Run No. 2605 – 29th May 2017

95…96…97…98 – but who’s counting?

98 is the number of  light installations there are for this year’s VIVID but there are only 81 in the city so if you feel you were short-changed it was probably because the Hares set trail during the day and never saw one of them. For a quick peek at some of the other installs pop down to Chatswoo where there are 6 more

So the plan on day 4 of the show was to commandeer a ferry at Jeffery St Wharf, abandon ship at Darling Harbour, then maraud our way thru Barangaroo, The Rocks, Circular Quay and the Botanical Gardens before fighting the Chinese hoards to run back across the SHB. At least we were the first Hash to put down chalk so the trails for the Larrikins on Tuesday and Thirsty on Thursday would be decidedly messy. With 2.5 million people expected to see VIVID in 20 days it was a good chance it could be a bit of a shit-fight to run through the crowd. Goon Show was first to run foul of Constable Plod when he was stopped and told not to run as there was a chance he could be inadvertently tripped up by a punter. Little Shit, who was by his side, ignored the directive and galloped off only to kiss the concrete 50 metres on. The Botanical Gardens was voted “best of show” by those who made it that far. Duckweave who succumbed to the traffic tonite did reverse trail over the SHB and decided he’d go back some other time to see the lights. Darwin Don and Molly Meldrum, who’d been shoe shopping, ensconced themselves at the Custom’s House pub before the old bloke trotted to the Bucket – said he “burned Molly off on the downhill”. Bumcrack on the other hand “Opal-ed” it back on a ferry – twice in a day means he got his $2.50 worth. The pack dribbled back into the Bucket so  in order to speed up the feeding process at the On the Hares were selling lottery tickets. Fat lot of good that did as the chef was from the “Northbridge Pub School of feeding a crowd a la carte” – you know? – all the burgers first, then all the fish and chips next, then the calamari, and on…… Darwin thanked his lucky stars that he didn’t order salmon this time.

As we had The Lounge Bar to ourselves the President wasn’t competing with the public as he gave Downs to the Hares, Yakkity Yak and Copraphelia (this guy is popping up regularly) and somehow Flying Scotsman got a guernsey for herding the hash. That was probably because when the TM arrived at the Bucket he’d brushed off the pack as too hard. Hanoi Bill and Darwin Don, the irrepressible old – fart travellers, both got bon voyage Downs – travel safely.
When it came to humour, Pee Dub’s Korean mate makes Kippahs from black A-cup bras. Then there was the one about a headless dolly bird – some Yank comedienne, only today, had to apologise for a similar funny. Tic Toc struggled through another Ramadan funny with Jack and Adam in the desert.

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