Originally Posted By SuzieQ This may come as a surprise to those of you not living in Las Vegas, but there are more Catholic churches there than casinos. Not surprisingly, some worshippers at Sunday services will give casino chips rather than cash when the basket is passed. Since they get chips from so many different casinos, the churches have devised a method to collect the offerings. The churches send all their collected chips to a nearby Franciscan Monastery for sorting and then the chips are taken to the casinos of origin and cashed in. This is done by the chip monks.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss Been there, done that. It's still cute. How many chips does a chip monk chip if a chip monk would chip chips?
Originally Posted By peeaanuut just need to add some spaces before the punchline and your delivery is perfect!!! lol
Originally Posted By markcanada The best part is, up to the "chip monks", I believe the story is actually true about casino chips ending up in collection plates.
Originally Posted By LVBelle LOL, I had my husband believing me when I told him this...for a little bit then it got a big sigh and eye roll!
Originally Posted By goodgirl Thank you for making me smile. I just realized I had not done that today.
Originally Posted By wonderingalice Got from a fellow Vegamatic in e-mail a couple of weeks ago and laughed like a goof. Interesting factoid, however... In earlier times, casino chips were even accepted in grocery stores here. Not sure about the church thing, but it wouldn't surprise me!
