With the Washington, DC area blanketed with approximately 500 feet of snow, conditions are perfect for a snowball fight. According to Wikipedia, the largest snowball fight in recorded history involved about 3,700 people. NBC News is reporting, though, that an estimated 5,000 are participating today.
The Dupont Circle Snowball Fight: This Is Not ‘Nam, There Are Rules
↵The official snowball fight rulebook was authored by Alexander Cartwright in the 1830s. In its entirety, it reads as follows.
↵↵1. Gentle-men must capture the opposing fort by means of pummeling other gentle-men with spheroids of fallen snow, referred to here-forth as “snowballs.”
↵2. If hit with a snowball, a gentle-man must doff his cap to the offending party and offer a psalm. If he has no cap to doff, it is permissible to hurl stones at him.
↵3. Swords are discouraged but not explicitly forbidden.
↵4. If a gentle-man must alkhgkhaklsha
↵↵At this point, someone hit Cartwright with a snowball and he rolled around on the ground giggling. He quickly lost interest in the rules and went on to invent another game, baseball, which ended up being far less entertaining.
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