Team Shenanig8rs

Death 2 Normalcy. Eternal life to to Shenanig8rs. gIsHwHeS forever.

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Before the hunt, we heard the devastating news that a fellow Gisher had passed away suddenly. Here at Team Scrumtrulescent, we very much see each other as family, and can hardly imagine the loss of a teammate. We wanted to do something special for the @shenanig8rs  during this year’s hunt, whether we got points for it or not. Reading though the list, item 105, the reverse advent, jumped out at us as the perfect item to do so. 

To honor Carol and her close bond with her Shenanig8r family, Team Scrumtrulescent sponsored a crocodile (a close cousin of the fun-loving Shenanig8r) in her name through the Wold Wildllife Fund.

Sadly, we weren’t able to find a real crocodile to pose for us, but the baby American Alligator pictured here was able to take a short excursion from their enclosure at the zoo for a quick cameo. Fun fact: this gator is named Snaptain America! 

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Carol has been on my mind a lot recently. She loved Halloween so reminders of her are everywhere right these days. So it's aptly timed that @teamscrumtrulescent would post this today.

GISHWHES, for all its silliness, has created a community of people who are so full of kindness and joy and it is an immense honor to count ourselves among them. Carol's birthday was August 12th, the last day of this year's hunt. We felt her with us throughout the week and we kept her spirit and weird af sense of humor with us for every item.

This act of kindness. Done solely out of love by another team is a reminder of what GISHWHES is about. We will be forever grateful that you thought of us during the hunt. It was a really tough week to get through without her here. We cannot thank Team Scrumtrulescent enough for this act. I hope somehow this wonderful thing you did for us reaches @mishacollins and @gishwhes and that you receive all the bonus points for it. Because (to us anyway) if any one item by any one team embodies GISHWHES, this is it.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. - Holly Edwards, Modern Major General, Team Shenanig8rs

PS. Carol would have been 157% on board with the name "Snaptain America!" 😆🐊

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ONE WEEK.

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Item 52 -  Submit a screenshot. Using the satellite function on Google Maps, find a geological feature that looks like one of our Gishwhes mascots (Fograt, Wooster, Elopus, etc.). Screenshot the image and then caption it appropriately (i.e. Fograt Valley, Mount Slangaroo, etc.).

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Item 51 -  Time-lapse this submission to 20 seconds or less. Get permission from a museum to temporarily replace a painting worth more than $100,000 with a forgery of the same painting. The forgery must be painted by an 8-year old and we must see time-lapse showing ALL OF THE following 3 occurrences for you to receive points: (1) removal of the original painting (caption with the name of the painting and estimated value), (2) installation of the child’s painting, and (3) patrons viewing the child’s painting.

Note: We were not actually able to complete this item. We did find a museum willing to let us replace the painting, even loaning the owner’s 8 year old son to paint the picture for us! But when it came to the day to film it none of our members in California were able to get there to film. Even though we didn’t get points we felt we should still let the art piece they did for us shine! 

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Item 50 -  Virtual reality interfaces are absolutely amazing. The technology is mind-blowing. Using virtual reality and augmented headsets like the Hololens and Oculus, I have stood on the surface of Mars at Jet Propulsion Laboratories and examined the undercarriage of the Mars Rover, been in the eye of a hurricane, and have been attacked by heavily-armed 19th-century militia. It’s mind-blowing. Your task is to create a virtual reality experience totally unlike any VR experience to date. This video will require a super-short, adrenalin-pumping intro-teaser, which will let the viewers know that they are about to experience VR like never before. THEN, abruptly cut to a 360-degree clip of the most mundane activity you can imagine. BORE US TO DEATH.

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Item 49 -   Cosplay a thunderstorm, in public, complete with sound effects, lighting and rain. - Karen Hutchinson

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Item 48 -  Let’s stop sugar-coating our grievances and complaints! Actually, strike that— let’s actually sugar coat them. Confront your boss or employee about an issue in the workplace that has been irking you. While doing so, you must be entirely coated in powdered sugar. Your body language must convey your frustration.

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Day 2 from the #SPNBurCon G8r gathering. Here we are in our #dapper cosplays of Casa Erotica Gabe, Crowley, and Cas #burcon #gishwhes #spnfamily

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A few of the Shenanig8rs conferred (and snuggled) with the Overlord at #SPNBurCon today! More pictures to come! #gishwhes #burcon

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Item 47 -  Submit two images, side-by-side. Recreate a famous, iconic photo from junk food. For example, you could submit the black and white photo of Einstein sticking out his tongue, next to another photo of your best attempt to recreate that photo using various junk foods as your paints. I hope that makes sense. For some reason it sounds confusing as I type it. But you have to somehow figure out what I mean here and then do it. Best of luck.

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Item 45 -  Isn’t it great to get your friends and family together for the holidays?! But it’s so hard! Sometimes all you can manage is getting everyone together for one holiday a year. But then you have to choose a holiday, and that’s so hard, too! Wait a minute... not if you decide to celebrate ALL holidays in that one night! Let’s see that night. - Inspired by Nicole Bowman

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Item 41 -  Free range, grass-fed, small farm dairy cows in Northern Vermont have it rougher than most cows: the rolling hills, the verdant pastures, the way the flickering lights of summer’s fireflies mingle with the starlight, the smell of ripening raspberries wafting into their barns. Help a heifer in these dire circumstances forget her suffering. Treat a dairy cow to the most pampered milking session in human/bovine history. A minimum of three attendants must milk the cow. One person must be feeding her clover by hand as another gently milks her wearing satin gloves as another massages her gently. The attendants must be dressed in semi-formal attire. The milking must take place in a well-appointed living room.

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Item 40 -  We all know about "Transformers" - the cars and trucks that turn into super-robots. But what the movies and toy manufacturers have overlooked are all of the other less-celebrated, more mundane Transformers. For example, what about Burgertron? He transforms from a burger into a robot. Or Desktopatron? She is a desktop computer who transforms into a robot. Or Fiddletron? He’s a violin one minute, a robot the next. Show us a human in a Transformer costume that goes from household object to a bad-ass robot.

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Item 37 -  I believe that children are our future. Show us your futuristic robot baby.

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Item 35 -  In support of the documentary “Alive Inside,” find one person with Alzheimer's or some form of dementia and learn what their favorite tunes were when they were young. Make them a playlist of those songs and play it for them.

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Item 34 - We’ve seen Jensen Ackles portraits in Skittles. What about Jensen Ackles on Skittles? Draw a tiny Ackles on a single Skittle. Post a photo of the Skittle portrait in the palm of your hand.

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Item 32 -  We all learned from the movie “The Secret” that vision boards and positive affirmations have the power to help you manifest really important things in your life like sports cars and boundless riches. Now I’m sure everyone probably wants a red sports car and immeasurable wealth, but we want to see your vision board that depicts aspects of your life that transcend the trappings of material status. Make a collage from magazines of the things which cannot be bought or sold that you would like more of in your life.