Thursday, February 19, 2015

Buckyardo - the word that defeated Google

It's not often these days that you search for something obscure on Google images and it comes back and tells you that it hasn't found anything. Normally you can enter some random string of letters and guarantee that there'll be a million pictures, most of which aren't fit to display on a family hash blog, but usually there'll be something not entirely inappropriate with which to head the run directions each week.

But Buckyardo? Not a thing! You'd think there'd be something, but apparently that's the one word in the whole of the universe that nobody has thought to associate as a keyword for their favorite picture.

So this week we are imageless as we bring you...
Songkhla Hash House Harriers' run #1757, Saturday 21st February 2015, 4:00 p.m.
Hares: Yardstick and Buck
Misdirections: From the Kao Seng Intersection take the old Yala road for 16k (5.3k South of the NYR / OYR intersection at Ang Thong)  and turn right just before Wat Kuhn Thong. After 1.0k turn left and proceed approximately 600m to the runsite amongst the rubber trees. For Hatyai visitors take the Nam Noi -Thung Wang road through Ban Tha Kam to Ban Sai Khao then go straight ahead past the big tree for 2.5k and turn right.

Hatyai H3's run on Sunday will be from the original football field in Poonakan (4.5k from Wat Keow Kloy on the left). It's probably best not to ask who the hares are in case you're asked to set it!

2 comments:

  1. No you won’t find “buckyardo” on Google as it is actually a bastardization, an anglicization of a north eastern Thai word (possibly Lao in origin). Take off the final letter, O, leaving “buckyard” which means – “a coming together of minds that don’t matter.”

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  2. The buckyard is where Uncle Somchai does funny stuff with the sheep ain't it?

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