“When we put 50 slot machines in, I consider them 50 more mousetraps. You have to have a mousetrap to catch a mouse.”
— Bob Stupak, former Las Vegas casino owner
“Intermittent Positive Reinforcement” is the most powerful shaper of human behavior known to human psychology. For example, 1 or 2 food pellets to a white rat every 10th or 11th try at the lever will keep the rat pressing that level literally thousands of times…. 1 or 2 “coins” every 6th or 7th spin of the slots keeps people at the machine !”
moekinz says:
Please print this for mom!
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20th February 2013 at 8:45 am
Administrator says:
I just know she’s gonna hit it big one of these days and we’ll end up with an inheritance after all.
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20th February 2013 at 8:50 am
Eddie says:
I do not gamble. I work way too hard for my money to give it away. There are plenty of entertaining ways to exercise my penchant for stupid risk taking without just setting dollar bills on fire.
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20th February 2013 at 8:56 am
Eddie says:
Prediction:
Look for new casino money to end up in Colorado, as boomers flock there to smoke doobies while they mindlessly pull the handles on one-armed bandits. It’s a match made in heaven.
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20th February 2013 at 9:53 am
Eddie says:
Not sure where to post this, but when I saw this, I knew it had to be llpoh. He’s pissing off the French again.
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20th February 2013 at 12:27 pm
Eddie says:
Sorry, forgot the link.
http://www.france24.com/en/20130220-goodyear-france-titan-taylor-montebourg-usa-unemployment-tyres-factory-unions
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20th February 2013 at 12:27 pm
chupacabron says:
lots of mexicans and chinese at morongo and san manuel casinos. lots of boomers in vegas. even more boomers in laughlin.
vegas in september is a third world country. someday i will buy tix to the latin grammy’s. what with inflation, i have upped my stake for slots to $60.
i can’t over -eat, drink, smoke or chase women, i gotta have a vice.
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20th February 2013 at 9:52 pm
SSS says:
@ chupacabron, formerly known as chupacabra (female goat sucker or Spanish slang for cocksucker)
Nice try with the screen name change. Won’t work.
Chupacabron. Word in spanish with many different meanings. The real meaning is the male goat. Female is cabra and male is cabron. But slang use is far more common. Depending on countries it seems to have somehow different but similar meanings. A good definiton that would apply in almost all Spanish speaking countries would be asshole-fucker-bitch. In some places the word also means a person that is not with his partner. Example: Se fue de cabron. He went to fuck around. In this way it always has the connotation that he is looking for an affair.
Look, let’s keep this simple. If you really need a Spanish-based screen name, may I suggest Chuleta (pork chop). It’s an exclamatory and always acceptable in any setting as an expression of surprise, as in “I didn’t know that!”
P.S. My Spanish used to be respectable but really sucks (chupar) nowadays. But there are some dirty words that somehow seem to cling to your memory.
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20th February 2013 at 11:12 pm
SSS says:
Nothing to do with the Quote of the Day, but it’s STILL snowing like crazy out here in Tucson. 72 yesterday and 32 today. Got at least a couple of inches in my backyard. Been in and out of this state since the 1960s and have never seen anything like this. Global Warming, my ass.
Pic probably too big, but taken a few hours ago.
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20th February 2013 at 11:38 pm
anotherjuan says:
SSS – “If you really need a Spanish-based screen name, may I suggest Chuleta (pork chop)”.
i grew up in the barrio and my barrio spanish is chingon. novista called me on it, he said chupacabra is olivia’s moniker. i don’t know her. chupacabra is a chimerical creature invented by mexicans to explain mysterious animal dissections much like what happened in the US in the 70′. i know it sounded a little strange and only an analyst would catch the nuance.
chuleta would have a feminine connotation because it sounds like chula so a particularly appealing woman would be refered to as a chuleta. chulada also has a double meaning, a cute chick or a smart trick as in cute move. anyway, i used chupacabra when i was explaining to Arizona that snake people don’t exist. whatever name i use, i still have that purple icon to the left most of the time.
BTW, we had that weather earlier in the day, it moved on to my hometown in texas.
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20th February 2013 at 12:10 am