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2014-04-01
In celebration of April Fool's Day, we are finally delivering on a long-overdue promise to publish some of the silly or nonsensical queries that grace the QoD "in" box from time to time, together with our hypothetical answers. It's all just in the spirit of some harmless fun, so please don't anyone take offense, should you find a question of yours below that was submitted in all seriousness; instead, take gratification that you know your goof is giving others a healthy giggle.
2014-03-31
In "Today’s News" (March 27), you said Harrah’s Tunica was closing because "the casino is losing money." In the same sentence, you stated that it brought in $723 million last year. How do you figure $2 million/day revenue is a losing proposition?
2014-03-30
I just took the tour of the Neon Museum Boneyard (a wonderful experience). It got me thinking about other Vegas signs and symbols, and I was wondering if anyone knows what became of the camels that used to be outside the Sahara? An article written during the hotel-liquidation sale mentions a listed price of $12,000 each. Do you know what became of them?
2014-03-28
In Part II of our "Camel Trilogy," to be concluded on Sunday (after Saturday's Poll Results), we tackle the recently received query: "What became of the infamous talking camels from the Luxor-Mandalay Bay shopping-bridge walkway? They were hilarious!"
2014-03-27
Camels: The Trilogy (Part I). We have, seemingly coincidentally, received a number of camel-related Questions of the Day lately, so we've decided to string together a camel train, so to speak, commencing with an updated re-run of an interesting QoD about live ones that first ran back in August, 2007. Stay tuned for more tales of even-toed ungulates in coming days!
2014-03-25
Whatever happened to Flavor Flav's restaurant?
2014-03-24
Why doesn't Jean Scott talk about Brad's family? She only talks about her family.
2014-03-23
What is going on with George Maloof? I thought he lost everything, including the Palms, but his name is still on the sign.
2014-03-22
I was looking at the revenue from the Consolidated Facility Charge (CFC) at McCarran Airport and the number did not make sense to me. For fiscal year 2013 (July 1, 2012-June 30, 2013), the CFC brought in $36,166,000. At $3.75 per day, that is 9,644,267 rental car days. If an average rental is five days (probably less) that is 1,928,853 car rentals. With 11 companies in the Rent-A-Car center and 365 days per year, that works out to 480 rentals each day at each rental car company or 20 rentals per hour per company. That just does not sound right. Any insight into the CFC totals? Also, is there any reason why we still have to pay that when the original purpose of the fee was to finance the building and facilities? That has to be paid off by now.
2014-03-21
Just heard Caesar's is selling Bally's and the new Cromwell. I cannot believe they are giving up that corner! Do you think this may bring in some competition for better VP schedules? At least for a few months.
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