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FIRST AND FOREMOST:  WE NEED A HARE FOR THIS NEXT WEEKEND!  AFTER THAT
                     I BELIEVE WE ARE SET FOR QUITE A WHILE!!!!  
                     VOLUNTEERS PLEASE POST TO THE HASHNET 
                     ( phhh@cdiprinceton.com ) ASAP
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PRINCETON HHH HASH #591.4

Date: January 26, 1997
Weather: At least 490 degrees (Rankine)
Venue: Autumn Hill Parking Lot on Herrontown Road - Herrontown Woods -
       Princeton Hill - LRF Apt. Complex in Rocky Hill - Back To Start
       (look familiar - i.e., see last week)
Time: 1:12
Set By: LRF
Hashers:  Delay LLLama, Safe Sweats, Melissa Lockman, Glory, Hans Hall,
          KENDRA HERSHEY, Ro Jo, Wacko, Wrong Way, Chris Jones,
          Greg "Hoping we forgot his hashname but we really haven't" Bronner
          Andrew Vaughn, Nick Longrich, Niall Hannagen
Rookies: Kendra's friend (though maybe not any more), Oscar

           THE RISE AND FALL OF THE PRINCETON HASH HOUSE HARRIERS 

As feared, the advent of fatherhood has precluded my partaking in
recent Princeton Hash events.  I figured my absence would not be missed,
considering I'm lost most of the time anyway, but the rapid
decay of the institution I so cherished left me in a state of such
apoplexy that I must relate to those of you abroad (Dr. No, Pushnermaybe,
Our Illustrious Guru and Founder Joe Burns) who may weep with me just how
sorry the state of affairs was this last Sunday, scant weeks before the
Hard Core. 

1) Not only no Geezervan - No Geezer!  What's a Princeton Hash without
   a Geezer!  Supposedly he begged off because of some mild ailment like
   kidney stones.  This from the man who brought us kitty chips.

2) The desperate "CALL FOR HARES" (see above) has also become a
   weekly ritual.  A last minute flail to find someone willing to set.
   The tactic of randomly writing names down in the newsletter
   and hoping they will then feel obligated sounds like some
   sort of election year economist's strategy.  As the LRF rolled
   out of his car in the PUCC parking lot he admonished that
   he only realized he was down to set 24 hours previous when randomly
   perusing his email.  Of course, the "newsletter", in the past a loose
   term but now 8-day-old-chili loose, was so late that the LRF ended up
   setting on top of the last week's terrain!  But this is far from
   the worst of it.... 

3) Perhaps those of you who remember the hash fondly should read no further.
   For then, into the parking lot pulled the immortal Safe Sweats, apparently
   back from his self-imposed exile, and now a regular once again!
   Was he wearing his eponymous "condom" outfit - and was he driving
   his "great white whale" of miasma in Brownian motion?!  No.  
   He was, in fact, driving his new caravan-type vehicle that barely
   sports a smell!!!  Is nothing sacred.

4) Get this one.  The hash ran exactly on top of the previous week's hash,
   as stated, no fault of the hare's, and yet there was not one cry of
   BOOOOORING!!!  Oh No.  In fact, the pack actually was exuberant as they
   dashed off into Herrontown woods.  The enthusiasm made me gag.

5) The hash scribes have often been accused of fabrication, and justly so,
   but the following is as true as a topless 242.  Fifteen minutes into the
   hash someone turns to me and says he has to quit.  His feet
   are wet.  The nadir, I say, Princeton Hash History.  My stomach turned
   inside out.

6) After recovering from #5, I actually caught up because the rest of the
   pack observed a regroup, patiently waiting for those left behind.  
   (That's right, Dr. No.  Blasphemy!)

   The hash then climbed back up the stone pile on which the Geezer
   perched during Hash 503.4 and skied downward and over to the LRF's
   apartment complex - eventually looping back to the start.  As we ate
   chips and salsa, and I lamented days of yore - but hope springs eternal.
   Andrew Vaughn and Niall Hannagan, two relative newcomers, asked me 
   "What's this about no T-shirts on the Hard Core Hash?  Is that for real?"
   I was amazed that these new boots had already grasped the hasher's
   aesthetic of complaining about the most pointless, insignificant matter,
   (T-shirts and food perennial list toppers), until I realized that they
   thought it meant you had to run the Hard Core Hash bare-chested.
   What a great idea!  Perhaps the Princeton hash has some hope yet!!!

NEXT HASHES:
#592.4: Sunday, February 2, 1997  2 pm, 87 Prospect, HARELESS!!!!  VOLUNTEER!!

#593.4: Sunday, February 9, 1997  2 pm, 87 Prospect, The Geezer and        
                    Speed Bumps set the combined "G", Tibetan New Year, and
                                Darwin's Birthday Hash
#594.4: Sunday, February 16, 1997  2 pm, 87 Prospect, Solo sets
#595.4: Sunday, February 23, 1997  2 pm, 87 Prospect, Rambo sets the       
                                                      Hard Core Hash
#596.4: Sunday, March 2  2 pm  87 Prospect Jeff Skaar and Kathy Butler set
#597.4: Sunday, March 9, 1997, 2 pm, 87 Prospect, Wacko and Jacob          
                                                  Microwacko set (?)
#598.4: Sunday, March 16, 1997, 2 pm, 87 Prospect
#599.4: Sunday, March 23, 1997, 2 pm, 87 Prospect
#600.4: Sunday, March 30, 1997, 2 pm, 87 Prospect