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To: Boa Babe who wrote (13639)	4/21/2001 7:05:13 PM
From: Uncle Frank	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22706

>> Hotel d'Europe, used to be a home for somebody important... And now it is again. >> More later re the former home of the Marquis de Sade, Love to hear about it if you're not too tied up. cuf@don'tgetaknotsinyourboa.com

To: Boa Babe who wrote (13639)	4/23/2001 11:49:01 AM
From: Uncle Frank	Respond to of 22706

Our old friend, SI Bob, went to Las Vegas over the weekend and posted about his experiences at the black jack table. Does this tale bring back memories? This time I played a variation of blackjack in which you can place a $1 side bet and if you get blackjack, you spin something called the "Wheel of Madness". After watching it a lot, I saw it was a major winning proposition for the house... there was a gal (about 70-ish) and her son at a Wheel of Madness table who seemed incapable of grasping the importance of hand signals for hitting or standing, and both knew zip about "the rules". For quite a while, she'd do things like splitting face cards or hitting 16 when the dealer had a 3 showing, and it'd work out for her and she'd amassed a lot of chips (which she eventually lost). The first time she got to spin the wheel, she yelled out "Come on you m*er f*er", which silenced the whole casino floor briefly then resulted in an eruption of laughter that started at our table. None of us could play again (including the dealer) for about 5 minutes while we tried to regain our composure. cuf