PRINCETON HHH HASH #539.4

Date: January 21, 1996
Weather: Icy
Venue: Washington Crossing Park
Time: 0.55 h
Set By: Rojo

Hashers: Geezer, Delay LLLama, Safe Sweats, Wacko

Descriptions, comments, polemics, and lies: Back to the days of minipacks,
as undergrads were busy packing in useless arcane factoids to be
regenerated on the exams designed to select the next generation of
Amerika's korporate leaders, the Profs were wasting away their
tenure-encumbered lives, and all you normal folks dozed in front of Conan
the Barbarian reruns. Eschewing such brain-eviscerating activities, Rojo
and her buddies had a real nice time in Washington Crossing State Park,
slipping and sliding on the ice, drinking beer, telling lies, and generally
improving their already exciting lives. Couldn't be beat, says I.

Over the next two weeks Solo and Toxic Waste set in attempts to break back
into the ranks of the serious setters. After that comes the most solemn
three-week period of the hash year, our version of Ramadan, one might say.
It is a period filled with deep introspection into the meaning of life and
death, the sanctity of pain, and the price of beer. As we currently lack a
Religious Advisor, Rawsex having taken himself off into the depths of
Wyoming or wherever for several years of deep meditation (or was it
medication?), Your Beloved Scribe must take the unaccustomed role of guru
and set the tone for this deeply, intensely meaningful period.

First comes the 1996 G run, in memory of  the sad death of Albert "G"
Gispert, one of the founders of the Mother Hash in KL, and the person
credited with the coining of the phrase "Hash House" to describe the
running group loosely associated with the Selangor Club. A memorial
biography will appear in an upcoming write-up. Hash Cash will fund the
Annual HashFeast at Good Friends following the G run, provided that you let
the Geezer know if you are coming. Email him at:      
                                                                           
                                                                           
       mjjr@chemvax.princeton.edu.

Next, we celebrate the Tibetan New Year, the year of the Fire Mouse, as The
Delay LLLama sets our annual Losar Hash. Last year he provided us with
"chang" the dreaded Tibetan barley beer, about which the less said the
better.

We close this sacred part of our hashing year with the famous hard core
hash. The notorious Rambo has threatened to make an appearance, as he has
for the last two years. More welcome news is that Gunwale Humper will
accompany him, and that ex-Princeton hasher Ned Jakkkshune will also be on
the scene. Given that Rambo will be here, and recalling that he has been
unable to finish the last two years, or even find the start last year,
perhaps we should rethink the intensity level of this most taxing of the
world's hashes. On the other hand, this year we could just let him die out
there.


 
#540.4  Sunday, January 28th, 2 pm, Solo sets
#541.4  Sunday, February 4th, 2 pm, Toxic Waste sets 
#542.4  Sunday, February 11th, 2 pm, Wrong Way sets the 1996 G Memorial hash
#543.4  Sunday, February 18th, 2 pm, The LLLama sets the Losar Hash
#544.4  Sunday, February 25th, 2 pm, 242 sets the 4th Annual Hard Corpse Hash

                   "No Tee Shirts, No Money, No Whining, No Mercy"