Turkish Slang by the Swimming Pool

First, the pool was packed with showgirls. Last week we sold showgirl books at our booth in the Annual Burlesque Hall of Fame gathered at the Orleans Casino on Tropicana. Dancers paying to earn tips on stage get their stage fees waved if each dress to impress by swimming in the casino pools during the summer, especially before the Electric Daisy Carnival, June 21. Fire dancers by the pool after last year's Electric Daisy Carnival looked like neon signs. Did you know that bikinis come with battery packs now with flashing lights in all the right places? After swimming the other evening, my wife took my five year old boy to the food court at the Luxor Hotel and Casino for dinner. Three little dames his age were walking to the fast food restaurants with their mother. My boy stares at their tropical fruit bikinis. One had comic book characters across her chest. My boy is enamoured. My wife thinks the English language is fun, especially slang, so she asks my boy, "Are you looking at the chicks?" The puzzled look from my son arrived with a question, "Chicks?" - "Those are chicks. Are you staring at the chicks?" My wife jokes. The next morning, when we return to the swimming pool, my son asks me, "Can we find the chicks?" I have no idea what he is saying. My wife cracks a smile as she begins to laugh. My boy goes on, "Chicks. Can we ask the chicks if they want to come swim with us?" That leads to more slang by the swimming pool, but this time this morning in Turkish. Whenever my boy returns from Ankara Turkey he can't speak English with me for about four weeks. He is getting better at switching gears with the little engine, but his mind crossed the phonetic boundary with uncertainty. "110 degrees Fahrenheit today." The weathermen in Las Vegas warned. So I took my son by the hand down to the swimming pool at the Excalibur. More families. More children. He is excited. So I warn, "The sun will make you sick." He is confused. My son asks with a worried stare across his eyes, "Sick?" - I add, "Stay out of the sun. The sun is hot. The sun will make you sick." The phonetic sounds for the single word Sick or Sic are the same sound for the slang term for penis. For example, calling an individual you don't like a dick. - My son is worried after what I said about the heat. The little boy is worried that the sun will do something bad to his private parts while he is swimming. Poor kid. What am I going to do? Hopefully San Francisco will be cooler next week. Charles is in Phoenix, Arizona. The temperature is always ten degrees hotter in Phoenix than Las Vegas. That makes it 120 degrees Fahrenheit in his backyard. I remember, Charles had to cycle around 4:00 am when it was a cool 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Last summer, a cyclists from out of state died when entered a cycling race in Arizona between the Grand Canyon, Flagstaff, down towards the border of Arizona / Nevada at the Hoover Dam. Physicians blamed the cyclists use of ginseng. The athlete used ginseng to raise his metabolism, but in the hot air, his metabolism increased his body heat until he passed out while sitting on the bike speeding down the asphalt road. How did the early pioneers in wagon trains travel through the Mojave sands as their families traveled west to California in search for gold? We had to leave the pool and return to an air conditioned room. There are pale kids with their parents turning pink out by the swimming pool. No sun screen. Toddlers are burning up. No umbrella. No sun hat. No protection.