YHC arrived (almost) last, just in time for
Warmarama:
SSH
And of course, having finished SSH, here comes the straggler… wait… Honeysuckle?
Apparently Safety Valve inspires us all in some way or another.
On to the rest: Windmills,
The arm bundle: Lafayette Night Clubs, arm circles both ways, cherry pickers
Mountain Climbers
Then YHC handed the PAX off to Pope to lead a quick mosey while I grabbed my props.
Thang One: The Breath of God
“Only the penitent man shall pass”
The penitent man is humble, kneels before God. As Indy knelt when the breeze blew through the cave, so would we.
The theoretical plan: Lunge walk back and forth across the field, and each time there is a breeze, we would do one genuflection.
The modified plan: Because we live in the doldrums here with no breezes, something else would have to substitute. Taking a page from Smooth Operator, each vehicle that passed would qualify as our breeze.
That made sense when YHC came up with it last week, as there was no hurricane coming. The coming storm actually gave a bit of a breeze this morning. More importantly, it brought lots more traffic.
Perfect.
Oh, also “Listen Like Thieves” by Inxs on the W-King. Also genuflect when you hear “knees.”
Thang Two: The Name of God. But not really the Name of God. More Like Kinda Like a Name that Got Made into a Name that Some People Might Consider a Moniker of God?
Ok get ready. Please be patient as your blast goes off on a historical and semantic tangent. . .
In the film, “the name of God” is said to be “Jehovah” (spelled with an I instead of a J), but apparently this is only an artificial Latinized rendering of the name of God. Some Christians in the Middle Ages combined the consonants in YHWH and the vowels of Adonai (“My Lord”) and somehow came up with Jehovah. Thanks to Goosapedia for this and don’t forget to donate now.
Sooooo… although technically not correct, this name was created by Christians in the Middle Ages, which according to the film is when the Knights Templar set up this whole thing… I don’t know, but anyway it starts with an “I” also and let’s get back to the Thang here…
We did 50 Jackhammers to get the letter J out of our system, then ran a Dora-mod for the rest of “Iehova” which at face value was the word Indiana Jones spelled out on the path in the movie.
I = 100 Imperial Squat Walkers, 100
E= 150 “El Valvinos” which I decided were SSH. Much less controversial name change here.
H= 200 Hand Release Merkins
O= 150 Oh nos (changed to 1=1 mid-stream due to time)
V= 100 V-ups
A= 50 Absolutions, but time was called on this first, so that we could get to
Thang Three: “Only in the leap from the Lion’s Head will he prove his worth.”
It’s a leap of faith. Something we’ve all taken at some point. It typically results in a stronger faith when you are done. So we took several leaps, having faith that we could do what our bodies said we couldn’t. Which was Broad Jump Burpees to the opposite sidewalk and back. Right about the time Goose and Pope got there, a gracious Q called “recover” and we headed to
The Final Thang: The Grail Room
Upon the stage were set several items we associate with F3: A coupon, a ticket, a cone, a pair of gloves, and a coffee thermos. Under each was written an exercise.
The instructions: Choose one. The first chosen, we will do 40 of whatever is written under it. For the second chosen, we will do 30, then 20, 10, 5.
Safety Valve volunteered to choose first. And he chose… poorly. But it was perfect. Choosing the false grail, aka the coffee thermos, he gave us Burpees, and 40 would be the number… unless someone could identify the theme of the songs today, in which case I would cut the numbers in half.
No one could, so we set to burpin’ while YHC prodded the PAX to think, think! (I didn’t want to do 40 burpees). The PAX recounted the songs… Listen Like Thieves… Electric Feel… Brown Sugar… Smells like Teen Spirit… Double Vision…
Suddenly it clicked (I think with a few, but I heard Goose first) and we reduced our number to 20. Next pick was the ticket, so we did 15 BBS, then several questioned whether the speaker was in play, to which YHC only said “choose wisely.” Of course no one chose the speaker, since it was in the middle of the circle, but that was the final test. Of course under The Wu of Kings it simply said, “You have chosen… wisely.” And that would have been the end.
But it was time, so it was the end anyway.
COT
YHC was humbled as both The Fire within and the BluTube were bestowed upon him. Enron prayed us out.
Thanks for coming out men. Always an honor to lead.
SYITG,
AB
