Madison Hash House Harriers

November 2 - 4, 2007

HASH HISTORY - HASH RUN #1576 - 30th Analversary of Madison Hash house Harriers

The Madison Hash 30th Anniversary weekend started off with pub crawl on the east side hared by LIKES IT IN THE CAN. After checking in at the Trinity Lutheran Church parking lot, about 35 crawlers headed to the Ideal Bar for the first round of beers. This was strangely reminiscent of the previous week's impromptu Halloween pub crawl that made this the second stop. After a few stiff ones, the pack moved on to Players where they were joined in progress by visitors TRACTOR and NUTCRACKHER. From there it was on to Mr Roberts which seemed rather clean and quiet compared to the late night visits prompted by AH SHIT. The crawl eventually ended at Wilson's where several others joined the group and a few hashers warmed up with the karaoke DJ in preparation for Saturday's bout of Gomeroke.

Hares STROKES, READY and MOREMEN greeted everyone including old timers HARPO, HEAVY BREATHER and DR NO NO, and visitors from Waukesha, Chicago, Minneapolis and other locations for the Saturday hash run that started at the traditional Arboretum location near the beltline and Seminole Highway. After another check-in and the passing of the old bottle of cognac, SLOW HAND raised the sword in honor of PRINCE VARIANT the Founder before the pack set off on trail. The hares fooled everyone by heading away from the obvious entrance to the Arb, and toward the more northern entrance. After a short distance on roads and through the woods, the trail passed through the beltline tunnel and then onto the main Arboretum trails. After teasing some onto the railroad tracks, the trail headed east to a beer check at the edge of the Arb. The trail led back west to another beer check near Dunn's Marsh before meandering the "long way" around the marsh and back to the start.

There was a little time for most to party a bit before heading to the Grand On-On at the Farm Tavern. STROKES arranged for great Laotian food and Libby the bar manager at the Farm had the first keg of Capital Winter Skal on ice. After dinner, ceremonies broke out and were highlighted by honoring the hares, new boot Just Bill, made cum by Lorena Carrot, the visitors, and all those who helped make the weekend a success including (and at the risk of leaving someone out) TRAILER and POOP EYE for making the tags and helping with registration, BEARABOOBS for the patches and managing the shirt distribution, SHOW ME and PIP for registration, DRIBS, LIKES IT, STROKES, READY and MOREMEN for haring runs, and COL MUSTARD and EGG BEATER for causing Mexicali rose to close and forcing us to the Farm. (And thanks to anyone else we might have left off the list... come forward at the next hash for your down-down.) Finally the founders and planners ABR and COL MUSTARD were recognized. Just as ceremonies ended, the Gomers began and the party really started. Several hashers performed in "Gomeroke" fashion including BLOWN DRY, ORAL DEATH, ROAD BEATER and someone named DRIZZLES. COMES 'N GOES arrived a little late, but still got in a tremendous set of Janis Joplin songs. When the band took their first break, there was a reappearance of the exotic dancer, MEGG BEATER who seduced TRAILER, JELLY BOOBS and the WILLYBANGHERS to return the Waukesha Religious Advisors robe to MONSTER BAITER. At the second break, Libby conducted a "best tattoo" contest and awarded "Naughty Novelty" shirts to the winners who had put the temporary tattoos in "interesting" places. By this time, the second keg of Bells Two Hearted Ale was flowing and so was the party. Things wound down just as the keg went dry and most went home to party for another day with the knowledge that there was an extra hour to recover due to the day light savings change.

RUN #1577 - About 25 hashers gathered at Bennet's Meadowood Country Club for the Sunday hangover hash. Everyone was moving slowly and cautiously as they gathered for Smut 'N Eggs. Of those present, about 12 took off on the run set by the hasher formerly known as DRIZZLES. It was just a short way into the run when DRIBS announced that he set a "real" hash trail with a distance of 3.5 miles and he wants this run numbered. Fortunately, almost everyone was still drunk from Saturday night and took that as a joke... they were wrong... it really was 3.5 miles!!! After a nice run on pretty much the same trail as Saturday along the bike trail and through some mild shiggy, there was a beer check at MOREMEN's house. After a leisurely morning beer check it was back to Bennett's for breakfast and an eye opener...if you know what I mean...Thanks to all hashers for making this all work!!!