Vegas: Monorails v. Gridlock

TimeTrip writes "Vegas seems to be taking a little cue from Disney. 'Las Vegas, which never stops thinking big, has just embarked on its most ambitious, costly attempt to solve a problem that once seemed impossible to have in this sprawling desert valley: gridlock. It is building the nation's largest monorail system.'" Or maybe they'll be taking their cue from Lyle Lanly. Frankly this sounds more like a Shelbyville idea.

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Obligatory

[teslatug]

The Monorail Song:
Monorail Lyle Lanley: Well, sir, there's nothing on earth Like a genuine, Bona fide, Electrified, Six-car Monorail! What'd I say? Ned Flanders: Monorail! Lyle Lanley: What's it called? Patty+Selma: Monorail! Lyle Lanley: That's right! Monorail! [crowd chants `Monorail' softly and rhythmically] Miss Hoover: I hear those things are awfully loud... Lyle Lanley: It glides as softly as a cloud. Apu: Is there a chance the track could bend? Lyle Lanley: Not on your life, my Hindu friend. Barney: What about us brain-dead slobs? Lyle Lanley: You'll be given cushy jobs. Abe: Were you sent here by the devil? Lyle Lanley: No, good sir, I'm on the level. Wiggum: The ring came off my pudding can. Lyle Lanley: Take my pen knife, my good man. I swear it's Springfield's only choice... Throw up your hands and raise your voice! All: Monorail! Lyle Lanley: What's it called? All: Monorail! Lyle Lanley: Once again... All: Monorail! Marge: But Main Street's still all cracked and broken... Bart: Sorry, Mom, the mob has spoken! All: Monorail! Monorail! Monorail! [big finish] Monorail! Homer: Mono... D'oh!

Re:Obligatory

[grytpype]

Scientist: Sorry, I shouldn't have stopped for that haircut.

Marge: There's a man here and he wants to help you!
Homer: Is it Batman?
Marge: No, he's a scientist.
Homer: Batman is a scientist.

no danger

[Skizamaskidz]

I see no forseeable danger in this at all. Just keep a big letter 'M' on the side of the train for emergency braking, along with an oversized steel donut.

Simpsons Wisecrack

[Stephen VanDahm]

Let's get this out of the way early:

SELECT *
FROM smartass_remarks
WHERE simpsons='t' AND
topic='monorail'


There.

Re:Simpsons Wisecrack

[sharkey]

Stephen VanDahm: "But Simpsons' references are old and overspoken!"
CmdrTaco: "Sorry Stephen, the trolls have spoken!"

Slashdites: Monorail!...MONORAIL!!...MONORAIL!!!
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JonKatz: "Mono-D'OH!"

*cough*hypocrite*cough*

[jaxdahl]

Look at your sig... this is the 3rd day of said blackout.. and you're POSTING constructive comments to the story? I don't think this tactic is working out very well, sorry to say. I pity you.

If you really wanted to make an impact, you'd really need to get together way more users to boycott slashdot than what is going on now.

"I call the big one 'Bitey'"

[phillymjs]

If Vegas gets a monorail, will we have HBO's "Monorail Confessions" to look forward to?

~Philly

RIP Phil

[NiftyNews]

I miss Phil Hartman. Hit my karma if you need to, but I needed to say it.

Great, slashdotted again.

[Nethead]

You guys chewed up 15Mb/s of my bandwidth on monorails.org just a few days ago and now you have to put links in again. Look, we get this bandwidth gratis from ColoCenters and I don't want to have them bitch about all the traffic. The FreeBSD server takes the hits ok, but it sure shows on the MRTG graphs. Today UserFriendly also had us linked as LOTD so we're really pushing the bits.

What is it with geeks and monorails anyway?

And the Simpsons song just isn't funny anymore.