Despite the fact that Dopey had left the trail setting for
Sunday morning because he had feared rain overnight, 19 of us (including a
visitor who had travelled down from Izmir by bus just for the Hash – Allison) met
under skies with only a few small white clouds surmounting the distant
hills. Dopey, stand in GM and the only hare, called the opening
circle. He first gave the DOWN-DOWN to
the first home last run, King Crapper,
and then managed to entertain us with switching between GM and hare (hat then no
hat, etc.). During this, he gave us the
usual hare drivel - flat, short, etc., - but he did introduce a mix between a check,
hook, and check back all at the same place, which … well, we’ll see later. He then handed over to the RA. The RA actually volunteered to be Scribe due
to prompting from the assembled that the GM had forgotten. As there were a few returnees, one visitor
and one virgin, the RA got the assembled Hashers to introduce themselves,
before calling ON-ON
Immediately upon leaving the RV, we climbed the only
gradient Dopey had said there
was. At first it appeared that there
were only four runners – King Crapper,
Shitter, Allison, and Culture
Vulture. As the newly introduced
Check/Hook/Check back required the first five “runners” to go back, there was
no reason for any of these four to hang back – which they didn’t. After a few checks, the first of the dreaded
Check/Hook/Check back appeared. King Crapper, Shitter and Allison
started back, but CV was a little
behind at this stage (bloody gardening!).
As he delayed turning back, Doggy
Style and Fishy Fingers appeared
around the corner. They insisted that we
had already missed one of the Check/Hook/Check backs so were already off
trail. CV took no further excuse to not go back and continued alongside
them. He did concede that he wouldn’t
run again until he could see any of the others returning. True to his word, and two checks later, the
intrepid three (King Crapper, Shitter
and Allison) appeared around the corner and CV (together with Doggy Style and Fishy Fingers) joined them onwards. Bugger, the next check was the second
Check/Hook/Check back. King Crapper, Allison, Culture Vulture, Doggy Style and Fishy Fingers were the first five there
(how did Shitter manage to be so far
back?!). All five did the full circle
and met the whole of the rest of the Hashers twice (once the wrong way and
again passing them in the right direction), and at this point we found out that
the Check/Hook/Check back we had missed was NOT a Check/Hook/Check back, but a
mis-marking by a non-appearing co-hare!.
However Shitter had been left
in the lead, where he stayed until the end (courtesy of a non-competitive King Crapper, a snap happy Allison (a
camel!) – and a knackered Culture Vulture).
GM Dopey opened
the post-run circle. The first thing he
did was to take off his GM hat and ask the RA to call the hare in. He then re-donned his hat and called in the
visitor (Allison) and Virgin (Jacquelin – apologies if that is not a correct
spelling), mother of I’m Up for It. He then handed over to the RA, but Shitter was too quick to condemn him for
forgetting the returnees - first DOWN-DOWN to Shitter. The first thing the
RA did when he had the circle was to invite in the returnees Old Banger, I’m Up for It, The only Gay in
the Village & Rampant Rabbit. The
RA then called Shitter back in for
not striking through checks when ON-ON was called. (OK, so a couple were dubious, but he was
standing at and looking at a check when ON-ON was called and didn’t strike it
through – I saw it happen!!!! - RA). A
couple of dubious DOWN-DOWNs for tea pots then the RA called in I Loves C(l)ocks. The RA asked I Loves C(l)ocks to stand there and then invited Hashers to tell
jokes to make him laugh. Only Allison
and I’m Up for It took up the
challenge, but I Loves C(l)ocks was
stalwart and wouldn’t smile (either the jokes weren’t very funny, or he
suspected some rum things were to happen).
The RA then admitted that he had wanted I Loves C(l)ocks to show the teeth that he had just had completed
for him such that he was happy to eat solids again no matter what the cost. Now it was decided (by whom!!??!!) that
Alison, the visitor, should be named.
She has hashed a couple of times before and travels a lot, she has been
running in Izmir and trying to get runners there to start a new Izmir Hash, she
came down from Izmir just for our run (and maybe a break, cycling and swimming)
and was one of the only two Hashers to do run both Check/Hook/Check backs. So, as an introduction the RA announced that
her e-mail was allisonukulele, and asked her to explain the ukulele bit. The hashers were not impressed (well, maybe a
bit). She then explained that she had
come over from the US for four months to look after a friend’s two cats. Hence
Allison is now Pussy Minder. She couldn’t quite deal with the entire litre
DOWN-DOWN, but she did, in TRUE Hasher fashion, put the rest ON HER HEAD. At this point the, RA was about to close the
circle, but the GM insisted in a last DOWN-DOWN for the goody-goodies (those
who hadn’t had a DOWN-DOWN in the previous circles).
Then to the ON-ON-ON, which was, for the second time (that’s
for Butt Butt), at the adjacent Restaurant.
A pretty good spread and a good time had by all (at least, I think so
cos I don’t remember much more).
Here’s hoping that those (runners all!!) in Izmir will make
a new Hash.
ON-ON
Culture Vulture
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