Run #1446 - Rockin' St. Paddy

March 16, 2009

Hares: Dastardly
Where: Shamrock Hotel, 2101 - 11 Street SE
Big Rock: Begorrah! Trad & AGD
Attendance:

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No doubt, there are several possible scenarios why Planet Dastardly's hash trail was sooooooooooooooooooooooo long. Such as:

  1. He really wanted to see if he could make it last till St. Patty's Day actually began, which would only require a trail that took slightly less than five hours to complete. It was close.
     
  2. The Prince of Redwood Meadows thought he could create a bridge from the Ides of March to St. Pat's Day. After all, what else is there to do on March 16?
     
  3. D-Tard Man was simply in a daze from the thrill of Alberta winning the Tim Hortons Brier over Manitoba at the Saddledome the previous day, and he didn't even realize the trail was a tad on the lengthy side. Go Team Martin.
     
  4. He was hoping that ex-US President Dubya Bush, in town after hoodwinking some gullible Canadian hacks to pay him gobs of money for an unintelligible and simple-minded speech, would join the run. But no such luck.
     
  5. All the above, or some combination of the above.

Whatever the rationale, hashers were out there quite awhile, traipsing through the semi-seedy underbelly of industrial areas — Canada Malting anyone? — through Inglewood and into Ramsey and a beer stop that was almost 10K from the start, and eventually back to the Shamrock bar.

For once, it wasn't bitterly cold, so the long trail was almost tolerable, although icy patches on streets and lotsa other places — thanks again, Bronco Dave and the city of Calgary — compounded the challenge.

Almost all the pack returned to the bar — oh, where, oh, where did Baby go? Oh, where, oh where, can he be? — where RA Bobbin' dispensed hash justice with an almost iron fist.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, here's hoping a drunken leprechaun doesn't bite you where it hurts.

On-On!

Duke of Hurl


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