Circle Report #1912
10th February 2010The Valentines Run
Fort Canning Car Park, River Valley Rd
Kan the Cobra, Kannot Kan
The Run
After a 5 minute talk from the Hare who talked about romance, Valentines and looking for love potions at the Checks, it was up the steps and into the park. As we know, apart from Boo’s age, what goes up must come down, and soon it was down the steps and along River Valley Rd towards Clarke Quay. Tarnished Image dropped out of the sky to join us at this point, and then it was back up steps and into the park again.
And this is where things became confusing! The Hares took us on a very scenic and sometimes even guided tour of Fort Canning Park, attempting to take us on every made path that National Parks ever constructed. This led to some very tight checks. I came across Boo, Puncher, and Comes Quietly looking for trail, and trail we found. Boo decided to run it backwards to find the Pack that was still coming, CQ disappeared down another path looking for the rear of the Pack and Puncher and I forged ahead on our own. Around we went, down and up, down past the Muslim Registry, (nice touch on a Valentines Day Run), back up the steps through the gardens, to finally meet the front of the pack. Well, the arrows did point on, but it was where I had just run with Puncher, but I didn’t have the hearts to tell the pack they were about to do a big loop and end up back here again as I had just done.
So on on, round we went, down and up, down past the Muslim Registry, (are we going to get married 2 times?), back up the steps through the gardens, to finally end up back where I met the Pack 5 minutes ago. Well, a few of them called on and started to go around again, but I was getting a bit sick of that path at this stage and opted for not a 3rd tour of the Muslim Registry. (3 wives is just plain crazy)
However those that did go were alerted by the Hare to a Circle Check in the driveway of the Muslim Registry. We had failed to see this check the previous 2 times as there was an elderly man with a big sword standing on it practicing Tai Chee. Well done Hares.
The Hare directed runners to trail that took them out of the Park, past the Fire Station, down Hill St. and over for a stint along the River at Clarke Quay and back to the Car Park. Good finish.
They were the lucky ones! The Park was riddled with stray runners going in all directions but not having a clue, rather reminiscent of the British Army as the Japanese advanced in February of 1942. At one stage I bumped head on into Tiger Lily, while I saw Comes Quietly on no less than 5 different paths, none of them correct. Wet Patch inadvertently found home, but decided to go back out for more. 10 minutes later he returned, still clueless. Great Balls of Fire, who turned up 30 minutes late, had no chance and it was like lambs to the slaughter.
Well, you have to hand it to the Hares, they tried something different. If you are going to run around in circles then this was a lovely place to do it, The Valentines theme was great, the cheese and biscuits at the end sensational, the quality chocolate give away was fantastic and the Secret Police Indian food on site well appreciated. As for those that found a lucky love potion token, we are envious. Thanks Hares!
Stiffy’s Hash Maths. According to the boy toy, this was a 5.0 hit out.
The Circle
Crikey, What did we think of that for a run? Thumbs up.
Tell us about your on on mate. On site Indian.
Well what about next week? Right Royal Tit and Shaggy Dick 2, off Thompson Rd, behind disabled riding school, same place as last year.
Virgins: 2 more virgins again tonight, Karin and Jackie.
Visitors, returnees and other misfits: Great Balls of Fire, Shoeless, Puncher, Claire, Qeeksand, Armless, Shiggy Piggy, Sun, King Lear.
New Member – Nah. Wet Patch did join the other week and still hasn’t been given a mention yet, so I will throw him in. We still forgot to give him a down down for being a new member, so I will leave him in again. I’m not giving up on this till I remember to get this resolved!! Shit, forgot again! Ok, Wet Patch finally got his new member drink, followed by another, and another, and another. He was then reminded that his next quarter’s subs are due. I will hit delete next week!
Lippy – Cock Radio, Father Anus, Boo and Kan Not Can.
The Tits – Stiffy overheard a female questioning why Wet Patch had to play the car music system sooo loud while we showered. And Beatles ballads like ‘All you need is love,’ He then reminded Not Tonight that this was the Valentines Day Run, you unromantic one. Ugly Bum was also given an honourable mention of leading the pack to the calls of ‘Ugly Bum.’ As she passed through an archway, Stiffy called out ‘Hey Ugly Bum,’ and this resulted in hysterical fits of laughter coming from a passing tourist. So the moral, according to Stiffy, is that if you are going to have an ugly bum, then you need a good set of tits! Ugly Bum takes the Tits.
The Dick – Boo wants to know who was responsible for getting the run site directions out to the members and the resulting confusion on whether we had to travel east or west on River Valley Rd, and accordingly was it a left or right turn into the car park. On in Kan Not Can and On Sec Lost Marbles. Give them a compass.
Awards - 400 - Father Anus. Yahoo! 300 – Comes Quietly. Yippee!
AOB –
· Sneaky Comer and CR do an explanation with chalk diagrams about Circle Checks. CR explains on a normal Circle, runners arrive at the check in a single line from the same direction and then proceed to fan out in a 360 degrees direction searching for trail. Sneaky then tells how runners arrive at a Kan Not Can Circle from all 360 points of the compass, some even dropping out of the sky. This causes mass confusion, leading runners to go around in circles bumping into each other, resulting in concussion and severe dizzy spells. Apparently consumption of cheese and chocolate relieves symptoms.
· Shaggy Dick 2 tells how many people have different hobbies, such as flower arranging, stamp collecting etc. But a new one involves collecting Tiger Beer bottle tops. This requires much sitting in Coffee Shops drinking Tiger Beer, and then giving the ‘lucky’ tops to the Tiger Girl. After collecting 3500 tops you then get to receive your Tiger Beer promotion. Well-done Cock Radio on such dedication to your hobby.
· Ugly Bum was in the ‘love’ mode, what with this run and Valentines coming up. She even had a dream about receiving a little packaged gift from her loved one. Oh, how tingly. And low and behold, it was not long before Ad Nauseum greeted her at the door with a lovely little gift-wrapped package. Oh, how lovely, how sweet, you thoughtful caring man. On opening it, Ugly Bum found a little book titled ‘How to interpret your dream.’ Bastard!
· Shoe Shopper tells how Wet Patch just got in from Dubai today, and on arriving home was disappointed not to find Shoe Shopper waiting for him. So he made do with the dog instead. Mmm, he does get confused, don’t drink so much on the flight next time mate.
· When trail was found outside the Ministry of Marriages, Boo shouted the obligatory ‘I need a woman.’ And who was there waiting for him? Kamala! Nice proposal Boo.
· Kan Not Can called in the unromantic ones for not searching correctly for the love potion tokens at checks. Shopper was one, (is the dog more romantic?) and there were others.
· But the romantic ones were rewarded well – good one Not Tonight and Too Easy for rescuing the major prize, and it certainly looked very major. Tarnished Image also went home with a good bottle.
· As usual, Tiger Lily totally missed seeing a token for a bottle of champers.
· Wet Thong was rather concerned when a black car arrived at the Circle, stopped, checked what was going on before a rather serious man got out and queried one of the members. Tables, chairs and beer quickly were moved. She asked Tiger Lily what was going on. ‘Secret Police,’ replied Tiger in a worried hushed voice. ‘They always do raids in black cars.’ This really put the wind up Wet Thong, until she saw trays of Indian food being unloaded from the car and put on the table that had been set up. Well done Tiger Lily, welcome to The Secret Police Indian Food Catering Service.
· Tiger Lily then informs us that Legoless may have got a little leg a less at the committee meeting the other night. She informed Tiger Lily that she would ask the East Coast gals if they would help her set an East Coast Run in March and get back to her. Tiger Lily rang her the next day and asked her how she went. Legoless replied, ‘Well, I caught the bus home after the meeting, sat down and had a coffee, watched some TV, cleaned my teeth, went to the loo and then went to bed. ’ Umm, enough details about your personal life replied Tiger, what about the run? Wooops! Knew there was something I had to do.
On on On on to Secret Police Indian Food on site. Nice black car they have too.
Scribed by Cock Radio.
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