Thought for the day

Why does Steve Wynn want to decorate the lagoon of Wynn Paradise Park with floats of giant arachnids? I mean, nothing says “fun” like a bunch of spiders, right? I think my archachna-phobic wife has come up with the explanation: Spiders have eight legs and ‘8’ is considered propitious in crucial Oriental cultures. Why not go whole hog and have guests enter Paradise Park through the legs of a gargantuan spider? That couldn’t be as inauspicious as the infamous MGM Grand lion’s mouth.