Date: 21-Jan-15
Hares: Klingon and Add On
Venue: Mitford St. St Kilda
Klingon’s January Vietnamese Pork Roll Run
Reprising his success of a couple of weeks earlier, Klingon had us running through the St Kilda Gardens – who knew that half a hectare could produce so many on backs and false trails. We ran in and out of various residential streets and back lanes, past some of Klingon’s youthful graffiti, and along Fitzroy St.
Would you buy a used car from this man? Well Simon Crean, once the Federal Treasurer of this great nation, certainly did. Many years ago, Udder had just got off the boat from Old Blighty, the authorities unshackled his chains, and he was off selling second hand motors to gullible Australians. The relevance of this? We ran past Simon Crean on the corner of Fitzroy and Canterbury Streets. He was deeply engaged in conversation with a civilian and didn’t notice the lemon seller running by.
Thereafter we headed towards the Lake, past the light rail track and headed west towards the beach and home.
I knew it was going to be a hot night, long run and I was pretty sure I’d want a drink at the end of it, preferably a free drink via a down down. So I decided to wear my NEW PURPLE SHOES confident in the knowledge I’d get a NEW SHOES down down. Did the run, got back and flaunted my feet. Wasn’t getting a lot of attention – disappointing given the NEW SHOES are bright purple with fluro laces and can be seen from the moon. CASA advised low flying aircraft not to be distracted by Cheesecake’s high visibility NEW SHOES. I perked up when E&B came along, with StoryTeller and the Duke of Cambridge listening in. She told me how much she loved my (NEW) PURPLE SHOES and how they matched perfectly with the new purple top she bought from Kathmandu and seeing as how we have the same shoe size, could she please borrow said (NEW) PURPLE SHOES next time she wears her purple top so she can be a lovely vision of purpleness. “Love you to wear them” I replied. I was certain that E&B and Story Teller and Duke of Cambridge had noticed the SHOES were NEW so now I was hoping I’d get 2 down downs, one for each NEW SHOE.
We formed a circle and the sergeant called for charges. I was drier than a dingo’s whatsit, and I kept waiting, waiting, but no NEW SHOES down down. Nothing, zippo, zilch, nada. A blind man going by on a galloping horse could have seen that the SHOES were NEW!
Shoe Shopper gave the run report – she got lost; it was a 12 km anti clockwise run to the beach, but which beach? Given the random directionlessness of Klingon’s dodgy flour arrows we may as well have been heading to Frankston. When challenged, Klingon explained that he was having trouble getting a firm grip on his pole.
Gargoyle gave a walkers report – they weren’t given a lot of directions by Klingon, but they had a pleasant meander to the beach via Grey St, Barkly St, Fitzroy St. At the beach the walkers split up and AddOn took the visitors, Story Teller and Duke of Cambridge on their own little exciting side trip.
Visitors
Story Teller from Brunei and Duke of Cambridge from NZ.
Returnees
Shoe Shopper, Wet Patch, SOS, Add On.
Special Runs
LuBangOz x 269, SOS x 263
Charges
- Klingon and AddOn for being the hares, and Klingon for not knowing how to do arrows.
- Duke of Cambridge for being a New Zealander.
- Gargoyle for losing the camera and when she found it, the sim card was full so she couldn’t use it anyway.
- Cheesecake– since Cheesecake has been GM, no dogs have been seen on Lakeside runs.
- Swamp Rat for helpfully suggesting there’s a correlation between having no dogs on the run and Klingon dishing up Vietnamese rolls.
- Racey Tracey for dropping her Coopers Lite Ale.
- Wet Patch for growing abeard so he can look intellectual.
- Swamp Rat for channelling Pointy in the she does the run by walking.
- Matthias for calling charges in German.
- GM for letting hashers sit in the circle.
- Lotsa Fun for supporting the palace coup which ousted Cut Loose.
- Cheesecake for not chalking the trail so E&B wouldn’t get lost when she turned up late.
- Cooch’s lookalike Matthias got charged for not bringing any chalk.
- E&B for cradle snatching.
- Udder for being a TV personality.
- SOS, 2 Bottoms and Wet patch for running an extra kilometre.
- Udder for turning 67 on Friday and Gargoyle for thinking his birthday was on Thursday.
- Wet patch for asking for directions.
Nickle B told a joke.
Scribe: Cheesecake