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...says its websites get about 4 million visitors a year - 35% of whom focus on the Las Vegas packages. Just witness the success of the hit film The Hangover, whose tale of a prenuptial Las Vegas jaunt gone horribly awry has topped the box office for two straight weeks, pulling down more than $105.4 million. (See the top 10 non-emergency 911 calls...
...think he agreed to talk to you? Was part of him proud, and wanted to boast? Absolutely. You can see in the earlier part of the book that he's a good kid, and he's a smart kid. He skips two grades, he's a straight-A student. That all gets subverted once he goes into the projects in Chicago. I think that 12-year-old kid is still in there wanting to come out, and I think it did with his counterfeit bills...
...that Federer has won the career Grand Slam, let's set the record straight. Who is the greatest player of all time? You've said before that all a player can hope for is to be the best...
...After naming all 100 movies, take notice of the editing tricks used to jam the video into its 200 allotted seconds. For example, the famous quote, "I'm Sorry Dave, but I can't do that" is lifted straight from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey - but only the first three words make it into the mash-up. Same with Silence of the Lambs: We hear Anthony Hopkins' evil slurp, but the video edits out the quote that precedes it: "I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti...
...have to have some measure of water, whether it's just a capful or a one-to-one ratio. It lessens the alcohol and brings out the flavors. Every whiskey professional that I've been in contact with added some measure of water. People who just drink it straight are showing off that they can drink alcohol straight. And remember: getting drunk dulls the senses, so if you want to taste whiskey, getting drunk is not the way to do it. It's certainly a nice side effect, though...