FaeroesNo known Hashes
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Falkland IslandsA Falkland Island Hash was started in 1985, the pack drawn largely from construction workers on the airport project. Terry ‘Bunter’ Kavanagh was the founding father. Numbers were always small but left some happy memories. Magic describes a St Paddy Day Run in which the trail was set with cans of Guinness and there were a couple of commemorative t-shirts that would have pride of place in any hash museum. The hash faded out in 1987 but was restarted by ‘Red Leader’ and Tom Denny in October 1989. Numbers grew to thirty but attracted very little local interest and as various projects came to an end the hash folded again. Indeed the Falklands was never really a hash friendly environment. Restrictions caused by fenced in land and minefields limiting the possibilities while gale force winds tended to blow away the marks, a problem that was never really overcome. The use of long shreds of coloured paper, or squares of cardboard anchored down with rocks proved the best, but a far from perfect, solution. |
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Failaka Weekend New entry Failaka is a weird place. There is an Ancient Greek temple from the days pf Alexander the Great, a camel breeding farm and a military museum, which is little more than a dumping ground for old Iraqi tanks. The island was occupied by the Iraqi army in the 1990 invasion and the population of around 2000 people moved to the mainland. They have never returned and there has been a rather half hearted attempt to turn the island into a tourist resort, Kuwait H3 stage an annual hash weekend on the island. There are no set dates, although it usually aims to take place during the off season when the one hotel is empty. The main hash of the weekend is traditionally a night run through the abandoned ghost town. The hare of the dog is a stroll through the nearby desert. |
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False trailA trail designed to take the pack in the wrong direction. The end is usually, but not always, marked with a cross or a series of lines. Often called a ‘falsie’.
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Fartin MartinAn ex-Kota Kinabalu Hasher, ‘Fartin Martin’ Van der Linden joined the Auckland Hash on his return to New Zealand in the mid seventies. He took on the role of scribe and, along with Tony Evans, is credited with helping New Zealand Hashing to both expand and move closer to its ‘drinking club with a running problem’ roots. He became the self appointed GM of ‘South Pacific from Antarctica to the top of the Pacific, except for Australia’ and officially held the New Zealand GM’ship in 1981. Is also famous for the CD collection of hash songs, ‘Fartin Martin and the Booze Brothers’.
Fartin Martin and the Booze Brothers ‘Fartin Martina and the Booze Brothers’ stole the show at the Bali InterHash cabaret and followed up with what is probably the best Hash CD ever recorded. This bawdy collection of adapted songs includes some great backing vocals from Harriettes, Big Leg, et al. Sadly, Harpo, a member of the band, was killed in a motor vehicle accident soon after returning to the UK from Bali InterHash.
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FartAccording to the dictionary a fart is ‘to expel intestinal gas through the anus; break wind.’ Actually it is much more than that, being an endless source of jokes and Hash names. I give you Fartin Martin (of Booze Brothers, Bali InterHash 1988 fame), Farting Sphincter, Farts, and so on. |
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Fast FoodTucker ‘Fast Food’ McGaw is the son of Digit. He made a great impact in Goa, where he was probably the youngest of the hares and set an impressive trail that was a balls breaker in all but name.
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F.B.A.C. stands for Fat Boys Athletic Club. Usually a unofficial and self claimed sub group of a kennel.
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The most common version of the family of ‘Fat’ Hash names. There is often some sensitivity when giving out Hash names so ‘Fat Bastards’ tend to be moderately plump rather than obese.
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Mike 'Father' Lyons is a financial consultant by profession and after a lifetime of travelling is now settled in Melbourne. 'Father' started Hashing in 1981 as a founder member of Addis Ababa H3, and ran with them till 1987 when he moved to Kuala Lumpur. He spent eleven years in KL, running regularly with Mother Hash and Petaling H3 and, less regularly, with KL Harriettes, PJ HH Harriettes and the Royal Selangor Club H3. He was GM of Petaling H3 in 1994, but the pinnacle of his Hash positions was as On Sec of Mother Hash in 1996. From 1994 to 1998 he was fellow Hash Genealogist with 'Tumbling Bill' Panton, his main task being the computerisation of the H3 Family Tree. He was also Treasurer and Executive Committee Member of the KL InterHash 1998 Committee, which turned out to be a six-year job, eventually involved overseeing a US$500,000 budget! At the 1996 InterHash in Cyprus he collected US$99,000 in 'early bird' registrations and had to smuggle this 'Hash fortune' through several countries before he could safely bank it in Kuala Lumpur. Father was also a founding member of the Hash Heritage Foundation. Since arriving in Melbourne he has run with Melbourne H3, and the Melbourne Ladies H3, but now confines himself to the Lakeside H3 and a monthly bush run with the Melbourne Howlers FM H3 (which he founded in 2000). He remains an outstation member of Kuala Lumpur H3. Although he has not kept an accurate record of his run total, he estimates it must be around 2,000 runs. |
Father AbrahamJen ‘Father Abrahams’ Falkenby has been running with Copenhagen H3 since 1980. He leads the run total with a 1000 plus runs.
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Father AbrahamParticipation song, popular with many kennels. Often used at checks when there is a little time to kill. Has advantage of entertaining and bonding the pack. The disadvantage is that it tends to make everybody look like total prats.
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Hashing came to the Pacific island of Fiji via Port Moresby, when Joe Shaw founded the Suva H3 in November 1974. The Harriettes came along three years later and ex- Suva runners went on to found the Lautoka H3 in March 1976 and the Lautoka Hospital H3 in December 1982. There is also a Labasa H3 (1983) based on the more northerly of Fiji’s two main islands. Labasa is a wild area and even the golf course, a favourite venue for runs, is hilly. Labasa has a reputation for staging relays and doing charity work. Nadi H3 & Harriettes were founded in 1990 while the most recent additions have been Pacific Harbour H3 (founded 1999 by Jon 'Wigless' Orton) and a Suva Full Moon Hash.
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FinlandHelsinki H3 was founded by Ulf ‘Dirty Old Man’ Burmeister and Osmo Jalovaara in 1977. They claim to be the third oldest hash in Europe. Unmentionables generally joined the lads afterwards, which led to the first mixed saunas. Their all male policy and a tendency towards rather competitive trails led to the founding of the Helsinki Harriers and Harriettes, who continued the tradition of mixed post-run saunas. At the turn of the century the annual ‘Hole in the Ice Run’, (yes, this does include a mixed sauna) staged each February become very popular with visiting Hashers. Helsinki also hosted InterScandi Hash in 2001. It should be notes that the departure of a core of key hashers, including 'Man in Black' has left the Harriettes somewhat less active in recent months. The Turku H3 descended from Helsinki and this small kennel which claim to be the most northerly Hash in Europe
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Finger in the DykeHerman ‘Finger in the Dyke’ Grimminck came to Nepal as an engineer, helping to build several hotels and hospitals in Pokhara and Kathmandu. He became a central figure on the hash, serving as a long term Grand Master who ‘saw the Hash through years of mismanagement, providing weekly supplies of paper and drinks, and being a creative Hash Trash. He planned and oversaw several Hash Weekends and published Hash souvenir books.’ After struggling with illness for two years Herman died in April 2005. Onon Finger in the Dyke |
First HillMorry ‘First Hill’ Tanner started Hashing with Gold Coast and earned the name ‘First Hill’ as that was the point at which he would turn back. First Hill was such a keen hasher that he asked for his ashes to be scattered on his favourite venue. This was done and there is now a yearly memorial run from that spot. On on First Hill
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Fleet Hash
Fleet Hash - AustraliaThere is a strong tradition of hashing in the Royal Australian Navy, with ship crews staging runs from harbours around the world. (They are of course pissed off that the Kiwis got the idea first). Fleet Hash One, based on HMAS Yarra (a River Class destroyer) dates to 1982 and was, for many years, the RAN Hash. Wally ‘Kanga’ Birch was a long time GM and Yarra sailors drinking beer at the Port Moresby San Miguel brewery is still a legend on the island. Although HMAS Yarra was decommissioned in 1985 the Fleet Hash regularly stages a run prior to the Sydney ‘City to Surf Run’ in August, with as many as 200 Hashers turning up. On smaller ships, hasheses tended to be spontaneous by nature, with the rapid turn over of crews making it difficult to build up any hash tradition. Australian ships with some hash history included HMAS Stalwart, HMAS Adelaide (first run 1987), HMAS Brisbane, HMAS Canberra, HMAS Darwin HMAS Hobart, HMAS Parramatta, HMAS Stalwart, HMAS Stuart and HMAS Swan. See Fleet Hashes on Australian Website
Fleet Hash - Great Britain updated The most distinguished of Her Majesty’s Hash Ships is HMS Manchester, which made a world tour in 1986 followed by a repeat performance around Europe. Steve Stevens was founder and GM and Cal 'Mess' Calton clocked up the most runs. Crews of other British ships that have occasionally hashed include HMS Amazon, HMS Campbell and HMS Edinburgh. When an American destroyer pulled into Southampton harbour in 2001 a small group of five or six hashers were entertained by Chichester H3, being treated to a run and a visit to Portsmouth Harbour to see HMS Victory.
Fleet Hash - New ZealandThe idea of a navy Hash is credited to Flinty who organised runs in Fiji and the Australian east coast from HMNZS Waikato in 1979, making this the oldest Naval Hash in the world. Others took up the idea and by the mid nineties there were five New Zealand ships with hashes. The most enthusiastic was HMNZS Monowai (ship hash founded by Scouse and 7up) who could have 75 of their crew of 130 turning up for a run. The HMNZS Southland was another noted hash ship and home of The Rambling Rams H3. During the early nineties the Rams visited 20 kennels in 6 countries during a ship’s tour of South East Asia. The 50th anniversary of the Royal New Zealand Navy saw several ships in port and OBS and Seadog decided to organise a mini Naval Nash Hash. 320 turned up and Naval Hashes from Auckland docks became a monthly event. Other New Zealand hash ships have included Wellington, Canterbury and Monowai.
Fleet Hash - USASince the 1980s many USN Ships have included hash groups who have enjoyed their R & R with resident kennels in the flesh ports of South East Asia such as Pattaya, Thailand and Subic Bay, Philippines. Perhaps the most famous American hash ship is the USS Blue Ridge the 'Floating Hash of the Far East Seventh Fleet'.
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The Flintstone theme tune has been adopted as a hash song to the lyrics ‘Hashers, meet the hasher We’re the biggest drunks in history’ etc
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Brian ‘Flipper’ Hewett was chairman of Cairns InterHash bid in 1998 |
Ordinary white baking flour is used to mark the trail on many hashes. It is easy to see and goes onto any surface. On the down side it is heavy to carry. In the third world it can also seem inappropriate to be seen wasting food in this manner. Hares in Kuwait have occasionally run into similar objections based upon the local religion. In the newly neurotic western world sprinkling flour around the streets has triggered terrorist biochemical alerts.
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Flying BoogerPaul ‘Flying Booger’ Woodford made his hash début with Tampa in 1988 and his career as an Air Force pilot took him from Tampa to Okinawa, where he served as GM, and onto Hawaii. A noted Hash publisher, his Half-Mind Catalogue is one of the great Hash websites and he also has a ‘Dr Down-Down’ advice page in Asia Pacific Harrier magazine.
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Forest GrumpGreat movie in which Tom Hanks plays the lead role. Hash wise there is a Forest Rump, Forest Dump, Forest Gump, and Forest Hump. Can also be spelt (misspell) Forrest
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Fox, theFather Bill 'The Fox' Robins has been a stalwart member of the Nepal Hash since the mid-1980s. He is their long term Religious Advisor, which is not surprising as he is a Jesuit priest in real life. This allows the Himalaya H3 to claim that ‘we may be the only Hash in the world with a real religious adviser to minister to our spiritual needs.’
Keith Foxtwat Sly is a Gold Coast hasher, instrumental in starting the Aussie Nash Hash. |
France
Are the French, so proud of their own culture, really going to adopt the ‘British’ invention of Hashing? Probably not. True there has been a notable growth in new hashes recently, but many of these centre on the ex-pats areas and even Paris, population including the suburbs of over ten million, can only put together packs of 20-30 with locals in the minority. Indeed they even, unforgivably, close down for the summer. Founded in June 1981 the Paris H3 was the first of the French Hashes and runs every other Saturday, alternating with the Fontainebleau H3 who trace their history back to their rebirth in 1988. A third Paris region Hash, Sans Clue Hash H3 was founded by Bob 'Killer' McKay, Betty McKay, Toney 'Hawkeye' Ward, Laing 'Flower Power' Purfitt, and Kathy 'Ricochet' Purfit in 1993. Their weekly runs take place in the ‘parks and forests to the west of Paris’. It was Sans Clue, along with the Paris Full Moon, who in July 2004 staged the 7th French Nash Hash, which incorporated the Paris 600th run. The Riviera H3 is the oldest group outside of the capital. They were founded by Chris and Connie Griffiths (ex Singapore) in March 1988 and run every second Sunday along the coast and mountains of the Cote d'Azur. Despite favouring gourmet wine over beer they still get packs of 40. Of the new Hashes Lorient H3 in Brittany was founded in February 1999. They run every second Sunday and fourth Thursday of month. Toulouse H3 date to October 2003. They have runs within a 60-minute radius of Toulouse on the second and fourth Sunday of each month and monthly during the winter. Grenoble 'Grobble' Hash was originally launched on 1st April 2000 by Pussy Galore and re-launched a year later by Big Ears. However they only run occasionally. Canigou H3 ‘Cumming round the Mountain’ was founded by Claire 'Bad Girl' Nortcliff, and Charlie ‘Pepper Puke' King in May 2003 and Hash around the town of Prades. ‘All Hashes are within view of the mountain 'Canigou' and might include coastal and vineyard runs’. Trails often take them down towards the Spanish border. In the same region The Pau H3 run family friendly hashes once a month in the Béarn and the Pays Basque Tousosue
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FrenchFrench is often used as part of a Hash name as in French Clutch, French Drip, French Fart and French Tickler.
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FrigidAn obvious Hash name as in Frigid Bitch or Frigid Digit.
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FrogAs a Hash name usually suggests a French connection. Examples include Frog Fucker and Frog Shit.
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Alex ‘Froggy’ Park is a veteran hasher of Jakarta and site manager at InterHash Goa 2002. He was actually a very good runner in his youth, and a ‘good man’ to have in the circle. Froggy is also author of a hilarious series of essays featuring Ronnie 'The Penguin' Strachan.
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Friday 13th Hashes are occasional events run – yes, on Friday 13th’s - that follow the trail of famous murders. The idea was apparently thought up by Menstrual although it was Robocop, who had access to the Scotland Yard Black Museum, who did the research for the first runs. This was in the days before the Internet, when such information as harder to come by. The classic Friday 13th Hash of all time was probably the September 1996 Jack the Ripper trail around East London. From Run 13 organisation was taken on by Saddlesniffer and Gyrabonk. While the research for such events should be accurate, the reincarnations edge towards the entertaining! There has been plenty of ketchup poured over some poor hash victim and at one point Robocop actually produced real offal to illustrate a particularly gruesome murder. Source – EuroHash programme 2007
Robocop Another Friday 13th murder! |
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FRBFRB stands for Front Running Bastards, the much cursed, but just possibly secretly admired, fit bastards who are forever disappearing into the distance on a run. Front running must be done with a certain panache. Harriet front-runners are generally more happily accepted. Dogs and children, under say ten, also tend to get away with it, and might even be thought cute. Probably the first ever FRB was John Wyatt-Smith on the pre-war Mother Hash. The fastest FRB of all time was Dancing Dan, an international class marathon runner. Tim Johnstone, with a 2.15.26 marathon and an 8th place in the 1968 Olympic Games is probably his only rival, but there was a long gap between Tim's international running career and his turning up on the Angels city Hash. Probably the fastest FRB still active is Blind Pew of Stockholm H3, and a member of the British Orienteering team. Only known runner banned for his FRB tactics was an occasional hasher in Jakarta who, in his anxiety to get to the front of the pack, tried to push a pregnant woman off a bamboo bridge. This did not go down well, particularly as this was on the ‘Pussy’ Hash!
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FuckWhat do the following all have in common? 'Fuckin' Nothin’ ‘Fucking Halfwit’ ‘Fucking Minnie’ ‘Fucking Stupid’ ‘ Fucking Worthless’ Fuckwit’. Answer: They are all hash names. The alternative spelling is Fuckin as in Fuckin Goofy, Fuckin Yank and so on. Enough said.
Editors note The most disastrous ‘F’ name of all time was given on the Batavia Hash. When the hasher about to be christened was asked if he had any previous hash names he said ‘Welcome Back’. He was instantly named ‘Fuck Off’. As a result every time he attempted to say anything in the circle 40 Hashers would shout ‘Fuck Off’ and after three or four runs that is exactly what he did. |
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Fucking Beep BeepRoberto ‘Fucking Beep Beep’ Garcia (formerly ‘Branded Dick’) is a Norwegian Hasher of Colombian origins. He started Hashing in Albania in 1998 and is now with Oslo, where he is a distinguished RA. Has clocked up some 300 runs in 20 countries in his short Hash career.
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Full MoonThe idea of a night time run under the rays of a full moon is of uncertain origin, but San Diego formed a Full Moon kennel in 1986, and this is possibly the first such kennel. While often claiming independence, Full Moon Hashes are usually closely linked to a ‘mainstream’ hash.
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