Holy Crap... what was all that about? Looks like Hogtown Hashers have a lot of friends. Well, everyone except Humpday.  A throng of 42 hashers gathered at the Sports Centre Cafe on St. Clair to celebrate Bring a Chum to the Hash day.

 I knew Beaverville was in the house when I saw Black Widow’s sparkling new scooter out front. Although I’m not sure how he managed to fit Cocktrail, Oral Sox, 2 Jugs and Good Crack on it.

Cougar came with Water Prik and Just Gillian from Flour City while Venta and Zepher (Canadian spelling) tricked Sex and Ate and Mother Inferior into coming.
Johnny Cockring brought his rugby playing posse while Just Rein kept it in the family by making his sister Vaiki come. Doo Hickey, still exhausted from his last trail, was barely able to make Just Patrick come.

Likeable hash convert Just Cicily brought a number of chums including Just Mitz who was sporting his racing flip flops. Mechanic from Boston came after some research on the internet. I’ll give webmaster extraordinaire Casket Case an assist on that one.

I was trying to figure out when was the last time we saw speedster 2 Doors. According to my calculations it was exactly 729 days. Hmmm... that would be two years less a day. I guess Just Jordan was his cellmate?

It was nice to see Nadia Cumaneatme again. She was just back from a disappointing showing in Beijing. Unfortunately she’s never been able to regain the form she displayed as a 14 year old in Montreal so many years ago.

After stuffing Sweet Cheeks big bagmobile with our backpacks we circled up in front of some apartments adjacent to the bar. With the help of Just Deidre, and a sympathetic local resident, sad sack GM Humpday gave detailed instructions and had the hashers introduce themselves.

While Wet ‘n Dirty went on a mercy mission to buy another crate of Lakeport the rest of the pack took off past the Toronto Badminton Club toward a view check in front of the 1050 CHUM building. Get it? Get it?

Eventually the trail led down the steps into David Balfour Park which is still littered with debris from the summer monsoons. It was nice to see that for the first time since arriving in Toronto Venta managed to stay dry on trail. Not so for Water Prik who celebrated the Red Sox humiliating 11-0 loss to the Blue Jays by going for a dip in Yellow Creek. Seriously dude you might wanna think about a tetanus shot. A short time later he was seen writhing on the grounds of Mt. Pleasant cemetery. Apparently suffering from early stages of bilharzia he asked Humpday for directions to the beer check. Hehe.

Meanwhile Sex Toy was leading a large group of walkers to the beer check under the bridge on St. Clair East. In due time, the rest of the pack found it and enjoyed the fruits of their labour (Canadian spelling).

On the way to the On In Just Rein was blathering as usual and failed to notice the 74 Mt. Pleasant bus barrelling toward him. Unfortunately the driver was able to stop in the nick of time.

Back at the spacious Sports Centre Cafe multi talented New Shoez entertained the mob with shadow puppets while Senor Casket Case regaled us with witty tales of his travels through Mexico.

Eventually Humpday got around to dishing out down downs to chums, those who brought chums, and visitors. Also in line was big time back slider 2 Doors, a punctual Zig Zag, Just Vaika for squatting in the woods, and a bunch of people who were celebrating anniversaries and birthdays.  Just Dan (or was it Just Will?) got one for wearing an “I Love Cougars” t shirt. Of course Cougar had to teach him the proper down down technique.

Religious advisor Rose Eh nailed Zephyr (American spelling) for dissing Toronto on Hash Space and awarded him Prick of the Week.

To wrap up the evening, GM Humpday cleaned out his closet and gave t shirts and mugs to a bunch of the chums. Playing favourites, he gave his chalk talk assistant Just Deidre some swag actually donated by 1050 CHUM for the event. Anyone wanna see what they can get from the Mighty Q for hash 1071?

Anyway, I just wanted to send out a special shout to all the newcomers who showed up for the first and only Bring a Chum to the Hash day. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a finer looking group of half minds. You are welcome to play with us anytime. Just remember to bring 5 bucks ; )