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May’s Open Swim: Fax Machine

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Robocop Zombie

You loved it so we brought it back. Grab a fresh sketchbook (you’ll need plenty of room) and your pen/pencil/marker of choice and come on down to King’s Books. Here is an example of the evolution of an idea from last years event: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.10151876334547867&type=1

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CLAW White Elephant Gift Exchange!

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CLAW Your Favorite Secret Society of Cartoonists!

Wed, December 4, 7:00pm – 9:30pm

at Kings Books in Tacoma. 218 Saint Helens Avenue  Tacoma, WA 98402

This is a CLAW Open Swim meeting that is open to the public at large – all ages – and everyone is invited to attend and participate. I’m happy to say that this will be our fourth year of astonishing each other with truly absurd Christmas gifts. Now is your change to re-gift that present your aunt gave you last year. Or maybe you bought something at a garage sale the wife vetoed. Or maybe you found something that has the perfect “IT” factor for this event

The rules for the White Elephant Gift Exchange:

1. The gift must be “absurd”.
2. If you buy the gift, you must not spend more than $20.
3. You’re gift must be wrapped, or at the very least fully concealed in a festive bag.
4. Those who bring get to participate.
5. Numbers will be drawn from a fez to determine order.
6. You can select a gift from a table or steal a gift from a person who already chose a gift.
7. A gift can only be stolen three times, at which time it becomes locked-in.
8. A gift doesn’t have to be unwrapped until all gifts are selected. (While there is debate about this rule it was part of our original rules in 2008 and I’m going to stick with tradition.)
9. Once all gifts are locked-in, those that have not been unwrapped should be unwrapped.
10. The Trading, purchasing, bartering or auctioning of gifts after the exchange is allowed.
11. no NAZI books or dead animals

In the event that there are extra gifts, they will be auctioned off to the highest bidder. We take credit cards.

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Fax Machine Open Swim

Fax Machine

CLAW invites you to join them at King’s Books in an exciting game of Fax Machine. What is Fax Machine? Well you will need to bring a sketch book that has several available pages to utilize. You will write something on the first page and pass it to the person on your left and then on the next page they will try and draw it in a limited amount of time. They will then pass it to the left and that person then writes down what they interpret it to be on the next page and so on and so on. Pretty easy, the person who’s turns out to be the closest at the end wins. And what do they win Bob? You’ll have to come to see.

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