PRINCETON HHH HASH #468.4 

Date: August 10, 1994
Weather: Martian
Venue: Cranbury, Grover's Mills
Time: 1.47
Set By: Safe Sweats
Hashers:  242,  Geezer, TFM, Jason Huse, Rojo, Solo, Delay Lllama

First to Cooler: Joe Burns

There's Always a Fatal Flaw - The Richard M. Nixon Resignation Hash


Description, polemics, comments and lies: Prudent practice dictates that
when Safe Sweats Sets, you get out of town. A smallish group of those
either ignorant of that sage advice or too stupid to heed it - or both -
gathered behind Stevenson Hall on a balmy evening to hear the usual run
pre-excuses from the PH3's safety officer. The start was unknown, the end
yet to be determined, and there were some gaps in the trail......  So, it
was a shock to some when, about half-way through the hash, the thought
occurred that this one hadn't been too bad. Sure, there was the longest
false trail in the history of this venerable hash, and true, that falsie
did run through the best territory on the hash. And then, there were those
ten or so marks leading nowhere. Still, there had been a stupendous bridge
crossing - a high span reduced to its bare ironwork, far above a turgid
stream in which tapirs traipsed, rhinos rinsed, and gorillas gamboled. Or
so it seemed as we crossed the high wire more appropriate for the Flying
Wallendas than this group of half-brained semi-coordinates. 

But, as we all know, like Richard M. Nixon who resigned just 20 years ago,
and to whose departure this hash was dedicated, Safe Sweats is a
near-tragic figure; as fatally flawed as Oedipus, as unhinged as Lady
Macbeth. Such folk have an instinct for their own jugulars, and Hash 468.4
provided no exception. A mere remark, a casual off hand suggestion was all
it took to unhinge it all. Imagine a checkmark, finally apprehended at the
one hour 10 minute mark, with two hashers vanishing straight ahead into the
distance as Safe Sweats regards them with distaste. Then imagine Safe
Sweats' remark to those still gathered at the check. "Oh, I'll catch up and
bring them back; treat this check as a regroup." Where did the real trail
go? You guessed it, straight ahead, exactly where the two were running.
What did the group do? Wait of course, and search all other possible
directions until, some 25 minutes later, it dawned upon their dim minds
that Safe Sweats was probably not on a mission of mercy, wasn't bringing
anyone back, and had left them to rot.

Next Hash:

Wednesday, August 17, 6 pm, Geezer Sets --  Pizza Afterwards, so bring
lotsa money

Monday August 22, 7 PM Pushnermaybe sets in Summit!  Any interested in
going should contact Pushnermaybe at gpushner@attmail.com or (908)-221-7513