Date: 15-Apr-15
Hares: Colours, Cut Loose, Cheesecake
Location: Roo Bar, Bentleigh East
Colours 60th birthday run
The run was in Bentleigh East which has a tremendously interesting history. It was scrub, then market gardens and now it’s houses. It was named for Sir Thomas Bent, famous for his “Bent for Premier” campaign. When he was the Victorian Minister for Railways, he bought up lots of land between Caulfield and Cheltenham, and then approved the construction of a railway between Caulfield and Cheltenham. Serendipitously the value of his land sky rocketed. No annoying IBAC enquiries back then!
Colours decided to have her birthday run/walk from the Roo Bar in Centre Road with pizzas and birthday cake. Cut Loose set the walk and Cheesecake set the run. The Roo Bar turned out to be a great choice by young Colours. The host, Geoff was really welcoming, the drinks reasonable and we had the back area entirely to ourselves, which was fortunate because we had a record crowd of about 40 hashers. We went through about 20 pizzas.
Story Teller, whose family is Latvian, decided that we had to celebrate Colours’ birthday the Latvian way. In Latvia, when a young lady celebrates her birthday, she undergoes the Latvian Lift – she is carried around by 10 gorgeous, tall, fit, young men. We couldn’t find any of them, so Colours was hoisted on the shoulders of some creaky male hashers, whereupon we sang a Latvian birthday song. Shoulda been there – it was a scream!
Udder reminded us of some other famous people (and their stand-ins) who were born in 1955 – Bill Gates (Wet Patch), Steve Jobs (Swingers), Rowan Atkinson (Big Ears), Kevin Costner (Deeper), Whoopi Goldberg (Cut Loose).
Cheesecake described the run – it was the perfect length with just the right number of checks and on-backs. The scenery was memorable, the weather was balmy, the arrows were frequent and incredibly clear and a good time was had by all. This one set the benchmark high!
Cut Loose described the walk – it was even better than the run. Awarded 75/60.
Visitors
Kate, Liz, Lick and Stick It, Al and Narelle, Mara
Returnees
Pog, Lethal, Mothball, Pol Pot, 6.35, GG
Special Runs
Prickly Bush awarded a special mug commemorating her 100th run.
Klingon awarded a T-shirt for his 800thrun.
Naming
Young Viv who gets her serious daily exercise by walking her three dogs, was christened 3K9.
Charges
- GM for allowing Latvians on the run.
- Pog for complaining that he has to fly to the West Indies.
- Colours because the walk was only 3.2 kms.
- Cheesecake because all the on-backs caught out the crafty, short cutting bastard intelligent, strategic hasher Udder.
(At this point our host Geoff put his head around the door and told us all to leave because our drinking games were in breach of his liquor licence, causing a few heart palpitations. What a wag!!)
- Cheesecake for setting a 7.5 km run.
- Story Teller and Barbie’s Box for handing out dyed eggs last week.
- Klingon – involving a dog charge and Spread On.
- Mothball for not whinging.
- Blood Sucker for trying to get into the Dialysis Centre at Moorabbin Hospital.
- Mother Trucker for running out of petrol.
- Lethal, GG, 6.35, Pol Pot from Melb Men’s for trying to stage a coup over Lakeside.
Scribe: Cheesecake