Calvinball 2019 Official Thread

[LhasaCM]

Despite hiding in plain sight on the back of my bike all night (which was largely stationary), nobody at FSLNHPP opted to take Owney home…so I guess M gets a bonus friend.

[CBGanimal]

@LhasaCM 189011 wrote:

Despite hiding in plain sight on the back of my bike all night (which was largely stationary), nobody at FSLNHPP opted to take Owney home…so I guess M gets a bonus friend.

I missed it all together! Darn!

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[sszibler]

@LhasaCM 189011 wrote:

Despite hiding in plain sight on the back of my bike all night (which was largely stationary), nobody at FSLNHPP opted to take Owney home…so I guess M gets a bonus friend.

I almost looked harder, but then wasn’t sure I wanted to deal with them if it was over . . . then I realized there was nothing really preventing us from continuing to at least next week. I also realized that I accidentally took an extra thing from the bag that I forgot to put back in!

So, if anyone wants to continue . . . I have a great, new hiding place idea!

[sszibler]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]19859[/ATTACH] @CBGanimal 189021 wrote:

I missed it all together! Darn!

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[josh]

Consider Thee Calvinball a Hot-potatoe game

sszibler, Fast Friendly Guy, and LhasaCM were all left with an unfound (by this community at least) Calvinball at the end of Freezing Saddles, so they all lose. Everyone else wins!

[josh]

But the spreadsheet’s been updated, so get excited for boring prizes come tomorrow!

[LhasaCM]

@josh 189233 wrote:

sszibler, Fast Friendly Guy, and LhasaCM were all left with an unfound (by this community at least) Calvinball at the end of Freezing Saddles, so they all lose. Everyone else wins!

Quick clarification: the “Owney-took-Hobbes-place” ball was found by several at FSLNHPP, but went unclaimed. (I wholeheartedly accept defeat, but prefer to lose with accuracy.)

[sszibler]

@LhasaCM 189245 wrote:

Quick clarification: the “Owney-took-Hobbes-place” ball was found by several at FSLNHPP, but went unclaimed. (I wholeheartedly accept defeat, but prefer to lose with accuracy.)

BUT, did any Calvin Ball players find it . . . ?

There were a couple of high mileage FS riders who told me they just didn’t understand Calvin Ball, so I’d deem them foreigners and unqualified to assume possession without guidance.

[LhasaCM]

@sszibler 189288 wrote:

BUT, did any Calvin Ball players find it . . . ?

There were a couple of high mileage FS riders who told me they just didn’t understand Calvin Ball, so I’d deem them foreigners and unqualified to assume possession without guidance.

Aren’t we all Calvin Ball players given the opportunity? If you had asked me in early January if I would be participating in this year’s game, I would’ve said “hell no – I don’t have time to keep track of any of this!” Yet here I am – thanks to Emm for the cute tiger she hid, Steve O for abandoning him in the wylds of Marry-lande, and school for having that random Friday off.

[ChristoB50]

@LhasaCM 189291 wrote:

Aren’t we all Calvin Ball players given the opportunity? If you had asked me in early January if I would be participating in this year’s game, I would’ve said “hell no – I don’t have time to keep track of any of this!” Yet here I am – thanks to Emm for the cute tiger she hid, Steve O for abandoning him in the wylds of Marry-lande, and school for having that random Friday off.

hehehe… “Are we not all Calvin Ball players? If you prick us, do we not bleed Fireball Whiskey?”
I too had pre-assumed I wouldn’t join in Calvin Ball participation — mostly cuz the hiding locations frequently seemed to be outside of my mostly-commute-oriented winter riding routes…
It was only by a chance encounter with @reji, while I was Quick-Pick-Bagging trail trash, that I was nudged into the ranks of Finders unexpectedly, which then led directly to becoming a Hider the next day…

[sszibler]

@LhasaCM 189291 wrote:

Aren’t we all Calvin Ball players given the opportunity? If you had asked me in early January if I would be participating in this year’s game, I would’ve said “hell no – I don’t have time to keep track of any of this!” Yet here I am – thanks to Emm for the cute tiger she hid, Steve O for abandoning him in the wylds of Marry-lande, and school for having that random Friday off.

I think we few, we happy few, we band of Calvin Ball Players and Associates, LTD, should be happy to occasionally break free of our comfort zones and scamper ever into the realms of transmogrification, enlisting others to likewise break free from the bonds of their daily squares (such as the mega-focused Joan Britt, who verily expressed interest as well as confusion, but could not be tempted from her daily literal squares even when the damn ball was placed on her route!). I’m pretty sure I heard Emm say, “Oooo, oooo, I want to take over Calvin Ball next year!”

[sszibler]

@sszibler 189627 wrote:

I think we few, we happy few, we band of Calvin Ball Players and Associates, LTD, should be happy to occasionally break free of our comfort zones and scamper ever into the realms of transmogrification, enlisting others to likewise break free from the bonds of their daily squares (such as the mega-focused Joan Britt, who verily expressed interest as well as confusion, but could not be tempted from her daily literal squares even when the damn ball was placed on her route!). I’m pretty sure I heard Emm say, “Oooo, oooo, I want to take over Calvin Ball next year!”

I’m so lost in another dimension that I ended up here in 2020. I hope I can find my way back and not circle endlessly in another decade.

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