{"id":4712,"date":"2013-12-10T01:11:10","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T08:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/?p=4712"},"modified":"2020-12-01T09:16:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T17:16:51","slug":"outraged-grammarians-picket-cosmopolitan-claim-rose-rabbit-lie-last-straw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/outraged-grammarians-picket-cosmopolitan-claim-rose-rabbit-lie-last-straw\/","title":{"rendered":"Outraged Grammarians Picket The Cosmopolitan, Claim &#8220;Rose.Rabbit.Lie. is the Last Straw&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>About 200 protesters marched outside The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas, incensed about the hotel&rsquo;s soon-to-open restaurant and nightclub venue, enigmatically named Rose.Rabbit.Lie.<\/p>\n<p>The bulk of the protesters were self-described &ldquo;grammar Nazis,&rdquo; upset about the seemingly indiscriminate punctuation used in the venue&rsquo;s name.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4713\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4713\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/protesters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-full wp-image-4713 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"\/vitalvegas\/dist\/images\/common\/transparent_3x2.gif\" alt=\"Rose.Rabbit.Lie.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/protesters.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4713\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protestors assert Rose.Rabbit.Lie. has the &ldquo;right amount of wrong punctuation, if by &lsquo;right&rsquo; you mean &lsquo;wrong.'&rdquo;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A protestor equipped with a bullhorn, representing Grammarians Local 103, said, &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve endured indignities from Las Vegas casinos for some time now. It started with rampant capitalization. PURE. COLOR salon. TAO. Then came a flood of exclamation points. &lsquo;Jubliee!&rsquo; &lsquo;Vegas! The Show.&rsquo; &lsquo;Panda!&rsquo; We just took it. But now, we&rsquo;re standing up for what&rsquo;s right. You don&rsquo;t get to put periods between random words like that. The Cosmopolitan has thrown down the gauntlet, and we&rsquo;re fighting back. Although, we&rsquo;re grammarians, so it&rsquo;s not like we&rsquo;re going to raise our voices or litter or anything. This bullhorn is just for effect.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>As promised, the grammarian picket line was one of the most courteous in recent memory. While other protests on The Strip have gotten rather nasty, with protest participants being described as &ldquo;utter asshats&rdquo; (mainly by this blog), the Rose.Rabbit.Lie. protestors opened casino doors for visitors and even offered to correct spelling errors in their text messages to co-workers and loved ones.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4714\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4714\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/cosmo_protest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-full wp-image-4714 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"\/vitalvegas\/dist\/images\/common\/transparent_3x2.gif\" alt=\"Cosmopolitan protest\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/cosmo_protest.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mobile billboards have intensified the conflict between The Cosmopolitan and the grammarians union.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Representatives at The Cosmopolitan appear unwilling to revisit the naming of Rose.Rabbit.Lie. Off-the-record, a high-ranking executive confided, &ldquo;At one point, we were going to go with a name where some of the letters appeared upside down and backwards. These people would&rsquo;ve lost their minds. It&rsquo;s not like we&rsquo;re splitting infinitives or something. We&rsquo;re not animals.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/more-news-released-about-the-cosmopolitans-rose-rabbit-lie-doesnt-help\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rose.Rabbit.Lie.<\/a>, set to debut at The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas on Dec. 30, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Controversy aside, we&rsquo;re looking forward to experiencing this &ldquo;grand social experiment&rdquo; for ourselves. Period.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 200 protesters marched outside The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas, incensed about the hotel&rsquo;s soon-to-open restaurant and nightclub venue, enigmatically named Rose.Rabbit.Lie. The bulk of the protesters were self-described &ldquo;grammar Nazis,&rdquo; upset about the seemingly indiscriminate punctuation used in the venue&rsquo;s name. A protestor equipped with a bullhorn, representing Grammarians Local 103, said, &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve endured indignities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2,30,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegas","category-lasvegashotels","category-las-vegas-wtf","category-lasvegasnightclubs"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Outraged Grammarians Picket The Cosmopolitan, Claim &quot;Rose.Rabbit.Lie. is the Last Straw&quot; | Vital Vegas<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rose.Rabbit.Lie., a new restaurant and nightclub concept at The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas has stirred up some controversy.\" \/>\n<meta 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