PHHH #1128.9 Date: Sunday, January 7, 2007 Place: Beech Woods Park Weather: Sunny Time: 1:30 Hare: Hand Solo Hounds: Hey YO! Paully, Delicate Psyche, HIMZ, Keyless Entry, Full Moon Smiling, Warren don'tyouhaveahashna meyet?, Quakenbush III, Pyroman, Speedbumps, Oliver the Wonder Dog. Newbies: 2 of them... 1) Stan, stan the squirrel in his pants man. who had hashed once or twice before but not with us. He was very covert at 87 and we almost departed for the start when he went to his car to get what turned out to be a fox tail (or was he just happy to see us still there). He had a black T shirt on with a gazillion animal paw prints on the front and one huge Bigfoot track on the back. He cultivates, hoards, spawns, grows, eats, and sells mushrooms. 2) Spents (Spencer?), a sometimes Rumson hasher that is rumored to have ran with PHHH before. When he introduced himself to me I thought he said "I'm Spent". I asked him why, did he just run here or something?" The Great Wall of South Brunswick It couldn't be a good sign; Solo was drawing Chinese characters on the pavement which the pack were dutifully ignoring. Hints? We don't need no stinkin' hints! PO ? That's no checkmark, but it did draw giggles from Full Moon Smiling, and prompted Warren to add his own heiroglyphs. On on into the woods; marks were found on the backs of trees, convincing several hounds that we were running it backwards. The trail grew increasingly swampy, reminiscent of rice paddies, but smelling much worse. Oliver found some wonderful, aromatic things to roll around in, and HIMZ and DP found a flaccid basketball which they played with for the duration of the hash. A regroup of selzer and Budweiser appeared, which was eagerly drunk in the absence of any real beer. It's a good thing that Solo showed up in the suburban wasteland to help the hapless hounds, because flour apparently flows more freely than chalk. Across Rt. 27 at the Great Wall Supermarket, Keyless Entry shoplifted a cart of Full Moon Smiling. Moving right along, we came upon the mysterious "PO", a photo-less op at the Ouipe Indian restaraunt, then returned to the woods for more aromatic romping. We thought it was here that we lost Paully, only to find out later that he was setting up a tryst at the local McD's. DO NOT TELL JUICY! after trudging through some more tiresome suburbs, the hounds were finally rewarded with Wasabi peas, assorted seaweed snacks, two growlers of Triumph beer, and some unfinished Rolling Rock at Solo's newly christened abode. Next week: PHHH#1129.9 Pyro and Bumps set the MLK day hash in da 'hood, 24 hours early!!!