Friday, June 09, 2006

Maximum... um, Maxim

Not quite a palindrome.

The lads at Maxim magazine have decided to build a hotel and casino in the North Strip of Las Vegas, adjacent to the increasingly irrelevant Circus Circus. I think it's a great idea. Heaven knows this city needed a place where men could live out their fantasies, with gambling, cigars, and scantily clad women.

I mean, aside from Hooters Hotel and Casino. Or the Hard Rock.
Or Treasure Island. Or...

55 Fiction Friday hopes that Richard Branson will develop a Virgin Hotel and Casino across the street.


Hannah quickly discovered that, if she cut off one arm of the enemy’s network, a new limb would form and possibly retaliate. She needed to find the central hub to do more lasting damage.

This mission, Operation Starfish, sounded as challenging as Operation Hydra had been. She cursed the literalists who named these damned operations.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Those darn literalists!

I have a huge crush on Richard Branson. I spotted him in SF once. What a babe. If he builds a casino there, I'm so moving to LV.

Robert said...

I'd love to have a job naming missions for a special ops force. I'd call one 'Operation Metaphorical Trojan Horse'.