HARE: Officially: Lubang Oz; Planned: Egg and Bacon Pie; Actually Cooch as a LIVE HARE
VENUE: Mister Minh Restaurant, Bridge Road Richmond
THEME: Hot August Night
Neil Diamond’s Hot August Night used to be Cooch’s favourite album. So what better way to surprise Cooch at his favourite restaurant for his surprise 60th party Hash Run? Even the location turned out to be hush hush for some of us who wandered up and down Bridge Road in the rain searching for a brightly lit eatery, but walking past a very unassuming facade of what appeared to be a furniture trading enterprise that was closed for the day. Finally noticing a small MISTER MINH sign on the door, we entered the brightly decorated dining room. The table was laden with cakes and drinks, E&B welcomed us and Cut Loose gave everyone Neil Diamond face masks which she’d made that day.
In walked the Birthday Boy, “Surprise!” Despite a couple of accidental slip ups, Cooch really had not found out. We had the drink stop and cake before the Run because the rain had washed away most of the trail E&B had lovingly set that sunny morning. We sang happy birthday and toasted Cooch’s good health.
What about the trail? Cooch set off as a Live Hare, the Pack following after 5 minutes and E&B finally got to put her feet up, entertaining the DNR’s and finishing off the sparkly.
RUN REPORT: By Swingers:
Excellent Run, lots of Checks, and a few on backs when the live hare got cocky, mostly downhill, well marked, lost the trail a couple of times. Cooch managed to stay 5 minutes ahead of the Pack. Well done.
Scored – 60/60
WALK REPORT: By Punch:
The On Out crossed over Bridge Road at the traffic lights and down Coppin Street 50 metres to a laneway where the Runners turned right and ran in the direction of the city. Rigby and I, suspecting the lane was an On Back, just walked to the next corner and turned right, expecting to see the Runners soon. Yep, the Pack burst on to the street calling “looking”. We followed the Runners, zig zagging around the dark back streets. Then walked 6 miles up Bridge Road and 7 miles back down to Mr Minh’s where the DNR’s were partying on to Neil Diamond’s concert on the big screen. We saw 3 of E&B’s faded arrows on the trail.
Scored – 60/60
DID NOT RUN REPORT:
This is the report about the people who sat on their bums, moving tables around, drinking champagne, red wine, white wine and in my case pink wine because it was red and white wine together. Then we bitched about Neil Diamond’s helmet hair and waved our Neil Diamond masks in front of our faces.
Scored-59/60
GM’S CHARGES:
VISITORS: Geoff, Shaved Pussy
RETURNEES: Gonzo, Barter Bitch, Highly Infectious, Cooch, Mothball
Mug of the Week Award: Cooch, despite the details of his surprise party and Run being leaked and the quick rebuke by E&B, it was still a surprise and to boot he had to be live Hare at short notice.
Palindromic Runs: Swingers 101, Cooch 696, Quick Lay 44, Kokup 323
CHARGES FROM THE FLOOR:
- Klingon – With his dog Dragon scaring a poor, deluded old lady, prompting her to tell him what she thought.
- Klingon, Astro, Hooray C.O. – All the O’s.
- Gonzo – Hooray C.O. was running along the street and asked him “who are you?”
- Hooray C.O. – Well I’ve never met him before.
- Klingon, Astro, Barter Bitch – Ran before 2003 when the Hares used to give out free T shirts on their Runs.
- NickelB and Lotsafun – gave free T-shirts on NickelB’s 70th Birthday Run.
- Hooray C.O. (impersonating Tina Sparkle), Astro and Cheesecake – all wearing purple and grey clothing.
- Kokup, Klingon, Kathryn – Tripping up on chalk.
- Lotsafun – Talking in the Circle.
- E&B – Rain washed away her trail.
- Astro – R.A. allowed it to rain on the Run.
- Cut Loose – Rebound, it had stopped raining by then.
- Shaved Pussy – While in Kew, remembered he used to run with us and came back from the dead.
- Cooch – Terrible taste in music.
- Geoff – Late comer.
- Barter Bitch – Fashion faux pas.
