unisteez said:I always see those posts, but dont know what the game is? Anyone want to
fill me in?
I always put something at the end to remind people of the game.
It works like this: there is one incorrect "fact" in the story. That
is a general knowledge fact, that a first time reader with no knowledge
of unicycling or of the area where I'm riding should be able to spot.
Examples from previous ride write ups:
- A puffin soaring high overhead, feeding on insects on the wing.
(Puffins are sea birds that fly low, and dive to catch fish.)
- A Roman road sign with the modern road number (A614) in Roman
numerals (A DCXIV). Of course, the Romans wouldn't have used the
same road number as we use nearly 2,000 years later.
- A badger's nest, complete with eggs. (Badgers are mammals and give
birth to live young.)
- A Tudor railway bridge, dated 1593. (The railways weren't built
until after the steam train was invented - in the 1800s.)
- A Christian monument, 2,030 years old. (In 2006 AD!)
- A bronze mine, where ingots of pure bronze can sometimes be found.
(Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin. You can't have a bronze
mine.)
- The grave of Sherlock Holmes's colleague, Dr. Watson. (Watson was
a fictional character, and therefore isn't buried anywhere.)
The game is simply to spot the deliberate mistake and pm me with the
answer - as amusingly worded as you can manage. Where appropriate, I
post the "winner" and sometimes one or two of the funniest (correct)
answers.
Sometimes the "bogus facts" are multi-layered. For example, teh Tudor
railway bridge. 1593 would make it Elizabethan. I also had it built
int he high arched Norman style. It is unlikely that the
Tudors/Elizabethans would indulge in retro architecture like that
anyway.
I always try to make the facts relevant to the real ride - hence the
Holmes/Watson connection to Princetown; there really are tin mines and
bronze age ruins on Dartmoor; there really are Christian crosses on the
moor (but much later); and so on.
--
Mikefule
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fortune of it
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