Comments on: Idiotarod!

Idiotarod!

allkindsoftime — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 23:06:44 -0800

The Idiotarod is NYC's version of the Iditarod. (check spelling closely, idiot) - seen here last year. This year's route will be released on Monday. Happy drinking / sabotaging / racing. But maybe that's not your thing. Or maybe you just can't wait to do something a little crazy in NYC. Ok, well, this weekend you can take your pants off on the subway.

By: vacapinta

vacapinta — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 23:31:57 -0800

I wondered if this was related to San Francisco's Urban Iditarod but I can see from the Idiotarod page that : "We stole [the idea] from a group of people in San Francisco who have been doing it for 10 years. The Idiotarod debuted in New York in 2004. People loved it." One big difference is you guys get actual snow!

By: thanatogenous

thanatogenous — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 00:10:41 -0800

this was my first ever metafilter post. Has it been a year already? :D

By: thanatogenous

thanatogenous — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 00:11:58 -0800

oh, doh... you already linked to it. /dunce cap I just got all excited.

By: rob511

rob511 — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 00:24:19 -0800

Wonder if Rosie Ruiz gets an automatic invite?

By: Kirth Gerson

Kirth Gerson — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 02:55:57 -0800

They probably just award her first place, without making her show up. Maybe she rides by in a taxi. A week later, her trophy self-destructs, and they award first place to someone else.

By: cusack

cusack — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 06:02:49 -0800

Good post... friends of mine in Brooklyn competed last year and it sounds like a blast...

By: StickyCarpet

StickyCarpet — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 07:11:04 -0800

Last year when they came over the Brooklyn Bridge and congregated in a huge traffic-blocking crowd the police arrived in force with sirens, clubs, and shields ready to do riot control. When they saw what they were up against, they just laughed and said "get the hell out of the first precinct, now!"

By: lupus_yonderboy

lupus_yonderboy — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 07:37:18 -0800

Hmm, I wrote this last night and posted it -- and this morning it's not here! I just wanted to self-link and tell you that both these events and many others appeared on my extreme NY mailing list. (Self-links are fine as comments, right?)

By: Baby_Balrog

Baby_Balrog — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 07:59:32 -0800

Man...it's stuff like this that makes me wish I lived in a city. We never do cool shit in Kalamazoo. *sobbing*

By: unknowncommand

unknowncommand — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 08:32:31 -0800

I ran this last year. We were Jesu Christo and wrapped ourselves and cart in bright orange fabric-- like The Gates? Get it? Get it? Yeah, no one else did either, but we totally beat the Short Jewish Princesses from Candyland (IIRC) AND the Ghostbusters. vv fun A+++++++++ would get drunk at noon again. The demolition sprint over the Brooklyn Bridge was terrifying though.

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 14:20:11 -0800

I was thinking of going to the No Pants Subway Ride... but decided I feel way too weird not wearing pants in public. (I know, I know, I've heard most of the girls wear boxers... but doesn't that sort of ruin the joke, since you're supposed to pretend you forgot to put on pants and most girls don't wear boxers in real life?) Plus, ever since the mass arrests without warrant at the RNC, I'm scared of being thrown in prison... 48 hours of my life I could never get back.

By: spicynuts

spicynuts — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 14:48:07 -0800

Last year when they came over the Brooklyn Bridge and congregated in a huge traffic-blocking crowd the police arrived in force with sirens, clubs, and shields ready to do riot control. I did this last year (we were Team Zissou) and we were probably in the first wave off the bridge and I don't recall sirens, clubs or shields. I do recall two patrol cars outside the bar that served as the checkpoint and about four cops asking people politely to move keep moving. I also recall running completely alone through the sidewalks of Chinatown, strapped to a shopping cart decked out like a submarine along with my four teammates, and being absolutely mortified as everyone stared at us like the retards we were. I have mixed feelings about doing it again this year (especially since I got beaned in the nuts and the face with ice balls at the finish line) but I think I've already been roped in by our captain.

By: hincandenza

hincandenza — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 15:26:16 -0800

Huh, here I was thinking this was just an elaborate jab at the widely disliked Yankees third baseman...

By: fourstar

fourstar — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 16:53:40 -0800

Why aren't we doing this in Austin yet?

By: rodney stewart

rodney stewart — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:23:33 -0800

Or maybe you just can't wait to do something a little crazy in NYC or maybe i'm the only nyc resident that thinks these safety-in-numbers group spaz outs not only cowardly but really incredibly naff too. the pants off ride on the subway stunt is a perfect case in point and actually pretty fucking pathetic to be quite honest. why can't anyone act out for themselves these days? i mean every single middle aged baldy twat in three boros trying desperately hard to look like some crappy hipster. nyc has seriously gone beyond tragic. don't come here kids, suburbia is uber cool compared to this miserable excuse of a hangout. go to london or somewhere, anywhere but nyc. the embarrasment capital of the world is no longer where it's at.

By: Meredith

Meredith — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:45:38 -0800

Er... okay there Rodney. I think this sounds brilliant and hilarious, and it makes me wish I still lived close enough to NYC to at least come watch if not participate myself. I hope a lot of you NY Mefites participate and come back and post pictures.

By: spicynuts

spicynuts — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 08:16:42 -0800

Well, I don't have a twat, but my head is bald. Wheeeeeeee!!

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 19:52:57 -0800

Holy cow- No Pants Subway Ride broken up by cops. I'm sad that I was right.