Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Playing at the "Venetian"

You see, it's not actually the Venetian Poker Room. It's the "Venetian" Poker Room. This is evidenced by the sign taped to the front desk, which I snapped a photo of earlier today:




The quotation marks around and capitalization of "Phone-ins" also raise my editorial eyebrow. The "continue patronage" and lack of blocking of paragraphs are just sloppiness.

It's a never-ending source of bemusement to me how poker rooms--even otherwise classy ones--are willing to be viewed as places where nobody cares about getting things right, which, of course, they do every time they post a sign as carelessly composed as this one.

Incidentally, there is an entire blog dedicated to poking fun at the use of unnecessary and contextually baffling quotation marks. See here.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

that is a "very informative" "Note" from "the management"

--S said...

That reminded me of one I was going to send you. At the deli in the BTR casino, they sell "Sweets" and they also have:

Soup of the Day
"Just ask Us"

Of course, it doesn't surprise me here in NM.