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

[rcannon100]

NemaVeze gets the point for Hell’s Bottom

We all know what today is! It’s “Pitchers and Catchers Report” day! Ah, Spring is in the air and joy is on the horizon.

Next: Washington Senators

[NemaVeze]

Boundary Field, home of the Senators, burned down in 1911. Griffith Stadium was built in the same location, and was demolished in 1965. Howard University Hospital is now located on that site.

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Wikipedia says there’s a plaque inside the hospital that shows where home plate was, but I didn’t try to take my bike inside.

[Steve O]

@NemaVeze 174623 wrote:

Boundary Field, home of the Senators, burned down in 1911. Griffith Stadium was built in the same location, and was demolished in 1965. Howard University Hospital is now located on that site.

Wikipedia says there’s a plaque inside the hospital that shows where home plate was, but I didn’t try to take my bike inside.

We went here on the Bicycle Fan Club ride last year. While scoping that ride, I took this photo:

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[PeteD]

Grandparents had season tickets to the Senators…
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[Judd]

@Steve O 174626 wrote:

We went here on the Bicycle Fan Club ride last year. While scoping that ride, I took this photo:

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As Steve O’s spokesperson, I’d like to point out that he misspoke and that he actually took this picture today and his bike is in it, but his bike just happens to perfectly match the color scheme of the floor which is why you can’t see it and he should get points for this picture.

[streetsmarts]

@Steve O 174626 wrote:

We went here on the Bicycle Fan Club ride last year. While scoping that ride, I took this photo:

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It was a great ride. Do-over!!!

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[rcannon100]

We are sitting on a tie for Washington Senators, with two competitive submissions, with two net likes to two net likes. Vote early vote often.

[josh]

@rcannon100 174717 wrote:

We are sitting on a tie for Washington Senators, with two competitive submissions, with two net likes to two net likes. Vote early vote often.

Tie broken I believe.

[Steve O]

@rcannon100 174717 wrote:

We are sitting on a tie for Washington Senators, with two competitive submissions, with two net likes to two net likes. Vote early vote often.

Although the old season tickets are pretty cool, I would encourage people to consider the effort to actually ride to a location as they consider their voting preference.

[rcannon100]

With two competitive and creative entries, PeteD is the first to three net likes and gets the point

Let’s see…. this is right next to tomorrow’s revival of the original FCC – so…. NEXT: Bill Clinton’s McDonalds

[Steve O]

@rcannon100 174720 wrote:

NEXT: Bill Clinton’s McDonalds

Not only did I get the McDonald’s, but that is Bill Clinton’s actual, used iced coffee cup in my bottle cage.
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[rcannon100]

Oops. SteveO has the point for Saturated Fats.

Well why not. The person who nagged me has a connection to this. Next: Ronald Deskins, Michael Jones, Lance Newman, and Gloria Thompson

[Steve O]

Ronald Deskins, Michael Jones, Lance Newman, and Gloria Thompson

According to Bobco, they entered either through this door or the one next to it.
Note picture includes a civil rights era bicycle for verisimilitude.
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Here’s the front of the school. I could find no reference outside the school to Stafford Junior High School, the first school in Virginia to integrate.
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[rcannon100]

SteveO gets the point for Stafford School

We are going to adjust the rules back to three net likes to keep the game going

So let’s see…. what’s close to the Spanish Steps? Oh I know: Next: Gandhi Statue

[benihana]

Here Gandhi, borrow my bike, you look tired
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