Top 5 things we’re looking forward to seeing at the Las Vegas qualifying round of the 2008 Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest
5. Gawking tourist hordes that are predominantly heftier than any of the competitors
4. Local eater Ron Koch, coming out of a two-year retirement
3. Sixty-three-year-old Vegas homeboy Rich “The Locust” LeFevre’s formidable claw-and-mandible technique
2. Retired posole-eating champion Carlene LeFevre cheering him on in the front row
1. Bunnettes. In all their vapid, upside-down-card-holding semi-glory.
May 8, 3 p.m. free. Brooklyn Bridge at New York-New York, 740-6700.