ScavHunt

[summercomfort]

SCAV has started!


Items
6. Remember Pearl Harbor—purl harder! Remember that poster? Purl it harder. [’41 points]
13. A wood-powered refrigerator. Must not require freon in order to operate. [up to 67 points, based on internal temperature]
15. A ticket for a violation of Chicago Ordinance 8-4-240, dated before 11 May 2006. [5 points]
17. A Nobel Prize. An Ig Nobel Prize. [the actual prizes themselves, not the winners; 1 and 7 points, respectively]
21. Who would win in a fight, Locke or Rosseau? Only Celebrity Death Match can decide. 1 match. You choose the Core authors. [19 points]
22. A current catalog from McMaster-Carr r

Comments

[satyreyes.livejournal.com]

I don't know if maybe you know this already, but your highlights are five and a half items long. There might be only five or six good items, but surely not five and a half?

[summercomfort]

oh, geez. It was longer, but for some reason the post got b0rken, and I'm too lazy to read through the entire list again to find the good bits again. :/

[satyreyes.livejournal.com]

Also: for those curious, rigorous Internet research (typing "8-4-240" into Google) reveals that the ordinance referenced by #15 is:

No person shall engage in the occupation of rag picking, the peddling of any article or thing, or the purchasing or collection of junk by handcart, automobile or other vehicle in any public alley between the hours of 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., except in the area bounded on the north by the Chicago River, on the south by E. and W. Roosevelt Road, on the east by Lake Michigan and on the west by the Chicago River; provided no rag picking shall be permitted at any time of the day or night on Sundays or legal holidays. Any person violating this section shall be fined not less than $5.00 nor more than $50.00 for each offense.

[song_tra_bong]

They've also got items for Mudder's milk (yes, the drink from "Jaynestown") and motherfucking snakes on a motherfucking plane.

I love Scav.

PS - *is sekritly Kat in her RP journal being too lazy to switch*

[summercomfort]

yup! Although the snakes are only worth 2 points. Because snakes are adders.

[kaitoujeanne.livejournal.com]

http://americanhistory.si.edu/victory/victory2.htm
and http://americanhistory.si.edu/victory/903535a.gif
Or, for a book with the poster in it, http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=65-1568981406-2

PURL HARDER, SUSHU.

[summercomfort]

haha. Yuppers! I'll show up to Justice Day and see what people have purled.

[kaitoujeanne.livejournal.com]

Actually, if something is done completely in purl-stitch, it'll look exactly like knit-only garter stitch. So, in order to see purls, there must also be knits. Otherwise, it'll just be knits.

[summercomfort]

yeah, which is why I don't get it. I mean, you can't have purls without knits, cause they're one and the same.... But it's a cute/slightly disturbing turn of phrase, I guess

[kaitoujeanne.livejournal.com]

Clearly there are non-knitters making the rules.

[summercomfort]

haha. Indeed. Actually, my first question when I read that item was "how would they be able to tell that I didn't just knit it?"

But it's Scav and most things on the list are improbable anyway.

aww, the list cuts off...

[kitsuchan.livejournal.com]

I miss the random craziness of scavhunt. You and Joanne's drafting of me to DnD for the Shoreland team is one of my happy memories of Chicago. I always wanted to be in Scavhunt, and never would have, but for you guys.

What's the URL for the scav list again?

Re: aww, the list cuts off...

[summercomfort]

scavhunt.uchicago.edu