{"id":9400,"date":"2012-08-07T15:22:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T23:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=9400"},"modified":"2012-08-07T15:42:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T23:42:00","slug":"get-to-the-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/get-to-the-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Get to the polls!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9401 alignright\" title=\"Steve Wyrick\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Steve-Wyrick-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Steve-Wyrick-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Steve-Wyrick-115x150.jpg 115w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Steve-Wyrick.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/>&#8230; as in the <em>Las Vegas Advisor<\/em> weekly poll. Tomorrow&#8217;s promises to be a real doozy. The question is, \u00a0What was the worst show in recent <strong>Strip<\/strong> and <strong>Downtown<\/strong> history? The dog kennel hasn&#8217;t been completely filled but I can share with you some of the nicknames our hard-working research department has coined for some of the great stinkers of Sin City: \u00a0<em>Pammy and the Klok<\/em> &#8230; <em><strong>Steve Wyrick<\/strong>, Master of the Anticlimax<\/em> &#8230; <strong>Melinda &#8220;Oh shit, what&#8217;s the car still doing here?&#8221; Saxe<\/strong> (aka <em>Melinda, Worst Lady of Magic<\/em>) &#8230; <em>Triumph: It Ran out of Steam<\/em> &#8230; <strong><em>Wayne Newton<\/em><\/strong><em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/archives.lasvegascitylife.com\/articles\/2009\/11\/12\/ae\/stage\/iq_32358853.txt\" target=\"_blank\">Once Before I Die<\/a><\/em> &#8230; <em>Scarlett the Booby Magic Psycho<\/em> &#8230; <em><strong>Michael Jackson<\/strong> The Immoral World Tour<\/em> &#8230; <em>Striptease The Show<\/em> (not to be confused with <strong>Striptease The Laxative<\/strong>) &#8230; and here but already half-forgotten, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/vacationplanner-showdetail.cfm?ShowID=659\" target=\"_self\" class=\"broken_link\">Smurf The Musical<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hot girl-on-girl action<\/strong> at the <strong>Olympics<\/strong>? Maybe I&#8217;ve been <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/blogs\/olympics-fourth-place-medal\/ukrainian-synchronized-swimmers-share-kiss-routine-163811609--oly.html\" target=\"_blank\">too quick to write off synchronized swimming<\/a> as the <strong>Snooki<\/strong> of Olympic sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; as in the Las Vegas Advisor weekly poll. Tomorrow&#8217;s promises to be a real doozy. The question is, \u00a0What was the worst show in recent Strip and Downtown history? The dog kennel hasn&#8217;t been completely filled but I can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/get-to-the-polls\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,80,3,51,4,7,140,11,6,55,54,74,9,17,138],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9403,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9400\/revisions\/9403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}