| Run No:- | 1046 |
Date:- 7 April 2003 |
| Location:- |
Pakkret |
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| Hare:- |
Christi Holleman |
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| Scribe:- |
Andy 'Agent Orange' McPherson |
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When I got to the desk to pay for the ferry I found that Som had paid for
everyone in the group of Hashers that was in the queue, Sugar Daddy, never
slow on the uptake, quickly informed us all that we could buy him a beer in
exchange, being Scottish, I desperately fumbled in my pockets for the Baht
2, ferry fare, much cheaper than the Baht 200 that is charged for a beer in
Sugar Daddy's favorite bar (The Bamboo @ The Oriental).
When I arrived at the run site a large group of hashers had already congregated inside the riverside restaurant, I hoped that this would be the On On On restaurant otherwise the proprietor may take slight offence to the fact that this group was using the place as a changing room, many hashers continued to arrive early and it was easily seen it must be a holiday day.
Steve Furst was seen for the first time since his 2 weeks quarantine at Klong Prem Prison. Something to do with SARS he claimed, I figured it was for not paying his parking fine.
A special mention must go to Hash Cash, Todd "Spinning Dwarf" Wilkie for managing to sign up a new member, well he probably signed up a few, but one worthy of special note was that of Cenghis"Disgusting"Ertuna who had only just realized it is Baht 50 cheaper per run for members, and that the payback time would only be 4 runs. Damm who is going to subsidize the beer for the Bug now?
Out in to the car park and thank goodness, the piss truck was there, plenty of drinking water for those that had not brought their own, Also spotted in the car park was Slime's Swedish sedan, obviously Slime's company's travel ban to Vietnam due to SARS, had afforded him a suitable amount of time to find an alternative route to the run site, Must try that next time as I had spent 20 minutes finding parking in Pakkred before boarding the ferry
5.30 pm and On On was called and the pack were off, fortunately the hare had taken pity on the hash, and set most of the run on concrete paths and roads, where I used the word "fortunately" by this, I mean, had it been the rainy season we would have been avoiding the muddy fields and tracks. What with Global warming, always better to be safe rather than sorry?
I was one of the group of Hashers, that this was their fourth Hash event in four days and my legs (not to mention my liver) were now becoming quite weary (Hash Ball included as an event). I caught up with Bimbo or was it Bimbo who caught up with me and we strolled around the trail, I was pleased to have been granted this private audience with this soon to be media mogul. Did you know that his Hasher magazine now has a circulation in excess of 20,000 (not verified by the "Audit Bureau of Circulation" but Bimbo's word was good enough for me).
On our return we were greeted by the Hare "Frisky" who presented each of us with a Hash vest that was sponsored by "LINFOX".
It should be noted that special attention had been paid to Bullit and Capt'n Eric with these guys both sporting extra special edition "T" shirt versions of the Hash vests.
The Circle
Many were called in for various reasons and down downs were administered.
F O Y C was given to Ian Taylor, soon to be extradited amid calls of
corruption.
The highlight of the circle was the award of Prick of the Week to Cenghis
who managed to put the cap on his head however he refused and no amount of
persuading could change his mind that he would not put on the actual prick,
possibly something to do with his beliefs, he made a short statement and
took the down down from his own Cenghis sized steel, I assume there was
alcohol in it but could not be sure, what with his beliefs that stopped him
putting the prick on. It was hard to make out the exact reason over the
noise being blasted out from the temple festival commentators, who had their
amplifiers turned up almost as high as Noriegas Bar on a Friday evening
(According to Capt'n Eric).
Next weeks hare (Agent Orange) was called into the circle and muttered something about the run starting from a temple or a restaurant and for further details check your e-mail, Upon Agent Orange departing the circle, people were checking to see where the run was going to be starting from, to which they were greeted with the response, if you missed it now you will get it in the e-mail and how dare you accuse me of not having figured out the run yet!
Moving on to the On On On restaurant
One group of hashers arrived to the On On On restaurant later than the rest
of us, It turned out that they had gone across to the temple festival to ask
that the commentators could turn their amplifier down to a level that would
have been acceptable in many of Patpong's nitery entertainment venues, thus
being acceptable to the bulk of the male hashers in the group. However the
group were coerced into parting with some of their hard earned cash and won
an array of exciting prizes, things like, washing powder, snacks that never
quite made it on the Thai market and bottles of orange drink that were
guaranteed to make your kids hyper active should you ever manage to get them
to drink them in the first place.
Many extra tables were required in the restaurant, as the turnout to the run had been good. The Hare was on the ball, we were served good food and the beer was cold and plentiful. The conversation, as seems a regular occurrence these days, eventually turned to Iraq, Why was the Hash not consulted by Blair & Bush ? was the question that was on most people's minds.
The Hare informed us that she was going to have to look after the kids on the flight to Europe the next day, as the maid was going to be tied up looking after the dog, turns out the dog had been a member of the family longer than the kids had. The Hare obviously subsidized the meal and we were all treated to further copious quantities of cold beer. A few people joined in an impromptu quiz on what were the capitals of various countries around the globe, Capt'n Eric being on hand to settle any uncertainties with his vast wealth of knowledge gained from sailing the high seas for many years without ever seeing land from his ships bridge.
All too soon it was time to head home or on to somewhere else .
A big thanks to the Hare for a good run and splendid On On On. Also thank you to the 8 people that reminded me that I had to do this write up.
*****
On Monday 7 April we had 23 Harriers, 10
Harriettes, 2 new boots and 10 visitors, total = 45. Returners
included Andreas "Blue Moon" Holzwarth, Geoff "Cocktop"
Taylor, Ian Taylor, Steve "Tastes Great" Furst, Chris
"Bushman" Schulz, Faisel "Colonel Khadafi" Mookerdum,
Mia "Shagmore" Hannson, Rin "Jumpstart" H., and Khun
Ead. Welcome to the New Boots Matt Ryder and Cengiz
"Disgusting" Ertuna. Farewell to Leaver Ian Taylor who
chalked up 28 runs over 6 years.
