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@drevil 209271 wrote:

3/7/21 – Cookie Selfie

March 7 marks the beginning of Girl Scout Week, so lets celebrate the cookie!

Fun fact: Thin Mints are the top-selling cookie, followed in descending sales order by Caramel deLites/Samoas, Peanut Butter Patties/Tagalongs, Do-Si-Dos/Peanut Butter Sandwiches, and Trefoils/Shortbread. What’s your favorite?

On your ride, take a selfie with a cookie that you bought during the ride (i.e., don’t bring it from home!) for 1 point. Also, let us know what kind of cookie it is. If it’s an official Girl Scout cookie, include the box in the pic for 2 points (total).

As an alternative, if you don’t want to go inside or buy a cookie, take a pic of a bakery where you’d buy a delicious cookie for yourself or a friend. This’ll net you a point.

Happy hunting!

Cookie Monster Crash Photoshop by bikecentric, on Flickr

Hot tip, members of my daughter’s Girl Scout troop are scheduled to sell cookies today outside Saxby’s Coffee, 3500 O St NW, 1-3:00pm. Or if you’re craving cookies but can’t make the same, for another week you can buy from her online at https://www.gsdigitalcookie.com/Cookie/ enter code mkeen2hr and get delivery. Maybe not photo contest point worthy, but you get a brownie point!

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3/6/21 element name

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The balloon store didn’t mention helium.
The dentist didn’t advertise fluoride, and I realized it would have needed to be flourine anyway.
The dry cleaner had an icon of an iron, but didn’t spell out the word.
The metro bus maps stopped before silver spring.
But thankfully this meter says *silver* spring networks.

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@Kbikeva 209194 wrote:

Were they lining up for a parade or something? I’ve not seen anything like that for years! Truly a rare find!

Apparently a group of neighbors sent in a petition and got a giant peanut (license plate NUTS4U) and a weinermobile to come for an hour long impromptu masked sidewalk dance party! Not at all what I was suspecting to encounter on today’s ride!

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3/5/21 – Monster

I don’t want to say anything potentially disparaging myself, but other, less popular, legumes call this dancing guy a monster:
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Definitions 1b, 2a, 3, 4, & perhaps also 5 (in terms of Mr. Peanut’s advertising success).

Plus a weinermobile, a monster in and of itself.

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3/4/21 – Bowling Alley

After feeling the first wind gust I was tempted to call up a neighbor who is a potter to see if she wanted to set up her pottery wheel and other bowl-making accoutrements (aka “bowling” materials) in a local alley 😉…. But instead I persevered and made it to Rinaldi’s Riverdale Bowl, very thankful that I overrode Google map’s directions that would have kept me on Kenilworth Avenue longer than necessary!
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3/3/21 – Train

and since this part of the ride happened after midnight, here’s a train, that’s also a little free library!
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3/2/21 – Little Free Library (with your bike in the pic!)
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Robot, with bike part accessories!
Outside Brookland’s Finest

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@drevil 208872 wrote:

3/1/21 – Pig or BBQ Joint

National Pig Day has been celebrated on March 1 since 1972, when it was started by two sisters, one of who said the purpose of the day is “to accord the pig its rightful, though generally unrecognized, place” as one of the most intelligent domesticated animals:…

On your ride, find a pig, whether it be the word or a likeness …orrrr… you can go the opposite way and find a BBQ joint that serves pork (preferably one you’d recommend). This brings up one thing that I always thought was funny: why do some restaurants have a cheery icon of the animal you are about to eat (e.g. Hot N Juicy or Pollo Campero)? Have those animals not watched Soylent Green or Cloud Atlas? :confused:

Happy hunting!

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Why do restaurants include icons on the animals they serve? Maybe under the same sort of logic that allowed us to include either a pig *or* a BBQ joint on a date aiming “to accord the pig its rightful, though generally unrecognized, place” as one of the most intelligent domesticated animals”! :rolleyes:

I’m not a huge meat eater, but I used to live near Kenny’s smokehouse on Capitol Hill. It was visited by both Michelle and Barack Obama at different times, prompting a fair bit of confusion: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/all-we-can-eat/post/obamas-visit-to-kennys-bbq-what-does-it-mean/2012/06/18/gJQAk8wVmV_blog.html
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2/28/21 – the word “Mattress” on a sign
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Petworth – multiple mattress mentions, + an actual mattress!
Some great murals near this mattress and furniture shop, too, to brighten a rainy, foggy ride.

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2/27/21 – the words “Black” and/or “White” (any language)
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Black Lives Matter

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2/26/21 – Acronym or Initialism (3 letters or more)

BLM on the MBT
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I assume that’s Black Lives Matter on the Metropolitan Branch Trail, and not the Bureau of Land Management tagging the path.

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2/25/21 – Duck (likeness of animal or the word)

Anacostia River trail
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2/24/21 – “Charles and Diana” Subanagram Word (5 letters or more)

Channel
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2/23/21 – Mosaic (likeness or word)

I took the same photos as DCAKen and LhasaCM! I also snapped a few of the mosaics at the Franciscan Monastery and wondered if the top of the Basilica at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception would count as a mosaic. But here I’ll feature another one of the mosaic bean benches by local artist Valerie Theberge. Her work is getting a lot of play in this thread!
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A couple years ago my daughter and I attended a workshop with the artist, hosted by Dance Place. We got to use some of her mosaic scrap pieces to decorate a frame around a small mirror–a fun project!

The sign states that the bean benches were funded by a grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

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2/22/21 – Purple House
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