PHHH#    904.4
Date:    October 20, 2002
Weather: Splendid
Venue:   Kingston
Time:    1 hour
Hare:    The Geezer
Hounds:  The Weatherman, Wacko, Pyroman, Speed Bumps, TFM,
         Steve, Elias
Rookies: Melissa Moyer

THE KINGSTON HASH
          by Bruce Springsteen

I set her in a Kingston briar,
We fell in mud we knew it had to end.
We took our skin and we ripped it apart,
Now here we are back in Kingston again.

So what's new.  The Geezer sets a hash in Kingston
that looks like this......

                     S
                    S
                      S
                        S
                       S
                      S
                     S
                       S
                         S
                            S
                                  S
                                   s
                                SSS
                             SSS
                       SSSSSSS

TFM fails to negotiate one of the S-curves and is never
seen again.  Most figure he ran off to Rocky Hill 1.9 miles down the 
towpath and back again.  A post-hash hunt is fruitless, but the Geezer 
reports his car was gone at about 5:30pm so it is surmised that he lives.  
All this to avoid swimming the canal like Elias and Steve.

Pyroman fails to negotiate one of the S-curves and shortcuts the only 
decent shiggy in the hash and has to wait for 20 minutes while the rest 
of us enjoy the swamp, particularly Speed Bumps and Melissa who decide 
to test Geezer's warning.

The Geezer did provide a new ploy.  An "Eagle" trail and a "Chicken" 
trail.  Basically what this means is that the trail is so obvious that 
the only way he can get anyone to go over the one boulder is to call it 
the "Eagle" trail.  A few "eggheads" fell for this artifice; the other 
"eggyouranuses" tried but found it almost impossible NOT to shortcut.