Rock Paper Scissors

Rock Paper Scissors is more than a decision making game for the editors at NBC5, it is a way of life, a form of competition that has taken many forms and many reasons for playing.  We simply refer to it as RPS.  Need to decide who edits something, RPS, need to see who works overtime, RPS, need to blow off some steam stick out your fist and call out “LETS GO!!!!”  Usually a fist or four will peek out of an edit bay and ready to take up for themselves.  One of our editors Raul has even created phone RPS, you simply get a phone call with someone on the other end who proclaims a war with a simple question of “Ready?” then a countdown “3..2..1..Rock” and then either cheer or jeer depending on the others attack.  It has become at times part luck, part mind game, where a player will imitate a flamingo and kiss his hand or someone might impersonate Axl Rose and his snake dance.  We have played over Instant Message,face to face, reflection in our glass doors and every other possible way. 

Amazingly we aren’t the only people that have such a passion for RPS.  There is a World Championship every year in Canada.  A US federal judge even once ruled in a court case that the two parties solve a contentious point in a disputed contract by a game of RPS. 

Trust me we don’t need a federal judge to tell the editors that it’s RPS time.

I just lost.  Paper beats Rock!!!!  Dang it!!!!