PRINCETON HHH HASH 642.4 and 643.4

Date: January 25, 1998
Weather: Wind-chilly
Venue: Solo's Home and Everything West out to Spring Hill Road
Time: 1:15
Set By: Solo (Hash 642.4) and Hey Yo Pauly (Hash 643.4)
Hashers (642.4): Booger, Wacko, RoJo, Geezer, Marianne Adams, Peter
Boogerspal,
                 Speed Bumps, Uranus Williams, Delay LLLama, Dave Williams
Hashers (643.4): A Joy To His Mother, Pyro Man
Wimps: Ken Verkammen and his would-be Rookie.

			A COMEDY OF ERRORS

It was a Tempest of confusion involving Two Gentlemen of ... aw ferget it,
I don't have time to continue this clever usage of Shakespearean play
titles, if 
you want to imagine some, go ahead As You Like it.  Solo emailed the
directions
to the start to the hashnet, but they never reached the masses.  The
illustrious weblord Wrong Way has determined the cause - Act of God.  The
abandoned hounds
left a note at 87 Prospect for the beleaguered Solo informing him that we
were
driving to his house with Delay Lllama's cellphone in hand - hoping to come
across
marks on the way.  In fact, the Geezer was 50 yards from the true trail
when he
stopped the caravaan to investigate some mysterious white paint marks,
but no Solo droppings were sighted.  Thank goodness, as the
marathon-running hare
was once again setting a 2 hour-plus true trail that would have had us out
well past sunset.  He needed his exercise anyway.  Arriving at 264 Grandview,
the hare's desolate abode, Joy to his Mother drove off in search of marks.
Unfortunately, he also had the flour brought for our hares and hounds
alternative.
As we waited impatiently, Ken V. bagged the hash (probably the most
boneheaded
act amidst many) just as Hey Yo Pauly headed off to live hare with about 7
lbs
of flour from RoJo's trunk.  After promising him 10 minutes
we left to follow after 7 and were lost after 3.  Pauly cleverly set
a back check (though it sure looked like a regular check to us)
which the pack didn't come close to understanding, (since we NEVER use them).
After fifteen minutes of searching in vain, the pack went barrelling onward
down the road and to the railroad tracks figuring we could circle around
and pick up
marks - but that clever Pauly pulled a U-turn and all was lost -- until the
cell
phone rang and Solo informed us that in our wandering we were within 1/4 mile
of picking up his trail at
the halfway point - leaving us a good 1 hour of running through the hills
of Skillman.
But now where had Joy to his Mother and Pyroman gone?!  Were they those two
dots 
vanishing away in the distance down the rr tracks?!  Our screams of On On
to no avail,
we were off to follow Solo's marks.  Of course when we hit them we didn't
know which
way to go, but that was a minor obstacle at this point.

The rest of the run was enjoyable but far less eventfull than the
shennagins at the
start.  After plodding hill and dale for an hour or so we came upon the
Solo mobile.
He was unable to find Joy, Pauly or Pyro so he left a note on Pauly's car
(attached to those who can download attachments, with Pauly's comments in
black magic marker).

Back at Solo's house it was discoverd that Pyroman and Joy had circled all
the way
back to the start and intersected Pauly's trail, following it with screams
of On On
almost all the way to the end (the last bit was tough because it was set
without
any flour).  (Joy & Pyro, if you want to elaborate, please do.)  Pauly,
Solo, Joy
and Pyroman didn't seem too disheartened by the sequence of events and the
rest of
us were rather pleased when we realized that we had managed to rid
ourselves of
those meddlesome marathon runners for a day -- though our efforts to lose
Speed
Bumps failed.  Maybe next time.

Next Hashes

#644.4: Sunday, February 1, 1998, Throatwarbler Mangrove sets
#645.4: Sunday, February 8th, Annual G and Darwin's Birthday Hash, 2 pm, 87
Prospect, Pinup Sets. Remember the

      Annual HashCash Dinner afterwards at Good Friends

February 14, 1998 Ken Verkammen sets in Edison

#646.4: Sunday, February 15, 1998, Speedbumps sets
#647.4 Sunday, February 22, 1998, HARD CORPSE VI, Geezer and Wacko Set
#648.4 Sunday, March 1, 1998, 2 pm, 87 Prospect, Delay LLama sets the Losar
Hash.
#649.4  Sunday, March 8, 1998, 2 pm, 87 Prospect, Pauly Sets
#650.4 Sunday, March 15, 1998, 2 pm, 87 Prospect, Toxic Waste sets
#651.4 Sunday, March 22, 1998, 2 pm, 87 prospect, Table Toes sets?
#652.4 Sunday, March 29, 1998, Brian Kraybill and Rich Sarpong set??