Mandatory Fun
Mandatory Fun is fun that is mandatory. On occasion, it is not fun; on other occasions, it is not mandatory.
Lancaster
Mandatory Fun is a slot of time on Friday and/or Saturday evenings between dinner and the dance in which the entire site gathers for a structured RA-made activity. Not always fun or unfun, but never uninteresting (oooh...double-negative). Mandatory Fun is listed as the "All-Site Activity" on the weekend schedule. The activities include the Quiz Bowl finals, Dutch Auctions, assorted game shows, the Lip-Sync Contest, or anything else the RAs feel like doing.
Mandatory Fun has been known to occur in numerous places including outside the center of the Arches, due to the black-top, in front of Schnader Hall, due to the large porch, and elsewhere.
Losing The Game is one of the best parts of Mandatory Fun.
In 08.1, the whole camp was Rickrolled during Mandatory Fun when Ev and Austin lipsynced to "Never Gonna Give You Up" for the Lip-Sync Contest.
Mandatory Fun has also been referred to mockingly by the RAs as Unavoidable Joy and Inescapable Bliss.
Los Angeles
At Los Angeles (LMU), there is Non-Mandatory Fun instead of Mandatory Fun. This means that although it is mandatory to attend, it is not mandatory to have fun. However, in 07.2, Non-Mandatory fun was made into Mandatory Fun by the RAs as a joke.
Other Sites
At some other sites, Mandatory Fun refers to afternoon Activities.
Things we like | |
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Activities and Games | The Game · Silent Football · Acting Improv · Agreedball · Art of War · Basketball · Blammo · Four Square · Kill Murray/Save Murray · Malkavian Poking Game · Slackjaw · Pokey · The Really Game · Risk · Ultimate Frisbee · Varsity Catch · Wanna buy a duck? · SNAKES!!! · Quiz Bowl · Mandatory Fun |
Card Games | 1000 Blank White Cards · Egyptian Ratscrew · FLAAR · Illuminati · Kemps · Mao · Scum, Presidents, Speed Capitalism, or Chinese Poker · Scum: The Masquerade · Set · Scroggle |
Movies | Monty Python · The Rocky Horror Picture Show · The Princess Bride · Alice in Wonderland · Dark Side of Oz · Starcrash · Xanadu |
Books | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · Catch-22 · Ender's Game · Harry Potter |
Other | 42 · Boobtag · Couching · FNORD · Grass orgy · Phone-flipping · Rina · Three |