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

[Kitty]

Hoover administration’s response to the “Bonus Army”:
“Maj. George Patton led the cavalry and six tanks from the Ellipse… Up ahead, veterans and civilians just getting off work lined Pennsylvania Avenue and sang patriotic songs, believing they were about to witness a parade. Instead, the infantry fixed bayonets, tossed gas canisters, and began herding the outraged veterans and onlookers north. Some of the veterans tried to resist, but they were quickly swept away.”
From: https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/9126978

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[rcannon100]

Kitty made easy work of “Bonus Army”

next: John Wilkes Booth (lunchtime race!)

[Kitty]

“Sic Sempter Tyrannis: Local Actor-turned-Assassin Delivers the Lines, Get-away Falls Flat.”

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[rcannon100]

Kitty has three likes for John Wilkes Booth and the point.

Next: “I invented the internet.” See what people come up with here!!

[Judd]

@rcannon100 172361 wrote:

Kitty has three likes for John Wilkes Booth and the point.

Next: “I invented the internet.” See what people come up with here!!

Which is right near Kitty’s house… Can she make it a trifecta?

[Kitty]

My neighbor ARPANET has some things say about Mr. Gore’s claim… I think the binary part of the sign is their rebuttal.

(Taken at the end of my Saturday ride in anticipation of this one… hence the daylight)

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[Kitty]

@Judd 172377 wrote:

Which is right near Kitty’s house… Can she make it a trifecta?

Boom!

Or in this case: **56k modem dial-up sound**

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[ShawnoftheDread]

@Kitty 172378 wrote:

My neighbor ARPANET has some things say about Mr. Gore’s claim… I think the binary part of the sign is their rebuttal.

(Taken at the end of my Saturday ride in anticipation of this one… hence the daylight)

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Minus 1 for pic taken before location was in play. Minus 3 for white saddle with black bar tape.

[Kitty]

@ShawnoftheDread 172390 wrote:

Minus 3 for white saddle with black bar tape.

Until chain grease comes in another color aside from black… the bar tape stays. :p

[chuxtr]

@Kitty 172391 wrote:

Until chain grease comes in another color aside from black… the bar tape stays. :p

Then you need to get a black saddle.

http://www.velominati.com/the-rules/#8

Rule #8 // Saddles, bars, and tires shall be carefully matched.

Valid options are:
•Match the saddle to the bars and the tires to black; or
•Match the bars to the color of the frame at the top of the head tube and the saddle to the color of the frame at the top of the seat tube and the tires to the color where they come closest to the frame; or
•Match the saddle and the bars to the frame decals; or
•Black, black, black

[rcannon100]

Kitty has more than three likes for ARPANET and the point
For more on the birth of the Internet, consult your local library
http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/internet_history69.htm

Next: As featured in one of Pete Beers’ coffee rides: Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During World War II

[Kitty]

@chuxtr 172395 wrote:

Then you need to get a black saddle.

http://www.velominati.com/the-rules/#8

Rule #8 // Saddles, bars, and tires shall be carefully matched.

Valid options are:
•Match the saddle to the bars and the tires to black; or
•Match the bars to the color of the frame at the top of the head tube and the saddle to the color of the frame at the top of the seat tube and the tires to the color where they come closest to the frame; or
•Match the saddle and the bars to the frame decals; or
•Black, black, black

Believe me, a white saddle wasn’t my choice. But when the saddle you need in your size ends up the the clearance bin for $100 off, you give the rules a miss. Besides, once I install my other white maneki neko bottle cage, it will all come together.

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[Henry]

@Kitty 172417 wrote:

my white maneki neko bottle cage, kind of ties the whole bike together

Isn’t that from The Big Lebowski?

[Kitty]

This is last one for a while (I promise!) but this was important enough to me that I made the special trip last night to visit it.

Let me tell you about the 100th Infantry Battalion:
http://japanmattersforamerica.org/japan/japanese-american-veterans-congressional-medal

I’m still in awe by their story.

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[rcannon100]

Kitty! I am not even getting to drink my coffee between your finds

Kitty has three for the memorial and is totally running away with the game! I know….. lets move the playing field to Alexandria!

Next up: Price, Birch & Co. Dealers in Slaves

Nice Job Kitty. I think we are already past the hat trick

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