N O T O R I O U S :: A Pointless Game

[rcannon100]

I steal all my best ideas from er, Mikey, yeah, that’s the ticket…. Mikey. If I am not mistaken, a few years ago Mikey ran a FS game called “The Presidents.” The game was simply a list of the Presidents in order. Players cycled to some location in Washington D.C. that could be identified with that president in some way. The player took a picture and posted the photo to the forum. If the photo got three likes (if people could figure out what the photo had to do with that president), then the player got the point and the game moved on to the next president on the list.

Notorious is a game played the same way, only instead of a list of presidents, it is a list of Washington D.C.’s notorious history – some good, some bad, some ugly. Players take a photograph (with their bike) that in some way identifies that item on the list. If the player’s photograph and post to the forum nets four likes, it receives the point, and we move on to the next item on the list. Players can choose to explain their photo or not.

* Item is in play after the score is posted for the previous item
PHOTO
* Photo should be taken after an item is in play +
* Photo must include your bicycle
SCORING
* Photo must net FOUR likes to get the point
* If two posts net four or more likes before I notice, the post with the most likes wins. If there is still a tie – I will find some other arbitrary and annoying way to award the point.
* Group finds, everyone in the photo who is identified gets the point
* Tim the Enchanter gets all the cookies

+ This is a soft rule. It’s one thing to take one photo on your way in because you know the item is going to be in play today. It is another thing to spend sunday racking up photos – posting pictures of an item at night time when the item has only been in play during the day time – or posting a picture on a bright sunny day when its snowing outside.

There will be prizes. Probably a bunny or a hand grenade. Not really sure at this point.

And of course we start with:

1. Watergate {Tim the Enchanter}
   
2. Exorcist Stairs {SteveO}
3. Air Florida Flight 90 {Benihana}
4. Seven Dirty Words {Huberww}
5. Titanic Memorial {Benihama}
6. September 11, 2001 {NemaVeze}
7. 1968 Washington D.C. Riots {Streetsmarts}
8. Ghost Bike {SteveO}
9. Borf / Bobby Fisher Memorial Building {NemaVeze}
10. Headquarters of the American Nazi Party {Kitty}
11. “The Bitch Set Me Up” {Judd}
12. Bonus Army {Kitty}
13. John Wilkes Booth {Kitty}
14. “I Invented the Internet” {Kitty}
15. Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During World War II {Kitty}
16. Price, Birch & Co. Dealers in Slaves {Emm}
17. Charles Syphax {Reji}
18. Cool “Disco” Dan {Kitty}
19. Dead Man’s Hollow {Kitty} {SteveO}
20. Dwight W. Watson and his tractor {PeteD}
21. Pork Chop Row {Kitty}
22. George Lincoln Rockwell {Emm}
23. Deep Throat {kitty}
24. Elizabeth Ray {NemaVeze}
25. Aldrich Ames {EMM}
26. Joan Mulholland {SteveO}
27. Kathryn H. Stone, Virginia Legislature {Reji}
28. Mary Ann Hall {NemaVeze}
29. Fanne Foxe {Streetsmarts}
30. St Asaph Racetrack {CBGanimal; Karen W}
31. Fawn Hall {NemaVeze}
32. Democracy, An American Novel {kitty}
33. John Warnock Hinckley {NemaVeze}
34. Slacker {Kitty}
35. Carlo Valdonoci June 2, 1919 {kitty}
36. Assassination Attempt on Harry Truman {NemaVeze}
37. May 10, 1970 bombing of National Guard Association {SteveO}
38. 1977 Hanafi Siege {SteveO}
39. Sherry Rowlands {Kitty}
40. Richard Berendzen {Reji}
41. Monkey Business {SClaeys}
42. Lunch counter sit ins, Arlington VA {CBGanimal}
43. Rita Jenrette
    
44. Brigadier General Albert Pike {Benihana}
45. Hall’s Hill Wall
46. Laurence Henry, Glen Echo Amusement Park
    
47. Cornelius Hawkins {Kitty}
48. MCI, “A law firm with an antenna on the roof“
49. Helen Lane, Arlington School Board Member
50. Charles Sumner School
    
51. The Langley Aerodrome {PeteD}
52. Lt. Thomas Selfridge {Kitty}
53. June 22, 2009 WMATA
    
54. The assassination of Orlando Letelier {Benihana}
55. Freedman’s Village
56. Hurricane Agnes
    
57. Ronald Deskins, Michael Jones, Lance Newman, and Gloria Thompson {SteveO}
58. The Pagans and the Avengers {NemaVeze}
59. May 22, 1856: Abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner
60. Assassination of James Garfield
61. H.R., Bad Brains
    
62. 1972 Public demonstration of the ARPANET / Internet, and AT&T’s refusal of DOD’s offer to sell the Internet to AT&T {Benihana}
    
63. Berman v. Parker {SteveO}
    
64. Gandhi Statue {Benihana}
65. Jackson City
66. Victims of Communism Memorial
    
67. Three Sisters Island {Nemaveze}
68. Obey Andre the Giant
69. Raoul Wallenberg
    
70. Pizzagate {NemaVeze}
71. Notorious Ruth Bader Ginsberg {Benihana}
72. The Underground Railway/Harriet Tubman {Kitty}
73. Spiro Agnew
74. Robert Hansen
75. Walter Krivitsky, Bellevue Hotel
76. Harold “Kim” Philby
    
77. Bill Clinton’s McDonalds {SteveO}
78. Federal Relocation Arc, Cartwheel Tower, Mt Weather
79. Marv Albert
80. Luna Park
81. Henry Rollins
    
82. Salad Days / Minor Threat {Benihana}
83. Jack Kent Cooke
84. Jhoon Rhee
85. The Mayflower Club
    
86. Old Capitol Prison: Belle Boyd and Rose O’Neal Greenhow {Benihana}
87. Jonathan Pollard
    
88. Mary Pinchot {SClaeys}
89. Rick Adams
90. Jon Postel hijacks the DNS, DNS Wars, CORE, ICANN
91. NSFNET, ANS, MAE-East, Priv-Com
92. Vitaly Sergeyevich Yurchenko
93. Rose O’Neal Greenhow
94. Rayful Edmond
    
95. Hell’s Bottom {NemaVeze}
    
96. Washington Senators {PeteD}
97. Murder Bay
98. Dickie’s Gulch

Topic

[Steve O]

@Judd 173873 wrote:

Steve O is an expert at animal husbandry. His stable includes horses that have won the Kentucky Derby the past 37 years in a row.

I even do much of the work myself.

[Judd]

@Steve O 173875 wrote:

I even do much of the work myself.

It’s important for cyclists to get upper body workouts.

[Kitty]

FWIW, I am a fan of the randomization of what the next item is.

This is for 2 reasons: 1. Keeping the list up allows for necessary research (I was straight-up not alive for some of these events), but this makes it impossible to predict the next item, and this chain -claim. 2. This allows Tim the Enchanter to have greater control in a manner of good own ideom.

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[Kitty]

@Judd 173826 wrote:

As Steve O’s official Press Secretary, I’d like to clarify that Steve O has never done anything wrong in his life and that Kitty is a villain. A lot of people are saying that we can’t trust someone who likes Corgis and penguins.

You know nothing of my work.

…

No, seriously! Don’t call me a villain over the Corgis and the penguins, call me a villain because I was a Team Rocket sympathizer in middle school, a Sith apprentice in high school, and used to command a Night Lords chaos army. Do your opposition research!

(s/o to the fellow geeks that understood all that)

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[Emm]

@Kitty 173889 wrote:

You know nothing of my work.

…

No, seriously! Don’t call me a villain over the Corgis and the penguins, call me a villain because I was a Team Rocket sympathizer in middle school, a Sith apprentice in high school, and used to command a Night Lords chaos army. Do your opposition research!

(s/o to the fellow geeks that understood all that)

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Oh god I understood all of that. I just lost all of my cool points.

(I commanded a Chaos Daemonette army, and then a Elf Fantasy army when I switched over into that realm. ugh).

[DismalScientist]

Kids these days…:rolleyes:

[PeteD]

Bah.

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I’d be wary if I felt a draft. I had a friend name Plugh, and that it was always perinent to answer for the honesty virtue to the gypsy lady as two Mariah’s were better than two Geoffreys. I learned that Trebor was really Robert reversed. I knew that you really needed the satchel to keep the robots from going thru the trap door. I knew that my humans would go comotose in the Nebula, that getting to Watertown required knowing Rumplestiltskin, and Kefka was a real bastard. That the Council of Light was really a cult and the Order of Voln was the real thing, and that Diesel never gave you a free drink.

[Judd]

dismalscientist;173894 wrote:

kids these days…:rolleyes:

nerds!
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[NemaVeze]

@PeteD 173901 wrote:

I’d be wary if I felt a draft. I had a friend name Plugh, and that it was always perinent to answer for the honesty virtue to the gypsy lady as two Mariah’s were better than two Geoffreys. I learned that Trebor was really Robert reversed. I knew that you really needed the satchel to keep the robots from going thru the trap door. I knew that my humans would go comotose in the Nebula, that getting to Watertown required knowing Rumplestiltskin, and Kefka was a real bastard. That the Council of Light was really a cult and the Order of Voln was the real thing, and that Diesel never gave you a free drink.

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[Kitty]

@Emm 173890 wrote:

Oh god I understood all of that. I just lost all of my cool points.

(I commanded a Chaos Daemonette army, and then a Elf Fantasy army when I switched over into that realm. ugh).

And gained all of the “cool with Kitty” points! This is (part of) why we’re friends. [emoji8]

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[rcannon100]

Ironically today we biked through Monkey Business‘ backyard and did not realize it till afterwards…..

[sjclaeys]

So is anyone playing this game any more or are the new rules too tough?

[rcannon100]

@sjclaeys 174287 wrote:

So is anyone playing this game any more or are the new rules too tough?

And I suppose you are too busy brewing my next batch of beer to take a picture in front of a ship or monkey??

[sjclaeys]

@rcannon100 174293 wrote:

And I suppose you are too busy brewing my next batch of beer to take a picture in front of a ship or monkey??

You mean like this?

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[Kitty]

I think a lot of people is coincidence. My reign of terror was inevitably going to come to a pause as I prepare for a trip to Japan. I’ve been trying to juggle reworking my sleep schedule around my normal job, which hasn’t left much time for riding.

Next week will be the time to really cash in on my absence while I go Frozémon hunting in Tokyo

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