May 04, 2008 14:29
Article I-Name
Section 1. The name of this organization shall be The Official University of Chicago Official Scavenger Hunt Organisation Committee, also to be known as The Great Hunt, The Scavenger Hunt, ScavHunt, Scav Hunt, the Hunt, That Thing That Left All Those Cans in the Maroon Office, ScavCore, The Fucking Scavenger Hunt, The Scavenger Fucking Hunt, The Fuckinger Hunt, Jar Jar Binks, ScavCom, Scav Com, ScavComm, Scav Comm, Scavcabal, the Cabal, Cable from X-Factor, Solipsistic Bastards, Ratanna, ScandalCom, El Sindicato, or Ethel.
Article II-Purpose
Section 1.The Scavenger Hunt exists as a group of individuals who subscribe to the philosophy that true enlightenment can only be attained through freedom, and further, that true freedom can only be realized through utter chaos.
-Scavcorp bylaws
Instead of doing work, I'm poking around the scavhunt website. That place is absolute poison to work because it has all the scavlists since 1987. The first item on the 1987 list is:
A Richard Nixon for President Pin -5pts
"Oh man! I HAVE THAT RIGHT HERE" I said to Nathaniel last night, when I should have been writing about Shakespeare.
"Yea, in the beginning, the items for Scavhunt were actually possible things that you could find. It was like a normal scavenger-"
"90. A nude person. -50pts."
After Item 90 there was also
91. A dean -30pts
92. A gagged and bound person -30pts
93. A nude, gagged and bound, dean -500pts
Another item on that list was the complete lyrics for American Pie.
On the site is also the joke 'list' for this year, past theme songs (including "it's raining men" and "I get around" by the Beach Boys aaaaaah), the results of past scavhunts (hey like eighteen years ago, ALL THE HOUSES OF PIERCE came before Hitchcock. It was like opposite universe back then!), and the rules. Other than the threats of deportation from the country for cheating and the ever-present section about props (All props must continue to be mad props), the thing in the rules that most caught my eye was:
Judgment Day. Last year, Judgment Day only took 45 minutes. Let's aim for that again.
In conclusion, you know it's a good game when the first rule ends with the words "If you end up in the clink, it's your fault."