PRINCETON HHH HASH #745.4 Date: November 21, 1999 Weather: Soft Core Venue: Pigeon Swamp State Park Time: 1:30 Set By: Tropical Depression, Ice Blue Balls, Tree, Darby, Some other dog Hashers: Table Toes, Booger, Julie, RoJo, Discomfort, Wacko, OuiPee, Hey Yo Paully, Juicy, Solo, Squirrel Droppings, Rubber Alan, Llloda, Throat Deep, Excremental Earnings Rookies: Jennifer, Mick "The Tornado" Letorneaux Soft Core Pricks Nothing like that feeling of stinging legs in the Monday morning shower! Ques. What's the difference between a porcupine and a car full of Rumson hashers? Ans. The porcupine has the pricks on the outside. One wall of the LRF's office in Frick is "The Map" - whereupon a pin is placed representing the run location of each of the PHHH's 744 hashes to date. Veteran of nearly 500 of these events, alas, I did miss Hash #99, on June 22, 1986 set by none other than the Reptile Fancier himself, which was purported to butt up against the shores of Pigeon Swamp, so we are now at the whim of that legendary scribe and man of mystery to corroborate or deny claim to "new territory" on thesoft core hash. Snake man - could it be? (See attached map) Tropical Depression (TD) greeted us for the first PHHH "Soft Core" hash, at the corner of Pigeon Swamp State Park (Fresh Ponds Rd and Rte. 130). His legs were strangely red from the knees down, a criss-cross of teensy weensy bloody scars. After some soft core hype, the soft core hash lived up to its name, featuring acres and acres of soft core prickers that never rose above your knees - innocucous enough that you had to run through them but thorny enough to provide your yearly blood-letting. Having spent what spare time I have on map-making this week, I shall have to merely outline notable happenings. 1) Safe Sweats of legend and lore dropped by at the start, signed the Geezer card, and tooled off to the airport to catch a flight back to his new abode in Santa Cruz. He's traded in his Oldsmobile boat, (the smellieset car on planet earth) for a red corvette. 2) The Geezer, absent of late, turns 84 on Tuesday. Many hashers of past and present signed a card for him which was surreptitiously deposited in his kitchen, or what used to be his kitchen but has obviously been taken over by the aliens who put out Better Homes and Gardens. 3) Rumor has it that Hey Yo Paully ran a marathon in the morning and hashed in the afternoon! Speaking of aliens! 4) Rookies Mick and Jennifer looked a little disenchanted standing by the shores of Pigeon Swamp lake (that construction area you always see off the NJ Turnpike before Exit 8A) after 1 hour of those nasty knee-high prickers - but perked up after an enjoyable final third. Mick, however, did vanish quickly avoiding his rookie down-down. 5) Ticks in November?! Discomfort was in some as she picked 26 off her by the beer break. 6) Fortunately the cops spotted RoJo and knew better than to attempt a confrontation. 7) Hash Tip of the Week: You are 1:15 into the hash and you're on a beautiful path paralleling the hashers who are struggling through the woods on your left. Hand Solo is running along your side spewing out phrases like "I feel really good about this trail" and "We're going North, this has to be right". What do you do? a) continue on this trail because it's just too good to be true b) stuff your shoe in Solo's mouth but continue on the trail anyway because it is just too good to be true. c) turn around 180 degrees and run exactly opposite the direction that Solo is running At this point, Hey Yo Paully joins you! d) bend over and kiss your ass goodbye 7) Someone else will have to write up the party report. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NEXT HASH: #746.4, Sunday, Nov 28, 2 pm, 87 Prospect, Wacko & Julie Set #747.4, Sunday, Dec 5, 2 pm, 87 Prospect, Geezer sets. #748.4, Sunday, Dec 12, 2 pm, 87 Prospect, Throat Deep sets #749.4, Sunday, Dec 19, 2 pm, 87 Prospect, HeyYo! Paully sets the Winter Solstice hash. #750.4, Sunday, Dec 26, Throatwarbler Mangrove sets the Canadian Boxing Day hash #751.4, Sunday, Jan 2, Pyroman sets into the new millennium. God help us. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe to the Princeton Hashnet, email the message subscribe phhh to the address majordomo@cdiprinceton.com Post messages to the Princeton Hashnet by e-mailing to phhh@cdiprinceton.com and don't forget to check out our shiggy-filled Web Page http://www.princetonol.com/groups/phhh