Las Vegas Churches accept gambling chips

This may come as a surprise to those of you not living in Las Vegas but there are more Catholic Churches than casinos in the city.

Not surprisingly some churchgoers at Sunday services will give casino chips instead of cash when the basket is passed.

Since they get chips from many casinos, the churches have devised a method to collect the offerings...they send all their collected chips to a nearby Franciscan monastery for sorting and then the chips are taken to the casinos of origin to be cashed in.

This is done by the chip monks.

Breaking the News Gently

Six friends are playing poker. After losing $500 on one hand, Smith clutches his chest and topples over, dead at the table. To decide who's going to tell his wife, his buddies draw straws. Anderson picks the short one.

"Break it to her gently," they all urge him.

"Leave it to me," he says. When Smith's wife comes to the door, Anderson says, "Your husband just lost $500 playing cards."

"How much!?!" the wife yells, eyes blazing. "Tell him to drop dead!"