You gotta watch that Brother Alvin thoughâŚ
Fascinating! Do you have any kind of source for these claims?
While gaming tokens do turn up in the collection plates of Las Vegas churches, those churches (Catholic or Protestant) donât all send them out to a ânearby Franciscan monasteryâ for sorting and redemption by designated âchip monks.â Churches generally accumulate gaming tokens until they each individually tab one or more of their workers to take the chips around to casinos and redeem them for cash.
It is true that one church in Las Vegas, the Shrine of the Most Holy Redeemer, once had a Franciscan friar on staff who made the rounds of casino cages and thus, in the fashion of the joke, he was dubbed âthe chip monk.â Church Employees tasked with handling chip redemptions at various Las Vegas-area churches are sometimes also referred to as âchip monksâ in furtherance of the joke, but they are neither real monks nor are they employed by monasteries that sort and redeem the tokens.
Dammit. Got too hung up on scoffing at the âmore churches than casinosâ line to even expect the pun setup.
Iâve never been to Vegas, but Iâve heard more than one person express surprise at how much more city there is besides the casino strip? No idea if thatâd make up for the casino density on the strip
There are the BIG casinos, which only take up a finite space, but there are also little casinos pretty much everywhere you look. Even gas stations will have slot machines. Thatâs true of most of nevada, tbh.
Not just Nevada, any state that legalizes VLTs soon becomes plagued by VLTs (slots by any other name are still slots) put into every existing building. Gas stations, bars, strip clubs, convenience stores, etc, everyone gets slots/VLTs. Bonus is that any empty building gets purchased and filled with them since nothing but gambling survives despite the surroundings. Illinois is my main example here as my home state, I canât spit without hitting a slot machine itâs ridiculous
Ehh, thatâs probably true. I think there are about 500 churches and around 150 casinos. Lots of people live there.
It depends what you count as a casino. I grew up in Las Vegas and thereâs slot machines in most grocery stores and gas stations. Also the airport has slot machines. If that counts as a casino then thereâs hundreds if not thousands.
âŚI didnât notice which community it was⌠Forehead fully on desk. Well done.
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