JackNobody – well hardly anybody - still calls their son Jack. The poor kid would quickly be nicknamed ‘Jack the Ripper’, ‘Jack the Lad’, ‘Jackoff’, or ‘Jack Me Off’. Which of course is why it is such an inspiration for hash names.
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JailbaitName given to young girls who look and act older than they are. In hash terms the name is usually given with an edge of humour, i.e. Hash ‘Jailbaits’ are more likely to be overage and look underage than the reverse.
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Jamaica
Because
there were other things to do – dance, drink, form a bobsleigh team –
hashing came late to Jamaica. (Or perhaps it’s because it was difficult
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Japan
The man who single handily brought Hashing to Japan was Pat ‘Dunafew’ Donaghue, founder of Tokyo H3 in 1976 and Kobe H3 in 1978. The first wave of hashers were very much East Asian or Taipei men who wanted to recreate a traditional Hash atmosphere in their new home. Tokyo runs were therefore men only affairs in the centre of the city and around 45 minutes in length. In one notable incident the pack upset the local ‘Yakuza’ gangsters who destroyed the Hash Horn (that’s the instrument, not the hasher blowing it). During the seventies there was a general decline in numbers, most likely because the ex-pat community was no longer so self-contained. This was particularly notable in Tokyo, where the original pack also lost ground to the new Harriettes, who were offering mixed hashing. Kobe had originally been a car based hash, the pack driving into the surrounding hills. Manko Busco, during his influential spell as GM, successfully reversed falling numbers by switching RV’s to train stations. By using stations on the western line they could also recruit hashers from nearby Osaka. By the eighties a second wave of kennels were starting up, formed by American military personal. Many of these were closely tied to large military bases. Naha H3, for example, started in April 1979 and didn’t survive the closing of their base. Samura H3 was founded in 1984 and centred on the Zama Army Base which lies some 40 kilometres from Tokyo and Kamikaze H3 is linked with the Yokota Air Base. The best known of the military linked hashes is Okinawa H3, founded in February 1979 by Dal ‘Jock’ Trader, via Taipei. Okinawa is an island more or less half way between mainland Japan and Taiwan and is still a major US base. The first hash here was actually Naha H3 (also by Jock) but this faded after just 7 runs, probably due to the Naha Airbase closing. Okinawa H3 followed a few weeks later and are still going strong. Because they have Saturday, Thursday and Full Moon runs under the same banner they are now on 2500 plus runs. Due to their isolated position the military hierarchy sometimes seem to visualize themselves as feudal lords and have occasionally clashed with the hash. (See Okinawa incidents). Okinawa also has some dangers and discomforts not generally associated with Japanese Hashing, such as the odd snake and lots of shiggy. By the late nineties the worldwide surge in the popularity of hashing was apparent in Japan, where several new kennels were founded. These included Nagoya H3 (1994) and Nagasaki H3 (2001). Hashing was also adapting ‘to the market’ with Ibaraki H3 attracting packs of 60 to their monthly weekend runs in the ‘rustic countryside’ an hour from Tokyo. Click here for gotothehash-japan and a complete guide to Japanese kennels.
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Dhram was the influential GM of Alor Setar H3 during the early eighties. He died on trail in 1984. On on Dhram.
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Jessica made headlines when she cut off her unfaithful husband’s dick while he was sleeping. Rough foreplay, if you ask me. Ironically her husband went on to be a minor porn star and occasional hasher. Obviously this incident had to be turned into a hash name, as in Jessicawabbit. |
JFKJoseph ‘JFK’ Kennedy was on Colombo’s run number one and now tops the kennels hash rankings.
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Anthony ‘Jingle Bells’ Sofan was the first local GM of Medan H3 and GM of the 2007 Pan Asia Hash
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JockJock as in Scotsman, or as in strap, is a common theme for hash names. One of the most famous of the hash ‘Jocks’ is Dal ‘Jock’ Trader, founder of the Okinawa Hash.
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Jock Trader – an American who spent his working life in the US Navy - was introduced to hashing in Taipei in 1978. The name comes from a combination of rushing from one sporting event to the next (i.e. always wearing a jock strap) and from some Scottish blood. Posted to Okinawa he founded Naha H3 in 1979 and when this folded after 7 runs started the Okinawa Hash. In 1981 he retired to the US and helped found another of the great kennels – San Diego. Now he and ‘Mary Poppins’ are central figures in the Long Beach Hash, where he has a thousand runs and one hundred harings. Thanks to Flying Boogers Interview |
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Johnston, Tim New
Tim Johnston run with the Angles City hash in the 1980s and was noted
f Twenty years before Tim had been one of the best runners in Britain, including winning All England titles at cross country and 6 miles. In 1968 he won the AAA marathon championship in a time of 2:15:26 which still ranks him 130th in the all time British rankings. Later that year he was 8th in the Olympics, a commendable performance in the high attitude of Mexico City. Right- Tim on front cover of Athletic Weekly, 1968
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Johor BahruJohor Bahru (JB) had a paper chase from the beginning of the thirties and ‘Horse’ Thomson recalls being invited on a run shortly after his arrival in 1932. This was a weekly hare and hounds event that followed basic hash rules. The present day JBH3 was not founded until 1968.
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Joint MastersMother Hash was, and still is, guided by two Joint Masters and many of the pioneer hashes followed this example. Today most kennels opt for a single GM. It makes it easier to find somebody to blame when things go wrong.
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JordanSituated in the centre of the troubled Middle East, Jordan is a surprisingly beautiful and friendly country that tries to steer a middle path. Hashemite H3 is based in the capital, Amman, and was founded in July 1979. The kennel nearly collapsed as soon as it started, as 2 of the 6 Hashers on the inaugural run caught typhoid a few days later (not from hash food). Both hashers and kennel survived and they celebrated their 1500th run in November 2005.Amman is a hilly city leading to some tough runs and they have organised some great trips over the years. Their 500th run was through the magnificent ruins of Petra and their 10th anniversary involved a train ride to an old desert fort.Former Hashemite H3 Hashers have also done some important missionary work within the region, for example playing an important part in taking hashing to Kuwait.The Dead Sea H3 has folded, but Hashemite regularly visit here to run at 400 metres below sea level. Aqaba H3, founded in 1982 with a core of their runners coming from the various resorts, probably faded out around 1992. |
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Bob ‘Jolly Good’ Jacques started running with China H3 in 1973 and was still running with them in 1990 at 80 years of age.
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JRGEEJRGEE was New Zealand GM from 1983-84 and famous for his Farkenwagen, an old minibus that brought many a hasher to many a hash
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JubesJubes was introduced to hashing at Rotorua around 1978, in the days when the great Tony Evans was GM. She was Rotorua ‘On Sec’ for 6 years and in 1986 became the first female Grand Mattress of New Zealand. Later elected Joint Master of the Northwest H3.. |
JungleThere are numerous names with a jungle theme: Jungle Bob, Jungle Bum and the ever-popular Jungle Fucker.
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Jungle RunAn annual event, dating to October 1989, when the Jakarta kennels go away together for a weekend of hashing with at least one run in the jungle. |
JustCommon prefix to a hash name as in ‘Just Swallow,’ ‘Just Spit it Out’ etc. Can also be used to refer to a hasher before they get a name as in
What’s your name? Jane. Do you have a Hash name? No. Hello everybody this is Just Jane
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to gets hares to go out alone in this crime-ridden island). However, in
February 1998 Goran ‘Nut Case’ Engdahl and Bill ‘Bags’
Heatherington set the first
or running the entire Angeles City to Subic Bay relay (80k) as a one
man team!