Classic Nevada engagement announcement from the Nevada Appeal.

Sarah Ann Buck and Adam Edward DeBoor recently announced their engagement. The couple are planning an Oct. 23 wedding at The Grove in Reno.

The bride-to-be is the daughter of Joyce and Larry Buck of Carson City. She is an operating room nurse at a Reno hospital by day and a roller derby demon by night, earning the name “Buck Nasty.” She graduated from Carson High School in 2000.

The groom-to-be is the son of Stephanie Stimac DeBoor of Reno and Barry DeBoor of Oregon, Ill. He works in the same operating room as a surgical technician during the day and, as a professional wrestler by night, is known as “Rock Legend Scum.” He graduated from McQueen High School in 2001.

…leaving only 10 hours a day for her to try to remember who Heidi Montag is.

Paris Hilton and her Battle Born boyfriend Vegas Club Promoter Cy Waits have split after dating for a little more than a year (sex tape release TBA but we’re expecting it in the fall, Oscar-push season.)

A source tells Nevadavs.theworld “They are broken up. It’s sad. She cares about him a lot. She just figured if she was going to date someone with a cowboy name, it might as well be a real cowboy.”

The couple hit what has been described as a “rough patch” (and no that’s not an allusion). The breakup is chronicled in “The World According to Paris” — which, contrary to earlier reports is not the long-awaited sequel to 1982’s “The World According to Garp” but a reality show chronicling the hotel heiress’ exploits, including looking sideways at everything and lashing out at her (now ex) boyfriend in a club.

During their time together in Vegas, Hilton was arrested for cocaine possession during a night out and Waits fought off an intruder at her home.

She also bought about a half-dozen accessory dogs from Henderson, Nevada-based accessory puppy shops.

No word where she’s looking for her replacement Nevadan, but our guess is the Pinball Hall of Fame, where all eligible Zaxxon high-scorers hang just outside the Strip.

I feel betrayed, especially by the House of Representatives. They took public health and safety, put it in a box, shoved it to one side and brought out a new box that had in it base, raw power politics.

—Harry Reid, Dec. 17, 1987, on Yucca Mountain (via the Washington Post)

As soon as word got out Monday In-n-Out Reno was shutting down at midnight, the Nevada State Legislature drew quicker than Jim Gibbons’ texting thumb and approved SB 271, which extends for 1,000 days the bi-state compact to share shotgun-holed Natty Light empties washed up on shores of Lake Tahoe with those to the geographic and philosophical left.

…SB 271 also includes a small piece of pork mandating no legislator tweet his or her junk during this year’s Burning Man even if it’s at a ‘shroom-pancake breakfast after a long night at the Ex and Exes tent.

Agency in question, the TRPA was formed by left-wingers Ronald Reagan (the first sorta-philandering-ex-actor-turned-Guv-of-California, or, in Nevada’s eyes, California’s second-best export next to “Them Dancin’ Raisins”) and Richard Nixon, who, in fact, never did own a Nixon mask — even though it looked like he wore one, like all the time.

Since then, the agency which oversees and mitigates Lake Tahoe’s Giant Garbage Patch has limited the number of bankrupt casinos dotting the shoreline of the lake to a half-dozen, though, sadly, the same limits weren’t set for boats with towers and the Eminem-loving food court refugees who love them.

The bill gives the TRPA three years to adopt a new regional plan, which TRPA officials have been (literally) working on since Crocodile Dundee took over from Top Gun as number one at the box office; ergo, a safe bet the Silver State will be spending its TRPA dues on Keno cards before there’s another Republican in office.

Real quote:

“We hope that passage of the bill will bring the two states to the table to seriously review policy differences on the future of Lake Tahoe,” said TRPA Executive Director Joanne S.  Marchetta.  “It’s important to note the final version of the bill took a more measured approach to bring policy issues to the fore and TRPA looks forward to working with Nevada lawmakers in the next few years to address the key points of the legislation.”

‘Real’ quote:

“Tahoe-based eco-consultants and former TRPA employees, you are on notice,” Marchetta said. “Three more years of community roundtables and those ridiculous giant post-its and smelly markers (whatever the f*ck happens to those sheets anyway, recycling? Or are they stored in a giant warehouse of bad ideas like the Arc of the Covenant?) before your free ride is taken away… better learn a trade — like me …Marchetta Macrame available now on Etsy.”

No legislators commented; it’s hard to talk with a mouthful of Double Double Animal Style and Neapolitan shake.

Only three more years till you get this, Tahoe:

thatgotaway:

Somerset Shopping Center by Nick Leonard on Flickr.

Nice retro sign!

We here at NV vs. the World will have to work harder now to find stories to blog about…

Sharron Angle has abruptly dropped her bid for Nevada’s 2nd Congressional District, saying she has no desire to participate in a “ballot royale.” (Read more at Politico.)

Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the ex-pot-smoking multi-time Mr. Universe and Lou Ferrigno bully admitted this week he impregnated the state of Nevada out of wedlock.

The revelation, first reported Tuesday morning by the Los Angeles Times, comes just days after his split with equally strong-jawed wife, Maria Shriver.

Shriver left her husband of 25 years after he admitted to the infidelity. The couple has four children together - Katherine, 21, Christina, 19, Patrick, 17, and Christopher, 13.

Artist’s composite of what ‘Nevada’ Schwarzenegger may look like today

“After leaving the governor’s office, I told my wife about this event, which happened in Vegas in the ’90s,” Schwarzenegger said in a written statement. “I just want the people of Nevada and of the world to know, what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. It is birthed nine months later in the crystal blue waters of Da Hoover Dam.”

Schwarzenegger also asked “the media respect my wife and children through this extremely difficult time,” adding, “I understand, it is extremely difficult to get an entire state pregnant. But it is also difficult to crush your enemies, see them driven before you and hear the lamentation of the women — but I proved I could do that and survive a threesome with Brigitte Nielsen and Sly.

The Times did not publish the name of the baby ‘Nevada’ Schwarzenegger created with the Silver State, but fellow family men/loyal husbands erstwhile Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons and recently resigned Senator John Ensign both came to their GOP brethren’s aid tweeting it is, in fact, VERY possible to get Nevada pregnant.

“When you live in the most fertilist state in the Union, sh*t goes down,” Ensign wrote. “It’s the risk you take living in God’s country, because God, after all, is a man and has needs too.”

Mr. Tim Coe to former Sen. John Ensign, as quoted in the Senate Ethics Committee report. Coe was Ensign’s “spiritual advisor.” Read more at Politico.

Scientists tested nuclear weapons in Nevada, so why not test something as seemingly harmless as a self-driving car in Nevada? 

The New York Times reports that Google wants to test its self-driving, or “autonomous,” car in Nevada. Google has hired a Las Vegas lobbyist to get two bills passed in the state legislature — one that would allow for licensing and testing of the car, and one that would exempt drivers in Google’s “autonomous car” from the no-texting-while-driving law. 

Some tips for that lobbyist. Don’t forget to mention the benefits of such a car to the members of the state assembly and senate you’re lobbying. No need for a designated driver after a late night at the Carson Nugget. Napping while driving across the long, lonely desert.