We all know that Aces Casino Entertainment has long prided itself in being the top Orange County casino party company in southern California, but here's something else that the public at large might not know (unless you've visited the Aces Complex in person) -- That wacky, eclectic, "professionally irreverent" bunch of Aces Casino staff members also takes pride in what they call their need to be "asking the questions that need to be answered." That's a good thing for us parakeet-paper scribes, especially when you need copy for an upcoming Aces Casino blog article.
Yes sir, just one quick trip around the Aces Casino offices, and you can get enough "blog-worthy" material for a month of Mondays and Thursdays," not to mention still another GREAT idea for a recurring blog theme to dredge up when the moment arises. We thought to ourselves, "hey, why NOT ask the questions that need to be answered?" We were SURE that. when we installed that ominous "suggestion box" in the main hallway and asked for our crew to tell us what trivial situation was gnawing at them, something that they just needed to know the answer to, that they'd come through for the home team.
They did.
So, without further fanfare, let's reach into the Aces Casino suggestion box and find out what's on the minds of the best orange county casino night team in the business (Ed. Note: Fasten your seat belts, this is NOT going to be pretty...) -- Let's check out the first three submissions to Aces Casino Blog Issue #1 of "Where did they get that Crazy name?"
#1 -- "Why did they name it 'Spam?'"
See? I knew things were going to go downhill in a hurry, but we asked. SPAM, that long-time staple of Geo. A. Hormel & Co., was originally registered as a trademark in 1937, being a conflation of “spiced ham”, which was the original name. The name “SPAM” was chosen from entries in a naming contest at Hormel. Specifically, the name was suggested by Kenneth Daigneau, who was the brother of a then Hormel Vice president. He was given a $100 prize for winning the naming contest. He probably had his choice of taking the money, or getting a lifetime supply of SPAM. We're guessing he took the money. I like the name that finished last in the contest - "Something Posing As Meat."
You think you're in a jam NOW? Wait until the lawsuit hits.
#2 -- "What does ZZ Top Mean??"
OK, I have to admit it -- When I saw this pop out of the suggestion box, I thought to myself, "Yeah, how DID that name originate? Well, for this, we had to go to the source himself -- The name ZZ Top, according to band member Billy Gibbons, came from a tribute to B.B. King. The band originally were going to call themselves “Z.Z. King” in King’s honor, but then decided it was too similar to B.B. King. Because B.B. King was at the “top” of the blues world, they changed it to ZZ Top. You heard it here first, my friends.
Cool Band.
#3 -- "Whose Idea was it to come up with that stupid Daylight Savings Time' Idea?
Well, if you go all the way back to the late 1700's, you can point the finger at the man who "invented electricity" -- None other than Ben Franklin. That's the good news.... Here's the BAD news; Franklin’s proposal of something like daylight saving time was written as a joke.
The modern day version of daylight saving time was first proposed by the New Zealand entomologist George Vernon Hudson in 1895. The credit for the first to suggest the modern day DST system is often incorrectly given to William Willett (Ed. Note: Yeah, I make that mistake all the time. Not.), who independently thought up and lobbied for DST in 1905. He was riding through London one day in the early morning and noticed that a good portion of London’s population slept through several hours of the sunlit summer days. If only he’d read Franklin’s letter, inspiration might have struck sooner. Willett lobbied for DST until his death in 1915. It was one year later in 1916 that certain European countries began adopting DST. Just a tad too late to help ol' William out; he could have lived an extra hour.
"I hope they know I was just kidding... It IS funny, though..."
We were guessing that whomever put this question in the ol' Aces suggestion box must have had a genuine hatred for the suggestion of implementing DST, so, to that end, we thought we'd include some of the better anecdotes that came to be as a result of the ol' DST...
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