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XYZ

Paul ‘XYZ’ Szijarto started hashing in 1980 with Hamersley H3  and since then has attended more than 1000 of its 1,5000 runs.  He was Hamersley GM in 1997, Grand Master of the Pan Asia Hash in Perth 1999 and GM of Perth’s InterHash bid and has only missed one InterHash since 1988.

      Why do they call him XYZ? Try and pronounce his family name if you’re not Polish!

Yank

Yank, as in slang for ‘American’ has inspired numerous hash names, such as ‘Yankee Dong’, ‘Yank-Me-Doodle’ and ‘Yankers Away’. It is believed that the term Yank originally came from Dutch and meant ‘Little Jan’. From there it became a description for Atlantic pirates (presumably because many of them were Dutch). Lord Nelson is the first man known to have used it as a derogatory term for North American settlers.

Within America it can be used to distinguish between northerners (Yankees) and southerners and during World War Two it came to refer to any American servicemen based in Britain.

Yank-Me-Doodle

Andrew ‘Yank-Me-Doodle’ Smith first hashed with Baltimore H3 in 1994. Since then he has hashed in Bangkok, Vientiane, Chiang Mai and more recently Frankfurt.

Yark Sucker

Julie ‘Yark Sucker’ Burgess is one of the best known and most attractive figures on the European hash circuit.  She is an American who does something clever in industry, and her work has enabled her to live in Europe for many years now, with first Brussels and more recently Stuttgart H3 as her home hashes.

She was the hare that closes down a Brussels subway over a flour scare, has attended numerous hash events (she ranks 5^th on the ‘Where have you hashed’ table) and is a central figure in the Diva Hash, including arranging the recent trip to Champagne region of France. Her boyfriend is the almost as famous Rumple Foreskin.

Yasser

Mike ‘Yasser’ Yetman was introduced to hashing in Wellington and went on to have a distinguished hash career around the world. He was re-founder of Lima H3 and founder of Pomquet H3. He has also been Grand Master in Addis and Lusaka, and Joint Master with Warsaw H3.

Yemen

Sana’a, a UNESCO Heritage City famed for its architecture, has had a hash since October 1980. Founding father was Edward ‘Ted’ Smith (via Muscat) with David Busby as midwife.

Despite considerable political problems Sana’a H3 continue to run every Monday. They claim to be one of the highest hashes in the world, with runs usually staged at around 2300 metres and a yearly jog along Jebel An Nuabi Shuub at nearly 4000 metres. Urula Dreibholzhas has been hashing with them for twenty years and is still going strong.

Yeti

A Canadian living in Bali and famous for setting great trials and organising the Bali Red Dress run. According to Harrier International, wife Ketut ‘keeps him in line most of the time’.

Yogi Bear

The Huckleberry Hound cartoon show was launched on American TV in 1958 and came to Britain around 1963. However it wasn’t the little blue, southern speaking dog that became the star, but Yogi Bear. The Song ‘Yogi’, as in ‘Yogi takes it up the……..’ has been sung in many a circle and both Yogi and Yogi Bear are popular hash names.

Yugoslavia

Founded in 1980, Belgrade H3 was quickly attracting packs of thirty or more hashers and was a popular destination for visitors from the west. In those ‘bad old days’ everybody chipped in and the 300th run was staged with help from the US Marines, the British Embassy Club and the Diplomatic Club. The troubles brought a temporary halt to hashing in Yugoslavia.

See Serbia for the rest of the story

Y-Tube is an international website established in 2001 for people to post their videos. It remains one of the most popular sites on the web. Type in Hash House Harriers and you will get (as of January 2010) about 799 suggestions. Top of the hits is a tutorial created by Sean Baello and George Boe. We are however probably still waiting for the classic hash video to be released.

It has been pointed out that we hashers get away with a great deal by keeping ‘under the radar’ and Y-tube exposure comes with the danger of unwanted publicity.

Zambia

Tony Eagen and George Georgopolous founded Lusaka H3  in 1981. By 1984 the pack was struggling along with 10-12 runners and little in way of circle or formulates. Runs were in town on a Monday night and, as these were suspicious times, a hasher who was one of the last white police officers in Lusaka regularly had to come down to some police station to get hares released.

     Around 1984 and under the influence of Colin ‘Bonkers’ Cracknel and Richard Perry, who had arrived independently from Sudan, the hash was moved to a Saturday, allowing the pack to get out into the bush where the local white farmers were more than willing to welcome the group. A set fee, including beer, was charged and the whole affair became far more hash like.

      This set the tone that continues today with runs generally of 5 - 8 k’s in length in length and still being staged around farms and savannah within a 25 kilometres radius of Lusaka. Several long-term members of the kennel are drawn from the white farming community.      

      Lusaka co-host the annual Zim-Zam Hash, which is usually run in late May in the Kariba area. The also hosted an excellent total eclipse hash in 2001.

Zigzag

 Jagjit ‘Zigzag’ Singh started hashing with Petaling Jaya H3 in 1988.  He was also a founding member of Kelab Aman H3, where he served as Joint Master. After moving to Canada in February 2002 he continued hashing with Hogtown H3 and Oakville H3.

Zimbabwe

Harare H3 was founded in March 1984 by Susan Morris Swain, who had just moved down from Nairobi.  Harare is a Monday Hash and stages regular weekend trips (when there is petrol). When not hashing Harare Hashers can often be found in the ‘Captain's Cabin’ pub.  

     They are a good bunch, who know what hashing is all about and staged a spectacular African InterHash in 1999. 

     Since then financial problems in the country have caused something of a rift between local Zimbabweans (those who haven’t moved out) whose income and savings have been devastated by inflation, and ex-pats for whom, with dollar salaries, life has never been cheaper.

Zim-Zam Hash

Annual joint hash staged by Harare and Lusaka Hashes, usually in the Lake Kariba area, probably dating to around 1990.

     The idea had been born a couple of years earlier when three Lusaka Hashers, Martin Taylor, Richard Perry, and Colin ‘Bonkers’ Cracknell, proposed the idea to a small Harare contingent who had travelled up  for a Lusaka anniversary run.

The various Malawi hashes traditionally sends a large contingent.

 Zippity

Mike Zippity Flint was born in Santa Barbara, California and attended San Jose State University. He spent his working career in the Air Force, retiring as a Senior Master Sergeant, having seen service in Berlin and the Gulf War.

He was a enthusiast hasher in California, particularly with Monterey Bay H3, and also loved racing and riding motorcycles, which was the source of his hash name. Zippity passed away in 2008 at the age of 70.

On on Zippity

Notes taken from Half Mind catalog

Zippy

Charlie ‘Zippy’ Baumerich was born in 1951 and joined the US Army, working his way up from private to major in the Adjutant-General’s Corps.  His hash career is particularly linked with Pikes Peak Hash but he also founded the Colorado Invahash and the Fat Boys Athletic Club.

     In his later years a great character and his advice to fellow hashers at weekend events was "never leave the camp."

Noted for his web skills, Zippy helped several hash groups get on line.  Zippy died from cancer in 2003. 

On on Zippy.

Zuber, Alfred

Alfred ‘Gutlentite’ Zuber is an ex-Dar hasher, now running with the Bucharest and Frankfurt Hashes. Wife, Belly Flop, is also a keen hasher.