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

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  • #1085079
    benihana
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    Well if nobody is going to give the 3rd like to move the game on, then they should post a better picture. Less than two weeks left.

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    #1085080
    rcannon100
    Participant

    I agree. You get the point. The game must go on.

    Next: Brigadier General Albert Pike

    #1085095
    benihana
    Participant

    Being a descendent of fellow masons myself, Goodmorning poet, lawyer, soldier, mason Pike!
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    #1085045
    benihana
    Participant

    Did everyone stop playing/watching this game or are my posts really that terrible? Or maybe I’m just not a likable person? This game was on a roll, what happened? I like having destinations for lunch rides.

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    #1085130
    PeteD
    Participant

    @benihana 175826 wrote:

    Did everyone stop playing/watching this game or are my posts really that terrible? Or maybe I’m just not a likable person? This game was on a roll, what happened? I like having destinations for lunch rides.

    Had a much more pressing Calvinball find than for the Salad Days item.

    What I had wanted to do there was to look beyond the obvious (9:30 club/etc) and look towards Dischord Records (in Ian’s house on Beecher St), other venues (Madam’s Organ in Adam’s Morgan) or the roots of Bad Brains off R Street. I remember a time where the only place in DC that you could buy any of these albums (other than at a show) as either ElectroLux on M St, the GWU book store, or the Tower Records near GWU. That or to flush out any memorabilia (I have some Fugazi tickets and LPs that I was going to work into a shot)… but alas, gametime is short and I’ve got better things to do… :)

    #1085133
    benihana
    Participant

    @PeteD 175828 wrote:

    Had a much more pressing Calvinball find than for the Salad Days item.

    What I had wanted to do there was to look beyond the obvious (9:30 club/etc) and look towards Dischord Records (in Ian’s house on Beecher St), other venues (Madam’s Organ in Adam’s Morgan) or the roots of Bad Brains off R Street. I remember a time where the only place in DC that you could buy any of these albums (other than at a show) as either ElectroLux on M St, the GWU book store, or the Tower Records near GWU. That or to flush out any memorabilia (I have some Fugazi tickets and LPs that I was going to work into a shot)… but alas, gametime is short and I’ve got better things to do… :)

    I would have definitely liked your post over mine! I know my post for Bad Brains was haphazard (and deserved the dislike), but I was in a hurry to meet the Fam for my Sons birthday, and 930 club was close to the Landsburgh (which I thought was a decent spot for a photo for Minor Threat).
    BTW, The almighty Enchanter didn’t award me the point for HR Bad Brains [emoji849]

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    #1085137
    Steve O
    Participant

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    Taken during the unscheduled pre-storm dark clouds moment

    #1085140
    rcannon100
    Participant

    Benihana gets the point

    Next: Notorious Ruth Bader Ginsberg

    #1085222
    benihana
    Participant

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    I think a good symbol of RBG’s heritage, courage, and what she stands for in her position. No respecter of persons. Judge others equally and according to law. Committed to “not stand idly by.” Also wanted to do something besides the Supreme Court. P.S. I borrowed a coworkers bike.

    Here is an excerpt from a speech she gave in 2004:
    “My heritage as a Jew and my occupation as a judge fit together symmetrically. The demand for justice runs through the entirety of Jewish history and Jewish tradition. I take pride in and draw strength from my heritage, as signs in my chambers attest: a large silver mezuzah on my door post, gift from the Shulamith School for Girls in Brooklyn; on three walls, in artists’ renditions of Hebrew letters, the command from Deuteronomy: “Zedek, zedek, tirdof” — “Justice, justice shall you pursue.” Those words are ever-present reminders of what judges must do that they “may thrive.”

    But today, here in the Capitol, the lawmaking heart of our nation, in close proximity to the Supreme Court, we remember in sorrow that Hitler’s Europe, his Holocaust Kingdom, was not lawless. Indeed, it was a kingdom full of laws, laws deployed by highly educated people—teachers, lawyers, and judges—to facilitate oppression, slavery, and mass murder. We convene to say “Never again,” not only to Western history’s most unjust regime, but also to a world in which good men and women, abroad and even in the USA, witnessed or knew of the Holocaust Kingdom’s crimes against humanity, and let them happen.

    I was fortunate to be a child, a Jewish child, safely in America during the Holocaust. Our nation learned from Hitler’s racism and, in time, embarked on a mission to end law-sanctioned discrimination in our own country. In the aftermath of World War II, in the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, in the burgeoning Women’s Rights movement of the 1970s, “We the People” expanded to include all of humankind, to embrace all the people of this great nation. Our motto, E Pluribus Unum, of many one, signals our appreciation that we are the richer for the religious, ethnic, and racial diversity of our citizens.

    May the memory of those who perished remain vibrant to all who dwell in this fair land, people of every color and creed. May that memory strengthen our resolve to aid those at home and abroad who suffer from injustice born of ignorance and intolerance, to combat crimes that stem from racism and prejudice, and to remain ever engaged in the quest for democracy and respect for the human dignity of all the world’s people.”

    https://www.ushmm.org/remember/days-of-remembrance/past-days-of-remembrance/2004-days-of-remembrance/ruth-bader-ginsburg

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    #1085247
    PeteD
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    @benihana 175924 wrote:

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    I think a good symbol of RBG’s heritage, courage, and what she stands for in her position. No respecter of persons. Judge others equally and according to law. Committed to “not stand idly by.” Also wanted to do something besides the Supreme Court. P.S. I borrowed a coworkers bike.

    I think so far that this post is what is the best period about Notorious… To me, this is the bar that should be set for a topic.

    Chapeau Benihana… Chapeau.
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    #1085249
    rcannon100
    Participant

    Benihana gets the point.

    It’s the weekend. WSGFABR. Next: Laurence Henry, Glen Echo Amusement Park

    #1085262
    benihana
    Participant

    @PeteD 175949 wrote:

    I think so far that this post is what is the best period about Notorious… To me, this is the bar that should be set for a topic.

    Chapeau Benihana… Chapeau.

    Thanks PeteD. I put some more thought into this one than Bad Brains. I have been enjoying learning more about many of these topics, even if I don’t get the point.

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    #1085265
    rcannon100
    Participant

    Okay, with a week to go, let’s bring this back downtown for people’s commutes and lunch time frolics. We will switch to

    Next: Old Capitol Prison: Belle Boyd and Rose O’Neal Greenhow

    #1085340
    benihana
    Participant

    What is now a place that interprets the law that may put one in prison, was once a prison. The US Supreme Court was built in the spot where the “Old Capitol” was built after the Capitol bldg was burnt in 1812. The Old Capitol was used for a period of time during the Civil war as a prison, hence “Old Capitol Prison.” Where it housed two famous female confederate spy’s for relaying Union troop movements to Confederate army’s. Boyd and Greenhow might have overlapped each other in prison in 1862, but I think that Greenhow was sent down to Richmond just before Boyd came in. Greenhow had an interesting death drowning in North Carolina after coming back from England. Seeing a Union gunboat ahead, She attempted to leave her ship via a small row boat during a storm, and it capsized. All her golden gifts from English royalty was too heavy for her to stay afloat.
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    #1085373
    rcannon100
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    Benihana gets the point

    Next: Berman v. Parker

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