, holding my brand new back brace.
Must have been some great sex!

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Neither person in this story is me... this time.

You know you've had a good night when you wake up at your brother's place in Soulard with another friend and don't remember going back there after spending the day at Taste of Soulard with friends. And then your friend finds her car keys in the bush out front. Trying to piece together the end of the night you look at your bank account and see that you only spent money in Soulard which makes sense but then there is a large charge from a cab company on there too. Since the last thing you remember is being two blocks from where you woke up, you assume the charge is fraud and contact the cab company right? I found out about the story when a friend sent me a copy of the response from the cab company regarding the charge.

Their response was basically, "The reason the charge was so high is that a cop flagged down cab number XXXX and put you guys in the cab to go home. You first wanted to go downtown but when you got there you changed your mind and told him to take you to the CWE but when you got there you changed your mind again and had him take you back to Soulard where he dropped you off."

Oops. They basically took a tour of the city without remembering it and ended back up two blocks from where the cab picked them up and finally crashed for the night since they couldn't drive themselves home.

I'm definitely going to give them a hard time about that at Mardi Gras on Saturday. With one of them it doesn't surprise me at all but with the sister, I am a bit surprised. She's normally pretty responsible with her drinking.

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Is there a wider disparity between fantasy and reality than what is depicted in commercials for local casinos? Young, good looking, well dressed people smiling, laughing, drinking fancy cocktails, high-fiving and hugging each other. Vegas, I get it. But local casinos are filled with old, dirty, out of shape, people gambling their rent money who are so stressed out they can barely look anyone in the eye.

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stlouie_lipp wrote:Is there a wider disparity between fantasy and reality than what is depicted in commercials for local casinos? Young, good looking, well dressed people smiling, laughing, drinking fancy cocktails, high-fiving and hugging each other. Vegas, I get it. But local casinos are filled with old, dirty, out of shape, people gambling their rent money who are so stressed out they can barely look anyone in the eye.
You forgot to add the part about pushing their portable oxygen bottle.
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stlouie_lipp wrote:Is there a wider disparity between fantasy and reality than what is depicted in commercials for local casinos? Young, good looking, well dressed people smiling, laughing, drinking fancy cocktails, high-fiving and hugging each other. Vegas, I get it. But local casinos are filled with old, dirty, out of shape, people gambling their rent money who are so stressed out they can barely look anyone in the eye.
Local casinos are some of the saddest places in America. I play a lot of poker and I love the game, but I hate walking in to these dens of depression. Unlike Vegas local casinos are full of people with serious gambling problems. I find it super depressing is their promos typically don't give away fun stuff, but basic household items like pots and pans.

I'm a winning player, but it bugs me that I feed off some of the degenerates. It's one of the reasons I give some of my winnings to charity every year and still fly out to Vegas to play despite the games not being much better.

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Michael wrote:
stlouie_lipp wrote:Is there a wider disparity between fantasy and reality than what is depicted in commercials for local casinos? Young, good looking, well dressed people smiling, laughing, drinking fancy cocktails, high-fiving and hugging each other. Vegas, I get it. But local casinos are filled with old, dirty, out of shape, people gambling their rent money who are so stressed out they can barely look anyone in the eye.
Local casinos are some of the saddest places in America. I play a lot of poker and I love the game, but I hate walking in to these dens of depression. Unlike Vegas local casinos are full of people with serious gambling problems. I find it super depressing is their promos typically don't give away fun stuff, but basic household items like pots and pans.

I'm a winning player, but it bugs me that I feed off some of the degenerates. It's one of the reasons I give some of my winnings to charity every year and still fly out to Vegas to play despite the games not being much better.
Do you play at Rivers Casino? It was their "Humpty Dumpty" commercial I saw this morning that led me to post this. I haven't been there, but I assume the clientele is similar to Elgin or Aurora.

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