PRINCETON HHH HASH #519.4

Date: August 16, 1995
Weather: Piquant
Venue: Christopher St. house farm to ETS
Time: too long
Set By: 242
Hashers: Hot Lips (Jay Shendure), Susan, Jim 'The Sugar Daddy,' Big Steve,
Anne Marie Stroustrup, Hey Yo! Paully, Ned the Boy, Trash Can


Descriptions, comments, and mostly lies: The inexorable journey of the Guinea
worm--insidious in its voracious progress--remains the only plausible
explanation for Hash #519.4.  How else can one account for the half-mile
checks, the microscopic hash marks, or a trail which never truly deviated
from a Millstone brook whitewashed with bird crap?  Whether 242 felt the
parasitic pangs of the Guinea worm, or perhaps just an errant earwig, we may
never know.  Some say this skulduggery is typical of a 242 hash (they are
right).  Others, notably those who showed up, can barely remember their names
much less events of the distant past.

Polemics notwithstanding, Hash #519.4 had plenty of misery to go around:
horseflies the size of sparrows, vitreous spider webs, putrid, muck-clouded
mosquito ponds, ETS.  But the spiders must take top honors.  So bad were
nature's tripwires that the hash resorted to letting poor Anne Marie
Stroustrup, veteran of but few hashes, run ten feet in front of the pack.
 This cleared most of the webs nicely, yet a few remained...waiting.  The net
which engulfed Trash Can's head, for example, caused such a paroxysm that
even Hey Yo! Paully offered assistance.  As Trash Can feverishly attempted
removing this hellish mobile of insect detritus, he undoubtedly enjoyed the
feeling of eight legs negotiating the contours of his face. 

Yet despite these violations of the flesh, most hashers slogged their way to
the Apres--a feast which almost made up for the evening's hash crimes.  Big
Steve, heir apparent to LRF, talked at length about Guinea worms, Jimmy
Carter, and Canada.  Hey Yo! Paully wooed the crowd with his Philly charm.
 And Jim 'The Sugar Daddy' teased with promises of a ride in his rental car.
 Back everyone rode to Princeton, where Apres #2, a plasma physics pow wow in
which Big Steve learned a painful lesson about the social deficiencies of
hashers, was rudely crashed.


Next Hashes:

#520.4     Wed, August 23rd, 6 pm,  Little Fragile Broken Bone sets
#521.4     Wed, August 30th, 6 pm,  Phantom set