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spud 04-20-06 11:01 PM

yes, we play til we feel like going home or pillaging, there are lights, hasnt happened yet, depends how aggressive you play...getting out of bed is a potential source for death.

poopncow 04-21-06 08:42 AM

Piracy increases the risk by a factor of Pi^Pi!

poopncow 04-21-06 10:55 AM

Anyone up this afternoon/evening?

baldylocks 04-21-06 01:20 PM

What time this evening? two,oh,twofour8nine8one,0,one

meb 04-22-06 01:22 AM

Splane Sherwood
 

Originally Posted by chimblysweep
jonny5, it's polo night! 7pm, 14 & K, you know the drill.

Twas over at Farragut this afternoon, so I decided to scout out the "Sherwood" polo grounds. Saw nuthin at 14 & K that looks like a park or parking lot or anything suitable for a polo grounds. Only Sherwood in the phone book, is a Sherwood Rec Center in NE.

chimblysweep 04-22-06 05:50 AM

sherwood is what we call Lincoln Square. It's the park between 13&14 and I&K. and there may be a fountain in the middle, but we consider it quite "suitable"!

c'mon out!

ps - Pirates, 1 week till scavenging stupidity. Better stare at a map some.

meb 04-22-06 12:30 PM


Originally Posted by chimblysweep
...there may be a fountain in the middle, but we consider it quite "suitable"!

c'mon out! .....

So with an errant shot, we see water polo-cool.

poopncow 04-22-06 01:56 PM

Please save me from an evening of wrenching and wheel building... or come over w pie and beer DVD's and we'll all do some wrenching! Any takers? Sevtreeduoduedreedoodreewonikxnine

joshdcu 04-22-06 04:41 PM


Originally Posted by chimblysweep
sherwood is what we call Lincoln Square. It's the park between 13&14 and I&K. and there may be a fountain in the middle, but we consider it quite "suitable"!

Actually, it's Franklin Park, but you can call it "Lincoln Square" if you want. :)

chimblysweep 04-22-06 05:02 PM

dood, josh, you're totally right. franklin, lincoln, all dead white guys important to the oldness of our young nation. i get 'em all screwed up. i believe it's franklin square though...

spud 04-22-06 05:03 PM

all i gotta say is: zing

joshdcu 04-22-06 06:06 PM


Originally Posted by chimblysweep
dood, josh, you're totally right. franklin, lincoln, all dead white guys important to the oldness of our young nation. i get 'em all screwed up. i believe it's franklin square though...

Hey, that's why you can call it what you want... I did check, though, because I thought it was Franklin Square, too, but it is actually Franklin Park (although it is squarish, so, er, tomayto-tomahto, I guess...).

meb 04-23-06 02:39 AM


Originally Posted by joshdcu
Hey, that's why you can call it what you want... I did check, though, because I thought it was Franklin Square, too, but it is actually Franklin Park (although it is squarish, so, er, tomayto-tomahto, I guess...).

The National Park Service officially lists its name as Franklin Square:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/wash/dc29.htm

Franklin "Square" is rectangular.

Lincoln Square is a former name for the current Lincoln Park, site of the Emancipation Memorial, located on Capitol from 11th to 13th.

Elbeekay 04-23-06 07:58 AM

Laps n Cheese! 11 am. Hains Point. Ride backwards if you don't see kids on the corner by the tennis courts.

Thunder boomers beeee dammmmmed!

Really, it looks lovely out. Grey and mushy...fantastic laps n cheese weather really. Beeee therrrrrre.

poopncow 04-23-06 10:39 AM

Thanks EBK, BLocks, Rwind & mtbchica for joking with me and providing sanity advice on what to do after being slow motion T-boned. May be it was overly dramatic to have the fire dept and the police on such minor incident, but getting the police report was a good thing. Now to City Bikes for a damage estimate.

daibutsusan73 04-23-06 11:59 AM

What happened?

poopncow 04-23-06 08:01 PM

What happened: It was really nothing, nothing at all, except that there was a car involve, heck, we had seen worst between pirates

Got in a warm up lap before meeting up with LBK and the rest.

I was riding outboard on the causway (re-versed direction) and saw LBK at the corner of the cause way and the parking lot. So I swung into the ped cross walk, rolling really slow because there were 2 cars at teh stop sign. The first one went , so I started to cross, the second car had the same idea and T-boned me. All was in really slow mo, but since I was clipped in, the bike tumbled with me. As I was lying in the intersection, clipped to the bike, I was glad that there wasn't another car to run me over.

hardly a scrape on me, but the bars got bent and the rear wheel needed a truing. All in all, everything was fine, the guy's insurance left me a voice mail. I think we can laught this one off. :)

Thanks for all the VM and PM of concern and good cheer! :)

chimblysweep 04-24-06 07:44 AM

glad you're ok, PNC.

so... scavenger hunt this sat! can folks pm, email, or something me so I have an idea of how many folks to expect? again, this is more of a fun, laid back, creative event... not a race!

poopncow 04-24-06 09:33 AM

Tuesday's Triangle of Death: A clockwise circumnavigation of the Arlington triangle. 2 - 3 Brew and grub stops along the route. Sherwood, 7PM tomorrow (Tuesday). bring lights and body armour.

Chimbly, please count me in for Sat, may be bringing a friend or 2

chimblysweep 04-24-06 09:34 AM

and... in anticipation... i will give the pirates daily hints. things you should be able to locate...

hint 1 (of 5)
the frederick douglass house

joshdcu 04-24-06 11:31 AM

[QUOTE=meb]The National Park Service officially lists its name as Franklin Square:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/wash/dc29.htm

Franklin "Square" is rectangular.
[QUOTE]

-I guess that beats my source (Google Maps, which listed it as Frankin Park). -D'oh! :o

VCURFCwinger14 04-24-06 11:41 AM

Whats up pirates... everything going well in the District?

Ric, VA is chillin... slaughterama was the most fun i have ever had on a bike... came close to getting a cycle slaughterama 3 tattoo... and you kids should have seen my bike... i made myself a chopper.. It was very awesome... we drank... jousted...raced chariots... tall bike raced...played drunked tug-o-war, and of course the ever famous DRUNKED BIKE TOSS... it was an overall day of fun and drunk..i mean games... wished you could have been there...

rpc180 04-24-06 12:57 PM


Originally Posted by poopncow
Tuesday's Triangle of Death: A clockwise circumnavigation of the Arlington triangle. 2 - 3 Brew and grub stops along the route. Sherwood, 7PM tomorrow (Tuesday). bring lights and body armour.

Chimbly, please count me in for Sat, may be bringing a friend or 2

PNC, glad to hear you're okay after that. A slow moving car should've seen a slow moving bike - WTF?

Tuesday night's forecasted for rain, is this a rain or (moon)shine event?

BoogerBike 04-24-06 01:36 PM

Any word about chain reaction? are they ever going to reopen?

spud 04-24-06 02:15 PM

i heard they gave up on bicycles and have started collecting old/broken segways to fix up and sell and teach neighborhood kids how to be segway mechanics and instructors.


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