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The Koan of Roshambo: You Are Paper. I Rock.
From:
The Washington Post
| Date:
August 30, 2004| Author:
Hank Stuever
| Copyright 2004 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information
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Place your faith, for a moment, in the perfect holy trinity: The
rock. The paper. The scissors.
One guy is walking around at the D.C. National Rock Paper Scissors
tournament Saturday night with a T-shirt that provocatively asserts,
"Paper is the new rock." He lost.
Every strategy of rock-paper-scissors (aka RPS, or roshambo) was
tried in this, the area's first official tournament of a game so
ancient, so primal, that of course you now have to play it while
drunk, in bars.
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