Date: 29-Oct-14
Hares: Cheesecake and Colours
Venue: Fat Bob’s Bar and Grill, Cochranes Rd Moorabbin
The Irish do it with Turnips.
This was sort of a Halloween run, albeit a couple of days early. There are many things to do with a turnip, but did you know the Irish put them to good use by carving them out, placing candles therein and calling the carved and candled turnip a “jack-o-lantern”. The pagan Irish festival Samhain was combined with the Christian festivals of All Hallows and All Saints to become Halloween. So the Irish could continue to be pagans and feel like good Christians, like eating sugar free chocolate. The “jack-o-lantern” part is all Irish – the lantern was changed to a pumpkin in America because they didn’t have turnips. Wise people – along with parsnips, celery and walnuts – turnips are a horrible food.
Certain people whinged, but it was a sensaytional run/walk. The runners had an enjoyable time performing on-backs amongst the grimiest of Moorabbin factories. Think meth labs, car re-birthing, outlaw motor cycle gangs and you might get a flavour of what goes on inside some of those old warehouses. But no hashers complained, except for those who did.
The walkers did a complete circuit of Lake Karkarook, then joined the runners for a drink stop at the lookout above the lake. There was a sign on the lookout saying only 20 people at a time could stand on said lookout, yet there were 30 Lakesiders sculling Coke & Southern Comfort. If anything happened, I was hoping that young, beautiful, naturally blonde, athletic, intelligent hashers such as your scribe would be saved. Happily we were all saved and sozzled.
When the venue was originally booked, we didn’t realise what a hipster sort of place it is, so it was absolutely jam packed and noisy and totally unsuitable for a circle. Klingon saved the day by racing up to the local pub and buying a slab so we could have a circle of sorts on the grass verge in front of the venue. Muchas thanks to Klingon. Also thanks to the GM who presented Cheesecake with 500 run t-shirt. A few hashers made an effort to dress up for Halloween, or else they just got dressed in the dark. Some who spring to mind are – BloodSucker, Cut Loose, Deeper, Prickly Bush, Astro – apologies to those I can’t remember. Fat Bob’s served up excellent hamburgers so no complaints re food.
Returnees
Peanuts, Wet Patch, Shoe shopper, Wooping Cock, Emily, Shelley, Pol Pot.
Charges
Your scribe pretty much missed the charges – there weren’t many due to the chaotic nature of the circle, plus I was helping Klingon with the drinks until Peanuts took over. So who knows? But full points to the GM for trying.
Writing a Wrong
The Herald Sun on 21 October had a report about the Burwood Bird and Animal Hospital wherein one of the vets performed life saving surgery on a Wantirna chook – Cotton Candy – to remove screws, nails and bolts which said chook had feasted upon. The article featured an interview with the vet and rabbited on about his surgery and his wonderful surgical team. Wrong, wrong – the vet who actually performed the surgery was our own Dr Dr Swamp Rat who was given no credit in the article. Which just shows that the Herald Sun should stick to football. Your scribe will now do what the Herald Sun failed to do – congratulations to Dr Dr Swamp Rat for saving the life of Cotton Candy and successfully performing such intricate surgery.
Scribe: Cheesecake