Calendar GirlsA movie in which the WI get their kit off to raise funds for a local hospital. Good movie and a good idea, taken up by the Teign Valley H3 ‘Supermodels’ whose nude calendar raised money for prostrate cancer charity.
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Calgary Stampede RunA yearly hash event, held in May, to coincide with the Calgary Stampede Rodeo Festival. The hash does not actually get involved in the festival, but uses the holiday to get out of town. A Stampede classic was the event in Wayne Ghost Town (around 2007) in which the on-in was completed by floating down the river!Thanks to Big Country
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CallWhat we should all do on the Hash. The most common call, of course, is ‘on-on’ but might include cries of ‘check back’, ‘check around’ and so on. It is basically communication to keep the pack in contact. ‘Call’ itself is most likely to be heard as in ‘call, you bastards’. This means you are lost and you want somebody to tell you where you are (or at least where they are). Can also be used by fat bastards, getting a bit bored chattering at the check, and in this case they are just letting you know they want to get on with it.
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Cambodia
Few countries have had a more violent recent past than Cambodia; see the film, ‘The Killing Fields.’ However, the Vietnamese invasion and a vast UN project that followed brought major improvements and Hashing was able to re-start in August 1992. The Phnom Penh H3 meet at the main railway station (runs have switched from Sunday to Saturday) and usually drive somewhere close to the city. Their badge of a landmine is not to be taken lightly and they have actually run through a minefield (under the guidance of hashers involved in the mine clearing – interestingly nobody short-cutted off the marked trail!) They are a social group, entering events such as the Mekong River swim. 'Phlegm' who tops the run list with 183 runs at the time of writing and \Scoutmaster 'have been around since Run 100 (more or less) and both have had a spell as GM. |
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CamerounYaounde H3 was founded in 1986 by David Beckerley and meet every Saturday in front of the Hotel Hilton. Packs average 50 and quite a few of their runs get out ‘into the jungle’. |
Hashing came to Canada late, with even some of major cities not getting kennels until the nineties. The word is finally spreading and today Canada is an underrated centre of hashing with some 41 listed kennels - they can all be found at www.hash.ca - and Canada ranked 8th on the Cardiff attendance table. The National Red Dress Day is a big event in Canadian Hashing, and is the centre of a tradition for community work. Bike Hashing is also popular. Canada has hosted Americas InterHash in 1993 and 2005 and Edmonton made a bid for InterHash 2006. Having said that, some of the city kennels have surprisingly modest sized packs.
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An occasional event set by Amsterdam H3 using peddles boats to hash through the old town canals. A canal hash was first staged as a pre-lube to InterHash 2004 and another is scheduled as a pre-lube for Euorhash 2011.
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Rob Canman Low was born in Fife and studied at Aberdeen University, where he captained the boxing team. He then served his national service on submarines and from there joined the colonial service who sent him to the Solomon Islands in 1957 to work on a massive new oil palm project. He joined the hash in September 1964 and run with them until leaving the island in 1977. His wife started a doctors practise in East Sussex, where Rob became founder of Chichester H3. Canman was still running in 2010 and at an impressively briskly pace so for a gentleman now in his mid seventies.
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CansHash name for Peter Edwards, present on Perth run number 1 and still running with them 30 years later.
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Colin ‘Captain Kirk’ Frost is an Australian, born in England, who has spent most of his life travelling as an engineer in the oil industry. He started hashing in Indonesia around 1984 and went on to spend six years hashing in Brunei. A year running in Brisbane with the Heterosexual Hash was followed by four years of post grad work, when his Hashing was limited to holidays. From there he moved to Maryland and still has a particular fondness for the US style of Hashing with the regular weekend trips into the countryside. He has been Saudi based since 2003 and served as GM on the Jubail Hash. An InterHash regular since Tasmania 2000. |
Captain KnockersNolene ‘Captain Knockers’ Shepherd is a veteran of the Hash circuit and during the 1980s became the most famous Harriet in Hashdom. Called Captain Knockers for obvious reasons, she will always be remembered for her part in the Monday night circle after Jakarta InterHash 1982 (just ask The Penguin) and her contribution to Sydney InterHash 1984, where she was the On-Sec. She still runs with the Sydney Harriets.
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An annual memorial run staged by Phoenix H3 from the spot where Captain Crash’s plane impacted with the ground.
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Captain OatesGeorge ‘Captain Oates’ Whiteman learnt his Hashing in Hong Kong and went on to found Scarborough H3, Larnaca H3 and later Kiton H3. In January 2009 George moved on to the great hash in the sky. He is remembered in the ex-pat memorial grounds on Cyprus. On on Captain Oates! Updated with thanks to Pampers
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The Carnival Hash - linking with the world famous Maastricht Carnival - goes back to the start of hashing in Holland and in the mid eighties Assen H3 boasted that 'we drive 278km south to run a 10km hash and have 38 hours of the most exciting on-on you can imagine.' Amsterdam H3 are now the driving force behind the carnival hash. |
North and South Carolina staged a joint InterHash in September 2000. The event struggled through rainstorms that flooded the camp site.
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Brighton Hasher, Tim Carter, was killed after being struck by a car while on a hash in May 2004. Tim was a local doctor and father of six. Outside of hashing he was a founder member of Lewes Athletic Club and a member of Lewes Squash Club.
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Casino, Burswood Island incident new entry In the mid eighties Western Australia opened a prestigious new casino on Burswood Island and one of the Hamersley hashers decided it would be a good laugh to stage a run through the main hall. On the night of February 24th 1986, probably through a contact with an employee, he gained access via a side door and the pack charged through with horns blowing and cries of on-on. It took only seconds to see that this was probably not a good idea, for the hashers were causing panic rather than mild amusement. Casinos tend to be a bit heavy on the security and the guards, having been caught out, were quick to respond. The hashers started heading for the nearest doors and most managed to escape, although one representative of the pack was apprehended and briefly detained. In the end the casino accepted that it had been a harmless prank and not one they wanted publicizing. However the incident was reported in the local newspapers a couple of weeks later, and although the Casino had no comment to make, several hashers were happy to give their version.
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CatwomanStarted hashing in Emerald Coast Hash, Florida, USA, in 1990 and now runs with Dayton H3. Well known for her singing of bawdy and original songs at any big hash event. In her other, non-Hashing life, she actually sings bass with the ‘Gem City Sweet Adelines Barbershop Style Accapella Chorus’.
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Cayman IslandThe Cayman Island H3 was formed in 1978 by Raymond Legge and continues to run every Monday at 5.30.
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Central African RepublicThere was a kennel here in the early nineties but by 1996 political trouble reached the point where the road between the city and the brewery became unsafe and the writing was on the wall. There were a few token run around the grounds of the German Embassy but by 1998 everybody had left and there has been no hash activity since. |
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Chad is a former French colony, landlocked in the middle of Africa. It has had more than its share of problems with poverty and wars, but people tend to like the capital N’Djamena and the Chadians. Things must certainly be improving because there is now some Hashing going on, with N’Djamena H3 being founded by Paul ‘Beerhound’ Gallagher and seven virgins on December 10th 2003. Numbers have doubled since then - i.e. they can now get 20 to a run - and they celebrated run number 50 in April 2005. The trail often starts at the Lotakoh Bar and can be along the Chari River, through town, or out in the bush. Runs switch between Wednesdays or Saturdays, the pack is a combination of American, South African and Chadian, and the atmosphere ‘adult’. Since writing this account Chad has been involved in more political unrest and the future of the local kennel is uncertain. |
Chairman PastitAlthough Barrie Griffin is credited with being the man who came up with the idea of organizing a gathering of the world’s Hashers in Hong Kong in 1978, it was Wes Parfitt who is considered the main organiser.
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Common classroom white chalk is used on many runs in urban areas. It is environmentally friendly, and cannot be confused with chemical-bio attacks. However chalk tends to be difficult to see in the dark, is likely to be washed away on wet evenings and imposable to use on most natural surfaces. Chalk also tends to break, meaning hares face of the danger of scraping their fingers along the tarmac.
Pre run instructions which nobody listens to.
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The Channel Islands are ‘self-governing Bailiwicks’, just a few miles from France, but brought under English rule by William the Conquer and now enjoying the status of British Crown Dependencies. Basically this means that while they can sell cheap beer, they can’t declare war on Luxemburg. The population is small, about 160,000, and largely concentrated on the two main islands of Guernsey and Jersey and there is a strong sense of being a ‘Channel Islander’. Guernsey H3, are the oldest kennel on the islands, dating to 1978 when they were founded by Sam ‘Molar’ Marsh out of Hong Kong. They meet on Monday evenings and ‘any guests are welcome.’ The men’s only policy led to the founding of the Guernsey Harriettes. This strictly ladies only group are noted for their appearance on mass and in a range of eye catching costumes at big events. They in fact have an agreement with their men, the girls go to EuroHash, the boys to Nash Hash
Jersey H3 was
founded on 10th October 1 Crapaud translates to donkey, which is the way Guernsey people sometimes refer to their neighbours. The name was probably first used by Barnacle Bill and became adopted almost by accident. They run are every Sunday morning, winter and summer, ‘normally from a pub serving good beer’ and are publicized in the local press and on Channel 103FM. The Crapaud kennel tends to get off Jersey for the occasion run on the other islands or in France. Jersey Runcorn H3 is a Wednesday group. Their runs have no trail, but consists of up to 8 miles of serious running. They do at least follow this with beer and food. There is surprisingly little contact between the two islands, and the Jersey Harriettes have even been seen to frown upon the antics of the Guernsey Harriettes! Picture -The Guernsey Girls at EuroHash 2007
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Check, checkpointThe check, a circle drawn on the ground, marks the end of one stretch of trail and the start of the search for the next. The check is perhaps the most important element in a good trail, for this is where the back markers get the chance to catch up and the front-runners the chance to put in a bit of extra exercise. On some hashes, particularly where there is a security problem, checks are to be held, i.e. the pack waits for the last runner to arrive. Other Hashes might have the occasional ‘hold the check’ and this can sometimes be spontaneous, called by the runners themselves if they think the pack is getting too spread out. Conventions include ‘running to the check’, meaning not stopping just because you see the pack resting ahead of you. Indeed many walkers often seem to put in a bit of a sprint when they notice what is going on up ahead. Running past the check without noticing it is a minor sin. A beer check is always a nice variation.
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Check aroundOne of the less common marks, usually an arrow pointing back down the trail. The idea is when you get to it, you turn back, run to the last runner in the pack, run around them and then continue again in the direction you were previously heading. This means the two fat boys at the very back have only to run around each other. It can work extremely well to keep a pack together but more than one or two on a run can be frustrating for the front runners, while anybody with short-term memory loss can end up running the same stretch of the trail indefinitely. Some Hashes, including Bergen and Kuwait, use them regularly.
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The cry when you reach a false trail.
The cry of Hashers looking for the new trail.
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Chee ByeAllan ‘Chee Bye’ Chee has spent a lifetime running the Malaysian Hash scene, from Penang in the 1970’s to KL, to becoming co founder of Petaling Jaya and then Hazards H3. This long career has left him two main claims to fame:
· He is one of the small group of InterHash survivors · He was a pioneer of breaking down barriers between ex-pats and locals.
Chee Bye is now heavily involved, with Bill Panton and Fuch, in mismanaging the Hash Heritage Foundation, which will eventually be located in the reconstructed Hash House. Visit www.thehashhouse.org (Chee Bye, by the way, is mandarin for the female genitalia!)
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Cheras IncidentThe famous bandit incident at Cheras is one of the great hash legends. In September 1951, during the ‘Malayan Emergency’, live hares running in a patch of rubber and secondary jungle came across a gang of sleeping bandits. Whether the hares were able to warn the pack, or the pack had to race away from now alert villains is uncertain but a couple of the faster Hashers sprinted to Cheras Police Station and ambushes were set up on the tracks leading out of the area. The following morning three arrests were made (bandits not hashers) and one of the bandits was found to have a reward on his head. There is some dispute as to whether this was used for a Hash Bash, or whether the selfish hares invested in a new car. The incident was reported in ‘The Times’ of London with the hash being referred to as the ‘local harriers’.
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Chickenman newChickenman is a well known figure in the US hash scene, running with Philadelphia H3 from 1979 to 1997 with spells as On sec and Joint master before stepping up to the GM role in 1996. He has attended 12 of the 13 American InterHash events and was also on the organising committee in 1987. He continues running with Sir Walter's H3 (Raleigh, NC) where he was Joint Master between 2002-2006
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Chile UpdatedSantiago H3 was founded by Don and Peggy McGillivrey in 1978. They are a family Hash, running every other Saturday. As of 2010 they were doing well, with packs of 20 or 30 runners. Most are expats, with a large contingent of Canadians from the mining industry. City runs face problems with pollution and traffic and out of town runs are more popular. The coast is 90 minutes away and the hash usually hires a bus and stays over for the night. For the last 2 years there has also been a ski hash.
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China Updated
China started to open up to foreigners around 1977 and Hashing soon followed with the Beijing H3 being founded by Brian ‘Ewor’ Rowe in 1979. It was a tough time, with considerable suspicion towards foreigners and the hash had to be re-founded by Clint Halloran in 1982. At the time the authorities kept the Chinese population well clear of foreigners, who were not, for example, allowed to enter foreign hotels and so hashing became very much an ex-pat activity. The clubhouse in the British Embassy, ‘The Bell’ was an early venue and 1986 saw the first Great Wall Run. During these early days there were occasional incidents, including an attempted infiltration by the KGB posing as ‘Finnish diplomats’, as well as an air raid shelter run where the lights were turned off, leaving the pack stranded in pitch darkness. An ill conceived Tiananmen Square Remembrance run lead to more secret policemen than runners turning up. A hasher collecting T-shirts for the following weeks run was detained by the police and interrogated for the day. Similar problems occurred several years later on the ‘Hong Kong Handover Run’. However the nineties were a great time to be in China and hash characters include Helen Moorcroft, who became the first female GM, CNN camera women Cindy, who gets a mention in P.J. O’Rourke’s book ‘Holidays in Hell’ and Greg, the mad Australian, who opened ‘The Mexican Wave’, the first foreign run restaurant in the city. The Wave was the Hash bar for several years. As China opened up, ex-pat communities sprang up in other cities, leading to the founding of Guangzhou H3 (1984), Shanghai H3 (1989), (an earlier attempt by the German Embassy having folded) Chengdu H3 (1997), and Tsingtao H3 (2003).The latter have the advantage of being based in the town that brews China’s best beer. The Beijing Boxer H3, descending from the Taipei’s China H3, now runs once a month from the capital to take hashing further out into the countryside. Their run reports sum it up nicely. Run 1 'Gyno-Mike lost for 4 hours.' Run 2 'Hares detained by army' Run 3 'epic finish running on the Great Wall,' Run 4 'Great circle at the end with huge amounts of consumption! The Drunken Dragon H3 is a new addition in Shanghai, running every other Saturday and trying to get into the countryside, in their own words 'the trail meanders through the farms and villages'. The circle is held at the site and then it is back tot h city for dinner. See a full list of China Hashes at www.hashchina.com |
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Hash Classics Beijing g 300th Run 1992 Hare Shakesprick
Left The Pack, center GM Helen about to award the light and tasteful Hashit, right Goldilocks ,later a hash founder in Vietnam and to her right cameraman and ex male model Mictch |
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Updated A China Nash Hash has been staged every year since 2002 and is proving very popular, topping 800 runners in 2004. It is usually held around April. 1st 2002 - BeijingThe first China Nash Hash was staged in Beijing and organised by Rick ‘Ratchucker’ Head. A surprisingly high number of 444 hashers gathered. There were three runs on the first day, including one around the gardens of the Summer Palace, and one on the Great Wall. Day two saw a massive pack descend on one of the city parks. Circles were conducted with the help of giant blocks of ice.
2nd 2003 - Shanghai Mark ‘TBA’ Farwell and Rob ‘Octopussy’ Jones were in charge but the event was hit by the SARS breakout and numbers fell to 260. On the opening day most hashers headed for runs out of town although one event took place on the waterfront in the centre of the city (the famous Bund). All the runners gathered here later to join the river cruise. Day two was a run round the old French quarter.
3rd 2004 - Chengdu John ‘Roomboy’ Malins and Stephen ‘Child Abuse’ Greenhalgh organised the event which was based in the Dynasty Hotel. 350 attended and for the first time the famous TDH3 hosted a pre-run. There were four runs on the official opening day, Huang Long Xi ancient town, Long Chuen Yi Peach and Loquat Orchards, the two Buddhas plus the sex museum at Pengshan, and the dammed lake at Bai Ta Hu. Day two was a single run from the panda research base.
4th 2005 - Hainan Island Haikou Hash House Harriettes and Sanya Hash House Harriettes were the hosts on this southern Chinese island. The venue proved particularly popular and a large Malaysian contingent swelled the numbers to 800 plus.
5th 2006 Guilin Hosted by the Free China Hash.
6th 2007 Haikou Ice and beer on the beach.
7th 2008 Tianjin
8th 2009 Hangzhou (Guangzhou) Hangzhou pulled out and Guangzhou took over, combining the event with their 1000th run weekend. Thanks to Ban the Cock
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Gero Choporian is an Armenian t-shirt maker who has run with the Dhekelia Hash ‘pretty well from its inception’. As this was back in 1967 he might well have a claim to be the longest continual Hasher in Europe. |
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Christmas Island is a dot in the Indian Ocean, governed by Australia although it is in fact 2600km from Perth and only 360km from Indonesia. (Jakarta Hash actually staged an out station run here in 1980) Christmas Island H3 was founded around 1979 and is a family orientated hash with Thursday runs/walks. This is great hash terrain, ‘60% of the Island is National Park land and is pristine rainforest’ and the forest is big enough to get lost in, but small enough that you will not be lost for long. Several of the pack are on 300 or more runs, including Lusta Clusta, Shocker and Blowfly. However there is quite a turn over on the island and many of the great characters have left. These included Rosemary ‘Herb’ Kennedy ‘who could drink beer faster than most hashers could pour it’ and Dick ‘Sgt Bill McQuade’ Odema, who managed to get bitten on the penis by a centipede. Unfortunately Christmas Island is too far from anyway to attract many visitors. For anybody who does make it there, news of the venues is posted on the town notice board.
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Christmas Island H3 have been organising a Christmas Island Marathon since 1993 with profits going to the ‘Make a Wish Foundation’. In 2004 they raised almost $9000, which is remarkable for an island with a population of only 1000 people. The course record is a respectable 3 hours 17 minutes and 32 seconds set by Dave ‘Potarse’ Pottage. However, in Hash spirit there is also a team event with 6 runners covering 7kms each. |
ChunderDelightful expression of Australian origins, as in, ‘you should have seen that Pommie bastard chunder after just 35 pints of Fosters’. A nice hash variation is Chunderwoman (as in Wonder Woman) and they can be found on both the Scarborough and East Grinstead Hashes. For more details see World Wide Words
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A reasonably common hash name. Variations include Cinderfalla of Fort Eustis H3.
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Some people go through all that running just to enjoy the circle (sad bastards). Others jump in their cars and speed off with some excurse immediately after every run (even sadder bastards). The fact is ‘the circle’ is one of the central themes of hashing, and on a good day a place of entertainment and bonding. Historically, circles are quite a late development. The KL boys stood around telling jokes and drinking and the Singapore Hash introduced singing at the on on, but neither seems to have developed the ritual of a true circle. However it is possible that Singapore did hold some ceremony if an old hand was leaving the colony for good, and this might well have played a part in later developments. It is Jakarta Hash who claim to have formed the first circle, which was placed around the beer wagon to stop the locals nipping in and snatching the odd bottle. Indeed for a while circles were often referred to in South East Asia as ‘Jakarta circles’. However, once formed, a circle proved a natural arena and probably led to the more managed and ritual form of post run entertainment we are now familiar with. The early InterHashes were very important in spreading this concept of ‘the circle’. Circles basically split into two types. They might be mismanaged by hash officials, usually including the GM, RA and/or Hash Music Master who take on the responsibility for entertaining everybody. Alternatively they can revolve around mass participation and repartee. In Batavia Hash, Jakarta, for example, the GM runs the circle for two hours, but does little other than indicate which one of the Batavia Hash House Harrier Hoons is to speak next. Circle discipline various enormously. In Nairobi the prospect of any kind of discipline is so remote that they have introduced a microphone. In some of the all men Asia Hashes the quietest whisper to the hasher standing next to you is likely to see you sitting on ice. The atmosphere of a circle can also vary considerably, a major factor often being local drink driving laws, for there is no doubt that beer fuels a circle. Therefore in Indonesia you are quite likely to find people falling down in mid sentence. In places such as Chichester in the early nineties, polite clapping was not unknown. It should be noted that circles are not a universal feature of ever hash. It should also be noted that they should be!
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Circles from top .. Ankara, Surrey, Kuwait |
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City to SurfThe City to Surf is one of the world’s great running events, with tens of thousands of people jogging through the streets of Sydney. Since 1993 Fleet Hash have been organising a Hash run/pub crawl the day before. This idea is credited to ‘Spunky’ (ex London).
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When Angeles H3’s traditional 50 mile relay around Clark Air Force Base was aborted by the military authorities, Rob ‘Malibog’ Denny declared a ‘Brits only’ relay along the Angles ‘strip’. However, many patriotic red blooded American G.I. hashers ignored the high command and ran with the hash. ‘Therefore we admitted the Yanks back into the fold of the British Empire.’ Thanks to the Malibog brothers
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Clark KentThere are quite a few Hashers out there named after the mild mannered reporter including Clark Kent of Central Coast and Clark Kent of Stockholm.
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Claude was a Belgium citizen running with the Cairo Hash in the mid eighties, where his performance as RA was unique and legendary. In a long, rumbling and amazingly amusing style he would use the circle to explain – for example - how the common house cat was the fastest creature in the world (throw a lamp and a cat off the Leaning Tower of Pisa and they reach the ground together - and nothing can travel faster than the speed of a light). When not hashing Claude seemed to be inevitable propping up the bar at the Holiday Inn, causing some concern when the hotel was burnt down in the police riots of 1985 but Claude survived. After leaving Cairo around 1989 (? ) he seems to have disappeared and is presumably not hashing any more.
A Bourne Valley Hasher and the famous hash video man, present at virtually every big event. Clepto videos are available via the Bourne H3 website and stretch back at least as far as the 1991 Berlin 500th run.
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Richard 'Clever Dick' Holroyd is an Englishman
living in Stockholm. He drunk with the Stockholm Hashers for some while
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A 24-hour relay staged from Pescara on the Adriatic Coast to the centre of Rome, finishing at the Coliseum. The event was largely the idea of the small but enthusiastic Pescara based hash and when this folded the relay also ended. |
What an amazingly versatile word. It can mean both male genitals and making a mess of something, as in cocking it up (and I suppose a male chicken as well). It is therefore a more than useful Hash name, giving us ‘Cock o’ Fire’ or ‘Cockadile’. Despite being linked with male genitals, it is in fact far more likely to be given to Harriettes, as in 'Cock Killer', 'Cock Stalker', 'Cockbait' and so on
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Hash Cock is an official position – usually the only one for a man on a Harriett’s kennel – and basically involves being there to help out. (That can mean anything from arguing with local officials to helping a line of frightened women cross a narrow and wobbly bridge).* It is quite common to have Hash Cocks in countries such as Indonesia, where the Muslim culture makes it advisable to have a few men around. Unfortunately the position can in no way guarantee any sexual favours. * Not a sexist remark but a personal memory from being Hash Cock in Jakarta. In fact in the end they had to help me across!
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CockerHash name of Sylvia Doreen Spaniel who died in September 2002 at the age of 51.Amongst her many activities was being an active member of Houston Hash Harriers and the Bayou City Running Club. On on Cocker
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Most people think of Cocos (also known as the Keeling Islands) as a Pacific paradise. Paradise yes, but actually they are in the Indian Ocean. Think flying northwest out of Perth for 300 kilometres. Hashing here creates some problems, there are 27 islands but only two are inhabited and even these are not very long and in most places not much wider than the airport runway. Setting trails therefore requires imagination and usually involves a fair bit of running along white coral sands. Hares might hack a trail through dense undergrowth and on special occasions you might even have to wade from island to island. Cocos H3 celebrated their 950th run in November 2004 with a mystery bus hash. As the island only has 7km of road this required blind folding the passengers. Cocos run every Monday with the starting point advertised on the chalkboard outside the Cocos Club. Visitors can wait outside the Club at 4:30 for a lift and as there is a Monday flight from Perth many people are hashing within 30 minutes of stepping onto the island. It is an adults only group with a good circle. The number of hashers varies from year to year but can be up to half the adult population of about 100. Few people stay long enough to make it beyond 100 runs but Catherine ‘Horse’ Clunies-Ross and Dave ‘Prop’ Hughes have both passed the 400 mark. Sources: Cocos H3 website |
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Term used when more than one person sets a run. Sometimes suggests a secondary role, as in ‘Cum-up-the-Bum-Slowly’ is the hare tonight, and ‘Pussy-Sausage’ is the co-hare.’
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Bogotá H3 is listed as a monthly hash but it there has been some uncertain as to whether they are actually running or not. However they did update their details for the 2006 Hash Directory.
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Treasurer of Mother Hash 1946-1947 and again from 1958-1965.
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Famous for volcanic eruptions and coups, this tiny, mountainous Indian Ocean Island is also one of the most beautiful places in the world. However the ex-pat community is too small to get a hash up and drinking.
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There are numerous hashers called Condom as well as variations such as Condom King (Bandar) and Condom Man (Milton Keynes). During the 1980’s, Gerry 'Condom' Devon’s Hume Street house was known to Toowoomba H3, Queensland, as the “Condominium.”
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Condom Hash name of Johnny Johnson, one of the central pillars of hashing in Laos. A committee member of the Vientiane H3, he was one of the founders of the Bush Hash and is credited with inspiring the formation of the Sepon Hash. In 2006, he served on the Chiang Mai InterHash Mismanagement Committee. |
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Once the Congo, then Zaire (under which name they played in the 1974 soccer World Cup finals) and now the Democratic Republic of Congo (the democratic bit being at best debatable) this large, forested country is the real heart of Africa. Brilliant music, great sportsmen and crap leaders – led by President Mobutu who enjoyed western support while he siphoned off billions from the national economy. Since then we have had assassinations and ongoing civil war bringing anarchy and suffering to the eastern half of the country. None of this has been ideal for hashing, but the capital, Kinshasa, briefly had a kennel during the nineties. African veteran, Ron Martin was founder.
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We are talking the middle of nowhere, actually the middle of the Pacific Ocean; New Zealand is a 4-hour flight to the south, and Honolulu a 6-hour flight to the north. The Cook Islands is made up of 15 islands in two groups. Rarotonga is the largest and lies in the southern group. The Lonely Planet’s comment that ‘the focal point of the town is the traffic circle’ more or less sums it up. It is however an extremely beautiful and friendly place and the local kennel plays a central part of the island's social life. They have a reputation for good runs followed by a barbeque on the beach. The hash is also heavily involved in the annual week long festival of running. Hash info is posted in the Monday newspaper and usually in the bank window. Mosquitoes are the only problem and the island has dengue fever so they should be taken seriously. |
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Secretary of Mother Hash from 1951 to 1952.
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Central America is all about coups, crime and trouble, but happily Costa Rica is an exception. San Jose is the capital and San Jose H3 were formed in February 1979 by Ian ‘Hung’ Young and Bill ‘Bambie’ Barbee. They run every week, alternating between Saturdays and Mondays, and are now well over 1000 runs. Packs average between 20 and 30 from 110 active members. Costa Rica is famous for its excellent environmental policies, so there is some brilliant hashing territory including jungle, coastal areas and mountains. There are also some pretty good pubs. Famous San Jose hashers include Giles “Patchwork Quilt” Paget-Wilkes, the mastermind behind the first Americas InterHash and Jorge Salazar whose 235 consecutive runs was recognised as a world record until beaten by ‘The Lord’. A second Monday night pack, the Escazu H3 was founded in 2005.
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Annual run co-hosted by Colorado H3 and Texas H3 and usually – in typical tacky Hash style – written Kotex. The event once included a 100% up hill run that started in a canyon floor but despite that can still attract around 300 plus runners.
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(1) Once upon a time the North Hants H3 pack had a disagreement with a farmer, who objected to them running across his fields. Some five months later the committee received a letter from the National Farmers Union claiming that one of the cows on the farm had died the day after this incident, that this was due to bovine stress, and the reason for this stress was the hash running across the field shouting. The hash took three months to pen a letter denying responsibility and the matter dragged on through letters and police reports for nearly a year.
(2) An incident in the 1990’s, involving Brisbane H3 and a dead cow, resulted in legal proceedings and compensation changing hands.
(3) Bicester were involved in an incident with cattle in July 2009, the club’s secretary receiving an email from a local firm of solicitors informing him that, ‘As I understand matters a number of individuals comprising some type of running club or team were crossing my clients land, apparently following public rights of way and a pathway marked by piles of white powder believed to be flour.’ The Issue seems to be that the hashers had wandered off the footpath and therefore off the right of way and that ‘a prize winning breeding bull was damaged, along with two cows’.
The incident showed the seriousness of the issue and also the uselessness of having insurance. The suggestion in the Bicester issue was that had they stayed on the footpath they would not have been liable, but the moment they came off the footpath they were negligent and therefore no longer covered by their insurance!
Update Prof has sent the following note! 'the solicitor’s letter was in fact a clever hoax perpetrated by our OnSec on Oxford H3 who had been running on our patch and had pretended to be from Bicester when challenged by an angry farmer. OH3 took it very seriously until the beans were finally spilt.' |
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Cracker Graham ‘Cracker’ Baker was introduced to hashing by a work colleague and he ran a few hashes with Doddington H3 back in 1981. It wasn’t until his work as a British Railway consultant took him to Indonesia in 1991-92 that he started hashing a little more regularly. Returning to England he clocked up 345 runs with Essex and was an enthusiastic member of the Indonesian Reunion runs. Life takes unexpected turns and Cracker is now living in Sofia with his Bulgarian wife and is a central member of Sofia H3. His hash name was given to him by an American and apparently Graham Crackers are a famous brand of biscuits. As his surname is Baker, Americans seem to find that hilarious.
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Croatia Updated Zagreb H3 was founded in 1975, making it one of the oldest kennels in Europe and the first behind the 'Iron Curtain'. They claim to have held a hash with bombs falling on the city and to have once held a Hash Circle inside a VW Beetle during a rainstorm. They have close links with Vindabona H3, who came across the border in numbers to support their 555th Run. Zagreb H3 staged EuroHash in 1995, coincidental with their 20 years and 1000th run anniversaries. Hvar, an island an hour or so from Split, was the venue and the event went ahead despite some concerns over fighting in the rest of the Balkans. In 2002 Zagreb H3 organised a hash cruise that involved 8 trails on 7 islands and this is now an annual event under the supervision of the Dalmatian H3. There was also a Zagreb Strollers H3 who were ‘a friendly bunch’ where ‘lewd behaviour and ritual humiliation is minimal’ This small kennel was noted for families pushing strollers up and down Zagreb’s many hills! The departure of core members such as World Wanker, Twinkle Toes and Big Country led to the folding of the strollers some time around 2004.
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Edmonton hasher Norm Klaus was a long-standing member of the Canadian Hash scene and has left many memories, such as always having a Rainer beer in one hand. "Cheap beer meant better to him. He always showed up at runs with it." In his mid forties Norm faced a battle with a recurring brain tumour that resulted in a major operation and the hash name ‘Crash Test Dummy’. Just out of surgery and determined to get on with life he headed for InterHash in Tasmania. Towards the end of a five-week tour medical problems forced him home early. Hospitalised in Vancouver he came out of a coma to phone the pack who were just finishing a run. The hash hired a Learjet to bring him home to spend his last days surround by his Hash friends. Source: Edmonton Website, Edmonton Journal |
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CubaAn island that has big cigars, a high rate of literacy, great athletes and pisses off the USA can’t be all bad. However, it must be noted that under the present government hashing has not been encouraged. There is however an active group on the other side of the wire in Guantanamo Bay. (This is now of course famous for being the detention centre for suspected terrorists but has been a US military presence here for many years - see the movie ‘A Few Good Men’). The Guantanamo Kennel (The LeastWorst H3) are naturally an all-military Hash, gathering on Saturdays at 4:30pm with packs of 30-50 mixed adults. They reached run 110 in July 2004. |
Cuckoo was a central figure in the Ikeja Hash and owner of the ‘Crocodile’ Hash bar. He was badly injured in the June 2000 road accident and flown for long term treatment in Switzerland, after which the Croc closed.
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CucumberCucumbers as in, 'Why is a cucumber better than a man?' (Cucumbers are easy to pick up etc etc) must be just about the most widely repeated article in Hash magazines. Might have been funny once but the cucumber is now well worn (ha ha!) |
Colin ‘Culture Vulture’ Crabbe is a road
building engineer by profession and it was the Istanbul-Ankara highway
project that brought him
to T Vulture went on to hash in Cyprus and by 1995 was in the UK, hashing with Surrey but regularly travelling and hashing on business. By 2000 the Greeks were building a major road system and Vulture hashed in Thessalonica. His final posting was Libya, where he turned out with the struggling Benghazi hash before retiring to Bodrum in Turkey. A chance meeting with old hash friend Seaman – their wives met in a supermarket - led to the founding of the Bodrum hash. With Vulture as GM they staged their inaugural run in March 2009, a great two day event attended by nearly a hundred Turkish hashers.
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CueballBill ‘Cueball’ Corless is a central figure in the history of the Ankara Hash and his spell as GM and then RA set the traditional tone that continues today.
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Cum, CummingA common Hash name which just goes to show we hashers can’t spell, but we can certainly come, as in Cum N Go, Cum Silent Cum Deep, Cumalot, Cumikazee, Cumming Numb, Cums 2 Quickly, Cums First, Cums Solo and Cum Dancing of Milton Keynes.
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Cumming, IanIan Cumming is a hash legend, joining the Mother Hash in the late fifties and still Hashing in New York the following century, which must be one of the longest unbroken pedigrees in Hashdom. His greatest claim to fame is founding the Singapore H3 in 1962 and thus taking Hashing out of Malaysia for the first time. A fine rugby club singer he was probably influential in turning Singapore into a singing Hash, which in turn influenced several other kennels, particularly Jakarta. Not content with that, he became co-founder of New York H3 in 1978 where he has spent many years as GM.
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Cumming NumDelightful Harriett of Canadian extraction, she runs with the Munich Hash and is a regular visitor at European events. Was joint founder of Winnipeg H3 during a short spell back in Canada.
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Extremely common hash name, comes from a sexual act, but you knew that. Usually given to multi-lingual Hashers. Canny Lingus (Istanbul) and Camel Lingus (Kuwait) are amongst the variations. |
Craig, DavidFormer Tehran and Abu Dhabi hasher and then founder of Barbados H3
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The ‘C’ word, ‘Competition’ is outlawed on many hashes.
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Cyprus Despite its tiny size, and despite being split in two, Cyprus is a great centre of hashing with a history dating back to January 1967 when the Dhekelia H3 was founded. Ray Thornton and his commanding officer, Gris Davies Scourfield, who had learnt their Hashing in the trouble spots of the Far East, were the founders. Shortly afterwards Scourfield was transferred to another British base at Episkopi, where he started the Episkopi H3. This was originally a Monday hash but the RAF boys complained this was a difficult night for them, so they switched to a Thursday evening. By run 337 it was noted that there was actually no hashers from the RAF turning up, so they moved back to the traditional Monday spot! Polygon H3, the third Hash on the island, also had a military background but was the first to welcome families. The atmosphere at the time is beautifully described by Trevor Evans in ‘Sunjet’ Magazine, hashers ranging from the baby-faced young lieutenant ‘whose ambition is to complete the trail in ten seconds flat and shatter the ‘jolly old pain- barrier’ to an ‘overweight brigadier in knee-length shorts whose convinced it’s dashed good for morale to be seen ‘getting on with the chaps’. As the British forces started to withdraw from the island the military hashes faced problems finding runners and Dhekelia are now struggling to keep going with a handful of regulars. Episkopi was able to recruit from the large British retirement community in the area and are doing better. They retain their men only policy, but allow ‘bona fide visiting Harriett’s to run with them ONCE’. The second and third generation of Cypriot kennels were established by ex-pats on short-term contracts. These have always tended to be mixed, social and family orientated. Larnaca H3 and Amathus H3 were set up within two weeks of each other around May, 1987. Larnaca had a core of telecom and software engineers, while two ex-Cheltenham and Cotswold Hashers, Jake Jarman, and Dave ‘Phallus’ Thomas formed Amathus. They started with a pack of about 7 but are currently averaging 40 to 55 a run. Larnaca celebrated their 50th run with a large contingent from Cheltenham & Cotswold H3, while their 200th attracted a couple of hundred guests from the Middle East. These runs set the scene for Cyprus bidding for InterHash. The biggest Hash on the island is now Nicosia H4 (Nicosia Horrible Hash House Harriers) founded in 1989 by Duncan Kirby and others. They have the advantage of drawing from the city’s diplomatic Corps. They celebrated their 1000th run with a three day hash weekend in November 2007. The feeling that hashing was perhaps becoming too family orientated led to George 'Captain Oates' Whiteman, founding the weekly 'Adults Only' Kition H3 in February 1999. The nearest to an all island Hash is the Pansilemon Pankyprios H3 an 'All Cyprus Full Moon' hash.
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Czech RepublicPrague H3 was founded in1984. In the early days there was considerable concern for the interest the local police appeared to be showing in their activities and the on-on was usually held in embassy grounds. This had the unintentional result of keeping locals out. There was also the winter weather to contend with –10 on their third run, as well as the embarrassment of running round the streets shouting ‘Czech’.Today is a happier time and Prague H3 is now a social, mixed group, meeting most Sundays for a walk/run and ‘a couple of stops to sample excellent Czech beer.’ The runs inevitably finish in a pub with more excellent Czech beer. Prague is also an active group, travelling to support regional events and with several special runs at home, including an annual ski Hash. Prague Blue Moon H3 ‘meets occasionally and on a Blue Moon’. |
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has been a central figure on the various Stockholm Hashes. Over the
years has taken his turn as RA and GM and is currently the de-virginizer
of the Absolute Hash. Now retired from a a life as a high level insurer
of oil rigs and Heathrow Terminal 5, he can devote his life to hashing
and boating. 
urkey
in the nineties, when he was a key member of the Ankara Hash. He was
involved in organising joint runs with Istanbul, often at Cappadoccia,
and it was on one of these trips that he met his wife ‘Virgin’ 
