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]

Who remembers 13th and 14th street and the seediness…

The Silver Slipper used to be at 815 13th Street. Which would have been where the alley is.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1981/06/29/bawdy-silver-slipper-slips-into-history-and-folklore/e496ac90-50b8-4ad2-a1bf-bedddb75a426/?utm_term=.46b51b315164
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[streetsmarts]

@DismalScientist 173407 wrote:

That’s not a real bike. Real bikes have horizontal top tubes.

PS: To be fair, the previous winner didn’t have a bike in the picture.

Boo . Not nice dismal!

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[streetsmarts]

@PeteD 173408 wrote:

Who remembers 13th and 14th street and the seediness…

The Silver Slipper used to be at 815 13th Street. Which would have been where the alley is.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1981/06/29/bawdy-silver-slipper-slips-into-history-and-folklore/e496ac90-50b8-4ad2-a1bf-bedddb75a426/?utm_term=.46b51b315164
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From the article:
“My wife is not so crazy about the place,” he said. “I guess she’s been in here only twice since we’ve been open. But I’ve met many fine and talented people down here.

From me – we only heard about it growing up ( in nearby Md). A threat if you didn’t do well in school (made by teachers or rude students ) was “well you can always go work on 14th st.”

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[rcannon100]

Streetsmarts gets the point.

Next: St Asaph Racetrack – a perfect one for weekend riding. There is a perfect kodak moment for this one if you know it.

[CBGanimal]

hanging out at the St Asaph pool room!
With Karen W! A point each?

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[rcannon100]

CBGanimal and Karen W get the point
(Group finds, everyone identified gets a point)

Next: Fawn Hall

[NemaVeze]

Hall “confessed to … shredding a large number of documents (so much was destroyed, she said, that the office shredder jammed)” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawn_Hall

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Next time, leave it to the pros. Parcel Plus, 3509 Connecticut Ave NW

[rcannon100]

Wow past year’s peanut galleries were far tougher. NemaVeze gets the point for a picture of a Parcel Plus!

Next: Democracy: An American Novel

[NemaVeze]

@rcannon100 173463 wrote:

Wow past year’s peanut galleries were far tougher. NemaVeze gets the point for a picture of a Parcel Plus!

I thought that was pretty good! What would you have done?

[rcannon100]

@NemaVeze 173494 wrote:

I thought that was pretty good! What would you have done?

Yeah for some of these there is a clear kodak moment. For others…… For Ms. Hall? I mean shredding docs is probably her 15 minutes of fame. Could take a pic in front of the NSC but that might not go over too well with the not-so-secret service. Could take pic out front of the Nicaraguan Consulate. I guess you could also take a pic out in front of Reagan Airport altho that too is a bit weak.

If the peanut gallery awards you three points, then the wisdom of the crowd approves!

[Kitty]

From Wikipedia: “Contemporaneous conjecture placed the book under the joint authorship of Clarence King,*John Hay*and Henry Adams and their spouses who lived side by side on H street in*Washington, D.C.*and were collectively sometimes called “the Five of Hearts.”

Photo is of the Hay-Adams hotel that now sits where their houses were… Thanks to non-Vision Zero compliant construction, I couldn’t get closer. [emoji852]️

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[rcannon100]

Kitty has the point

Next: john hinkley

[NemaVeze]

The Hinckley Hilton

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He shot Reagan outside of the T St entrance

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[Kitty]

Thanks Nema! You saved me the trip.

[rcannon100]

And NemaVeze gets the point for Hinkley

Next: The ultimate Freezing Saddles item – the best team ever – the winner of last year’s competition: Slacker

Please remember that your bicycle is required to be in the picture.

Also, this is not a winner-take-all game – as Oprah would say “You get cool swag and you get cool swag and you get cool swag” – anyone can join at any time

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