PHHH #1177.9

Sun Dec 2, 2007

Hare:  WeePee

Hounds:  HYP, EuroTrash, Delicate Psyche, Hand Solo

Weather: I'm Dreaming of a White Hash

Time: Felt like an hour

Swing Low Sweet Chariot

PHHH is one of its biennial slumps - the typical 2007 PHHH hash featured a meager 
7.4 hounds and the last few hashes have failed to reach even these paltry numbers.
In a counter-intuitive move, the Grand Master suggests increasing the entrance fee 
from $2 to $5.  This is known as the "Chivas Regal" effect whereby consumers feel 
that if it costs more it must be worth more.  Ben Bernanke, one time Montgomery 
resident and now successor to A. Greenspan would be proud of this logic. 

Low hound turnout inevitably leads to last minute scrambling for hares and this week 
was no exception.  "PHHH will not peter out on my watch, by G--d!", the new GM boldly 
declared. And so WeePee was stuck with setting once again, for the 28th (or so) time 
in 2007.

At least he made it easy on himself, setting a circuitous route from 87 Prospect to 
39 Humbert by way of the Washington Road bridge, the Dinky tracks, the PU campus and
the Princeton Record Exchange.  Mum's apple pie and hot chocolate was offered, washed
down by Yuengling - regular or full strength.

On the trot back to the cars Delicate waxed lyrical on the need for grad students to
publish and complained about this French waller who has to review all the papers else 
they are considered sub-par.  "You gotta make sure your paper is Pierre-reviewed" 
quoth he.

And so the invetable question - 
who is setting next week? 
who is setting next week?
who is setting next week?
who is setting next week?
who is setting next week?
who is setting next week?
who is setting next week?
who is setting next week?
who is setting next week?
who is setting next week?
who is setting next week?