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]

REJI has the point for Charles Syphax

Next: Cool “Disco” Dan

[rcannon100]

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[Kitty]

I hope you guys go get ’em! I had an idea for this one, but I’m officially grounded tomorrow aside from my sleaze ride.

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[CBGanimal]

The Legend of Cool Disco Dan…

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[Kitty]

Despite efforts to erase his legacy for the sake of progress or “beautification” ol’ Dan is still looking down on us…

So I’m really excited about this one, because it was a chance find. With Dan having passed and most of his tags painted over, I didn’t think I’d be able to share one of his. But this afternoon when I went looking for Frozemon along the C&O, I saw all the new-blood graffiti and was thinking about ol’ Dan. As I passed under Key I looked up and saw it! Cool ‘Disco’ Dan lives on!

[Steve O]

This was my Cool “Disco” Dan entry. Kitty’s is better
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[Steve O]

Dead Man’s Hollow
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[rcannon100]

We have a contested round with three submissions. At the time of scoring, two submissions have the minimum three likes. However, Kitty has the most likes with four – and steals the vote.

Next: Dead Man’s Hollow (did someone jump the gun, as it were, on Dead Man’s Hollow??)

A description of where Dead Man’s Hollow is (not really sure myself):

“Just as the friction between the two groups seemed headed to physical confrontation, the parade lurched forward towards its terminus at Dead Man’s Hollow. The Klansmen turned back to Lee Highway passing Dead Man’s Hollow, which was a notorious hideout of highwaymen and killers located roughly at the base of the Key Bridge Marriott’s parking garage. Here the ruffians from Rosslyn would dump bodies and roll cash-rich farmers as they left the markets of Washington. Did the local thugs watch the parade warily from their roosts and did the Klansmen gaze into the woods hoping no gunshots rang out? The spot frightened locals after dark, so even the numerically superior Klan marched cautiously past the hollow.”

[Kitty]

(Not sure on protocol when a pic is posted prematurely but here’s mine, actually depicting a “hollow” near the spot)

From Ghosts of DC:
“So, the next time you’re heading west out of Rosslyn on Lee Highway, think about how lucky you are that you’re not walking 100 years ago, heading down that hill near Spout Run, near the shopping center. Back then, it might have been your last trip.”

(And 2nd photo for locational context. :p)

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[Steve O]

@rcannon100 173059 wrote:

Next: Dead Man’s Hollow (did someone jump the gun, as it were, on Dead Man’s Hollow??)

No. There were 3 likes for Dan prior to my submission.

[Steve O]

@Kitty 173066 wrote:

From Ghosts of DC:
“So, the next time you’re heading west out of Rosslyn on Lee Highway, think about how lucky you are that you’re not walking 100 years ago, heading down that hill near Spout Run, near the shopping center. Back then, it might have been your last trip.”

(And 2nd photo for locational context. :p)

Your “hollow” is not very close to Lee Highway, though. At the Mediterranean restaurant in Cherrydale, they have an old photo on the wall of Lee Highway in that vicinity (where Lyon Village shopping center is now). My bike is just across the street from the Lee Highway “hollow” that existed at that time — essentially where Lee Highway crosses Spout Run (the stream, not the road).

[Steve O]

I also used the Ghosts of DC description, which is a good mile+ away from the other one. If I had to guess, I would consider the Spout Run location more likely. The other one was too close to civilization, while the one farther west would have been truly spooky. It would also be more like a hollow, in that you had to come up out of Rosslyn and then back down into the hollow. By the Key Bridge, even back then, Lee Highway was pretty much just an uphill climb.

[streetsmarts]

@Kitty 173040 wrote:

Despite efforts to erase his legacy for the sake of progress or “beautification” ol’ Dan is still looking down on us…

So I’m really excited about this one, because it was a chance find. With Dan having passed and most of his tags painted over, I didn’t think I’d be able to share one of his. But this afternoon when I went looking for Frozemon along the C&O, I saw all the new-blood graffiti and was thinking about ol’ Dan. As I passed under Key I looked up and saw it! Cool ‘Disco’ Dan lives on!

Cool!

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[rcannon100]

We have two submissions for Dead Man’s Hollow – which shall receive the coveted three votes? Which shall receive the most votes?

[rcannon100]

We have two submissions for Dead Man’s Hollow. Both have one vote (no I am not counting Mr Happy voting for himself :rolleyes:)

Let’s keep this game rolling. Seems to be some ambiguity about where exactly Dead Man’s Hollow is – and the peanut gallery isnt crowd sourcing the truth. So points are free. You get a point. And you get a point. And you get a point…… everyone who participated in this round gets a point.

Next: Dwight W. Watson and his tractor

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