PRINCETON HASH #781

Date:    July 19, 2000
Weather: Letting Up
Venue:   Tall Timbers Park on Culver Rd. up to "The Swamp"
         between Monmouth Junction and Sondek Park, (i.e.,
         shooting range of the abandoned House of Shih)
Time:    1:10
Hares:   Tropical Depression and Ice Blue Balls
Hounds:  Seth Mosier, Grant, Pam, Chris, Pumpkin Pie,
         yuqun@cs.princeton.edu, Jai, Oui Pee, Wacko,
         Geezer, RoJo, Paully, Juicy, Dancing Fool,
         Discomfort, Uranus, Schwa, Catch & Release,
         Ed "The Swimmer", Rubber Alan, Rat,
         Definitely Not a Rat's Ass
Rookies: Gary the Drug Dealer,
         Red-headed kid (somebody help me)

FOR THE RECORDS:	Geezer's 500th
			RoJo's	  300th
                     TD's      75th
      Ed "The Swimmer"'s         2nd (his first was 721.4 -
                                     "nameless rookie in the writeup)
AND YES, Mark Sibilia, who joined us out of his house last week
now holds the record for the longest time between consecutive
hashes, beating out Birk Huber (646) with a whopping 
744 hashes (6133 days) from Hash #36 9/28/83 to Hash #780 7/12/2000.

AND NOW ON TO THE HASH:
After 500 Hashes the Geezer finally was right, we were
headed toward the House of Shih, (unfortunately now
gone the way of the Belle Meade Inn).  The pack of
24 assembled on Culver Rd. at Tall Timbers Park and
barely noticed the missing hares (ran out of gas) before
departing into the thorny morass.  After some puddle jumping
and sylvan forests, we emerged for a regroup by railroad
tracks where the hares appeared.  After a slight detour
we were back on the tracks, headed to Monmouth Junction,
where yours truly just missed being flattened by an
NJ Transit "loco"-motive aspiring to be AMTRAK.  The wooden
fence with an "F" on one side and a "double-cross" on the other
served the intended purpose of gathering us all together
before "The Swamp", which some may recollect lies
between Monmouth Junction and Sondek Park, and after the
rain was particularly hazardous to your health - so much
so that even Tropical Depression turned back and safely
ended it atop a large dirt pile.  Juicy straggled in late
after soloing in the swamp and surviving as she recounted
roughly 8 near death experiences.

No cups so the Geezer, RoJo, TD, and rookie Gary (trying to
get the absent Pyroman to buy some of his drugs) did down
downs out of the empty salsa jar.  This hash will be 
remembered for the muddiest group of hounds seen by the 
PHHH in quite a while.

Next Hashes:

#782.4, Wednesday, July 26, 6 pm, Discomfort sets.

#783.4, Wednesday, Aug 2, 6 pm, Pyro sets the bestest, shiggiest, most
muddiest hash of the day so far.
  
#784.4, Wednesday, Aug 9, 6 pm, ??? sets ???  Grab it while it's hot!

#785.4, Wednesday, Aug 16, 6 pm, Yellow Ball sets up Morristown way,
claiming virgin territory.

#786.4, Wednesday, Aug 23, 6 pm, Excitable Boy sets.

#787.4, Wednesday, Aug 30, 6 pm, Solo and/or Spawnosolo set on Solo's
mountain.  Good night, Jim-Bob.

BACK TO SUNDAYS
#788.4, Sunday, Sept 3, 2 pm, RoJo kicks off the Sunday hashes.