Pointless Prize: 2023 Photo Scavenger Hunt
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2/09/23 – The Simpsons
Everybody knows that Homer’s favorite dive bar was Moe’s!Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
2/9/23 #scavhunt (Flintstones lose lead to Simpsons)
Yabba-dabba-doo is done, Simpsons in the woody wagon stole your run! #socks Flying District TacosJennifer trivia: My Paw Paw used to take us to PakaSak in the Icee Mobile (woody wagon) to get Icees. I was the youngest and sat in the “Jennifer Seat” which was the armrest pulled down on the bench frontseat next to my Paw Paw. This was around 1967 when the Flintstones were on Saturday morning cartoons. “was originally broadcast on ABC from September 30, 1960, to April 1, 1966, and was the first animated series to hold a prime-time slot on television.[2]” per Wikipedia
2/9/2023 The Simpsons
Homer’s dad Grampa Simpson moved into a retirement home after Homer forced his dad to sell his house so that Howard’s family could buy theirs.
This retirement home is on Glade Drive in Reston. The sign was constructed of rocks (and concrete) that could have been excavated by Fred Flintstone.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
2/9/2023 Simpsons
Mrs. Simpson’s, where the children of the 1% go to learn the etiquette required to hobnob with the rest of the 1%.“The most legendary cotillion in the area is Mrs. Simpson’s, once the subject of a civil-rights complaint by the District because of allegedly discriminatory practices. Though more diverse these days, it’s still considered the most elite and formal of the clubs. Nine-year-old girls are required to wear semiformal dresses ‘of a proper length’ and stockings, while boys must wear suits with ‘well-pressed dark trousers’ and dress shoes. Kids learn all the traditional ballroom dances but first have to navigate a receiving line of parent chaperones as well as the formally clad Mrs. Edmund Gordon Simpson, as the director refers to herself. Even the parents have to abide by a dress code: ‘No dress slacks, evening pants or pant dresses for the mothers.’”
https://www.washingtonian.com/2008/03/01/i-have-to-dance-kids-and-cotillions/Application for your kids to attend asks:
“Was mother presented?” “If yes, please specify year and city?”
“Has your child had any previous Ballroom Dancing instruction?”
“Please list Social Clubs.”
“How long has the family lived in the Washington area?”
I’m assuming Homer Simpson and his family are the poor relations no one ever speaks of.
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2/10/2023 Wild card – this day in history
On February 10, 1996, after three hours, world chess champion Garry Kasparov loses the first game of a six-game match against Deep Blue, an IBM computer capable of evaluating 200 million moves per second. Man was ultimately victorious over machine, however, as Kasparov bested Deep Blue in the match with three wins and two ties and took home the $400,000 prize. An estimated 6 million people worldwide followed the action online.
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2/10/23 Wild Card
On this day in 1962, Francis Gary Powers was exchanged for convicted Soviet spy Rudolf Abel . The exchange occurred at the Glienicke bridge, known as the “Bridge of Spies“. Since I could not bike to Berlin today, I settled for another bridge. Considering it is surrounded by some of the highest level tech, defense contracting, and cyber security firms in the world, this bridge might be seeing its own espionage going on. But bridges don’t talk.
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