Run 584
Hares: ThreeTimesALady & Pennis
Location: Heavenly Herndon VA

It was a fairly small group of hashers that appeared at Herndon High School for this week's run. As I see it, there are three possible reasons for this. First, our group could be composed of members like Byte, HardDrive, and LizBert (read stupid) who follow the hare's directions to the letter and end up in some far and distant non-start location. (Eventually, they did make it to the start.) Nah. Second, it could be that the slightly inclement weather caused folks to stay away. But this isn't reasonable based on past head-counts. Sadly, we are left with the third and the worst reason...a large number of our group must have been planning to run the Army 10 Mile RACE. It is so sad when a hash degenerates to the point where a significant number of its members RACE. Thank goodness we have folks like Wilburr, JohnHandCock, DrinksOnMeBud, NurseCrotchet and BlazingStraddle. These intrepid adventurers headed (in some cases literally - how about that Hooker Hash eh Wilburr?) off to far-away lands to drink lots of beer and thrash about in the jungle! Fortunately, these true hashers exactly counter-balance the dreaded RACERS, at least for this week. To help keep Hash- World peace, don't RACE, DRINK. Enough preaching and on with the story. After a weak 'Ather Abraham, we began a long loop around the high school. Just as the pack finished rounding the building, we stumbled into an especially difficult check. It was here that Byte and BlankCheck got into a nasty lover's spat about who was supposed to check where. This must have been quite a distracting sight to the youngsters taking their SAT exams. While these two were at each other's throats, StainedSheets demonstrated that you don't need speed to be an FRB, just possess a stubborn streak two miles wide. SS headed down one of the side-streets and damned if there wasn't one little molecule of flour about half-a-mile down the road. True trail! We continued weaving through a nice quiet neighborhood always going up-hill. This must violate some law of physics. Anyway, trail continued along beautiful paved paths with small excursions into the bush (WooHoo) and across several small streams. The hares managed to turn the FRBs about several times. What more can I say, you just can't trash a Hash that is less than 5 minutes from your house and which you did not have to host. It is that simple. Of course our hares made it easier to give the trail a big thumbs-up by doing a fine job of marking trail. Well, expect for Pennis' penchant for laying one dollop of flour well into a side road, DESPITE THE TRAIL CONTINUING FORWARD. Argh! If the hares aren't today's great trail evil then it must be the walkers. (The FRBs are just too heavenly to ever commit great hash sins.) And so it was this day. After hours (seemingly so) of trail running, the FRBs espied the walkers up ahead as they were motoring down a hill. Just then the walkers shouted "BT". Of course the FRBs believed them, even though the evil walkers were not returning to the check. Nope. Instead, the FRBs (and hence the pack) did an extra mile or so loop while the walkers short-cut BIG TIME. At least the walkers had to suffer through the tunnel of death, darkness, and dookey while the pack et al. were able to go over top. But again the walker's evil nature overtook them and while standing in calf deep dookey, they called out that they were on trail. Lies. But, Byte believed them which in turn sucked a number of us into the mire as well. Will we ever learn? I doubt it. After a long and very draining up-a-mountain run we found the DownDowns in the rear of Pennis' home. In order to agitate his neighbors several of us changed clothes in his front yard. Only time will tell if we succeeded. The pack was treated to bagels, ham and cheese with a couple of side dishes of yellow jackets and beer. Hmmm, thems good eat'n. We waited quite some time for the stragglers like Hymen-Dick-Over. HDO was culled from the pack at the high school check from hell and never saw another hasher until he wandered into the finish. He should have been called forward for cheating as he only found the finish by using an area map he just happened to pick-up at a local park. But, well, it just never happened. Finally the rituals began. First were the Hares who drank heartily. The VIRGINS followed suit: Bill Roeder, Tom Voeller and Keri Bahorich. RETURNERS included: HeatSeekingMoistureMissle and CallGirl (who brought along Kanga, her three legged dog.) Sadly there were no visitors and only a handful of ANNIVERSARIANS: Steve Rigliese (5); NavalJelly (15); ThreeTimesALady (69 - been there before don't you think?); and StainedSheets (385). The potential re-naming of HeatSeekingMoistureMissle was unanimously vetoed by the pack. How could you come-up with a better, more obnoxious name than that? Then the violations. For such a seemingly nice run and a small pack, we had one heck of a group of VIOLATORS: HollowPoint (for playing with himself and bragging about it to BlazingStraddles, for not having any black friends, and for believing that women don't belong working at a construction site - no he doesn't get a lot of dates); JustGreg (putting down hare's arrows at checks); SlickSlit (representing the walkers - LYING); BecauseHeCan (whining about following Byte down some BTs); CheapSlut (for coming up with a totally offensive meaning to BecauseHeCan's initials - Big Huk'n C***!); HandSolo (for asking what time it was every other minute - get a watch); FrenchToasted and CallGirl (fashion statement - same top); Byte and BlankCheck (lover's spat); JustSteve (email faux pas!); DriveThru and BrambleBush (cat fighting); FrenchToasted and LateCummer (something about fucking a full moon - don't go there); FoulBalls and WaterSport (LateSignIn) and then the known RACERS (DualAirBags, Byte, FullMetalBalls, BecauseHeCan, HardDrive). Phew. The Hash-It desired to speak causing the following nominations: Dr. Jekyll (who knows why); JustSteve (for being stupid with his e.mail); FullMetalBalls (current Hash-It) and StainedSheets (for marrying off his daughter before any of us got to sleep with her). Yep, SS won hands down.
Then in honor of RedSnapper's 50th birthday and out of respect for the youngsters in our presence, we sang a non-hash Happy Birthday. Boring. As always there were Tweeterless and Announcements but who really cares about that stuff?
Time is the best teacher: Unfortunately, it kills all its students.

Dr. Jekyll and Announcements but who really cares about that stuff?
Time is the best teacher: Unfortunately, it kills all its students.

Dr. Jekyll