Princeton HHH Hash #516.4
(Founded by Joe "Hop-along" Burns in 1979)

Date: July 26, 1995
Weather: Oppressive
Venue: Mercer County Park
Time: 1:25
Set By: Big Steve and Jim
Hashers: Stretch Armstrong (unofficial), Anne Marie, John, My Lips Are Seals,
Deja Mudd, Safe Sweats, Dry Martinez, Delay Lllama, Ned the Boy, Andy, Trash
Can
Rookies: The nefarious Jeff
First to the cooler: Joe Burns

It's Like Deja Merd All Over Again

Budget cuts to Princeton Plasma Physics have got Big Steve mad. Real mad. So
mad that the crazed Canadian decided to run us through the most putrescent (a
word you can use every day) morass within 20 miles of Princeton.
Shoe-sucking--sulfur-belching quagmire characterized most of this Godforsaken
terrain. Such was the foul stench that even the great Deja Mudd mumbled in
supplication.

Yet the continuous insults to the flesh palled in comparison to the ignominy
of watching Safe Sweats jaunt around on his bike. Why Safe Sweats chose this
mode of transportation we know not. But it leads us to wonder what other
vehicles he may employ in the future: rickshaw, mule, pogo stick...with Safe
Sweats the answers are unclear. 

This trespass aside, the hash followed a rigorous and rewarding course. In
some spots, however, hashers questioned Big Steve and Jim's usage of runic
and previously unknown hash marks. Big Steve's introduction of the checkless
check-mark, for example, garnered universal disapproval. Thus as Big Steve
and Jim chortled 'Oh Canada' in air-conditioned bliss, hashers often searched
far and wide for even the most microscopic of marks. 

The worst such episode came when Ned the Boy, lured undoubtedly by the
neo-nazi beach volleyball tournament a quarter-mile distant, suggested
swimming across Lake Dioxin. Andy and John, normally among the more
level-headed of hashers, almost followed Ned in his carcinogenic dip.
Luckily, muffled cries of 'On-In' broke through the hypnotic drone of oompah
music, and the three failed to take the plunge.

Plunge they did, though, into the chips, salsa and booze provided  by the
physicists. In the rabid quest to replenish bodily fluids lost to sweat and
ticks, the absence of Safe Sweats from the Apres almost went unnoticed. Only
after the beer was gone did Delay offer this maudlin eulogy: "He's back at
the cars." And so he was.

NEXT HASHES:

#517.4  Wednesday Aug 2nd     6pm      Solo sets
#518.4  Wednesday Aug 9th      6pm      Safe Sweats sets
#519.4  Wednesday Aug 16th    6pm       242 sets
#520.4  Wednesday Aug 23rd    6pm       LFBB sets