!! C a l v i n b a l l !!
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Calvinball, the only true Freezing Saddles game, where the rules are constantly made up and the points don’t matter.
I am Tim the Enchanter, keeper of the score, final arbiter of the rules.
Your quest is to seek thee the gameball, hidden secretly amongst the cycling trails inside the beltway (but not to be found in any federal park).
Seek the game ball. Maketh up a new ordinance for the game. Hide the sacred ball. Post your new ordinance along with guidance on how those who follow can seek the gameball. Thou shall find, hide and post within the same hours 24.
For finding the gameball, ye shall be awarded 5 points, less a point for each day that passeth before the gameball is once again uncovered.
Ye may find the gameball but once during each orbit of the sun.* Ye may possess the gameball but once every other turn.
If your new ordinance nets three likes, ye shall likewise be award points equaling five and your ordinance shall be implemented as law of the game, which all who play must loyally adhere.
This be not organized competition. This be Calvinball. New rules are obliged to follow the spirit of Saint Calvin and Saint Hobbes. New ordinances shall not thee be bills of attainder but must generally apply to all fools of venture into our midst. New ordinances cannot benefit the ordinance’s scribe uniquely. New ordinances should make the court jester smile upon thee, and shall not place any in existential peril.
If a new ordinance shall contravene an old ordinance, the ordinance with highest net likes shall be declared the law.
Those who play shall seek their reward as follows:
• Rosalyn Award :: The player with the ordinance that has acquired the most net likes at the time of the next find
• Miss Wormwood Award :: The player with the most implemented ordinances
• Spaceman Spiff Award :: Best Calvinball
• Calvin Award :: Tim’s Award of Mystery (oooooooooohhh)
• Hobbes Award :: The Hobbes Prize is to be awarded to the person whom played but scored the least amount of points.
• Susie Award :: Most swag points
• Lost Dog Rescue Award :: Best picture of your dog** Consider Thee Calvinball a Hot-potatoe game – not a hide-and-seek game. This be not geocaching. More, we wish the Calvinball attain perpetual motion, constantly moving, from pilgrim to pilgrim. (Translation: dont make your hides hard or your rules constraining. The more silliness the better)
** NOTE This is not a winner take all game. “The points dont matter“[IMG]https://foreignpolicymag.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/87978-calvinball.jpg?w=306&h=313[/IMG]
* The Sun orbits around the earth. Only heretics would suggest otherwise. We burn heretics. Well, only if they weigh the same as a duck.
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@rcannon100 170958 wrote:
SCORING
Vicegrip
Vicegrip’s new ordinance received three likes. Hey ConsularRider and Andy – this means yousse guys can now play the game. 5 points.
Vicegrip being a total sneak did not post a picture of the new Calvinball – so dilly dilly for that.
Vicegrip captured all five points for the find. – 5 points.
However – Vicegrip placed the Calvinball outside of the beltway before his new ordinance was codified. Vicegrip must learn to OBEY Tim the Enchanter. Therefore Vicegrip gets bupkus. Dilly Dilly. Nada. NOTHING. DO YOU HEAR ME!Hey…. did you know that Vicegrip once took this really cool Raleigh bike frame – and cut it down and welded it into a walking cane for a member of the forum who crashed and busted his butt? I mean this thing was SOOOOO COOOL! For this – Vicegrip is awarded 20 points.
I accept your scoring Oh furry one. Also agree that I should have taken some pictures of the Calvin ball before I deployed it and a better one of it in place. It is a bell made from 2/3 of a retired high pressure steel scuba tank. The steel it is made from is a highly refined alloy that is cold drawn using incredibly powerful machines into the tank shape. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0L9BO02cZs
This makes for a good pressure tank and when cut and finished to the right length a clear ringing bell with a long sustain. (once you figure out how to cut and drill it without destroying normal metal working tools. it will kill regular high speed bits and saw blades
) The metal bar has a soft plastic handle. Hit the bell rim with the steel handle and you get a sharp ring and long sustain. Hit the side of the bell with the soft end and you get little initial ring but a long soft sustain. The metal has a thin layer of zinc on it. If you take a belt sander and scuff it up removing most of the zinc it will oxidize where the steel is exposed and take on a bark like patina after some time spent hanging around outside.
To better esplan’ the haiku clues. The CalvinBell was chained around a tree with a big honking chain and padlock. The padlock also retained a metal plug in the open end of the bell to keep the clapper (and to add even more weight 😈 ) Yes, I deployed it from home via bike. The key was in a rag wrapped in vines and stuffed between the signs in the gap the post makes.Let it be understood that the bike frame had been retired by others before I cut it up! I don’t want anyone to think I am a butcher of cool old bikes…. The good part about that crutch made from a retired bike is that it too is now Retired.
Long live Calvinball!
Calvinball will be sleeping inside tonight…he told me he was tired…but don’t fret he will be riding out early tomorrow…
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After A peaceful warm sleep he peeks
Calvin Ball is again in the wild with a smile
At a major crossroads in life (and trails) he holds Pez for freight
He YEILDS to a master who can locate him faster
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