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TOSSER ON THE DEVIL'S JUMP: HOW TO SET A CHECK
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A recent meeting of your committee was enlivened by a perturbed Piercy with a fierce philippic against the growing gap - as he sees it - between the pack and the front runners. This is held to be largely my fault, for reporting what these same front runners get up to, even in laudatory language. He has himself to blame - in part - for this, since it was he who landed me with the handle FRB: naturally one tries to live up to one's name....So what else can I write about? As the great man said, Wovon man nicht reden kann, darüber muss man schweigen.Or, Don't know? Don't talk!
Is this gap getting greater? Readers are encouraged to say. One thing is true, that whoever solves a check should not then vanish into the blue yonder, but is required to return until other hashers are both visible and in earshot. The rest is up to the hare, who must ensure that at each check all the pack have got there before it is solved. (Well, the Knitting Circle excepted). In other words, never set an easy check - what is the point?- and make the difficulty a function of how separated the pack are likely to be. Was the last check more than half a mile back? Was the trail uphill? The terrain heavy going? Then make the check more difficult. (However, on a long trail do not make the last few checks too hard; everyone is too tired to appreciate them.)
Back to this week. The Sunday after Easter - Low Sunday - was once called Quasimodo Sunday (how else did you think the Notre Dame hunchback got his name?) from the first words of the mass: Quasi modo geniti infantes, As if like new-born babes. (No reference to your committee, naturally).You will be pleased to learn that Maurice B knew nothing of this. (There is also a Nobel-Prize winning poet from Italy called Quasimodo, with the stress, unexpectedly, on the second syllable.)
Tosser's trail. Yes, well, was it deliberately provocative to seta Gay Pride trail through military lands? It can hardly be called "Don't ask, don't tell". So, pure bravado? Or Tosser trading on his erstwhile contacts with the pongoes? Velcro, who also sets coloured trails, rose to the occasion by hashing in the pink.
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Licky Dick did just as well, going up to a hunky* black runner to suggest he join us, quite ignoring the attractive though disgruntled girl beside him.
The trail itself was well devised, with two checks, one at the Devil's Jump, obscure enough to keep us all more or less together, and unpredictable enough to send Popeye the wrong way more than once. As for the trails of the last two weeks, we touched Eveready's trail in one place, while a GPS display comparing Tosser's with GG's had two "ears", one right-handed, the other left, and little space for a head in between. (No comment!) This display belonged to Hans der Schwanz - perhaps not all of SH3 know what this means? A Schwanz is a tail, but there is a sous-entendu here; the English would be Dick the Prick, or more accurately John the Dong.
When we left the military lands we ran straight into the cavalry, out in impressive numbers, and very affable, which makes a pleasant change. Some debate was heard among hashers as to who has priority, horses or runners; we suggest that on bridleways, and in particular in woodland, we should allow priority to the riders, who after all cannot duck through the bushes as we can. This sage advice is from Tequil'over; who has also heard a cuckoo (so it's officially spring) and seen a single swallow (so it's not yet the summer).
The RA punished your scribe for telling the truth about last week; Hare Eater and Elle T-shirt for using a mobile loo found halfway round; a small boy, as a reward for being less tall than she; Hans, though I forget why.... and doubtless others. Short An' was rewarded as a returner; Low Profile gave out T-shirts to medal winners. The first list is overleaf; note that the basis for counting has been completely changed from last time, so no one should feel aggrieved. (Even Timbo, who already has a gold, has laid only 49 on the new system).
ON ON FRB
* Arfur Pint's verdict, not mine!
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