"Allodoxaphobia" wrote in message
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On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:49:38 GMT, Arfa Daily wrote:
I have just returned from a Christmas trip to Vegas, staying in the same
big
name Strip-side hotel that I always do. However, since I was last there a
year ago, they seem to have had a big drive to turn the room lighting
over
to CFLs. Now, instead of getting a decent light in the room when you come
in
the door, it's like someone is going round lighting candles one at a
time.

Do you suppose that joint went out and bought Top Dollar CFLs, or the
very cheapest -- like their toilet paper? :-)

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Well, I have to say that I had no complaint with their toilet paper. They
actually use Quilted Northern, which is what I buy myself, when I stay in a
private place in Florida. Not being a native American, I have no idea
whether this is considered to be a laughable 'cheapo' brand over there, but
it seems to compare pretty reasonably with the brand that I usually buy
here, which is *not* a cheap and cheerful one. So I'm not sure what that
says about the CFLs that they are using. I don't expect for one minute that
they will be the most expensive ones that you can get, but by the same
token, with the buying power that an organisation like MGM / Mirage have
got, there is no reason to suspect that they would be bottom end Dollar
Store jobs either. If in fact they are, then I think that they will quickly
run into trouble with failures.

However, the basic point that I was making was how that just by changing the
room's lighting, they have made what was a perfectly acceptable room, in
which you were able to read at night, into a dim depressing cave. Perhaps
the hope is that you will spend more time in the casino, and less in the
room ... ;~}

Arfa