ReHash #367

** BW’s Mini-REHASH **

These always start as mini, but often grow to MAXI as the words start flowing. The hash started at Watkin’s Glen this past Sunday. Right across from the Famous Brands department store. Some of the hashers arrived early to do some shopping there. When you check out, they spin a wheel and you can get a discount from 5% to 100%.

The crew trickled in – a pretty good crowd considering the location was more than a stones throw from the safe haven of Ithaca. Hair Down There (HDT) made one of his recently rare appearances, and he brought his dog "Mud Flap". "Puker" (Toby) and Hershey were there and they brought their owners along too. I think Hershey should get a name someday. How about "Bob" – as in Bob BARKER! Damn that dog has a loud bark. 1/2 Monty put a muffler on him at the start to give the assembling pack a break. (he put him in the car)

Beverages were served at the start to those who wanted. After a quick chalk talk from virgin hare Just Chas and co-hare 1/2 Monty, the pack started looking for the first mark. There was a little aimless wandering at first and then Country Cock located true trail with HDT, Spike, Butt Floss, Little Oral Annie (LOA), 1/2 Monty and Hershey. Just Chas, Dances With Head (DWH), Ball Wrinkle, Puker, & Extra Testical were covering the back of the pack. Has anyone noticed that we have quite a few Three Letter Acronym (TLA) hash names?

The trail promptly ran straight up a steep hill. Floss was following me instead of LOA. Stupid huh? I was following ET – also stupid huh? I handed the leashed Puker off to DWH to help power him up the hill. He gave him back at the top. Apparently he can’t handle that much "help" getting up a hill. As it usually goes, we ran around a little while and then went back down the same hill. F-ing Hares! We made a short detour to view the barricaded entrance to the "Glen" and then back-checked to a bridge and then under to WATER. Dog heaven – Puker, Bob, and MF frolicked in it. The hashers slogged through the underbrush and through the basketball graveyard. CC generated a most-luscious hash crash while slipping on a pile of cinders in an attempt to get to level ground to tie his shoe.

The next section of the hash is a little fuzzy, but I do remember a hash Pee-stop that we encountered BEFORE we had a hash beer stop. That’s just wrong. The situation was corrected shortly after when we came to the beer. It was hiding behind a dumpster in a boatyard. There were some picnic tables to sit on too. Life was good. The dogs did the usual – fighting over a stick and running into people. 1/2 Monty didn’t have a beer, instead he told us about how he had been sick for the last 24 hours or so. A few details, but not too much. Way to go 1/2 Monty! And he was a hare – when he was sick no less. That’s dedication to the hash.

After the beer stop, we encountered – WHAT? – Shiggy – Oh yes. You know the light colored mud that sort-of forms a thin layer on top of more solid dirt and when you run through it, it sticks to the bottom of your shoes, and makes them like lead weights and then breaks off in chunks and splatters on your back and stuff? That was what we ran through. Cool huh? The trail veered out of this chunky muddy crap and up on a railroad right-of-way. I was DFL at this point, so I short-cut part of the trail I think. We did pop out along the lake next to the sewage discharge pipe. Ran past a couple of floating dead Skunks and ended up at the VFW Post. No dogs allowed, so we ran back to the parking lot to stash the dogs and move the cars closer to the ON-IN.

I think I’m nearing my word limit – Floss ran the ceremonies. A toast "To the Hash!" followed by DOWN DOWNS for the hares Just Chas (virgin hare), and 1/2 Monty. 1/2 Monty was doing water down-downs due to his frail internal condition. Down-Downs for BLEAB, BLAB, FRB, dog owners, hash crash, Spike for not setting a trail in all of 2002, Mug-less Ithaca hashers, and many other offenses. One I just realized we missed is HDT for comes-lately. I got fooled into writing the rehash by DWT. (DWH – privately)"Hey BW, we should get someone to write the rehash" (BW – out loud)"Hey! You’re right. Hey Floss, don’t forget about the rehash!" (DWH – out loud)"Hey BW! You thought of it. How about you write it?"

(BW – to himself)"D’Oh!"

The hare for the next hash is Extra Testical (ET). The tentative hare for the following hash is HDT. The location for the next hash is TBD.

Hash news – Slim Jim from Nittany Valley is the first registrant for the Ithaca hash weekend – Woo! Hoo! we are on our way.

On – Out

—- Ball Wrinkle