Run #1379 - Colder Than S***

January 28, 2008

Hare: Dr. Fill
Where: Darby Arms Pub, 380 Midpark Way SE
Big Rock: $12 jugs of Trad or 'Hopper
Attendance: 16
Temperature: -31C

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Today's quickie quiz — Dr. Fill and frigid hashes go together like:

  1. Hand and glove
  2. Super Bowl and beer
  3. Sleazy politicians and lies
  4. Tiny Bubbles and useless minutiae
  5. All of the above

The answer, of course, is E.

So it should come as no surprise that a hardy band of hashers was forced to gather on a frigid late January night — think -30C temps and -40-ish wind chill — to celebrate another of the Good Doctor's never-ending list of birthdays.

It was reminiscent of the hash Dr. Fill hared on the November 2006 weekend of Kawky's memorial service, when it was just flat-out, bloody freezing.

Exactly one year before Dr. Fill's latest foray into bringing an Arctic experience to Southern Alberta, the high in Calgary was +5. But no such luck this time.

How cold was it at the Colder Than Shit hash, which may have been the second-coldest in Calgary hash history, or at least honourable mention?

It was so cold that:

As the night wore on, Dr. Fill looked back at all his weather-related hash misadventures — the Kawky memorial hash, the CTS, the rainy proctologist run in which all the marks got washed away, etc.

"I guess the weather gods just don't like me," Dr. Fill said with a bemused grin.

No question about it. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Duke of Hurl


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