In 1959 some students in Durban South Africa set a world record for the most people one could fit into a phone box at one time. However, the record wasn’t perfect because bits of body parts of people were inserted into the box to achieve the record rather than whole bodies. In 2003 a further world record was set in Edinburgh when 14 people squeezed into a phone booth – all their body parts included. By the 2000s such world records had lots of criteria attached – the phone box had to be a standard size, the bodies had to be a standard size, and an actual phone call had to be made and received during the duration of the record attempt.
Squashy world records were an option as 30 of us shoe-horned our way into Udder/Gargoyle’s tiny St Kilda flat with a big view. One wondered how many Clive Palmers it could fit versus how many Point Posts?
The run was pleasant along the beach. We ducked up Fraser St towards Albert Park Lake, where after a bit of to-ing and fro-ing we found ourselves heading back along Fitzroy St towards the beach. As we passed the Gatwick Hotel, some of the guys received fee-for-service offers, while others of us crossed Fitzroy St to look for phantom trail. As if running hash trails, breaking checks and cracking on-backs isn’t thrilling enough, Udder really elevated our elation levels when he handed out maps of the runners trail which bore no resemblance to the running trail he actually set. We had a Harvey Wallbanger and sausage drink stop in the rotunda at Catani Gardens. As usual Udder and Gargoyle served up an excellent meal.
Visitors
Transylvestite from the US via China.
Run Report
Racey Tracey described the run – she had an invigorating session at the Gatwick hotel followed by a sausage at the drink stop. 15/17
Walker’s Report
Punch described the walk –they saw more of the foreshore than they wanted to because they overshot the Fraser St turnoff. Great drink stop in the rotunda. 14/17
Cut Loose and Swamp Rat provided the wunners report – my notes say something about them being blind walking runners? Who knows? 17/17
Charges
Racey Tracey was surprise Sergeant
- Hares charged – Udder and Gargoyle.
- LuBangOz for auctioning off LubeOil’s old knee.
- Mother Brown for scoring 9/9 in footy tipping.
- GG for leaving his teeth at home and eating really slowly, thereby delaying the circle.
- Udder for not taking the runners trail along Grey St.
- All foreigners and Tassies charged just because.
- Cut Loose for not realising Tassies have 2 heads.
- Mummies’ Boy for not knowing Tassies have 2 heads.
- Swamp Rat for singing the Black Sheep song in falsetto and sounding like Tiny Tim.
- Udder for being stalked by a woman in St Kilda when setting the run.
- Udder for flying out to Panama to check on his dodgy tax companies.
- Mother Brown for liking Udder’s sausages.
- Mummies’ Boy for comparing Swedish vodka to hair oil thereby revealing that he drinks hair oil.
- Nashi on a wardrobe charge.
- Udder for bulk buying 100 kg Aldi flour but using insufficient of same when setting trail on sand.
