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

[benihana]

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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[rcannon100]

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

Next: Brigadier General Albert Pike

[benihana]

Being a descendent of fellow masons myself, Goodmorning poet, lawyer, soldier, mason Pike!

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[benihana]

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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[PeteD]

@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…

[benihana]

@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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[Steve O]

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Taken during the unscheduled pre-storm dark clouds moment

[rcannon100]

Benihana gets the point

Next: Notorious Ruth Bader Ginsberg

[benihana]

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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[PeteD]

@benihana 175924 wrote:

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.
https://youtu.be/lMGudoetvG4?t=2m25s

[rcannon100]

Benihana gets the point.

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

[benihana]

@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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[rcannon100]

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

[benihana]

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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[rcannon100]

Benihana gets the point

Next: Berman v. Parker

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