PRINCETON HHH HASH #327.4

Date: September 8, 1991
Weather: lunar
Set by: The Louisiana Reptile Fancier
Hashers: Dr. No, Whacko, Throatwarbler, Geezer, Tito, Kaixu
First To Cooler  Joe Burns

                         The Warehouses at the End of Time

Description, comments, polemics, and lies:  

On the surface, it was an ordinary run: a sequence of huge warehouses in Yardley, or at 
least somewhere out in Nowhereland on the Turnpike.  Yet this hash was surely special 
– something truly new – and truly frightening.

For how many years have These Pages been (dis)graced by complaints about the 
venue?  How many times have those wankers over at CDI* wynged and whined about 
“moonscapes”, “dreadful swamps” and the like? How many times have we cried Wolf? 
Hyperbole heaped upon hyperbole!  There were wiser souls who sat calmly on the 
sideline, knowing that the time would come when the true minimum value hashvenue 
would appear.  These Sages knew that when that horrible moment arrived, our 
dedicated readers would not realize that more than the usual complaining was going on. 
Well, gentle folk, the time is now. The Reptile Fancier capped his ten year search for the 
ultimately worthless trail with what must be an unbeatable standard. No map will list this 
place; mysterious white is all that greets the curious cartographer.  Nothing moves here; 
no human touch breaks the march of one concrete façade after another; neither sign of 
life nor death breaks the dreadful limbo.  

What could lie within?  Although these hideous buildings have neither entrance nor exit, 
surely they must contain something.  There was enough space to hold all the artifacts of 
the human race, yet the runners were certain they were not only traversing the most 
desolate place in the universe, but were passing the ultimate cosmic joke as well; those 
buildings were surely empty.

* What does CDI mean, anyway?  Completely demented Individuals?  Champion dimwit 
intellects? 


Next Hashes:

#328.4    Sun, Sept 15, 2 pm Whacko sets. 
#329.4    Sun, Sept 22, 2 pm Toxic Waste sets. 
#330.4    Sun, Sept 29, 2 pm Geezer sets. 
#331.4    Sun, Oct. 6 , 2 pm Throat Warbler sets.