DHAKA MIXED HASH – RUN NO 1357

1st September 2007

Location:  Tongi and beyond

Duration: 69mins

The Hash ‘abridged’

Hares: Clothballs, Can’tPull, TunelessCow, MintyHole, BabyBear

Hashers:  65

Virgins:  Justin, Kelly, Katherine, Family Goldman, Heiner, Julie, Maýa

New runners/Visitors: GrandSlam, Aman, Lynne, John

Returnees: Fred, Olof

Leavers: Warm&Fluffy, WebFart, Circumcised

Get-a-lifers: Clothballs (175), MintyHole (575)

Bus to where?

The RV

There’s always an opportunity to shop when we meet at Tongi Bata Shoe: BlowJob didn’t hesitate to add to her flip-flop collection while we waited for the hash cash to arrive.

Hashers queued dutifully to sign up and pay. A second queue sprung up as WebFart arrived with the t-shirts which were supposed to have been handed out the previous week!

The GM eventually told us all to listen to the hares who gave us detailed instructions on how to find the B-point. In the end we all just followed the AISD bus which contained hare MintyHole who knew exactly where he was going (because this is Minty’s country!!) and co-hare BabyBear.

Having weaved our way along a narrow winding road hashers spilled out into some virgin-like territory and told to go and wait by the bridge – apparently to let the hares work out where we were and where we were going!

The Run

A great run in relatively new territory, although confusion abounded due to the big fat lies and misdirection of hares Can’tPull and Clothballs; it was left to MintyHole to save the day (expiration date for some) for a few of the non-FRBs who were unlikely to see their way on in from yet another trail to nowhere.

Whilst the floodwaters were on the decline, there was plenty of mud around for those who chose the wrong paths. Back on dryer land hashers made their way across the rice paddies, along the avenues of saplings, and stomped all over freshly arranged hay (so much for cultural sensitivity). Foreskin found a summer blossom to pluck and wedge behind his ear – to attract young muscular local attention no doubt!

Three quarters of the way around the walkers and runners rendezvoused, but with 15mins to go there were bound to be a few loops ahead for the runners. Whilst walkers waved on by, runners headed out into the paddy fields again, with a brief stop to provide Penís with a quick lesson in how to milk a cow; somehow the non-bumpies didn’t appear too excited at what they saw but I did notice Challenger’s eyes raise up to the heavens!

A sighting of the cars up ahead spurred the FRBs on and before too long we arrived at a previously employed B-point where a convenient haystack provided a much needed resting spot for Shams – the lazy bastard.

Pretty boy

 

Walk on by…

Teat yourself!

Bottoms up … or not

The Circle

Whilst we gathered for the circle the hares provided us with veggie rolls and meat (of the indeterminate variety) pies. HM Penís called us to order and, due the fact that we all had our mouths full of food, was able to conduct the preliminaries in relative quiet (a first!?).

A thank you to the hares for a lovely run. A welcome to those virgins who’d stayed on; bollocks to those who’d already left. A welcome again for a few new runners including a new Danish Embassy Intern Aman and a couple of AISD teachers who’d rocked up from Ohio and Karachi.

A quick run through the returnees and leavers (WF and W&F off to have sex again) then onto the momentous achievement by Clothballs of 175 runs. Even more momentous (or sad) was the achievement of 575 hashes by our very own MintyHole: Get a Life!!

A quick pre-RA interlude by Foreskin as he related the sad sorry tale of 2 hashers from New Haven who set out to set a trail with flour and chose the wrong detour through the local Ikea store which, having witnessed the flour-sprinkling, were in fear of suspected anthrax poisoning and had closed their store for the day; for the full story follow see below.

RA WebFart then highlighted Foreskin’s flower-antic, but more disturbingly Horse’sArse’s picking it up to return it.

Don’t fall in a muddy ditch like FartEcho and Eva or you’ll make a name for yourself; in this case it was Eva who became ‘SlipperyHole’. Both of them earned a DD for being ‘arses over tits’.

Thanks for the food, but DD to the ‘quick swallowers’ who managed to keep talking whilst the rest of us chowed down. Whilst TunelessCow was heard to utter the works: ‘I wish Infused were here’, BlowJob supplemented the gap by complaining about the lack of Hash-Horn and poor organisation (so you’re not in Zambia any more!!!).

On joining the walk towards the end, WebFart found a lone BabyBear going her own way: ‘super ultra front walking hare’. Shams was berated for his nap in the haystack: ‘super lazy bastard’.

A round of songs of the hashing variety wound up the proceedings and next week’s hash was announced: Little Italy 4:30pm.

Happy newbies?

Clothballs on 175

Mega–kiss to Minty for 575

From Eva to SlipperyHole


The NEW YORK TIMES (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/25/nyregion/25beer.html?ex=1188792000&en=ebc90ec50e013334&ei=5070&emc=eta1
August 25, 2007
Offbeat Runners Club Sets Off Terror Scare in New Haven

NEW HAVEN, Aug. 24 (AP) — Daniel Salchow and his sister, Dorothee, planned to spend a pleasant afternoon marking a trail for fellow members of their offbeat running and drinking club.

Instead, they wound up in police custody after their clue of choice — flour — set off a bioterrorism scare and forced hundreds of people to evacuate an Ikea furniture store on Thursday.

“It was absolutely not in any way what we intended and not what we anticipated,” Dr. Salchow said on Friday at the New Haven courthouse.

Dr. Salchow, a New Haven ophthalmologist, and his sister, who is visiting from Hamburg, Germany, were charged with first-degree breach of peace, a felony.

The siblings are members of the Hash House Harriers, a group that bills itself as a “drinking club with a running problem” and has more than 1,800 chapters around the world. The runs typically end with beer stops at pubs or homes.

The club started in Malaysia in 1938, when British citizens there modified an old game called Hares and Hounds.

Dr. Salchow said that the group had used flour to mark a course two months ago in Washington without incident.

Dr. Salchow and his wife recently moved to New Haven, where he works with needy children through a Yale University program.

On Thursday, Dr. Salchow, 36, and his sister, 31, were the hares, meaning they marked a trail for others, the hounds, to follow. To make things interesting, they decided to route runners through the huge Ikea parking lot.

Just before 5 p.m., the police received a call that someone was sprinkling powder on the ground. The store was evacuated and remained closed the rest of the day.

The incident prompted a massive response from the New Haven police and authorities from surrounding towns.

Dr. Salchow was at home waiting for the others who took part in the four-mile run to arrive for an after-party when his wife called to say there was a problem. He biked to Ikea and tried to explain to the police that the powder was just flour.

The club’s tactics have caused problems elsewhere.