Run #1394 - Cougar Tales

May 12, 2008

Hares: Rubbermaid and Swingin' Tail
Where: Stolo's Sports Bar, 16 MacEwan Drive NW
Big Rock: In big jugs (and also in cute little jugs)
Attendance: 37

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At first glance, it doesn't appear as though Rubber Made and Swingin' Tail would have much in common, or that they could pass for, say, sisters or twins if they walked down the street together.

One's pretty tall, and the other's kinda short. The shorter one has long hair and the taller one, short hair. One is sorta loud, brash and on the eternal quest for the Perfect Penis. The other, not so much — although you never know, since it's the quiet ones you need to watch out for, or so they say.

On the other hand, they both wear Cougar Tails, wink, wink. And they share an aversion to wasting too much chalk when setting trail. And no need to go through Nose Hill Park, even though it's right there, because they might get dirt under their newly manicured fingernails.

But Ms. Made and Ms. Tail managed to set aside their differences, and play on their similarities, when they laid a trail around the MacEwan hood on a mild mid-May evening.

Hashers gathered at Stolo's Pizza, Pub, Liquor Store, Dry Cleaners and Home Depot Outlet to follow a trail laid mostly in pink chalk — some of the marks were few and far between — before consuming mass quantities of Big Rock at a re-group and heading back to Stolo's, where two-time Guest RA Duke of Hurl handed out down-downs like water.

Before that, of course, Musical Maestro Hardly, who secretly considers ABBA among his many guilty pleasures, tried to construct a choir that was part Beatles, part Mamas and Papas and a dash of the Mormon Tabernacle bunch.

It didn't work.

So he settled on Dreary, Happy Ending, Krusty and himself to butcher hash songs with the best of them. And he did, and it was good — more or less. The butchering part, that is.

There were no shortages of offences, both real and imagined. For instance: