Question of the Day - 20 November 2019

LA to Las Vegas bullet train...ain't gonna happen! They may start building it, but it won't get finished.

Airport Cabbies will ask you if you do NOT want to take the tunnel.

Las Vegas will be a great city if they ever finish it.

- Strip steakhouses that don't gouge for wine
- Fair video poker pay schedules
- Etc.

It's a shame if the Monorail extension to the airport and downtown never happens.  It would be bad for the taxi companies but great for tourists.

Machines vending packages of spliffs inside casinos

Las Vegas is the one place that you can never say never. With the exception of the joke answers, anything and everything can and will happen in Vegas. That's part of the charm of what makes Vegas what it is. If you can imagine it, it CAN happen.

Las Vegas will never stop being the best place for people watching.

1) they'll build a better monorail going from the airport to downtown Fremont St that runs right above the Strip (LV Blvd) on an overhead track, with multiple convenient stops. The monorail would run in a continuous loop 24 hours, there would be 3 separate trains to reduce waiting time.
2) Those big trucks with the giant advertising signs would be banned from driving on the Strip. Only adds to the horrible traffic and they drive slow..
3) Vegas and the casinos will get serious about getting rid of the smut peddlers handing out paper that gets tossed on the sidewalk making an ugly mess. Screw the ACLU, find a way to get rid of that public nuisance. If someone wants to use an escort service there are many easy ways to call them, don't need the porn slappers right in our face.
4) Casinos are making millions, the fees that get added to rent a car shouldn't be 50% of my rental car cost. Nearly everyone coming to Vegas is going to spend some money directly or indirectly at the casinos.

(Buzzz) Wrong!
WalMart or Sam's Club
Bring your camera and a laugh suppressant

Terrorist attack - - - by actual Muslim terrorists.
They have been here but not for scouting.
Everybody wants to SIN in Sin City.

Casinos go back to letting slot players win small pots instead of 1 player winning mega pots. (You all know the casinos don't make money from gambling anymore)

Las Vegas will never remain a place where smoking is allowed on the casino floor. Eventually, all indoor places -- including casinos -- will be nonsmoking.

What will never happen--everybody who gambles will come to the stark realization that when they, say, insert a $100 bill into a slot machine, it's exactly the same thing as setting fire to a $10 bill; that playing $25 6:5 BJ costs you about $30 an hour; that betting $100 on your favorite football team costs you $4.55. Over and over.

In other words, people will never soberly assess the actual cost of their gamboooling. If they did, they might ask themselves: why am I throwing away money?

Or you could put it another way: what will never happen is that people will arrive in Vegas with functioning cerebrums. Rationality in Vegas will continue to be as rare as sobriety in a beer hall on New Year's Eve.

Bellagio will forbid cameras in the Conservatory.

Of course that will NEVER happen.  I should be able to walk through at a leisurely pace, enjoy every display, read all the informative plaques without it being like dodging bumper cars.  Instead, every step puts me in the path of hoards of families taking photos...excuse me...excuse me...oh well sh*t just plow ahead and damn the F-stops.  Grrr.  Realizing this is a really Grinchy attitude!

Wynn will reinstate the policy of no strollers, no children.

Even Steve Wynn didn't have the guts to enforce his own policy, so while it did happen for 15 minutes, this definitely will never happen again.  

A Gaither Family residency, will never happen.

It might be surprising, though.  With the large number of vacationing geezers (like me) in Vegas... 

Heart Attack Grill will become a Vegan restaurant

Las Vegas city council will make it illegal to drink alcohol while on the Strip

White Castle will close because of a lack of business

MGM will eliminate parking fees and bring back 3-2 blackjack at $5 tables

Construction will finally end on all Las Vegas highways, totally eliminating traffic delays and road congestion

Along with the monorail not connecting from McCarron to downtown, there will never be a time we will see a traffic-less strip on a weekend night... even if we invent flying cars. 

The Strip gets a huge dome and a great A/C system.

A Dunkin’ Donuts will open a strip location!

Legally buy a Powerball or Mega Millions ticket. 

Are you gonna save this for April Fools Day? 

Gambling will never become illegal in Vegas...lol

Corporations will realize that Vegas was built drawing customers by providing fun experiences through games with games with fair payouts, and collecting a small percentage.  Discouraging return players costs far more than they are collecting through tighter machines and 6/5 blackjack, especially with the increasing competition across the country.  Think there is any chance of the corporations looking beyond today's profits to see that they are slowly killing the golden goose?

Sandra Newman took my submission! OK, she posted 1st, so she's legit: That Las Vegas (or the county or the state) would ban gambling. So here's my #2 submission: That a law will be passed forbidding corporations (or partnerships) from owning or managing hotels or casinos in Las Vegas, but rather only allowing individuals and families to own or manage them. And my #3 submission: That a law will be passed making the maximum total/final lodging cost per night at all hotels be 1/1000 of the guest's annual salary. The casinos could work this any way they want: if they want to charge $35/night in resort fees, they'd only get to charge $15/night (and absorb the taxes) for anyone whose annual salary is $50,000. These two things combined would return things to the way they were 60 years ago before Las Vegas got corrupted by corporate greed and shenanigans. Vegas would be a nicer place if nice guys like Jackie Gaughan were running the show at every casino.

David listed as something that will never happen:  "Fair video poker pay schedules".  Hey, David, good news!  There currently ARE lots of VP pay schedules in several Las Vegas casinos that are not only fair, but great.  You are probably self-restricted to Strip casinos, which have the worst paytables in the entire town.  Hop on the Website vpFREE2.com and you will see that many casinos have many machines that pay over 100%.  They're just not the glamorous hot spots that the Strip has.  But outside of the flashiness of the Strip places, these less-snazzy places are better than Strip casinos in almost every other way.

People stop complaining about their first world problems. 

Not sure why I feel I need to defend my suggestion but: I live near 2 Walmarts, each about 2.5 miles from me, one east of me and one west. Maybe because they're each in suburbs touching the north side of Chicago, I have NEVER seen folks in either store that look at all like the ones shown online in the 'ha ha look what I saw at Walmart' articles. Everyone at least appears 'normal'. However the 'Walmart folks' are a regular occurrence in Las Vegas, at least every time I'm there. 

There's an "It'll never happen in Vegas" question:  Backing off a player for losing too much!
Seriously, I doubt LV will ever become a heavy manufacturing metropolis.  Henderson's days are past that, too.