Madison Hash House Harriers

June 20, 2009

HASH HISTORY - HASH RUN #1662

HASH HISTORY - Run 1662 - CORNHOLIO's Theme Run - Reported by SHOW ME So Cornholio had this great hat (he thought). He "bought" it with proof-of purchase labels from his favorite beer. It was a cloth hat, a khaki hounds-tooth cloth, small brim, narrower in the front. This hat was the bees knees in 1930s Europe. Snazzy. "But where can I wear it?" he thought. "A Sound of Music party would be perfect," he realized. But none of his friends were throwing a 1930s European party. Cornholio realized he would have to throw the party himself. "What sorts of fun people do I know?", he wondered. Then he remembered the Hash. "What activity do I constantly engage in", he wondered. Then he remembered he does almost nothing but run, work and sleep. He knew we all wouldn't come to his house to work. And that was how the Sound of Music run was born. Then he remembered throwing a Hash event is a lot of work. So he got busy recruiting as he usually did. This time he had only enough time to recruit 5 helpers. Usually he recruits 7 or 8, but this was an open Hash date he took on a week's notice. THANK YOU, CORNHOLIO! The 5 helpers were Show Me, Moe Penetration (also know as Moe Got Run Over by Something), William (also known as Wet Willie) Trisex Alot (also known as Sweetie) and Undertoker (Also known as Underpants). Then Cornholio remembered that since it was a Sound of Music run (to accommodate his hat- remember?) he should set a run with mountains. But the run started in Sun PRAIRIE which was a prairie back in the day. So he and his various helpers put the first beer check atop a huge multi-topped construction mound situated in an area he told us to hurry through before we got caught. "Hurry, Hurry" he kept telling us, but he forgot to put a clear flour trail through the construction area so there was a lot of milling about. Also, he forgot to tell William where to bring the beer check beer so there was no beer check at the beer check mountaintop. And because of that, the pack missed over half of the trail - the really shaggy part. Also he forgot to wear his precious hat on the run, even though four or five hashers came appropriately dressed for the theme. I guess that was all he forgot because the second beer check was deluxe, complete with a band, picnic tables and a some kind of festival downtown. And the meal following the run had Austrian food and more Austrian food choices than we've seen in ages. I guess having a lot of hares helps that way, at least. So long... fare well... auf wiedersehen... good bye!!!