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Group of Men Have Played Game of Tag for 23 Years
- sageikosa 14y agoMy family members used to (some still sort of do) play a game called "got you last", wherein each player has a set of relationships with every other player, and the idea is to get everyone else last (adjudicated like tag), without anyone having gotten you last. You need to keep track of whom you need to get last, and who might be trying to get you last. An uncle and a cousin of mine have been going back and forth for about 30 years.
- berlinbrown 14y agoRubicon story come to life.
- olalonde 14y agoWould make a good movie plot for a Hollywood bromance style comedy.
- Peroni 14y agoIt's only a matter of time.
- officemonkey 14y agoVince Vaughn, Jack Black, the Wilson brothers, Will Ferrell, Jonah Hill, and Seth Rogan. We could call it "The Magnificent Seven Play Tag."
- orangethirty 14y agoI would watch that. But title it: Tagbros.
- uberc 14y agoYeah, your thought indirectly reminded of The Big Year, in which in a bunch of unlikely friends/competitors try to get the record of number of bird species spotted (or heard) within a year.
- jwmoz 14y agoFor months me and my housemates would hide a crumpet in each others cupboards and food items. I'd buried deep in my mates doritos, it had been in granola, in massive packs of protein. I ended up throwing it away after i'd found one of them had expertly hidden it in my tub of hummus. Bastards.
- tomhschmidt 14y agoHaha! Business!
- mberning 14y agoFanciful embellishment on the part of those involved. It's impressive what some will do to 'get their name out there'. I guess when you make a career of it some will spill over into your personal life.
- heydenberk 14y ago"Men" is a stretch.
- arbitrage 14y agoWhy do you say that?
- personlurking 14y agoUsed to know a slightly odd, hyperactive kid in high school who used to randomly 'head-tap' my friends and I on the shoulder (with his forehead). Every once in a while we turned it into a bit of a game where you tried not to let the other head tap your shoulder. It's basically tag but arms-free (or maybe 'thumb wars' works as an analogy, for its dodgy nature)...and you can only give chase or escape by walking fast, no running. Coincidentally or not, we were also ultimate frisbee players in middle school. And there were pogs, of course.
- joelrunyon 14y agoThis was posted almost a week ago - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5135883 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5135883
- mercuryrising 14y agoThe title on this one is better without context.
- scoot 14y agoYes, although it needs a '(sic)' for the poor grammar in the original; I thought the submitter had made the mistake until I clicked through to the article.
- gruseom 14y agoIf you mean the "have", that's not poor grammar – it's correct, though more common in Britain than in the U.S.
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- NicoJuicy 14y agoMost awesome story like, ever :-D
- lisper 14y agoWhen I was in high school (when punch cards and Commodore PETs roamed the earth) the game was called Assassin and was played with dart guns. I played for a month, and it was one of the most stressful times of my life. I eventually got whacked by my then-girlfriend as I was walking between classes. One of the interesting twists to Assassin was was that you weren't allowed to have witnesses to your "crime", which meant you could relax when there were other people around. But it also made it easy to become complacent, which is how I met my fate.
- erock 14y agoReminds me of the movie Gotcha! which upon looking it up, is based on the game Assassin. interesting
- danielweber 14y agoI didn't know it was a genre. I only knew about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag:_The_Assassination_Game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag:_The_Assassination_Game
- CoffeeDregs 14y agoTotally. We played Assassin with platic-disc guns (which I can't find on Amazon) in high school. The school came down on us pretty hard if we were caught playing, so it was doubly stressful avoiding getting whacked by friends and avoiding being caught by faculty. We also had an entrance fee of $5, so the winner took home $100-$200 for surviving. I never survived. In general, though, the idea of adding a little game to anything is pretty nice. You can imagine playing tag at CES or assassin at PyCon. Hell, it's be great if the organizers added/encouraged/managed it!
- erock 14y agowow, that brought back some memories, it's all fun and games, until someone puts a penny in their gun. Anyway they were called tracer guns, and it doesn't look like they are made any more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracer_gun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracer_gun
- knowtheory 14y agoDon't forget to check out the contract that they drafted up: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323375204578269991660836834.html#project%3DTagParticipationB%26articleTabs%3Dinteractive http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732337520457826...
- breckinloggins 14y agoIn my opinion it makes the story. I love that they included a provision preventing tag-backs.
- mhb 14y agoA valid tag occurs whenever (subject to Article II below) It intentionally causes his hand (right or left) to come into contact with the body or clothing of any other Participant So the clothing doesn't need to be on the tagged person...
- oboizt 14y agoThis is adorable. It always makes my day to read about the creative things people do with friends.
- josscrowcroft 14y agoI wonder who the very last will be? Kind of a sad thought but it's gotta happen some day..
- eksith 14y agoPart of me felt this was silly... Another part (a secret part) felt very, very, very, very envious. How come the rest of us don't have games like this we can play, potentially, for the rest of our lives? It would be a whole lot more interesting than "sup bro?" at a reunion.
- hello_newman 14y agoI think it's pretty cool how after 23 years a group of guys who were friends in high school each went on to be a CMO, a lawyer, a H.S. teacher and a priest, respectfully, and still stay in touch and have a way to have fun.
- NamTaf 14y agoThe fact that each year, 'It' gets to make a donation on behalf of all of them towards their Alumni just makes it for me :) That was an awesome read!
- dwoldrich 14y agoMy coworker told a vivid story of playing "Jurassic Park", where he and other men in the dorm would get blitzed, remove their shirts, duct tape their forearms to their upper arms, and pretend to be velociraptors in a dominance battle. With their arms and hands practically useless, they could only bite and kick each other. Apparently people would get bit pretty good.