FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT ONLY… 1/29/06

Everywhere you go now there are machines lined up against the wall. The object of their placement is that our local businesses want you to drop in a twenty-dollar bill or more on each one of your visits. Known as slots, they made their first appearance in the twenties. You can thank Thomas Edison as well as da' boys in Chicago for our new and improved electric marvels.

Due to the diligence of some people in Evanston IL and Kansas, laws were passed in the twenties that did away with slots, public saloons, and my beloved J&B scotch. But back by popular demand, slots are now in your neighborhood saloons as is my J&B. Not to be out done by bar owners who are paying their mortgage notes off with the income from these machines, other merchants of all types are lining their walls with one armed bandits in hopes of doing the same.

I even heard of a church that was considering slots to supplement plate offerings. Their logic is that the boys in the Bible loved the use of dice, so why not use this new and improved form of gambling.

To make all this lawful the slot owners place a sign on each stating “For entertainment only”. Now if you get ahead of the game after sitting in front of the thing for hours and have sense enough to quite they will pay you off (in cash) the next day.
This is called “ entertainment!”

You ask...Am I ahead or behind in using one armed bandits? I seldom go near the those things! Geee it's hard typing with crossed fingers.

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