2013 Dreidel Rampage!

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Comment by Andrew Bedno on December 10, 2013 at 8:30pm

Hey is this noon we gather for departure, or for breakfast, or gathering for breakfast before noon, or...

Comment by Dan Korn on December 10, 2013 at 8:27pm

Oy vey!  Everyone has gone meshuga!

Since you asked, the super-secret Dreidel Rampage Illuminati Numerology Committee (DRINC) set the date for this year's event after an exhaustive process of negotiation and voting.  Multiple documents and scrolls were consulted, oracles were queried, Kabbalah was practiced, and experts were convened from around the world.  Then, some sweet, sweet Manischewitz was drunk, and all of that was forgotten, and the date was picked randomly by a spin of a dreidel.

Or maybe it just seemed to make sense to have it on the 14th this year since it was on the 15th last year.

While we here at the Driedel Rampage are all about Tradition!, the notion that the event should "take place as usual on the 3rd Saturday of the month" has bupkis for historical basis.  In fact, as recently as 2009, the event was on December 12th:
http://old.bikewinter.org/calendar/scheduleofevents.php?city_id=1&a...

And in 2008, it was on a Sunday. (I know, I was as shocked as you that it wasn't on the Sabbath.  I mean, don't people have to work on Sundays?)

So instead of making assumptions about the date of the event, it would be better if we all made an ass out of "U" and me by riding around in dreidel costumes, as nature intended.

If you really want to give a big "kiss my tuchus" or "F off" to the "organizers" of the rampage, then instead of being a nebbish and kvetching, you could always be a mensch and organize and plan the event and post it online yourself.

Also, these dates are all based on the newfangled goyem solar calendar.  It would have been more logical to have the event a couple weeks ago, when Hanukkah was actually going on, but that would have only further confused the lunar calendar-challenged folks who set the dates of their holidays based on arcane pagan rituals.

Anyway, if you want to go rampaging on a different date and recruit more dreidels to our ranks, the Dreidel Police will let you off with a warning this time.

Either way, beware the people riding around in red suits and beards!  Give them a wide berth.  Well, they're already pretty wide, and so are you in your dreidel costume, but those red-suiters are cray-cray!

Comment by Laura on December 6, 2013 at 5:13pm

I think everyone should still go to this event. I by no means meant to turn people off from going!! Go out be Merry!

Comment by Craig S. on December 6, 2013 at 11:35am

Okay, Laura, I'll turn the volume of my "f%ck off" down but it's still there as I have no clue what The Derailleur is, other than a device on my bikes.

I turned down a job for the 21st and my Santa suit needs to see the light of day once a year. I guess I'll be rampaging around with a flask of Malort on my own on the 21st.

Comment by daWillinChi on December 6, 2013 at 7:52am

If no one comes to this one, I'm sure it would be better for the 21st. Create the event, and we will come

Comment by Laura on December 5, 2013 at 10:15pm

Maybe we can have two Rampages.....

Two weeks in a row.....

Comment by Andrew Bedno on December 5, 2013 at 9:27pm

I felt the same.  The 21st works better for me, and a weekend with monstrous energy downtown, not too late to change, ...

Comment by Laura on December 5, 2013 at 7:55pm

Craig,   looks like its been posted in the Derailleur for over a year. Our bads not the organizers!

Comment by Craig S. on December 5, 2013 at 12:09pm

Wow, here's a big F&CK OFF to you organizers.  I have to work out of town, thinking that this awesome Rampage would take place as usual on the 3rd Saturday of the month.  

Comment by Laura on December 3, 2013 at 8:41pm

Isnt this usually the 3rd saturday of December???? I planned my holiday celebration around this... and now I cant come!  BOOOO

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