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What was the best color war breakout you had?
i dont have one all my color war breakouts were very stupid and boring!!
not my experience but my friend told me about it. she was in camp and they landed a helicopter in the baseball field – not sure on the details of exactly how that broke out color war but it still sounds cool!
Once they had this crazy silversmith named Paul Revere ride a horse from Charlestown to Lexington shouting, “The Regulars are Coming Out!” from his horse.
That was the signal that color war had broken out between the blues and the reds.
ronsr- is that something you experienced???!!!???
In my camp they once pretended that the president was coming so they made us clean the whole camp and get ready to welcome the president. On the day of his “arrival” they had an escort and a huge limo in which my bunk was in and when we drove into the camp we all came out and broke out color war. I think the camp got the most out of that since the camp was then really clean:)
Sarahb how’d u manage to convince the whole camp??? That’s really cool!
I did not see this one personally, but heard about it.
Grumpy neighbor from down the camp road comes into the dining room and says the singing is too loud. Tone it down or else. And stomps out of the room
The room goes into debate for the next few minutes. It boils down to the classic he says / he says:
Macher # 1 (who would go on to be General # 1) says tone it down, we don’t want any trouble.
Macher # 2 (who would go on to be General # 2) says, no way..pump up the volume!
Kids and staff go into high gear, and sing till the windows shake.
5 minutes later, in walks Mr. Grumpy.. with a shotgun. And says, “did’nt I tell you to tone it down? Who did not understand what quiet means?”
Macher # 1 says, (pointing to # 2), “I told him to tone it down, but he would’t listen!”
Mr. Grumpy walks over to Macher # 2, grabs him by the shirt, drags him out of the room (and out of sight) and fires!
The camp goes wild, kids are crying.. pandemonium!
And the next thing you know, in walks # 2 (with Mr. Grumpy, who is now smiling) and says, “COLOR WAR!”
How’s that for a breakout! (or breakdown, in the case of bunk Aleph)
bpt – I THINK U WIN!!! thats crazy! howd they come up wid that one?
I never had the privilege of going to camp, or to a frum school, so I never experienced color war. First of all, I don’t get it at all. Second of all, I don’t understand why whatever this thing is it needs to be started by traumatizing people. Perhaps someone can explain it to me.
haifagirl – i dont think anyone can exlain it. its a mystery to us too – at least to me. no one i know actually enjoyed color war. but apparently its supposed to be a way for kids to use their talents and promote achdus. but it usually ends in major politics… and tears…
mustangrider: That’s not the case in boys camps. Boys don’t cry over color war. Nor have I ever heard any “politics” whatsoever being involved. Just about everyone has a great time.
I really don’t know what goes on during color but that part about using talents and promoting achdus sounds good. Why can’t that be done without trauma? Can’t someone just say, “You’re on team 1 and you’re on team A and let’s start”?
tomche, i’m so glad to hear that SOMEONE chears when they hear about color war! but i’m not sure ur being fair – boys dont cry – ever! and i never heard of politics amongst boys. you guys are lucky! though i should add that for me color war was usually funny – i just sat back and watched the soaps unfold instead of joining in myself. lol!
We were told there would be a Russian baal teshuva who will tell us her lifestory and how she returned to her roots. In comes this very Russian-looking woman with a tichel and wisps of hair sticking out. She began telling her story with a strong Russian accent. Suddenly, some girls burst out laughing and started talking animatedly. Our camp director turned beet red and told us she’s ashamed we’re behaving like that. Suddenly, the “baal teshuva” tears off her tichel and we realized it was the cleaning lady of the camp. In a broken English she exclaimed, “Color War!”
Bump!
The best brake out- when the campers went roller skating, we took the shoes the have in, brought them out side and wrote color war with the shoes. When the campers returned their skates and wanted their shoes back they were told “the shoes were put into a locked room. Wait five min till the boss comes back.” Eventually the campers were told to load the buses, w/o shoes, and saw their shoes…
i never did get why they had to scare kids… worst color war breakout, or most traumatizing at least. On field day/sports day, at the end of the day of competition, the counselors were scheduled to have a short competition- jumpin rope, jumbo (long jump). During jumbo, one head councelor ‘tripped’ and fell hard. Some counselors ran to her and s/o yelled to call Hatzola. In that 3 minute wait, half the camp was crying hysterically, many called home crying and traumatized. 2 men from Hatzolah came in, looked her over and loaded her into a neck brace n stretcher. As they were leaving, she yelled hold on, i need to tell the other head counselor something. 2nd ran over and said what is it? And she yelled: its color war! It was NOT a fun breakout. I do not get the fear factor in the breakouts.
the best one was when one day on the radio there was a warning that some armed fugitives were loose in the area. The camp decided to use this to break out color-war. That night, a madrich came running into the building, pale and shaken – saying that four masked men had entered the campus. The campers were all sent to their rooms, with a madrich. The head counselor ‘called the police’ before sending everybody to their rooms with clear instructions of what to do if the men confronted them. The campers were all petrified. Some were saying tehillim. A loud noise was coming from one area in the garden, with a lot of banging.
A group of campers had found out accidentally that color war outbreak was that night, and figured it out. They took water pistols which looked very real, put on masks and slipped out of the building. Then they came hollering up the path, and banged on the door. Suddenly the head counselor got all scared because there were no men – the radio report was true but the camp had just sent one madrich to make some noise outside. All the staff got a shock when four campers waving guns bashed on the door!!! They were calling the police when the guys screamed ‘COLOR WAR’ and everybody had a laugh, including the counselors!!
We had one that wasn’t so scary but better than all the police cars,hazlolah etc.!!
A Rabbi came on friday to tell us a dvar Torah. One of our counselors, who’s father was a Rabbi, said
“My father doesn’t agree with that.” then the Rabbi said
“Well i think its this way.” then (while we stood gaping) she said “Well my father’s usually right.” he said
“You wanna fight?!” (now we were almost jumping out of our seats)
she said “What kind of fight?”
“You wanna have a war?”
“What kind of war?”
then the Rabbi screamed “COLOR WAR!”
no one knew and it was the besttt breakout ever because NO ONE was expecting it.
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