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

[PeteD]

Ah, Dwight…
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[rcannon100]

PeteD has three likes for our friend Dwight and the point.

Next: Pork Chop Row

[Kitty]

Quoting the Rosslyn BID History page:

“Fort Myer Drive

A quiet, daytime picture of Fort Myer Drive, also known as “Pork Chop Row.” This neighborhood in Rosslyn was notorious for gambling, drinking, and other vices.”

Who knew I live in such a wretched hive of scum and villainy…

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[Emm]

Kitty got 3 likes so I need to move on before Steve O posts his picture for this…

George Lincoln Rockwell:

The leader of the American Nazi Party was gunned down at the Dominion Hills Shopping Center while trying to do his laundry.
George Lincoln Rockwell was shot by former neo-Nazi John Patler from the rooftop of the shopping center when he went out to his car to go and get bleach to clean his clothes with at the laundromat. Patler was arrested half an hour later, after throwing his gun into Four Mile Run nearby, when he was spotted with wet trousers waiting for a bus by a police officer.

https://www.arlnow.com/2017/08/25/american-nazi-partys-george-rockwell-assassinated-50-years-ago-today/

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(note Steve O in the background taking a much less awesome photo of this…)

[rcannon100]

Kitty gets the point for Pork Chop Row
Emm jumped the gun and got the point for Rockwell

Next :: n’synch

Post from Kitty expected in three…. two…. one….

[Steve O]

Evidently you people with jobs have plenty of time to play these games. I have pictures of all three, but had actual things to do.

Watson (my bike is actually in the pond, worth a point, IMO)

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Pork Chop Row
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Rockwell (with my competitor scheming behind the sign)
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[Steve O]

@rcannon100 173118 wrote:

PeteD has three likes for our friend Dwight and the point.

I remember this. Here’s a long ago post about it.

[rcannon100]

Deep Throat:

[video=youtube_share;vETxuL7Ij3Q]https://youtu.be/vETxuL7Ij3Q[/video]

[Henry]

Dammit! I’m way late too this thread having missed Dead Mens Hollow. Om my Notorious ARL tour, the official DMH stop is at 19th and Moore Street where the Continental Beer Garden is now. It’s AKA Crandel Mackey Park, named for the Commonwealth Attorney who “cleaned it up” by raiding the bars and brothels.

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This parklet was also once home to the decorated storage contained that now lives in Barcroft Park and used by Phoenix Bikes.

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Finally, there is also a local Blue Grass band of the same name, taken b/c several of the members lived in Arlington when they formed and thought it was cool.

So much history for just one street corner. Notorious!

[rcannon100]

You know the current NOTORIOUS item in play – Deep Throat – is right outside your BA Intergalactic Headquarters

[Kitty]

From Rosslyn Magazine:
“The garage is inconspicuous at best, hidden behind a gray-bricked wall under the commercial office building at 1401 Wilson Blvd., off N. Nash Street. (pictured at right).* But it holds a unique place in American history.
In a dark quiet corner, slot 32D is the space where, in 1972 and 1973, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward would meet at two in the morning with “Deep Throat,” his secret source on the Watergate break–in.”
http://www.arlingtonarts.org/cultural-affairs/heritage-arts/uncommon_places_deep_throat_garage.aspx

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[rcannon100]

Kitty gets the point for deep throat

Next elizabeth ray.

[NemaVeze]

Kitty!! You scooped me again!!

Here’s 7445 Georgia Ave NW, former location of Royce’s Adult Video.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Throat_(film)

[LhasaCM]

@NemaVeze 173193 wrote:

Kitty!! You scooped me again!!

Here’s 7445 Georgia Ave NW, former location of Royce’s Adult Video.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Throat_(film)

Interesting juxtaposition of the video store and child trailer.

[NemaVeze]

@LhasaCM 173195 wrote:

Interesting juxtaposition of the video store and child trailer.

I stopped off on my way to buy dog food. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[Author]

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