This idea came up during last week’s BrewHaHa™, and I really liked it. I’m pleased to announce the inaugural LST Photo Scavenger Hunt. Here’s how it works. Just take pictures of the following items and email them to mattbramanti@gmail.com, with the subject line "scavenger hunt."
All of these items, at one time or another, have been near and dear to the hearts of LST’s management, staff and readership.
Food and Drink:
- A taco truck. (5-point bonus if it’s being pursued by immigration agents. Double bonus if you’re the immigration agent.)
- A homebrewed beer.
- A Taste of Texas or Steamboat House steak.
Politics:
- A piece of Dan Patrick for Senate campaign memorabilia
- A Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys album.
- A conservative gubernatorial candidate. (Might have to travel for that one.)
Media:
- A radio visibly tuned to AM 700.
- A Houston Chronicle front page being employed in an animal-hygiene role.
- Lone Star Times displayed on a screen larger than 24 inches. (Hint: Plug your laptop into the big-screen TVs at Best Buy)
Filthy Wild Animals:
- A RINO. (5 Bonus points if it’s in a compromising position with a certain LST publisher.)
- A fake rhino. (10 bonus points for the Benzion treatment.)
- A live rhino. (20 bonus points for the Benzion treatment.)
Local Government Stupidity:
- A METRO vehicle involved in something stupid. (Standard METRORail operations definitely count.)
- An HCAD vehicle prowling the neighborhood.
- A gold HPD badge. (10 bonus points if it’s Chief Hurtt’s)
Pop Culture:
- More cowbell.
- A "United 93" ticket stub.
- A Frank Zappa or Geddy Lee autograph. (100 bonus points for both autographs on the same item)
The LST Arsenal:
- A hoe.
- A handgun or rifle, .40 caliber or larger. (20 bonus points if it is legally an "assault weapon."
- A machete.
SUPER BONUS OPPORTUNITY: The first person to send in a picture of any of the following items automatically wins.
- Mayor White’s hybrid car being Safe Cleared.
- Carol Alvarado in a paddy wagon.
- Paul Bettencourt doing the Numa Numa dance. Paul’s family is encouraged to participate in this contest.
Now, the rules.
- Each item is worth one point, plus applicable bonuses.
- If you get multiple items in one photo, that’s double points. EXAMPLE: You send in a Geddy Lee-autographed (1) picture of David Dewhurst (1) swinging a machete (1). Add the points (3), double it, and that’s a 6-point pic.
- Duplicate items don’t count. Sorry, Dude, but you can’t send in 50 Zappa autographs.
- No cheating, no cheating, NO CHEATING.
- This contest will last a week — all entries must be in to mattbramanti@gmail.com no later than noon on Wednesday, May 10
Happy snapping!
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ok what is the prize for the most points?
Does Carol Alvarado also cound as a hoe?
And my cats refuse to dump of the Chron. They say it’s not hygenic.
Do the words HOE HOE HOE written on a paddy wagon count three times for c alvarado on a paddy wagon or 3 hoes?
Laurence Simon, I agree with your cats!
How many points for a picture of Carol Alvarado doing the Numa Numa “Lap” Dance for Paul Bettencourt while he’s ringing a cowbell on a Metro bus that is being safe cleared after just rear ending a Rhino that was leaving an opinion on the Chron in front of the Taste of Texas?
(I’d buy that for a dollar)heh!
I will name my firstborn daughter Sue E. Pig if you get that picture.
I would like to suggest a picture that will be next to impossible to get. How about a photo of the inside walls of a Porta-Potti at a construction site that doesnt have a drawing of female genitalia in black magic marker.
i want to know what we win.
the GOP is already asking me to spend my free time next fall walking all over looking to find people that will vote for them for apparently doing nothing this year.
if you dont tell us, i’m doing this under the same rules i have for them this year. once it gets dark, i’m done for the day and headed to closest place with draft beer and baseball on the tv.
Sounds like fun…unfortunately, I don’t think I can afford any kind of steak after yesterday! I guess I’ll have to forego the steak points since I’m saving my pennies for the $3-$4 million dollar home that I’m supposed to have so I can enjoy my property tax relief!
Are there extra points if the Chron has a picture of Carol Alvarado,Rick Perry, or Dewhurst as it is being “hygienically used”?
Obviously, Matt’s run out of pics for the open comments threads. Heh
ok, a few questions/clarifications:
Can the photos be solid model renderings, or do they have to be of real objects?
Is photoshopping allowed, and if not how would you tell (assuming it was done well).
Do they have to be taken by the entrant? How would you determine whether they were or not?
And one last thing, at least at the federal level there IS no such thing as an “Assault weapon” classification. That was after all a big part of the problem, the definition was rather malleable and could include virtually any weapon at any given time depending on the person doing the deciding.
I wish I had even one Zappa autograph.
I have a bottle of “Bar Mitzvah” Beer made next door for their youngest son’s celebration if anyone needs a pic of it. If your going to take a pic of home brewed beer, might as well be a cool one. We have a digital camera, but darn if either of us know how to use the thing.
If my sister and I were speaking, I could also get you a picture of her husbands gold HPD badge. I love you guys..but not THAT much!
will it count as three and get double points if I put my wheel chair with its Dan Patrick bumper sticker on the back, next to my Dan Patrick yard sign, next to my car with both the voice and Dan Patrick bumper stickers on it (also a bright pink “caution blonde thinking” bumpersticker)
I really want the extra points
OOOOH will a shot gun count?
Only if you are using a rifled choke and slugs…..
OOOK I am a REAL blonde, so what is a rifled choke and slugs?
A slug is exactly what it sounds like Kathi, a big honkin slug of lead (or possibly bitsmuth nowadays, can’t be giving those poor animals lead poisoning now can we?) instead of a whole bunch of lead balls. Essentially it is a bullet, but because shotguns are smooth bore guns, they aren’t all that accurate at longer distances, but BOY do they pack a whallop. think about it, a 12 Ga shotgun is about .70 caliber, the dang bullet is bigger around than a .50 cal!
A rifle has an array of longitudinal ribs on the inside the barrel that twist as they go down the barrel, sort of like a screw thread that is stretched WAAAYY out. It might make one revolution in a foot or so. That is called rifling and that is what makes a rifle a rifle. Those rifling lands impart a spin to the bullet which stabilizes it just like a spinning top or a gyroscope is stable as long as it is spinning, and allows it to be much more accurate than a smooth bore gun would be. A shotgun has a smooth bore inside the barrel, but modern shotguns have something called a choke tube that screws into the end of the barrel that somewhat controls the spread of the pattern of pellets as they exit the barrel. There is a special kind of choke tube that has been developed for use with slugs, and it is rifled like a rifle barrel and it gives the slug a little bit of spin to stabilize it upon exit. It is not as effective as a rifled barrel because it is only about 4 inches long or less, but it is better than a smooth bore.
You can read more about shotguns and slugs here:
http://www.nrapublications.org/TAH/Slugs.asp
I’ll also point out that you can buy replacement rifled barrels for shotguns as well with twists in the 1:30 ratio range (one revolution in 30 inches) as well, but they are less common than rifled chokes.