PHHH #992.9 
Date: Wednesday, June 9, 2004 
Weather: homie 
Place: Trenton's canal and environs 
Hare: Pyroman 
Hounds: Speedbumps, Safe Sweats, Hey YO! Paully, Jan, Bjorn Dork, Ouipee, 
Jimmy Ruckfutgers 
Time: 61 minutes 

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly 

    The Good: the beer and wasabi peas at the on-in, the helpful porcelain factory 
worker who got Huipey disinfectant and bandages (see The Ugly), the water crossing 
below an abandoned and derelict mill race traversed by Jimmy and Wepe; the friendly 
and curious natives offering high fives and "Hey, white boy!" to strays searching 
for marks; the impressive perspective offered by the acute angle formed by the 
straight-as-a-rail industrial rail line and the industrial street running straight 
into the sunset; the setting of the sun right down the street we on-inned at; the 
return of Stacey at McGuinn's, the presence of underwear still undetermined (see 
PHHH #967.9). 

    The Bad: More pavement than Pyro's laid in his previous 43 sets; the occasional 
absence of marks leading the hare to a series of slow burns as he steered the moronic 
pack from certain doom; Safe Sweats' utter abandonment of the shiggy along the canal, 
skipping out on the far side of one of the larger parking lots this reporter has ever 
seen; the male hounds' utter abandonment of Bumps to the marks in the shiggy, 
skipping along the lawn above her. 

    The Ugly: Weapea's puncture wound, which he squeezed for anyone who gave him a 
nickel at the on-in; the fierce contest of wills between Pyro and Jan over the 
relative toxicity of various chemicals ("You're totally wrong! O,O-Diethyl-S-Methyl 
Phosphorodithioate is a lot worse than Methyl n-Butyl Ketone!" "But not if you 
replace the second O with an Ø." "It is!" "It isn't."  Pause.  "It is if you use it 
in a salt!" "Oh. . . right, salt.  I forgot about salt."  "Hah! I win!")      Whew! 
A crisis averted!  Who wants to deal with Pyro if some cheese-eating, postdoc-
grabbing, Eurotrash geologist can top him in toxics?