Babylon 5

Hashing got a mention in J. Gregory Keyes ‘Dark Genesis - The Birth of the Psibb Corps’ which is part of the popular Babylon 5 series. On page 73 there is a line that reads: "He was in good shape - he was a runner, a Hash House Harrier." As somebody suggested in the Stray Dog talk room – Hashers?  Good shape?  It MUST BE science fiction.

Back check

 A mark - sometimes a cross, sometimes two or three parallel lines drawn across the path - that shows that the trail is back somewhere behind you. Back checks can sometimes be numbered, telling you how many marks you have to trace back before looking for the correct trail.

Bad Trail

American term for a trail that just fades out.

Badges

Badges, usually of the sew-on variety, are a popular give-away item and quite a few seasoned Hashers arrive at a circle dressed like Joseph’s patchwork coat. Such badges may represent a particular Hash or a special event. Hash theme metal ‘pin badges’ also exist, although these are generally less common.

Collections by Urine left and Candyfloss right

Bad Mouth

  Mike ‘Bad Mouth’ Gilby clocked up some 200 Hashes with Cheshire H3 before moving south, where he and Gill ‘Bossy’ Gilby founded High Wycombe H3 in March 1991. Bad Mouth was High Wycombe’s GM when he died while on trail in April 2004.

On On Badmouth

Bagamoyo Relay

  Bagamoyo is a small town set around a stunning bay, some 60km along the coast from the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam. The Dar Hash has been running an annual relay there since the early nineties.

     At one point the relay became quite competitive, with local firms entering teams, but in more recent years has reverted to true Hash atmosphere with walking and biking legs.

     Since 2001 the Bagamoyo Relay has helped re-establish exchanges between the Dar and Nairobi Hashes.

Right -Bagamoyo Relay 2001 - the last event on the old dirt road

Bag Lady

  The sight of an old lady wandering the streets, her worldly processions held in carrier bags has – naturally I suppose – inspired several Hash names, as in Baglady (Bahrain), Baglady IV (Edmonton) and Baglady (Isca).

Bag Lady

 Bag Lady can also be a semi-official position, designated to any lazy or injured hasher willing to stay at the bar and look after the bags while the rest go off running.

Bahamas

  The Bahamas are a group of 700 islands to the north of the Caribbean and the east of the USA. If you aren’t lucky enough to live in Milton Keynes, then this is a good second best. Nassau H3 was founded by Anna and Geoff Amblin in 1981. They run on Mondays during summer and Sundays during winter (the Bahamas has a winter?).

The island of New Providence, where the Hash is based, is quite small, so they stage regular ‘air Hashes’ to outlaying islands, for example to Bimini which seems to be a four mile long golf course.

There is sponsorship from sands brewery and they also host one of the better Hash websites.

Bahrain

  Bahrain is relatively liberal and very modern, so drinking is allowed, which makes Hashing easier. Being found drunk however is not such a great idea. There are two local Hashes, both mixed. Bahrain H3 established in 1972 by Geoff Whitehead, has a run with a BBQ every Monday and is now on 1600 plus runs. Hash veterans are Brian ‘Budget’ Davies and David ‘Blooper’ Bloomer who have ‘been there for ever’.

     The Bahrain Black Hash – wear black or else – was founded by Ted Lutley and Gordon ‘Black Head’ Clarke in 1986 although the real inspiration was perhaps Norman Moore, ‘a fundamentalist who thought the BH3 was getting too poofterish and away from ‘real Hashing’. The Black Hash started as a joke –‘if things don’t get better the Black Hash will get you’ - and from there went on to inspire five occasional runs between July 1984 and March 1986. This was sufficient to acquire an identity and a logo.

      The idea of a second Hash to meet increasing numbers was already being debated but an attempt to develop a Saturday Hash had failed. Around 1986 the idea resurfaced and the founding meeting attracted a core of Black Hashers. They took the Black Hash name and, learning from the earlier attempt, selected Monday as the most likely day to gather a reasonable crowd. However, come run number 1 the shit hit the fan, with many of the original Black Hashers, who had not been involved up until this point, objecting to the use of their  name and logo. For a short while the Black Hash ran as ‘The Alternative Hash’ until the unpleasantness died down and they reclaimed the Black Hash title. Sources: Black Hash 1993 magazine.

Bahrain Marathon

An annual relay which is staged for charity and supported by the Royal Family and which has become a major event on the Bahrain sporting calendar.

Consisting of 14 legs of approximately 3km each, the run itself is actually very dull and boring, although in the last couple of years Bahrain’s new Formula One racing circuit has been the scene for a dramatic first leg.

     Bahrain H3 was once joint organisers, but they now leave the work to the Roundtable. Hash teams from Bahrain and the Middle East region continue to support the relay and there is a large trophy for the first Hash team home.

     Bahrain Black Hash has monopolized the trophy since  2003.

Baldrick

The much beloved and very dirty ‘I have a cunning plan’ sidekick of Black Adder, has loaned his name to several Hashers.

Baldrick2Dogs

Alan ‘Baldrick2dogs’ Holden is a veteran of the Arabian hash scene, having started running with Jeddah in 1989. He was joint founder of the Kuwait Full Moon H3 in 1996 and is webmaster of the regional hash website. By 2002 Baldrick2dogs was in Saudi, from where he helped with Cardiff InterHash website. He is also known by numerous other canine variations of the Baldrick name

See interview on Flying Booger's website

Bali

The original paradise island, Bali is actually part of Indonesia, although many tourists go there without ever realising that. Although famous for surf and beaches, the heart of Bali is really the inland hills and rice terraces, and it is Ubud, not Kuta that sums up the island. This lends itself to some brilliant Hashing territory and Bali hosted InterHash in 1988 and bid, unsuccessfully,  to host in 2006 and 2008.

Bali, bomb

On October 12^th 2002 a terrorist bomb struck a Bali nightclub, killing hundreds and injuring thousands. Amongst the victims were members of a visiting Taipei Rugby club, several of whom had links to the Taiwan Hash scene.

Balls

 Balls, as in ‘do that again and I’ll kick you in the balls’ has been used in many a Hash name, such as Ball Scratcher, Ball Crusher, Ball Grabber and so on.

Ballsbreaker

 The longest run at a major hash gathering. Expected to be around the length of a half marathon, not counting checking or getting lost.

    Despite the reputation of hashers being beer drinking louts, such events are extremely popular. In fact in Goa some rather bad mannered Australians ignored officials and other waiting hashers to push their way onto an already full bus!

     Individual kennels might also stage an occasional Ballsbreaker run. Stockholm H3 for example staged their first such event in 2005. It went between commuter stations, allowing different hares to set different stages and for hashers to join in at whatever point they wished, from the full 20km starting at station one, to a 5km final 'on in' from station 3.

Banger

Ken ‘Banger’ Darn completed 1000 runs with Hobart Hash in 2001.

Barbados

The island, though small, has a good variety of countryside, from beach, to hills to plantation and can meet at exotic sounding places like 'Surfers Point' or 'Morgan Lewis Beach'. The island is also a safe and generally friendly place. Barbados H3 was founded in November 1985 by David Craig and celebrated their 500^th run in 1995, despite the flooding from a recent hurricane. They meet every Saturday and Bank Holidays and have a regional reputation for hospitality. June and Michael Rogers and June Clark are all on 800 plus runs. A ‘Moon Over Barbados’ Hash started in May 2001 and meet for a short torchlight run once a month.

Barnacle Bill, song

Barnacle Bill is not a traditional song as such, but dates to 1929 when it was, believe it or not, a popular hit. Today it is better known for the bawdy versions sung at rugby clubs and Hashes.

Bars

There are Hash bars and there are HASH BARS. A Hash bar is a place where Hashers may or may not be gather and where there might or might not be a Hash trash to collect. Such places are numerous. Much rarer is a HASH BAR, a place where the Hash has its soul, a place where the walls are covered in Hash memorial, where drunken Hashes are to be found from opening to closing time, where the Hash gather after the on-on even if the run has been miles away. Such places are often owned by Hashers.

The great legends have included, but are not limited to;

The Birds of Paradise

(Philippines – Angeles City)

The American Eagle

(Philippines – Manila)

Noriega’s

(Bangkok – Thailand)

Tahitian Queen

(Pattaya - Thailand)

The Crocodile

(Nigeria)

The Beggar’s Bush

(Ubud, Bali - Indonesia) and of course

The Wanch

(Hong Kong).

Barnard

Paul Barnard was secretary of Mother Hash in 1967 and Joint Master in 1968.

Barratt, John

John Barratt was an Accountant in KL before the war and one of the handful of Hashers on Mother Hash Run Number 1.

Bash

Hash bash – a party.

Bash, Bashing

Hashing on bicycles. Once they invented mountain bikes, a bike Hash just had to happen and the first took place in Singapore in 1989. Organisers were James Tay, Evans ‘Barf Balls’ Jones and Victor Esbensen. Bike Hashing has remained pretty much a side event, usually only organised 3 or 4 times a year or perhaps monthly, and often linked to a traditional kennel. Perhaps the most casual group are the Gold Coast Bike Hash, founded in 1994 and completing 5 Hashes by 2005. However London does have a regular bike Hash, as does Bangkok, Wellington and no doubt several other places. Bike Hashes seem to go in for even more clever names than the rest of us and we have Calgary Only Goes Sometimes (COGS) Cambridge Randomly Active Bike Hash (CRABS) and Florida’s ‘Bike-o Psycho Hash House Harriers’.

Bashing - Interbash

 International gathering of cycle Hashers. Bangkok staged the first event in June 2005.

Bean, Mexican

Jesse “Mexican Bean” Sandoval was the Grand Master of Pattaya Hash when tragically killed by a typhoon which capsized his oil rig/ship in the Gulf of Thailand in 1989.  On Monday 13 December 1988 he had set Pattaya H3 Run #241 with Tim “Magic” Hughes and it was titled the “Magic Bean Run”

Bean, Mister

 Paul ‘Mr Bean’ Philips is a loyal employee of her majesty, via Crown Agents, who clocked up 220 runs with the Dhaka Mixed Hash where he served as horn and scribe. Moving to Tanzania he switched from runner to walker but his spell as RA, forming a noted double act with Knob Jockey, and then as GM, coincided with a revival in the kennel’s fortunes.

 Picture Three Dar es Salaam GM's. Mr Bean left, with Shakesprick and Wetdream

Bear, The

 Alex ‘The Bear’ Thomas was a legend in Malaysia in the nineties. Linked primarily with Petaling Jaya H3, he was a purist who believed Hashing was more about beer than running, and founded the ‘PJ Animals’ in 1976, and then the ‘PJ Hazards’, to put these beliefs into practise.

He was the first chairman of the Malaysian Hash Council, which involved him acting as chairman of the first Malaysian Nash Hash. He was also deputy chairman and general manger at the KL InterHash, 1998.

Beavon, John

  John Beavon, formally of Singapore H3, was the hare on the first Hong Kong run and their second GM.

Beep Beep

Vinod ‘Beep Beep’ Reddy was one of the founders of Madras H3. With the departure of Digit to the Middle East he became the only Hasher to have attended every Indian Nash Hash.

Beer

Hash badges testify to the close relationship between beer and hashing!

The Chinese brewed beer 5000 years ago and it was known in Mesopotamia by at least 2,000 B.C. However, it is Egypt of the Pharaohs which was probably the most important centre of ancient brewing, if only because people are known to have gathered in a ‘house of beer' in the evening. For the slower reader (i.e. the average Hasher) that means they had pubs. In addition, it was the Egyptians who probably passed on the knowledge of brewing to the Greeks, the Greeks to the Romans and the Romans to the Brits, who complained that it was too cold.

     The Christian era was a surprisingly good time for beer making and the monks were some of the best brewers the world has ever known. At this time there was a major switch from ‘ale’ (English sweet ale) to ‘beer’. Now, as you all know, ale consists of malt (usually barley) water and yeast, but beer is bittered with hops. This was originally nothing to do with taste, but was popular because beer lasted longer than ale.  (Although of course that depends on how quickly you drink it).

     The Dean of St Pauls (16th century) is credited with the invention of bottled beer. He poured some beer into a bottle to take fishing and forgot it. Years later he suddenly thought ‘I had a bottle of beer’ and went down to the river. To his surprise the ale was still there and still tasted good. 

     In the 19th century brewing became more scientific. Louis Pasteur wrote ‘Studies Concerning Beer’, although surprisingly he is more famous for his work on mainstream microbiology. More recent work of scientists such as Christian Hansen improved the purity of the fermenting process and made it possible to give beer a ‘constant and repeatable taste’

     Beer and Hashing have been connected since the very beginning, as drinking back at ‘The Dog’ certainly dates from Run Number One. It was probably late 1939 or 1940 before beer was provided at the run site, and then it was Tiger ‘a headache in every quart’ mixed with ginger beers to form shandies.

Beer Bra

Beer Bra comes from a hash family and was handing out the beers on the Munich Hash long before she was old enough to drink one herself.  A few years later she has matured into a senior member of the German hash community and is still handing out the beers, whether at her local hash or at German Nash hashes. Given this background she was always going to find her life partner on the hash and although she and 2bitslit have obvious differences – he looks like an international terrorist and she is really cute – they have been united by a common love of hashing and have become joint founders of the Rhine Neckar hash.

Beer Cans, commemorative

The first commemorative InterHash beer cans were issued in Jakarta (1982 by Anker Brewery), followed by Pattaya (1986 Singh Gold), Bali (1988 Bintang), KL (1998 Anchor), Hobart (2000 Cascade), Goa (2002 Kingfisher) and Chiang Mai (2006 Singha Light).

Not all countries have the technology to print cans, the Goa issue for example had to be printed in Germany and assembled in Singapore before being filled in India. The run was 150,000, or about 60 cans for every Hasher who turned up.

InterHash beer cans occasionally appear on ebay as collector’s items, without actually creating much interest.

Sources: Whorator and Digit

Beer Check

  A check where drinks are provided.

Beer Drinking Contest – Down Downs

  A beer drinking competition has become a traditional feature of each InterHash, and is known as the Down Down competition.  The first record of a formal Down Down competition was in Jakarta in 1982, and each InterHash has held competitions for both men and women ever since.  The men’s Down Down is from a 2 litre mug donated by Jakarta H3 while the women drink from a 1 litre mug donated by the Bangkok Harriettes. This was given in remembrance of their late Hash Piss, Pe ‘Deep Throat’ Chantong, who was killed when the Hash beer truck crashed while returning from a Bangkok run.

      Most notable among the men champions are the 3-times winners Hooray Henry (a Pom of London H3) who, at his quickest, consumed 2 litres in 9.6 seconds and Deep Throat (a Kiwi of Wellington H3), whose best time is 16.5 seconds for the 2 litre mug.

      Since 2002 Deep Throat has had a titanic battle with RTC (Colombo H3, Sri Lanka). RTC was runner up to Deep Throat in 2002, to Too Turf in 2004, tied for the title with Deep Throat in 2006 and finally beat him on a small amount of spillage in 2008. Other notable drinkers include Suipe (of NZ), whose best time with The Big One is 12.89 seconds. 

       The Men’s winner is awarded a giant phallus which presents interesting logistical problems while transiting customs inspection.  It was first awarded on 23rd September 1978 to the Boat Race Champions at Mother Hashes 40^th Anniversary Celebrations.  Unfortunately, the winning Hash is not recorded on the trophy.

       Notable women competitors include the 1992 champion, Pe ‘Deep Throat’ Chantong of Bangkok Harriets, Pam ‘Gyps’y Johns (New Zealand) and ‘Dame Edna’ of Ballina H3 (Australia), and the contemporary champion, ‘No Mercy’ of Nigeria, who won in both Cardiff and Chiang Mai.  Her 2006 time of 8.1 seconds was simply awesome.  The Harriettes’ winner is awarded a wooden female torso.

      The judging was originally in the hands of the Pattaya Dirt Road H3 but is now done by a mismanagement of senior hashers including at various times David ‘Browneye’ Ives, Ron ‘The Penguin’  Strachan, Marty ‘Garfied’ Hanratty, David ‘Mr McGoo’ McGee, Alex ‘Froggy’ Park and Frank ‘Whorator’ Benfield. As Garfield himself writes, ‘They make bold, perhaps arbitrary, judgements concerning timing and spillage that mere Harriettes and Harriers can rarely comprehend. Indeed, not even the Judges always comprehend their own actions’. It is, after all, the hash!’

2008 controversy

The 2008 event was dealt a surprise blow when the local authorities decided at very late notice that this was an example of  ‘binge drinking’ and could not take place in the grounds. The Down-Down competition was therefore rearranged for the Browneye Memorial Run the next day, but this meant it was only watched by a limited crowd. In addition ‘No Mercy’, who was in Perth and looked in fine form on Saturday night, was unable to defend her title.

Thanks to Garfield, Whorator and InterHash 2008 Website

InterHash champions - Men

InterHash champions - Women

Beerhound

Paul ‘Beerhound’ Gallagher has the distinction of being the man who brought Hashing to the central African county of Chad. He started his own Hash career in Lagos in 1999, where he clocked up a hundred or so runs and was most noted for being Deputy Master of Music. He returned to USA as a teacher and American Football coach and ran occasionally with the various DC Hashes. In 2003 he arrived in Chad, where he founded the N’Djamena H3.

Beer Master (Grog Master, Beirmaster, Hash Piss/Grog)

Beer Master - the Hasher who looks after the beer. You would think this was a pretty important role and it is, but it does not have the glamour attached to RA or GM. In fact if the beer master gets a mention at all it is generally because something has gone wrong. Hash Piss is one of several alternative titles.

Beer mugs

The subject is of obvious interest to Hashers as these are such a common Hash gift.

     The world’s oldest beer mug was discovered in Israel and probably dates to the days of King Saul and King David. The oldest Hash beer mugs belonged to KL and were plain enamel mugs, probably introduced around 1940 when drinks started to be available after the run.

     Decorated mugs are now a regular feature of InterHash, common give away elsewhere and are often awarded by kennels to mark milestones such as 50 or 100 runs.

Beer Near

Mark on the ground, or possibly a cry, indicating a beer stop lies just ahead.

Beer Stop

See Beer Check

Beer Trek

Orlando H3 organised a ‘Beer Trek’ Hash in 1987 to celebrate the return of Star Trek to television.

Belarus

  There doesn’t seem to be any active Hash in Belarus at present although Magic had a Minsk H3 listed in his directory.

Belgium

Considering Belgium’s role as an international centre, Hashing is not that widespread and the Ostend, SHAPE and Antwerp kennels have died out. In addition relatively few locals have picked up the idea, Higgins being something of a ‘token Belgium’ in the capital.

Hashing was brought to Belgium in December 1980 when Stephen Lunn (ex Washington) founded the Brussels H3. The Mons based SHAPE H3 (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe) followed in 1982 and despite the obviously military link was a family Hash. There was a strong feeling that Brussels was too serious – good runners and no circles – so Manneke Piss H3 was founded in 1990 as the capital’s second Hash. ‘Core Blimey’ a Dutchman who had hashed in Asia, was a key figure in the founding. They run on Sundays and attempt to be more ‘Hash like’. There is in fact considerable overlap of members between the two but the distinction between Manneke as a ‘Hashers’ Hash and Brussels as a ‘Runners’ Hash remains. 

As late as the 1990’s Belgium as a nation tended to treat the drinking driving laws as optional and the weekend hashes could party late and hard. Since then the police have taken the drinking issue more seriously but weekend public transport has also improved, allowing some evolutionary balance to prevail.

Phil ‘P EnnIS’ Ennis, a US navy man training the Belgium navy, started a hash in Ostend and when, around 1993, he moved to Brussels he decided to take the local Hash kennel with him. Renamed, almost by mistake, GONADS (Going Nowhere, Always Drunk) the idea became to organize 'runs' in as many pubs/countries as possible. Ee Jack Yer Late, Try A F**k, and Higgins are now the mainstays and the format is flexible with two or three overseas trips each year and at least one run back in Ostend.

The newest addition is the Blue Moon Hash, founded around 2008 and which basically provides a midweek hash for the keener runners of the Manneke Piss crowd.

The Three Frontiers Hash House Harriers is an occasional hash who meet once a year to run in the Ardennes.

Belgium hosted EuroHash in 1997 and there is a Belgium Nash Hash.  In Chiang Mai 2006, Higgins warned Hashdom that Belgium would be making a bid for InterHash in 2014.

Updated  with thanks to Higgins

Belgium Nash Hash

The idea of Belgium, with only 3 kennels (and all based in Brussels) staging a Nash Hash seems a bit of an oxymoron, a bit like Switzerland having  a navy. However the event, which is staged annually in April, has become one of the favourite dates on the European hash calendar, usually attracting some 40 local and 40 visiting hashers.

 Manneke Piss generally take reasonability for organizing and a selection of beautiful venues, good advertising and Belgium beers account for the popularity of the event. Recent venues include Mons 2008, Bouillon in the Ardennes 2009 and Westerlo 2010.

Belize

Belize is a small little patch of jungle and coral reef in Central America. It is most famous for the fact that, when bullied by Guatemala, the British Empire sent a detachment of troops to keep the threatening hordes at bay. The military presence extended from 1972 to 1994. 

     Tracing the history of hashing in Belize is somewhat difficult but it goes something like this. First there was a Belmopan H3, founded around 1986 by John Pratt. They attracted packs of a dozen hardy runners who hacked their way through the jungle and clocked up some 88 hashes, before fading away, although their records are incomplete.

     A new kennel, BATSUB H3 (British Army Training Support Unite Belize) was formed in November, 1994 but by 2003 this kennel was also struggling so Belize H3  was founded in February of that year ‘to ensure the continuance of hashing in Belize’. Their first run on February 23^rd is listed simple as runner number 1.  However, by the time they met again a month later, they had reached some kind of agreement with BATSUB, as that was listed as run No2 (for Belize H3) and run 73 for BATSUB. From then on, one of the groups took responsibility for organising a hash each month, although not necessarily alternatively. Belize Hashes continued to be referred to by two run numbers, (for example 3 and 74) but BATSUB Hashes by just one number i.e. Run 75). After June 2006 (Run No. 18-104) BATSUB H3 folded but Belize H3 continue to stage monthly runs and hashing remains alive and active in this distant corner of hashdom.

With thanks to Taz - I hope I finally got it more or less right!

Benin

Contonou H3 was founded by Duncan Lovett, (ex Lome), in May 1994. Current state of this Hash is uncertain, the 2006 directory describing it as ‘semi-formant’.

Bent One

Gordon ‘Bent One’ Benton (ex Singapore) was one of the founders of Jakarta H3 in 1971 with Jeremy ‘Burung’ Pigeon. Now sadly deceased. On on Gordon!

Bermuda

Susan 'Garbo' Hill founded the Bermuda Hash in 1986. They are a small kennel with bi-weekly runs.

Berwick, Colin

Little seems to be known about Colin Berwick these days but, as the man who took Hashing to Brunei, his place in the hash hall of fame is guaranteed.

Bhutan

The Himalayan nation of Bhutan has fought long and hard to keep the rest of the world out. It is slowly losing the battle and in February 2004 conceded another major defeat when it became one of the last sovereign nations in the world to get a hash. Thimphu H3,  founded by Austin ‘Supermini’ Hutcheon, now meet the first Sunday of every month with runs taking one and a half hours. However as trails go up and down steep slopes at 2,300 metres of altitude, you work very hard to cover relatively short distances.

Biddy

Robert ‘Biddy’ Badenach completed 1000 runs with Hobart in 1999

Big Bill

  When Bill ‘Big Bill’ Lueckenhausen arrived in Brunei in 1980 he was already a veteran of the Jakarta and Singapore Hash scenes. He put in another twenty years of loyal running and drinking with Brunei Hash, during which time he served as both RA and Joint Master. When Big Bill died on trail, in September 2001, it was probably the way he would wish to have gone.  On On Bill!

Big Country and Snow Plough

Rich ‘Big Country’ Roesing is noted for his height and his repertoire of hash songs. He started the second part of his life in his early thirties when he was (1) posted to Bulgaria with the American Embassy (2) met his future ‘lovely bride’ Snowplough and  (3) heard about the hash.

It was not until they were posted to Zagreb that the couple actually tried hashing but since then they have made up for lost time. With a growing family he and Snowplough could regularly be seen pushing their prams around the hills of Zagreb with the Strollers H3 and Big Country was soon elected GM.

A posting to Abuja – the new capital of Nigeria – followed and with little else to do in the city the family clocked up the runs. By the time they reached Calgary the family were fanatical hashers and determined to earn their 50 Run Mugs, which – in a 2 year posting – meant never missing a run. Big Country achieved his mug and had a spell as GM.

            A posting to Moldova in 2009 was nicely timed for the pair to become founding members of the New Chisinau H3, where Big Country is song master and the only hasher present on all of the first 9 runs.

Big Joe

Joe ‘Big Joe’ Kamau is on 800 runs plus with Nairobi H3 and at time of writing was enjoying a successful spell as GM.

Big Mac

  Walter ‘Big Mac’ Jamieson is a former civil engineering consultant and now hotel owner on the Indonesian island of Lombok.  Much of his working and Hashing life has been spent in Indonesia, starting with Surabaya between 1981 and 1985, during which time he clocked up his first 100 runs. 1989 was spent in Jakarta and proved to be a remarkable Hashing year with Big Mac clocking up 150 runs with the various Hashes in just 12 months. He made his name as a distinguished scribe, was one of the founders of TGIF H3 and on the committee organising the first of the legendary Jungle Runs.

In the early nineties Big Mac amazed everybody by leaving Indonesia for a spell in Bangladesh. Here he turned out with Dhaka and Dhaka mixed and founded Srimangal H3.

209 runs later Big Mac was back in Indonesia, this time with Malang H3 and in 1994 moved to Lombok, where he founded the Senggigi Old Boys H3. This monthly Hash now has a healthy turn out of around 60, while Big Mac’s enthusiasm was instrumental in taking Lombok H3 from a low-point of 34 in 1997 to their present turnout of around 180. Big Mac has been GM of SOB since its foundation and was made Honourable Grand Master of Lombok H3.

Nearly 900 of his life time total of 1651 runs have now taken place on Lombok and his record of 145 ‘harings’ out of 786 runs (18.4 %) might be something of a Hash record.

Biggles Updated

  Biggles was the pilot hero of dozens of adventure books written by Captain W.E. Johns and including titles ‘Biggles Flies North’,  ‘Biggles Flies South’ and ‘Biggles Flies Undone’.

     Despite being a hero in two world wars, Biggles was of doubtful sexual orientation. Having fallen in love with a Frenchwomen in 1916, he discovered she was a Hun spy and our hero preferred the company of boys ever after.

     Being christened Biggles on a hash is probably linked to working as a pilot. There were three Biggles in Cardiff, coming from Copenhagen, Looe and Malacca. Bicester once had a Biggles who worked for British Airways, and who flew the BH3 away team to the EuroHash in Madrid in 1993.

Thanks to Prof

Biggles

 Robert ‘Biggles’ Rankin is a veteran hasher with Hamersley.

Biggles New Entry

Trevor 'Biggles' Wright joined the Bicester hash in the late 1970's, whilst a long haul pilot for British Airways. His major contribution to Bicester hash (some say only) was to fly a plane load of Bicester hashers to Eurohash in Madrid, although he is probably the only long term Bicester hasher who has never broken into more than a lively walk! He was once thought to have laid a trail by throwing the chalk from the rear of a 747as it was very long and spread far and wide. Although having joined Bicester in the dark ages he has not achieved a great numbers of hashes (in Bicester terms who have several 1000+ hash hat), as a lot of his time has been spent trawling around the world, but since his retirement he is again a regular attendee when not at his hideaway in Wales. It is claimed that he was once seen to smile, although we believe it was probably wind after a particularly good pint!

By Amnesia

Big Old Fart

  Graeme ‘Big Old Fart’ Gibson worked for the British Embassy in Nairobi and Digit gives an account of a wild night out on the town with BOF as guide. (Hare and Hounds no. 35)  A shooting incident while on official duty left him paralysed and BOF died in Stoke Manville Hospital the following year. 

On on BOF

Big One, the

  Name for the Jakarta 2 litre down-down mug.  Two of these pewter vessels were made, using the finest tin from Bangka Island. One remains the sole property of Jakarta H3 and the other is THE mug used at the InterHash Down Down competition for men.

Bike Hash

See bashing

Binny

Michael ‘Binny’ Kirkman completed 1000 runs with Launceston in 1996

Birdman

  David ‘Birdman’ Free started Hashing in 1967 with Kluang. During the seventies he was posted to Tokyo. He missed Tokyo’s first run, but completed most of the next 100. A long spell followed in Singapore, where he was named ‘Archbishop’. Having returned to Australia, he continued Hashing with Perth where he was renamed ’Birdman’.

Blind Pew

A hash World champion Updated

Nick ‘Blind Pew’ Barrable was a regular runner with Stockholm H3 between 2000 and 2004, where he was noted for setting long live trails from a couple of minutes head start. However, as a member of the British Orienteering Team, and with a best marathon time of 2.33, Blind Pew was possibly the fastest Hasher currently running.

He then spent a year and a half in Brno, Czech Republic, doing the odd hash in Vienna and Bratislava before returning to Kent and dabbling with the East Grinstead H3. By 2009 he had returned to his mother hash in Stockholm. By now Nick had reached his 35^th birthday, thus becoming eligible for Master competitions and in the autumn of 2009 he travelled to Australia, winning the Over 35’s World Orienteering Sprint Race Championship and taking a bronze medal in the long race.

Birds of Paradise

Run by the ‘Malibog’ brothers, the Birds of Paradise in Angeles City, Philippines, is one of the most famous Hash pubs of all time.  The Bird was often the starting point for Hash runs and certainly the place most of the Angeles City Hashers would end up, meaning that over the twenty years it was open countless down-downs were consumed on the roof garden.  

One secret of its success was that any of the bar girls who wanted to run the Hash could attend and have it classified as work, the girls inevitably enticing a hoard of Hashers back to the bar later in the evening.

John's own best memory of those wonderful days is the line of dancers for the Angeles City 500^th run, “They were not naked, they were wearing shoes.”

The B of P survived the closing down of the American Clarke Field Airbase, but never recovered from the loss of the tourist trade after Mount Pinatubo erupted and partly buried the joint. The last run from the bar took place on Sunday 16^th December 2001. 

There were rumours at InterHash Chiang Mai 2006 that a Bird of Paradise type bar was to reopen on the site.

Blobby

Adrian ‘Blobby’ Ewart first run with Scarborough H3 in 1963 from the Nags Head. He is now on 1658 plus runs.

Bloodnok

Chris ‘Bloodnok’ Lawrence-King was made a ‘Life Peer of Hashing’ by Tamar valley.

Blooper

David ‘Blooper’ Bloomer is a Bahrain Hasher who has ‘been there for ever’

Blowjob

  As would you expect, a common Hash name. You need only be seen blowing up a balloon, putting air into your car tyre, or giving the GM oral sex to be bestowed the title ‘Blowjob’ for the rest of your Hash days. Blowjobs can be therefore be found on hashes all around the world (if you understand what I mean).

Boatrace

An old drinking game played in various forms, usually with line of ‘rowers’ sitting one behind the other who pass a drinking vessel over their heads to the next drinker. Boat races were a regular event at early InterHashes up to and including 1988.  Marlborough H3, New Zealand champions in 1984, 1986 and 1987 are one of the all time great Hash teams.

Bob Funny Name for A Girl  

Bob ‘Bob Funny Name for A Girl’ Spencer is a trainer and hasher in Baku Azerbaijan. He has previously hashed in Port Harcourt and Kuwait.  He was hash cash in Kuwait and set up the KSHHH mail list. This was also where he was given his name, GM Cheap Bastard having watched too much Black Adder

Bolivia

La Paz H3 was founded by Joseph Liebner and Lonnie Kitterer in 1988 and is a family-friendly Hash that has not expanded much beyond packs of 25. They are particularly proud of their record as the highest hash in the world. La Paz stands at 518 metres and they stage a yearly run at Chacataya Ski Resort (18,2000 metres) plus occasionally hiking up to giddy heights of the surrounding peaks.

     Santa Cruz H3 run from the regional capital of the lowland Amazon area, where people have a reputation for being considerably wilder and more party orientated. They are a Monday night Hash that dates back to 1992.    

Note - it has been some time since the Websites were updated and the current state of Hashing in Bolivia is uncertain.

Boner

Ron ‘Boner’ Hayward is an Australian based Hasher who has been running on the Melbourne Hash scene since 1981. Western Suburbs H3 is his home Hash and he was GM in 1993 and has been on the committee ‘on and off’ for much of the last ten years. He is also a familiar face on the Lakeside H3 and Melbourne Ladies H3, reaching a lifetime total of 987 runs by April 2005.

 Bonkers

Colin Bonkers Cracknel trained as an engineer and then went to work for the European Union. His postings included Sudan, Zimbabwe and Tanzania. In Zimbabwe he was instrumental in establishing the Zim-Zam Hash and he finished his working (and possibly hashing career) as RA of Dar es Salaam.

In Dar his EU mansion was venue to many a wild hash party, Colin once jumping into a pool of naked hashers fully clothed, to be promptly disrobed by a gang of harriets.

Wife Delia has supported him through his working and hash career (occasionally sending him back to the venue of hash parties to apologise the next morning). His brother Pete the Pilot was corrupted into hash ways while visiting in Khartoum and is now a distinguished hasher in his own right.

Bonkers and Delia retired to Sussex around 2003, from where he continues his love of rowing and has started studying for a degree in history.

Boof

  Craig ‘Boof’ Robertson has recorded 1,100 plus runs with Hamersley H3.

Boomer

  Gavin ‘Boomer’ Graham passed 1000 runs with Hobart in 1999

Boots

  Victor ‘Boots’ Bursa has a 1000 runs plus with Casuarina H3.

Boob Check

A check that is to be left to the female hashers to 'check it out'.

Boob a Lube

As of May 12, 2010 Boob had 2,171 hashes with 62 different kennels! Boob's primary hashing territory has been in Korea, Hawaii, Thailand, Singapore, and the Philippines. Hashing since 1988 he is an ex GM of the Yongsan Kimchi H3 in Seoul, Korea; ex GM of the Aloha H3 in Honolulu, Hawaii; and founding and ex GM of the Makati Metro Manila H3 in Manila, Philippines. He is currently working in the Philippines and manages to find time to hash all over Southeast Asia with occasional forays into Hawaii. Retirementwill eventually take him to Bangkok on a permanent basis!

Bordighera, Royal H3

  Founded in April 1947 by Gus Mackie, Bordighera H3, on the Italian Riviera, Bordighera was the second Hash in the world and existed up until the early sixties although after the departure of Gus ‘on government business’ they probably became more a social club than a true Hash.

It is noted that Giovanni Paradiso, the grandson of King Vittorio, occasionally run with the hash. He had met the founder when both had been prisoners of war and it is through Paradiso that Bordighera claimed their Royal title.

It seems likely that Hashing, in some form, resumed in the mid eighties when the building of a science arena brought a small influx of ex-pats to the region. This second reincarnation also faded away and the existence of the Bordighera Hash remained forgotten by the rest of the hash world.

In 1991 ‘Bwana’ of Milan H3 was staging a run in the area when some of the locals informed him of the earlier group . He took the news to Magic in Bangkok who encouraged the revival of the kennel. The easiest option was to integrate the deceased chapter into Milan H3, which became Royal Milan and Bordighera H3 with the understanding that at least one run a year would be staged on the Riviera.

The Ghost of the Coast Run

Source: Mike Lyons in InterHash ’98 Informer

Borneo Nash Hash Updated

The island of Borneo is divided into three nations, Brunei, Malaysia and Indonesia. All three have a strong Hash culture and they have been meeting for a biannual Nash Hash since 1987.

1st Nash Hash

Kuching H3 hosted the first Boreno Nash Hash in Sarawak, on the Malaysian side of the island. It was staged between June 5 and 7 and activities included a visit to a long house, watching native dancing and drinking rice wine. The post-lube was an 8 day trip to hike Mulu Sumit.

Bosnia

  Sarajevo is famous as the spot where the First World War started. According to Harrier International, Peter ‘Reckless’ Rycroft, an RAF wing commander was co-founder and first GM of a kennel that was up and running around Christmas 1994.Attracting packs of 30 mixed nationalities, they boasted that ‘so far haven’t been shot at while Hashing.’ (Individuals had been shot at while jogging.) 

     This group folded and was restarted by Stanley 'Panama' Dunn, Wayne 'Wankee Doodle' Butler and Susan 'Short Hare' Kosinski in December 1997. Sarajevo H3  are now up to 500 plus runs but recently packs have dropped from  20-30 to 10-20. The beer is cheap, the terrain beautiful and running on Sundays allows the Hash to get out of town.

‘SljivoBitch’ sent the following update in early 2010. Sarajevo Hash House Harriers are still alive and running. There are less and less mind fields to play but the beer is still cold and fresh for this group. As of Jan 2010, we stand with over 500 Hashes behind us and currently with runners/walkers (10-20 people), every second Sunday. Best time to visit Sarajevo is in the winter for skiing & hashing and in the summer August for Sarajevo Film Festival which is a must. For more information please contact: We are restoring our website soon but until then you can find us at Google groups. On On and welcome to Olimpic City of Sarajevo! contact link

Botswana

The Gaborone based Kalahari H3 was found in 1982 and prospered partly thanks to a regular stream of visitors from South Africa. They have clocked up well over a thousand Monday nights runs and are considering the possibility of a monthly Sunday Hash. Although the pack is small to medium size, averaging around 20, they are a good Hash for social and extra events, including a recent 166km relay to Sun City. The Ostrich has been adopted as their symbol.

Bouncer

  Bouncer is a Hash name which suggests large boobs, and there are Bouncers on the Drifter, Gold Coast and WANK Hashes. Similar names include Bouncing Czech (clever double meaning!) and Bouncy Banana.

Brazil

  Brazil is the land of samba, football and hashing. Well, actual just samba and football because hashing has had surprisingly little impact on this country of 175 million sport loving, beer drinking people.  There was a Sao Paulo Hash as far back as December 1987 (founder Dave ‘Mauler’ Lawler) making it the oldest Brazilian Hash but it faded out. It was left to Ian ‘Konkorde’ Roberts (ex Jakarta H3) and Jerkin ‘Joe’ Bradley (ex Tokyo) to re-founded the kennel.

The story was similar in Rio, where Steve ‘Bundling Board’ Koenig founded the first  Rio Hash October 1993 only for it to fold around 1995. Jane ‘Get Shorty’ Couillard and Steve ‘Daddy Doolittle’ Coia restarted the kennel in February 2000. A newspaper ad for ‘Hashers wanted’ attracted just six runners to the first event but they have kept going with numbers rising and falling and now meet every second Sunday. Steve ‘Saddle Sniffer’ Edwards started a Full Moon Hash in January 2002. 

The Brasilia H3 tends to come and go, with the latest reincarnation being founded in July 2000. By the time the two founders departed the kennel was well established, with a run on the first Saturday of every month. It is described as a ‘mixed adult Hash based on the traditional robust lines.’ If this latest recreation can survive there is a possibility of a Brazilian Nash Hash in the future.

A small kennel has also started up in Fortaleza and the 2006 World Hash directory listed a Curitiba H3, which had previously escaped much notice. They offer Sunday runs once a month and if the December 1992 founding date is correct then they would have clocked up close to 200 runs.

Please note - there is little sign of any of the Brazilian hash websites being updated and current status of all the hashes is questionable

Bread of Heaven

The Welsh hymn (but with more imaginative lyrics) is sung on several hashes, and seems particularly popular in Africa, being virtually the theme song in Kampala and Dar es Salaam. It goes something like:

When I came to Dar from the UK

Scotch and water was my drink

Then I changed to Scotch and soda

God almighty what a drink

Warm Safari, warm Safari

I can never get enough

Get enough

Etc etc

The Kampala version uses Bell’s beer.

Brewer, the

Charlie ‘The Brewer’ Tucker is a Scottish legend, being the first man north of the border to clock up a 1000 runs with one kennel, in this case Edinburgh. Remarkably during this spell he only missed 111 runs.

Brig, the

Ray ‘The Brig’ Thornton was a high-ranking military officer and one of the great founders of modern Hashing. He was introduced to hashing in Singapore in 1962 and over the next few years his military career took him to many of the world’s trouble spots.

 In Borneo he co-founded Kuching H3 and then moved to Cyprus, helping to found Dhekelia H3 as the first Hash in Europe. Back in England he founded the Commando Forces H3, believing this to be the first Hash on British soil, although in fact Mountain Rescue had just beaten him to it. Although the Commando Hash faded out, ‘The Brig’ went on to found Bichester H3, now one of the strongest of the UK Hashes.

Brig Davis-Scourfield

Brigadier Gris Davis-Scourfield has had a distinguished military career, being awarded both the CBE and the Military Cross.  He was also a keen hasher, co-founding the Dhekelia H3 with Ray Thornton and then founding the Episkopi H3.

Having a senior officer take an interest in Hashing removed many of the problems the early military hashes might have otherwise encountered.

British Virgin Islands

  No known Hashes although a Tortola H3 probably existed during the mid-nineties.

Browneye

  Type ‘Browneye’ into Google and you do not get a well-known Hasher, but ‘Jackie Browneye Porno Videos’ which, I gather, are not for the faint hearted. That does however explain why this is such a popular Hash name.

Browneye

  Ian ‘Browneye’ Brown has a 1000 runs plus with Casuarina.

Browneye

  After a military career that saw him reach the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and serve as commanding officer of the 3^rd Auckland and northland Battalion, David ‘Browneye’ Ives went into development work. He became a senior member of the Asian Hashing community, running with distinction in Borneo, Colombo, Jakarta and Dili, East Timor and serving as a member of the Goa InterHash committee.

David will always be linked with Indonesia, where he was co-founder of TGIF H3. While in Indonesia his son, Duncan, was involved in a serious car accident. It was largely due to his fathers energy and love that Duncan made as much of a recover as he did. Their extremely close father-son relationship continued into retirement in Geraldine, on the South Island of New Zealand.

Browneye had a love for beer, whisky, cigars and sport and was always willing to give his time to talk or to help new hares set trails. David Ives died in January 2007 after a short illness.

Quotes

‘Quite conversions over cold beer and whiskey, his endless jokes and stories that always raised our spirits.’

‘An adventurer, a gentleman, a scientist and a top bloke’

‘His work in Borneo, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Timor have changed the way the Indonesian government and others design and implement programs to improve the lives of the poor in the third world.’

Brownsugar

Rhona ‘Brownsugar’ Imre is a long serving member of the Ankara H3 who, in 2009, became the first Ankara hasher to take on a second spell as GM.  She now saves most of her energy for the circle and late night partying.

Brunei

Hash Classic - Brunei Hash 1965

With thanks to Mountain Rescue

Negara Brunei Darussalam, usually just called Brunei, is a sovereign state taking up a small northern corner of the island of Borneo. It is actually divided into two by the Malaysian state of Sarawak but most of the 330,000 inhabitants live in the west.  It is an oil wealthy and sport mad little nation with a large ex-pat community. The sale of alcohol is banned in Muslim Brunei, but non-Muslims can import a limited amount.  Despite that limitation, Hash wise Brunei is certainly a great place to be, with a long Hash tradition, some brilliant jungle terrain and, even today, a lack of alternative entertainment.  There are now 14 Hashes in Brunei and they share a website at: www.geocities.com/Pipeline/Curb/1352/Brunei.htm.

Brunei H3, based in Bandar Seri Begawan, (usually just referred to as Bandar or BSB) is the original group and was founded in February 1963, by Colin Berwick, supported by ‘Pip' Furse (ex Singapore) and David Hobby. This makes them one of the five oldest kennels in the world. They started with a 50-50 split between servicemen and civilians, the NAAFI providing the beer and the mortuary the ice. They were (and remain) a men only Hash, so in November 1966 Robert Tiepel and Glamour Singh founded Brunei Hen House Harriers ‘Where Bums and Boobs Bounce Best’. This was the world’s first female hash and in the early days numbers dropped to as low as six, with husbands only allowed to attend if they were there to look after the children. Brunei Junior Hash House Horrors followed in 1979 and claim to be the world’s first Horror's Hash. 

In 1976 Hashing spread west to Kuala Belait and the Kuala Belait Harriettes followed in 1977. Virtually every run was a jungle run and it was not unusual to get people lost over night and not unknown for them to be lost for two nights. There were beers at the run site and then it was onon to a curry house, but at this stage no names or formal circle.

Progress to other parts of Brunei was slower. Temurong H3 took hashing to the eastern enclave in 1988, but numbers are small and they only run bi-monthly. It was 2002 before the Labi H3 took Hashing into the interior.

 Brunei Hardcore Hash House Harriers are somewhat different and were founded in 1983 as a ‘hardcore alternative to the BH3 1000th run’ It is an occasional hash, usually meeting once a year, but not every year, that heads over the border to the Malaysian town of Limbang. Slogans such as ‘The hardcore Hash gets laid in Limbang' or `BH3 put the Bang in Limbang!’ suggests the tone.

With thanks to Chicken Legs

Brutus

  Jim ‘Brutus’ Ingram joined Perth on their 181^st run and achieved 21 years of hashing with them in 1994.

Bubbles

It’s a bit poofy for a Hash name really, but there are several Bubbles out there including those of Bergen, Lune Valley, Scarborough and Teign Valley.

Bubbles

  Andreas ‘Bubbles’ Christiansen is a member of Bergen and Drifters H3 and a maths teacher in real life. Was rushed to hospital on the Hole in the Ice run in 2004 (a Norwegian who didn’t realise snow was slippery) and then managed to break further bones falling at EuroHash 2007.

     We're forever blowing bubbles....'

Bugs Bunny

Lennox ‘Bugs Bunny’ Butler was founded and long term member of Antigua H3. Bugs passed away in 2009 and is describe by friends as  ‘a human dynamo of energy and a dear friend chose Half Moon Bay as his favourite base’.

ON ON Bunny

Quote taken from Flying Booger's  website

Bulgaria

  Sofia H3  runs every second and fourth Sunday of the month. They usually stay within the city limits, and Sofia offers quite a few suitable parks. However hares who are keen to get away from the city fumes might go a little further out, with the nearby Vitosha Hills a popular venue. There is also a yearly ski hash (more a ski trip than a hash) and occasional visits to Plovdiv or even into Greece.  On Thursday evenings many of the pack can be found in the Irish Harp.

History

The first run is listed on their website as 24^th November 2002, although it seems that a couple of earlier attempts to get a hash started had faded out. On this occasion there was a solid base of experienced hashers. MTM was an influential first GM, Sister Michael an entertaining RA (and beermeister) and Out of Africa a hard working Hare Raiser – a key position as she ensured there were always runs, often haring herself.  The GM bought along several new recruits, including Rug Burns and Groper, who both became long-term hashers with the kennel. It was Groper who stepped up to the RA role when Sister Michael left for Ankara.

MTM also brought along  Albena  'Thing Thong’ Mihaylova, who made history as possibly the first Bulgarian to take up hashing. Another great servant who did so much to help the kennel in the early days was Ken ‘No Honour’ Stuart, a US judge and true hash gentleman who produce some classic hash trashes between 2002 and 2007.

     Work on the new airport brought in a small influx of runners and today the pack averages 25 with a growing number of locals being introduced to beer and paper. ‘No Honour’ left just 6 runs short of becoming the first Sofia Hasher to clock up 100 runs and long term RA, Lionel ‘Grouper’ Sainsbury departed on reaching the same landmark, so that the 100 run barrier remains unbroken.

Updated July 2009 with special thanks to MTM

Bunter

  Terrance ‘Bunter’ Kavanagh’s career began in the Far East and he went on to found Cambridge H3 in 1985 and Falkland H3 1992.  Bunter now mismanages, St Radegund’s Public House ( previously and appropriately a convent/nunnery) on the corner of King St and Jesus Lane in Cambridge.

Quote: At Chiang Mai, when asked why Bunter was such a grumpy old bastard, Gorilla of Cambridge H3, replied “Because he was such a grumpy young bastard!”

Burma

Officially known as Myanmar, although ordinary people still seem to prefer Burma. It is a beautiful country in a bit of a mess, with a junta of generals determined to keep power and the elected leader and Noble Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi suffering years of house arrest .

     Yangon H3 was started in June 1980 with a core of runners from the embassies. The emergency of 1988 brought a ban on groups of 5 or more people meeting, plus a curfew and petrol rationing, which naturally made hashing a bit difficult. As thing improved the hash was reformed in 1992 and celebrated their 200^th run in March 1999.

The pack were almost entirely ex-pat - locals would have attracted unwelcome interest from the police by hanging out with foreigners - with oil and embassy staff predominant. The ex-pat turnover tends to be high but Bob ‘Bobo’ Thomas and ‘Ship for Brains’ were notable exceptions. This is great hashing territory; you ‘step off the plane and go back 40 years’.

Bugs Bunny

Lennox ‘Bugs Bunny’ Butler was founded and long term member of Antigua H3. Bugs passed away in 2009. Onon Bugs Bunny

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Burkina Faso

Ouagadougou H3 gather at the American Rec Centre every second Sunday and then head out for the bush. They describe themselves as a ‘very friendly family Hash. Lots of dust, not much ceremony. Walkers usually outnumber runners.’ French is the language of choice

Burnt Sox

Steve ‘Burnt Sox’ Royster is still fondly remembered for his spell as GM of the Mexico City H3. Now in Washington, his name regularly comes up as organiser of Red Dress runs.

Burnt Sox

Steve ‘Burnt Sox’ Royster is still fondly remembered for his spell as GM of the Mexico City H3. Now in Washington, his name regularly comes up as organiser of Red Dress runs.

Burundi

 Mike Mack and Magda Los founded the present Bujumbura H3 in November 1997, although some Hashing was probably going on before the troubles. Problems left over from the war, including mines, limits the pack to a short run in the suburbs.

Burung

 Jeremy ‘Burung’ Pigeon was co-founder of Jakarta H3 and hare on their first run. 

Bushbasher

 Ian ‘Bushbasher’ Mackay completed 25 years of Hashing in 2002. He was founder of Gladstone H3, Bribie H3, Son of Nigel and Noleen’s Noggy H3 and Mackay Full Moon H3.

Mark ‘Buzby’ Haydon is a veteran of two decades of UK Hashing. He was a key figure behind Teign Valley H3 staging Nash Hash ’97 and was on the Cardiff InterHash committee and acted as GM of the southwest post-ramble. More recently he has been GM of Isca H3 and the SW On-Sec since 2005. Buzby at EuroHash 2007

Updated July 2009

Bwana

Bwana was dragged along to the Amman hash by a visiting business college, ‘Hard Nuts’. He became a regular on the Amman hash and went on to run with kennels in, Philippines (South of EDSA), New Zealand (Rotorua) and Bahrain. However, because of the nature of his work, Bwana has not always been able to enjoy a home kennel and much of his hash experience as been as a visitor.

Butterworth Airbase

  A pre-war airfield, Butterworth was handed over to the Royal Australia Air force in 1955 from where the RAAF operated various fighter, bomber and transport aircraft as well as helicopters. This was the place that many pioneer Aussie Hashers got their first taste of beer and paper.