Monday, January 27, 2014

Whatsitsname

Rick has moved to McLean, to be closer to his new job and his beloved Hash.  That means he's just four or five runs away from getting a nickname.  One can almost hear those Executive Committee brains humming, albeit very, very faintly.

So what do we know about Rick?  Seriously.  What?  Anything?  Anything?

- He's a grandpa.
- He's former military of some kind.
- He works for the National Wildlife Service.
- He lives in a town called Rescue.
- He's a birdwatcher, and there are all kinds of bird names, like 'Woodcock' that can be amusing from certain angles.
- Per his wife, he’s excellent at calling owls, and also at feeding hummingbirds.  Owls hoot, and hummingbirds like sugar.
- He's just started a new job that comes with an exciting, 3,000-mile commute to his home and wife, making him, essentially, bi-coastal.
- His wife is called Double Breasted Booby.
- On hash runs, he's often rather closer to the front of the pack than some people his age might be.  Remember when steroid abuse was called being ‘on the juice’?
- There may have been an incident back home in the high Sierra that involved the local fire department.
- He got married in California, about five years ago, with family and close friends attending, and then came back to Reston and invited the GFH3 and other east-coast friends to a Halloween party, complete with costumes, as a kind of follow-up wedding party.  Did he dress as Dracula, or maybe Frankenstein, with the DBB as bride thereof?


And a week or two after that, Lori will get her first nickname (pacifist, Air Force vet, Deadhead and drug counselor), and Mini Schlonga (Sri Longa, PLEASE!!) and Suck Squeeze Bang (no need to change; that name is perfect) are closing in on re-namings, and the Mufti is very, very close to his 1,500th run.  What?!?!!

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