Day 20: The Sign Game: Or How Not to be Bored in a Car

Project for November 20, 2013

It will probably come as no surprise to anyone that I get bored very easily in a car.  I was trying desperately to think of a project I could do while in the car. No, I wasn't driving (at that point anyway) so I decided to take pictures of road signs.

That's nice and random.

But what to do with them?

I could make a PowerPoint of them. . . but that would be too easy.

Ooh! I could put them to music! (In retrospect I like that idea more and more, maybe I'll save it for later!)

I actually settled on trying to find as many movies using the words on the signs as possible.  Here's how it works:

If you can come up with a name of a movie, TV Show, or Play with the sign word in it, = 10 points (if the sign has more than one word and you find movies for each word, then it's 10pts per word/movie combination.

If you can come up with a movie with the sign word as a subject for a movie, TV Show, or Play = 5 points

If you can only come up with the movie title as the first letter in a movie, TV Show, or Play = 1 point

If you use the main root of the word, that's fine. For more challenging games you have to use the exact word.

Let's see how well I can do:

Cowpens - The Patriot - 5pts
   The Patriot mentions the battle of Cowpens, the exact battlefield on the sign

Spartansburg - 300 - 5pts
   If you can't figure out 300 Spartans from this, then go watch the movie.

Greenville - The Green Mile - 10pts

 
Cherokee - Trail of Tears - 5pts
    A play about forcing the Cherokee Tribe off of their homeland

Comm. College - With Honors - 5pts
   Brendan Frasier at college picks up a homeless Danny DeVito

Pleasant School Road - Pleasantville - 5pts
Bolling Springs - Hope Springs - 10 pts

Gaffney - Green Acres - 1pt
    I could only come up with a show that starts with the first letter

18 - 8 Mile - 5pts

Blacksburg - Bringing up Baby - 1pt

Shelby - Seven - 1pt

Earl - Elizabeth - 5pts
    There are a number of "earls" in this film

York - The Tudors - 5pts
     The Duke of York appears in this series

Rock Hill - The House on Haunted Hill / The Rock - 20 pts
   Double whammy!

Welcome Center - Welcome to Moose Point - 10pts

Rest Area - Hotel Transylvania - 5pts
    A hotel is a place to rest, right?

Grover - Percy Jackson & the Olympians the Lightning Thief - 5pts
    Grover is the name of the satyr in this film

King's Mountain - All the King's Men / Escape to Witch Mountain - 20pts

East Bessemer City - Elizabethtown - 1pt
     This was the best I could do.

Gastonia - Beauty and the Beast - 5pts
      So the main villain's name is Gaston.  That counts right?

Lincolnton - Lincoln - 10pts

MY SCORE: 139!

Can you do better with these signs???

Dare ya!

Live Orange!