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H3 or Hash3 is the usual abbreviation of Hash House Harriers. It is also a car number plate (possibly on a Ranger Rover) spotted in Dorchester area in 1995. Some combination of Hash, ONON or H3 appear on numerous number plates in the USA and Australia. Reference: Hare and Hounds |
Hackers, is a newly thought up name for hashers meeting to play golf! (Golf? Poofters!) The term was invented by members of the Pj Animales and Pj Hazards with Cheebye and McFoong to the fore. ‘We hack or try to golf monthly and we have a on-down before we start and a hash circle after the game. There are 24 of us and usually the circle can see us finishing off 5 cases of beer or 120 cans and a couple bottles of whiskey.’ Lauda Markuz was the Hackers first RA. . |
Bill ‘Hairy Fairy’ Anderson played a vital role in establishing the Ankara H3, his spell as RA and then GM setting the tone of the Hash that continues today.
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Hairy Fairy Bruce ‘Hairy Fairy’ Cullings worked for the BBC and was a noted social animal and a central member of West London H3. Bruce was killed in a climbing accident shortly after returning from InterHash in Tasmania. On On Hairy Fairy |
Corrupt dictators have left Haiti in a bit of a mess, with 80% of the population living below the poverty line. Around 2001 things got bad enough to bring in ex-pat aid workers and Alex Newton and Betsy Wagenhauser, a husband and wife team who had previously hashed in Kazakhstan, got a kennel started. The American Ambassador was, apparently, very supportive.
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A hash book published by Alice ‘Mad Rushin’ Johnson in 1990. It was something of a pioneer project and offered a basic guide to Hashing with the emphasis on ‘How to Set a Hash’. Also contained a few interesting antidotes and some classic pictures.
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Magic listed Hash World Records, in his seminal volume ‘On-On!’(p.419) under the title ‘Hall of Foam’. He considered the records represented “the most comprehensive listing of screwball antics and genuine? claims of ‘best in their class’ around the globe.” |
Shelagh ‘Hand Full’ McComisky started her hash career on Qatar H3’s 7th run in 1977 and continued hashing during a brief return to Edinburgh. In the early eighties she was posted to Cairo and from there to Alexandria. This was a non-hashing city and so, with partner Angus, she founded Delta H3 (August 1984). Hand Full continued to hash through a series of postings to Kuwait 1986, Jordan 1987 then returned to Doha.in 1989. Ref: Qatar H3 Boxing Day Magazine 1989
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On April Fool’s Day, 2006, Atlanta H3 announced that they would, here after, be known as Happy House Harries as ‘the Hash part of the name, attracted the wrong kind of clientele - hippies and drug users - and at the same time putting off the right kind - beer-swilling, jogging-happy party-animals’. They also claimed that the Hash House Harriers World Committee, H3WC was to be renamed Happy House Harriers World Committee. The joke was reported in the general media.
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Hare (s) The Hasher or Hashers who lay the trail. A run might have a solo hare, joint hares or a hare and supporting co-hares. If anything goes wrong the hares are, of course, to blame. Having said that, regularly setting trails is considered a highly commendable way to spend your life and some hashes award mugs or other gifts to acknowledge statistical feats of haring.
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Hunting animals with dogs dates back to ancient times. As hunting gave way to supermarkets it became a sport, the classic image being the English aristocracy riding across the countryside with a pack of dogs chasing some poor rabbit, fox or local peasant. When the upper classes started sending their young sons to boarding schools there were no facilities for riding, so they developed the ‘hare and hounds’ foot chase as a substitute. This was the genesis of all modern forms of cross-country running, including hashing. The young men of the public schools took the idea to University and after that formed clubs. Thames Hare and Hounds date from 1870 and are still going strong. The idea travelled overseas with the Empire and by the 1860’s Hare and Hound events were being staged in Shanghai and Singapore, where a horseback version was preferred.
(2) Hare and Hounds A UK Hash magazine edited by Graham ‘Robo’ Robinson in the 1990’s.
(3) Hare and Hounds Tim ‘Magic’ Hughes’ pioneer hash magazine which evolved into Harrier International.
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There were probably 'Hare and Hounds' clubs in Malaysia as early as the twenties and certainly by the thirties, as ‘Horse’ Thomson ran with Johore Bahru in 1932. However, such events were occasional and informal. The Springgit Harriers probably date from 1935 and were the first of the more serious clubs, adopting a name and staging weekly runs. They ran more or less under hash rules and Gispert was a member in 1937, with Torch Bennett joining him for a few runs as a guest. Ipoh had a group called the Kinta Harriers and there was certainly paper chasing in KL before the Hash was formed. |
Hare of the Dog 'Hair of the Dog', meaning a drink taken early in the morning to deaden the pain of a hangover. ‘The Hare of the Dog’ is the hash version, referring to weekend trips where there might be a short run on the morning after the main event. ement was tracking down Don Kennedy, perhaps the last pre-war hasher who had not previously been interviewed. Given the age of Mother Hash veterans, that will probably never happen again.
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Stu ‘The Colonel’ Lloyd published
‘HARE OF
THE DOG: History, Humour and Hell-raising from the Hash House Harriers’
in time for InterHash Goa 2002. The book is somewhat muddled in places,
and badly in need of indexing, but is still a
very good read and one of the
best summaries of Hash history available. (Magic’s ‘On-On’
is still the bible!) ‘The Colonel’s’ greatest achiev
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Committee member in charge of making sure there are hares lined up for the next few runs.
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Male Hasher
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A bi-monthly magazine launched in 1993 by Tim ‘Magic’ Hughes and descended from Hare and Hounds. Its main distinguishing point was an all colour front cover
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The word was first used in the 18th century to describe a hunting dog. It can also describe a hunting bird or ‘a persistent attacker’. In British athletics it defines the distinction between a club that was established primarily for cross-country running, for example Thames Valley Harriers, and a club that originally concentrated on track and field, such as Southampton Athletic Club. Hashers, being cross-country runners, have naturally opted to be termed ‘Harriers’.
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Female Hasher. The term was believed to be first used
by the Ipoh Ladies. Harriett is an alternative spelling. Bouncies,
Bumpies, Moos, Men of the Opposite Sex an
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An all female kennel. The first were the Brunei Hen House Harriers, founded in November 1966. The idea was taken up by Ipoh (April 1968) Kota Kinabalu (September 1970) and Penang (November 1972). Kennels might also be referred to as Bunnies or Pussies (Jakarta Harriettes for example are universally known as the Pussy Hash). Many Harriettes, particularly in Muslim countries, or countries with crime problems, actually like to have a few men around. Usually however men are not acknowledged, merely tolerated, and are certainly expected to be low key in the circle.
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That name has of course caused many of us some form of mild embarrassment, for example somebody rapidly putting the phone down when you ask, ‘are you phoning about the Hash?’ A hash event in Denmark was even investigated by the drug squad, who had been combing the Internet. Apparently a similar misunderstanding occurred in Essex. However Hash, as in Hash House Harriers, ndoes not refer to drugs but to the food served at the Selangor Club, where many of the Hashers lived and where they usually went back to eat after a run. There is some doubt as to whether it was actually referring to the poor quality of the food, as in ‘the cook made a hash of it’ or just to the weekend left overs being thrown into a wok and re-cooked, as in hash browns. Cecil Lee pointed out in a 1990 interview that it was the former, and that in fact ‘the food was good’. Lee also claimed that ‘G’ and others came up with the Hash name over lunch. However, Horse Thompson, in an interview in 1988, suggested they went to the government offices intending to register as ‘The Paper Chase Harriers’ and only opted for ‘Hash House’ after officials rejected the first name. ‘The official thought that was no good either, but it was better than the first one, so he let it stick.’ This implies that the decision was possibly made in the office and it is uncertain whether G was present but, given his talent for designating, he might well have not have been.
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Hash Boy New entry A cult cartoon series run in Harrier International in which Hash Boy wanders through life going from one hash to another. The humour is low – our hero wears t shirts that exclaim things like – EAT MORE SHIGGY – but as such nicely meets the needs of its intended audience. The copyright identifies the authors as Whack and Nut N Honey.
Hash Bucket (1) Bucket, trunk, tin bath or whatever the beer is kept in at the end of the run.
Hash Bucket (2) The container that Hash Cash keeps the run fees in.
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Club treasurer who collects money. A good Hash Cash tries not to lose the moneybag, or if he does, at least tries to remember which bar stool he left it under. |
The money collected to pay for the run and originally one Malaysian dollar on Mother Hash. Today fees vary from place to place and will depend on what is included and the local price of beer. On some Hashes, particularly in the UK, it is a nominal fee that only covers the cost of a few Down-Downs. On most Asian or African Hashes however the fee will cover as much beer as you want, and possibly food. The golden rule is to keep things cheap, the only noted exceptions being charity runs. Visitors or new comers are often given their first Hash free.
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An official position on some harriette kennels (Jakarta Pussies for example) for the 3 or 4 men who sweep at the back of the pack to look after the strugglers. This is a necessity in some cultures, where women out running in shorts might be considered something of a temptation to chat up, rob, forcible kidnap and take home to marry etc. Hash cocks might be an official position held for a year, or appointed from run to run.
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He (or she) who calls the pack together for the start of the run. Not a common term.
A seldom used alternative to RA
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Hash directories date back to the Hong Kong InterHash ‘unconvention’ in1978. John Duncan’s 1980 InterHash KL Directory was a more comprehensive listing and the work was taken another step towards being ‘comprehensive’ in the 1984 Sydney edition. However other hashers were also collecting and publishing data and by1986 three directories existed. First, was John Duncan’s published data secondly the ‘official’ InterHash publication (the 1986 Pattaya edition being magnificently edited by Magic with assistance from Whorator), while (thirdly) Richard ‘Polly’ Hadfield had published an excellent compilation of known Hashes and Hashers from his Brunei base. After 1986, it was agreed by the three editors that the work would be continued by Magic, who went on to publish nine updated Directories before his sudden death in 1998.
In those pre-internet days the
Directory was a bible to At a meeting of interested parties in KL in 1998 it was agreed that each InterHash should produce an undated Directory from data collected during their registration processes and this has been duly accomplished in 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006. Paper directories seem in no immediate danger of being replaced by the Internet. Source: The InterHash Directory: A review and opinion, by Whorator. World Hash Directory Goa 2002
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Hash Etiquette is a useful way to get around the fact that there are no rules on a hash.
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Official photographer on the run.
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Hash Flash (2) Shout to gather Hashers around when a group photo is required.
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For almost twenty years Wayne P. ‘Hash Groupie’ Tishburn operated Nacho Nois, a popular expat and hash bar on Soi Post Office in Pattaya. His final bar was ‘The Hare House’ which was a meeting point for local golfers and Hash House Harriers. Recruited in 1985 by the then Pattaya GM, Whorator, to be Hash Santa Claus, Hash Groupie went on to register 381 runs with PH3, placing him 9th on the all time rankings. Famous for never actively running or walking on a hash, he did act as hare on eight occasions and made the Songkhran Run (Thai Water Festival) his regular contribution. He was a mismanagement member from 1993, was Hash Piss virtually every year and Hash Cash from 1998 to 1999. Hash Groupie also rendered sterling Hash service to the Pattaya Dirt Road Hash for many years. He sadly died in a Bangkok hotel room in 1999. On on Hash Groupie!
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Seller and often procurer and designer of hash gear. Often seems to be a mythical creature, i.e. when you are visiting another Hash you always seem hear ‘this is the first run they have missed for three years. However I have this very faded, unwashed t-shirt that I could swoop if you like!’ Also known as Hash Rags.
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A warning call to those behind you that there is a dangerous hole on the path. The usual sequence is: 'Och, shit. Hash Hole!’ ‘Pardon? ‘Och. Shit, Hash Hole!’
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Hash Horn is both the hasher who rallies the pack by blowing the trumpet, horn or other wind instrument and the instrument itself.
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Mildly derogatory nickname for the Selangor Club. See Selangor Club.
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Hash for the youngsters. The first is believed to have been started in Brunei in 1979, although there was an annual Hash Horrors run in Jakarta about the same time.
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‘Swing Low, Sweet Chariot' was written by Harry Thacker Burleigh (1866-1949) and has been universally adopted as the official Hash Hymn. Usually performed with various alternative versions (humming, Chinese, silent, Reggie etc). In Jakarta the Hash Hymn was religiously used to close the Hash Circle each Monday night. The GM initiated the Hash Hymn by calling “Gentlemen of the Hash, Hats and pots on the floor”. The Hymn was led by the Master of Music. This tradition, although by no means universal, has been is taken up by numerous other hashes. The hymn, without the hand movements, is often sung in the circle before a run to acknowledge the recent death of a hasher. You can listen to it on line or just go down to your local Hash tonight.
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Stray Dog’s collection of songs. Started as a song sheet put together for German Nash Hash and now part of the Global Trash Website. Collection stands at 500 plus songs
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An Internet discussion group of Hashers about Hashing.
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Hashit is an award given away during the circle. In some Hashes it is awarded weekly, alternatively the recipient might retain the award until another major crime occurs. The idea is thought to stem from Brunei H3, who awarded John Alum a ‘Hashit’ for the remarkably bad trail he laid on April 28th 1966. This became a regular ceremony and was copied by other hashes. Of all the various trophies that have been used, it is the good old toilet seat that is the most common. Nepal H3 claim this dates to Prince Charles’ Royal Visit to Nepal, when a specially constructed toilet was made for his Royal Highness and afterwards destroyed, so that nobody else could have claimed to have ‘sat on the royal throne’. According to legend the actual seat was saved (i.e. stolen) and handed over to the Hash.
A cry that can be taken up in the circle to show disproval and suggest awarding the Hashit is in order.
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Horst ‘Hash Kraut’ Whippern was one of first Germans to have an influence on hashing. He ran with Mother Hash in the mid 60’s and was founder of Port Moresby Hash on 10 January 1974. Hash Kraut then moved on to Singapore in 1979 where he hashed for another ten years.
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A hash title, used as an alternative to Religious Advisor (RA). See Religious Advisor |
Hash Music, aka Master of Music Official position of hasher who leads the circle in song. Might be simply a choirmaster with a good repertoire of songs, or a composer who puts hash related lyrics to well known tunes. Possession of leather vocal cords is a pre-requisite for Hash Music
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Fun and games organized at the bigger hash gatherings.
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Hash Piss – the beer drunk at a hash.
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Hash Publishers Association (HPA) The Hash publishers association is an ‘informal affiliation of webmasters, print editors and individual Hashers’ who publish information for the hash community. The group have a philosophy of ‘free and freely available’ information. Founded in May 1997, they have over 200 members. Details on the Half-Mind catalogue.
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Member of pack acknowledged to have some real or imaginary medical skills.
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A kind of Facebook just for hashers, where you can post your profile and photos, take part in blogs, form groups and generally give life meaning until the next hash run. It was created by Sux2blow of Nittnay Valley H3 and uses the Ning platform. This is designed for people (often with limited technical skills) who want to create networks for specific interests. You have to be invited to join by a hasher who is already a member and that has probably helped, rather than hindered, membership. By January 2010 there were nearly 15 000 members signed up and over 300,000 photographs online! Visit hashspace
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‘Hash -The Video’ was put together by professional film maker Paul Jones in the early 90's. Shot on location in Malaysia, Thailand and England, it featured interviews with hash veterans Thompson, Lee and Duncan.
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The weekly or monthly newsletter published within a hash kennel. The idea
started in KL sometime in the early years, the oldest surviving copy
being the one produced for the 100th run.
The first purpose was to give details of the next
run, later a report of the previous run was included. They reached an art form in Singapore in the sixties, when they were composed over legendary and lengthy lunches. As the trashes were posted to former members they played an important part in spreading the concept of hashing to new kennels. The idea of issuing Hash names was first used in the Jakarta newsletters, to protect the guilty from their previous week’s sins. (Sins sometimes in the biblical sense). Today of course the trash is far more likely to be hosted on the Internet. A review of the last run, and information of the next run, are the core ingredients of any trash, but sadly the rest is increasingly likely to consist of nothing but jokes down loaded from the Internet.
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Hastings, Battle of
1066 is the most overrated date in British history - in numbers involved the famous battle was smaller than some modern soccer hooligans brawls. In addition historians are by no meaning convinced that the fields around the Abbey were actually the site of the battle - it could have all taken place on the next hill. However ‘1066 and all that’ has a certain charisma, the supposed battle ground is a pretty neat place to wander around and hashes have occasionally staged weekend trips here. The first was probably Cambridge in 1999.
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Enforcer of the ‘no hats in circle’ rule. Possibly originates with Medan H3
A common hash protocol is that no hats are to be worn in the circle (exceptions occasionally being made for official hats won by the RA or GM.). Usually called just after a Down Down has been completed, leading to an immediate repeat performance.
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M.C. Hay is believed to have been present on run number one with Mother Hash and served as Joint Master along with ‘Torch’ in 1941. By then he was head of the tin department and, as such, a senior member of the civil service. He was one of the party who fled Singapore in 1942 with Lieutenant-General Gordon Bennett. Hay returned to Malaya after the war and helped to restart the Hash. He retired to Burpham, Sussex, where he has a grave and a memorial in the local church.
A hash mystery! - At some point in the early eighties Chichester Hash set a run from the George and Dragon Pub in Burpham to find two elderly gentlemen drinking in the bar who seemed to know all about hashing. Chichester hashers believe that one of them was C.S. Gee. I presume that they meant Cecil Lee but the second man is a mystery, It was not M.C, Hay who died in 1982 while CH3 was only founded in 1983. Chichester runners believe the second man probably lived in the village, had links with London Scottish Rugby Club, was probably a ex-Malaysian hasher and had a double barrel name. Any suggestions?
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Hashers visit the grave of M.C. Hay during a Chichester H3 run from the village |
Hazakashii new entry Ed Hazakashii Howell is a distinguished hash founder, have started Aloha H3 (September 1991) Seoul Southside and Japan’s Sumo Hash.
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Hash House Hazards H3 is a Malaysian invention, an effort to get hashing back to its roots of drinking beer, not running marathons. In the words of Alex ‘The Bear’ Thomas, who with Allan ‘CheeBye’ Chee founded the Petaling Jaya Hazards ‘being a good Hash is not about long runs, cash in the banks, or a large number of members. Nor is it about changing the traditions of Hash to the whims and fancies of new Hash boots.’ The Petaling Jaya Hazards came largely out of the Petaling Jaya Animals, itself an attempt at creating a more traditional hash. The main rule of the original Hazards concerned the trail, which was to take no longer than 1 hour 45 minutes 'running for style and not speed'. This group was announced in the Animal’s circle and is seen as an extension of, not a rival to, the home hash. It started with the concept of only admitting men above 40 but when younger hashers joined, it evolved to include those with waistline above 40” and IQ below 40. The idea caught on and Hazards’ H3s started up in Malacca, Johor Bahru, Butterworth, Sungai Petani and Medan. Source: Allan ‘CheeBye’ Chee of PJ H3H3.
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Nye ‘H.E.’ Hughes was founder of Oslo H3 and then continued his Hash career in Warsaw and Canberra.
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Rumson H3 is affectionately known as the Hell’s Angeles of Hashing, an image they proudly promote. Their exploits include nude synchronised swimming at the Atlanta InterHash. If you need a laugh, make your way to Rumson Hash, New York or check them out on U-tube.
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At Kuala Lumpur InterHash ’98, the Organizing Committee, with support from the Malaysian Museum Department, put on a Hash Exhibition at the Merdeka Stadium. At the same time a Hash Heritage Foundation was established with the eventual dream of building a replica of the Hash House on, or near, the spot where it once stood. The Tim Magic Hughes' collection of Hash memorabilia has passed into the care of the Hash Foundation via Bangkok and KL. In 2005, the Hash Heritage Foundation acquired a one acre site to locate the replica of the original Hash House. The current Steering Committee has almost completed the establishment of the Foundation’s Memorandum and Articles of Association, now awaiting formal approval by the Registrar of Companies. 25 Life/Founder Members of the Foundation have contributed generously to the project which is currently being administered primarily, but not exclusively, by Bill “Tumbling Bill” Panton, Fu “Fuch” Chee Cheng and Allan “CheeBye” Chee. Also involved are Bryan Perera, Chris Boyd, Carlo Pangrazo and Chris Tan. Both individuals and Hash Clubs are invited to contribute to the Hash Heritage Foundation and you can visit the website at: http://www.thehashhouse.org
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In just under two decades - he
only started hashing in 1991 - Pierre-Marc ‘Higgins’
Lefebvre has become a living hash le You can’t quite explain why, but a combination of drinking, world Hash travelling, an amazing performance as EuroHash Chairman in 1997, Paul Simon impersonations at hash cabarets and of course his rubber chicken have just made him famous. In addition to the above he was also editor of the Euro Hash Newsletter in its early days and now has plans for Belgium to host InterHash in 2014. In real life – and many of us are always surprised to think Higgins has a normal life – he is a Programme Manager. Left - 2 Euro hash legends, Higgins and Neptunus Thanks to Chewcaca for photo right |
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The idea of a Hash trek into the Himalayas is credited to Neville Watson, the first such expedition in 1974 setting a somewhat modest record of hashing at 12,000 feet. The expedition became a yearly ritual and in 1976 a bigger group of experienced hikers reached 14,000 feet and they did a token hash at 8,000. The 1977 party set off to push the hash altitude record ‘beyond reach’ and reached 16,000 feet. At 15 this was the biggest party so far and included the first Harriette, the poor girl being on her honeymoon. The 5th climb did not take place until 1979. This time the party had the luxury of 24 days and the help of a professional mountaineer. Under these favourable circumstances two Singapore Hashers were able to raise a hash banner at 21,000 feet. Magic also led a Himalayan Hash Trek after Pattaya InterHash 1986.
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Hitler's Birthday Run, infamous In the late eighties two inexperienced Jakarta hares staged what was to become the infamous ‘Hitler’s Birthday Run’` Even by Hash standards the concentration camp theme was probably in poor taste. One of the local hares worked with the railways and managed to provide a train with cattle trucks, the t-shirts were concentration camp stripes and a wire fence was erected for the on-on. It might have all passed unnoticed but news reached the Jakarta Dutch community, and from there was reported in the Dutch papers back home. The initial reports totally misunderstood the issue and it was reported not as the silly antics of a bunch of drunken ex-pats, but of a sign of rising racialism in a former colony. The shit hit the fan. Hash officials, with Browneye, then GM, to the fore, met with ambassadors, apologies were offered and offending shirts collected in and destroyed. By now however the story was being repeated on the BBC and it took some time for the matter to finally be forgotten.
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An annual event staged by the Helsinki Harriers and Harriettes, now (allowing for some flexible Hash counting) in its 14th edition. It involves a weekend trip into the frozen Finnish countryside, where a run through the deep snow is followed by everybody tumbling into the sauna. The brave can make a naked dash to the frozen lake, where you swim in a hole cut through the frozen ice. You then have about three minutes to get back into the sauna before the cold hits you! The Hare of the Dog Run is often across a frozen river or lake. There were some classic events around 2001-2003 but a decline in H and H membership led to some problems with organising the event. Lik'um had ambitions of keeping the 'Hole in the Ice' going by arranging it on weekends when he was in Finland visiting his future mother in law! See the classic 2002 event
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Holland Updated
From left Dutch Legend Neptunus, Le Hague Badges, Dutch Nash Hash
Hashing in Holland started in 1982 with Assen H3, Brunssum H3 and Le Hague H3 all getting off the ground that year. Le Hague was formed from a combination of locals and oil industry ex-pats, while Brunssum H3 was a British military hash based at HQ Allied Forces Europe. They staged their runs across Holland, Belgium and Germany and would often cross and re-cross the German border on a run. Assen H3 were great supporters of the annual Carnival Hash. Eindhoven H3 date from February 1986, but after struggling for some time the kennel went into semi-hibernation, the name being kept alive with a yearly winter run. However it was the formation of this fourth Hash which probably inspired the first Nash Hash in 1991. Until the arrival of EuroHash this was generally considered the premier hash event in Europe. Amsterdam H3 are mere youngsters, being founded as late as 1995. They meet on Mondays in the summer and Sundays in the winter with relatively short trails stretched out only by beer stops and ‘continues assiduously to work on our reputation as the slowest hash in Europe’. Amsterdam and Diva H3 hosted EuroHash 2005. Diva is one of the occasional hashes that seem to thrive in the Netherlands. It stands for 'Desirable Inspired Vivacious Aphrodites' and the core membership is a 'whose who' of European Harriet's although a few 'Toyboys' and 'Sugar Daddies' are also allowed to join. Their first hash was set by 'Sex-ed' and 'Yak Sucker' in November 2004 and they have been meeting once or twice a year ever since. There is also the A.S.S. H3 (Amsterdam Sometimes Sober) who meet ‘periodically’ for night time runs around Amsterdam, the Fully Illuminated LunaTics Holland (F.I.L.T.H) who meet ‘somewhere in Holland’ on the closest Friday to a full moon and a Merdeka Reunion Hash for the Dutch Indonesian contingent. The latest edition to Dutch Hashing are Wageninghen H3, formed in 2005 and running from a small university town close to Anaheim. Individual Dutch Hashers of fame include Peter Bromfiets, with a record 780 plus runs with Le Hague, and Gerry ‘Timekeeper’ van der Wansem (ex-Jakarta H3), still running with Assen Hash in his eighties.
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Honduras is a Central American country noted for its violent past and the occasional hurricane. Tegucigalpa H3 was founded in 1984 by Joseph Margetic and Alex Knoll. They run on a Monday night, using the hare's house as a base. There has been little recent contact from the group and their present status is uncertain. The S.C.A.B.H3 was based on the Soto Cano Air Base (800 personal 7 pubs) but has folded and attempts to restart them as been blocked by ‘the powers that be’.
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Hong Kong has been an extremely influential centre of hashing, the 5th country in the world to adopt the sport and of course home of the first ‘InterHash’ Unconvention in 1978.
Hashing in Hong Kong started in 1970 with a small ad
in the South China Morning Post calling for hash men to meet on l6
February at ‘The Pub’ in D'Aguilar St. There was no run that evening but
those gathered agreed to form the
Hong Kong H3, or H4 as they are usually known. A week
later John Beavon set a trail that attracted 23 or 24 runners, depending
on which ac Numbers grew rapidly and in October, a Kowloon Hash H3 was founded. The main aim of the new chapter seems to have been to provide winter runs for people who found it difficult to get across to Hong Kong Island in the days before the harbour tunnel. The Ladies of Hong Kong came into being the following year. Numbers rose on all the hashes and in January 1973 H4 closed their membership at 100. Kowloon H3 organised the first InterHash in 1978, the event proving extremely important for carrying the traditions of hashing around the world.
The same year saw further growth in Hong Kong with
the addition of
Royal Southside H3
and
Free China H3.
Royal Southside H3 was founded on 17 May 1978 by Ashley Adams and
originally known simply as Southside H3. 'Royal' was adopted in 1997 at
the time when HK reverted
back to China and various organisations were dropping 'Royal' from their
title. They also started as a military hash, with the name taken from
their location on the Southside of HK island. By the mid-80's they had
been joined by a few ci Perhaps the most influential new comer was Sek Kong H3, with members drawn from the locally based armed forces or their families. (In fact it is likely that there were a few un-named and unofficial Hashes held at Sek Kong before that date.) Little Sai Wan H3, formed on 17 January 1979, also had military origins, with the `Brits' and `Ozzies' (hence the kangaroo and the lion logo) on the local cyberspooks base deciding Hong Kong needed a mixed hash. In addition to their weekly hash, the SKH3 was also staging some non-hash jogs and in June 1983 Geordie Pepper reorganised these midweek events into the Northern New Territories H3. It took some time for Sek Kong and NNT to actually assume separate identities.
It was the milit By the nineties the handover to China was rapidly approaching and the SKH3 staged their 'The Final Retreat Run" (no 932) on 25the August 1996.Their website notes there was no immediate change, the following weeks run was from the NAAFI and when that closed the lads just moved to a bar near by. However the great military days were gone forever and in 1996, with attendance down to single figure, there was talk of actually closing SKH3. The last serving military hasher was Grand Master John 'Flossie' Harper, who stayed on to clear up after Governor Chris Patten departed on 30 June 1997. A few of SKH3’s ex-military hashers are still around in civilian positions and, as committee members, have fought to maintain some of the old military traditions. With so many ex-SKH3 Hashers now back in the UK it was only a matter of time before they got together and the Sek Kong Reunion H3 was formed on 24 August 1991.
Although the military side
of hashing was in decline, civilian hashing was booming and in 1988
Wanchai H3 became the most recent of the we Recent years have seen hashing booming and even Little Sai Wan numbers have risen, averaging packs of 30, weather and location permitting. H4 continues to run on Monday nights, ‘We don't have Hash names, we don't sing silly songs, we don't form a perfect circle, we have no Religious Advisor - we do however drink loads and loads of blizzard cold piss provided to us courtesy of the Royal Danish Court’. as of November 2010 Hong Kong had12 regular Hashes including several new additions. Hong Kong Friday H3 was founded on 29 February 2008 by Mark ‘Hopeless’ Hope and John ‘Thermal Dick’ Campbell and runs monthly. Sai Kung Saturday H3 was founded on 17 February 2007 by Guy ‘Gunpowder Plod’ Shirra. They run monthly and now have over 35 '3rd Saturday of the month' family runs to their credit. The women's only Hong Kong Hash House Babes (founded March 2009 by Kin ‘Catch of the Day’ Keibun ) runs bi-monthly. , (with the recent addition of the Sai Kung Staurday H3 SKSH3, the HK Friday 4 monthly or bi-monthly hashes and one group that meets randomly. They all get together once a year. See SANTA Hash Updated July 2009 with special thanks to Caligula and again November thanks to Gunpowder Plod
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Hong Kong - Sunset over the Empire Run A one-off run in Hong Kong, staged in March 1997 to mark the handover of the former colony to China. The partying started on Thursday with a Southside run from The Peak and went on through a long weekend. Many hashers stayed another week for the Hong Kong Seven’s.
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Those chasing the hares. In fact the term is seldom used on the Hash, you hear ‘here comes the pack’ rather than ‘here comes the hounds’.
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When Henry ‘Hooray Henry’ Liddell was elected GM of the London H3 at just 20 he was clearly destined for great things. Countless down-downs later he is an international drinking legend – three-times InterHash champion, EuroHash drinking champion and Hash record breaker with best recorded time of 8.6 seconds for 2 litres of beer and 3 second flat for the one litre. See InterHash Beer Drinking Contest
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The Hooray Henley Hash started as a one off event in 1985, the idea being to have an 11.00 run, after which the gathered Hashers could picnic and/or enjoy the rowing regatta. The following year was noted for a special t-shirt (Hashers arriving at Henley via a 747) and from there it became an annual event. As neither London nor West London would make the runs ‘official’ Ratshit set up a separate Hooray Henley Hash (H5) in 1996. After this Surrey and Berkshire, who had been in the habit of setting their own Henley Hashes, joined in the ‘official’ event. Hooray Henley H3 now stages 2 or 3 hashes a year, with the Regatta Run still being their main event.
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Fredrick A. ‘Horse’ Thompson was a veteran of the early paper chases in Malaya and in 1938 joined his old colleague, Gispert, in KL. He missed the first few hash runs as he was on leave but on his return took over as secretary and is credited with bringing an element of organisation to the club, including opening a bank account. ‘Horse’ himself was not the most enthusiastic of runners, but was a noted short cutter. After a nasty war, including being shot while trying to escape from the Japanese, he returned to KL around 1946 and had a spell as Joint Master before retiring to the Philippines to run a sugar plantation. ‘Horse’ was not a Hash name, but a nickname acquired earlier, apparently for his physical appearance. He made widely acclaimed guest appearances at InterHashes in Sydney (1984) and Pattaya (1986).
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Human Dynamo, the‘The Human Dynamo’ joined Wellington Hash House Harriers in 1975 and was a founder member of the Christchurch H3 in 1979 and Garden City H3 in 1984. He served as New Zealand’s Grand Master between 1985 and1986.
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Manfred ‘Silver Fox’ Haas and John Birch founded Budapest H3 in July 1983. The kennel meets 11.30 every Sunday along the upper river wall at Batthyany Ter, which is directly across the Duna from the Parliament. an average pack is about 30 and runs usually head for the beautiful Hills of Buda, with the run being followed by Hungarian beer and Hungarian soup.
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Hurricane was a member of the Lake Macquarie H3 who drowned going for a swim following a Hash run. On on Hurricane!
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was tracking down Don Kennedy, perhaps the last pre-war hasher
who had not previously been interviewed. Given the age of Mother
Hash veterans, that will probably never happen again.
