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

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[ShawnoftheDread]

@Kitty 172391 wrote:

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

Oh, the bar tape isn’t the issue.

[ShawnoftheDread]

@rcannon100 172416 wrote:

For more on the birth of the Internet, consult your local library

[NemaVeze]

Wellp, when I left my house, Kitty didn’t even have points for the Arpanet yet, so I thought I’d have time to run out to the Japanese American memorial. Alas, no. At least let me share the photos I took of my hands-down favorite DC monument.

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[SarahBee]

@rcannon100 172426 wrote:

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

Or Maryland. Will kitty venture into the wilds of Murrland to look for historical markers?

[Steve O]

@SarahBee 172718 wrote:

Or Maryland. Will kitty venture into the wilds of Murrland to look for historical markers?

Keep in mind that you do not have to go to the actual thing. You can take a picture of your bike by something that is somehow related and let people figure it out (there were some good ones back in the Find the Founding Fathers thread). For instance, one could have taken a pic of the VPs house by the Naval Observatory for the Internet one. Or the Japanese Embassy for the Memorial.

Even now, although the slave traders’s actual location was in Alexandria, a clever person might be able to find a connection of some kind to someplace in Maryland and still earn the point.

Here’s an example for Clinton from that game:
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[NemaVeze]

@Steve O 172722 wrote:

Keep in mind that you do not have to go to the actual thing. You can take a picture of your bike by something that is somehow related and let people figure it out (there were some good ones back in the Find the Founding Fathers thread). For instance, one could have taken a pic of the VPs house by the Naval Observatory for the Internet one. Or the Japanese Embassy for the Memorial.

Anybody know where I can find a birch tree with a, um, price tag on it?

[Kitty]

Not to question the Game Master (one does so at their own peril), but I don’t think the current location in play is in Merrland. That said, I’m not planning on heading down to Alexandria anytime soon if someone wants to jump on that. :rolleyes:

[rcannon100]

I said nothing about the Old Line State.

See also the Northern Virginia Urban League and the Freedom House Museum. Many of you have walked by these buildings.

[Emm]

Ok I think I got it…

Price, Birch & Co. Dealers in Slaves, also known as Franklin and Armfield slave office if Google was right…

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[streetsmarts]

@Emm 172819 wrote:

Ok I think I got it…

Price, Birch & Co. Dealers in Slaves, also known as Franklin and Armfield slave office if Google was right…

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Good job!

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[rcannon100]

Emm has at least three likes for Price, Birch & Co. Dealers in Slaves and the point.

Next: Charles Syphax

[video]https://www.c-span.org/video/?414115-101/syphax-descendants-interviews[/video]

See the 2nd of two documentaries below (or heck watch them both)

[video=youtube_share;Q9ecctFFo3o]https://youtu.be/Q9ecctFFo3o[/video]

[reji]

rcannon and I for Charles Syphax. Pic to be posted later when I get home

[reji]

@reji 172873 wrote:

rcannon and I for Charles Syphax.

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[reji]

@reji 172873 wrote:

rcannon and I for Charles Syphax. Pic to be posted later when I get home

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[rcannon100]

“The Syphaxes were one of the most influential slave families at Arlington. Charles Syphax oversaw the dining room at Arlington House and was the unofficial leader of the Arlington slave community. The son of a free black itinerant Alexandria street preacher and a Mount Vernon slave, Syphax was one of the fifty-seven slaves who came to Arlington from Mount Vernon with George Washington Parke Custis in 1802.
Charles Syphax married another Custis slave, Maria Carter. Both had been Mount Vernon slaves where they had worked as household servants. Maria Carter Syphax was the daughter of Arianna Carter, a slave maid of George and Martha Washington and later George Washington Parke Custis. In 1826, Mr. Custis gave Maria Carter Syphax and her children their freedom and a seventeen-acre plot within the Arlington plantation. The Syphaxes had ten children who lived as free persons on the estate. According to Syphax family tradition, George Washington Parke Custis was the father of Maria Carter Syphax.”

https://www.nps.gov/arho/learn/historyculture/syphax.htm

In the background of our picture is Robert E Lee’s Arlington House in what is now Arlington Cementery

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