Editor’s Welcome
to the August 2012 monthly digital edition of Harrier Magazine
Welcome to the first monthly digital edition of Harrier Magazine. But hold on, what’s different about the new monthly digital edition? For starters, the monthly digital edition comes out twelve times a year, instead of the four quarterly editions we have been publishing for the past ten years.. • The monthly digital edition has 30% more pages than our print edition. • The monthly digital edition has more timely HHH news than the quarterly edition. • The monthly digital edition has 50% more events on the Hash the World Calendar to help you plan your upcoming Hash Holidays * The monthly digital edition has longer features stories than we run in the print edition. Printing is expensive, and the more pages we print, the higher our printing costs. It costs much less to run more digital edition pages than the increased costs inherent with larger print editions. The digital edition has a much greener footprint than the print edition; many more trees are cut for print than digital.
* All events and ads are clickable allowing you convenient access to dozens of websites. Our August features include Hashing in Germany is just in time for German Nash Hash 2012. And from the USA, Bungle in the Jungle is just in time for this year’s 10th Anniversary. Out of Asia: Subic Bay, Philippines is in time for the Subic H3‘s 1000th Run coming up next month. Then there’s the Hua Hin International Triathlon this month for our bi and tri friends. So the long and short of it is that you are getting much more bang for your buck in the monthly digital edition than you have ever had before. If you like what you see, then please let us know how we’re doing. And please let your friends know as well how to sign up 12 months of Harrier Magazine online for less than a dollar per monthly digital edition. As always, your comments and suggestions are always welcome. On On and happy hashing!
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Vol. 11 No.4: August 2012
(Formerly Asia-Pacific Harrier)
www.harriermagazine.com Editor/Publisher Jim Edens publisher@harriermagazine.com
Administration Lisa Sukita customerservice@harriermagazine.com Design and Photography Jimmy Wilkins jwilkins@harriermagazine.com America Correspondent Sean Gilmour seanspg@gmail.com Europe Correspondent Julie Burgess jaburgess@planet.nl Australia Correspondent Hans Kumpel hans@harriermagazine.com Contributors: Editorial / Photos / Graphics Kurt Bodmer, Julie Burgess, Bernard Cunningham, Serge Henkens Robert Mallon, Barb Mickeletto, Scott Paul, Randall Salisbury, Ian Slater, Allan Solly, Lisa Sukita, John Walsh, Jimmy Wilkins, Paul Woodford Contributors Welcome! We welcome anything related to hashing. * All submissions are subject to the editor’s axe or scissors. DISCLAIMER: The views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect those of the magazine, its advertisers, publisher or contributors.
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On The Cover: Dotty Timms hashing through Lumpini Park in Bangkok. Dotty has the distinction of being the only harriette to have ever been invited to the Playboy Mansion. Twice. Photo by Jimmy Wilkins
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Pan Asia 2 #6 Pan Asia 2013 will be in Jomtien, Thailand 29 July 2012 Malacca Monkey organizer, Rasputin Ong announced that Pan Asia 2013 will be held in Jomtien Beach, 5-7 July 2013. Jomtien is located about 3 KM south of South Pattaya. Participants can chose to stay in Pattaya, and commute via baht bus to Jomtien each day, or stay in a Jomtien hotel. Jomtien Beach is about 120 Km by road from Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport, where busses leave for Pattaya and Jomtien on a regular schedule between 6 am and 8 pm daily.
#5 Pan Asia 2013 Pattaya: CIA’s Unanswered Questions Concerns about financial disclosure continue, as well the need for an independent financial audit, stolen registration monies, and event organization.
#4 Pan Asia 2013: Malacca Chair responds to allegations 07 July 2012 Rasputin sends a response to CIA’s open letter of concern about Pan Asia 2013, with a timeline and taking responsibility for event organization, and for registration fees stolen from his house after his return from Interhash.
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2013? #3 Concerns about Pan Asia 2013 Pattaya continue to grow 01 July 2012 14:26 | CIA sends an open letter to Rasputin, voicing concern about the fate of Pan Asia Hash 2013 if the Pattaya organizers are no longer involved. Questions involving lack of communication and financial transparency are raised. Full disclosure of how the registration fees are being spent is requested.
#2 Trouble in Paradise: Pan Asia Hash 2013 On 20 June 2012 the Pattaya Jungle portion of the Pan Asia 2012 organizing committee resigned, citing a lack of response from the Malacca organizers on matters of financial transparency and control of funds collected as registration fees.
#1 Hot off the Press: Pattaya wins Pan Asia Hash 2013 13 November 2011 In a vote by the GMs at Pan Asia Hash 2011 in Bandung, Indonesia, the winner was Pattaya, Thailand with 102 votes, edging out the Royal Selangor Club, in Kuala Lumpur with 74 voters, and Johor Bahru with 31 votes. The Bali Bid ran a distant 4th in the vote count with 8 votes. The vote was by secret ballot among GMs of Asian HHH clubs, and was reportedly as fair as it could be. The 14th annual Pan Asia Hash will be held in Pattaya 5-7 July 2013.
H H H News Bangkok Thursday Hash Holds Inaugural Run Bangkok now offers hashing nearly every night of the week. The Bangkok Thursday Hash (BTH3) hosted its first run July 19. Nearly 50 hashers took to the streets and sois of the Big Mango in what is being billed as the ‘healthy, alternative hash.’ BTH3 offers later starting times for workers and promises runs that start and end near city mass transit stations. From start to finish, BTH3 lasts two hours including the run and the circle. Trails are slated for 5-7km and run fees a paltry 50 baht, with beverages available for purchase at a restaurant, bar or convenience store at trail’s end. www.bangkokthursdayhhh.wordpress.com.
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H H H News Kunming Spring City HHH Announces Inaugural Run No 1 Weekend in Late October 2012 Welcome to the “City of Eternal Spring” in China’s Southwest Yunnan Province.
such as cross bridge rice noodles and 100 varieties mushroom hot pot.
Kunming is famous for tea, mushrooms, cigarettes and flowers. Come and see them all at our inaugural run No 1 in late October 2012. Kunming has many local attractions such as the famous stone forest, the Yunnan Minorities Village, home of the 1999 World Horticultural Expo, China’s largest flower market in Chenggong, the Green Lake, XiShan and Dianchi Lake as well as the No 1 golf course in China, Spring City. Kunming being the provincial capital is also the gateway to Dali, Lijiang, Shangrila and Xishuangbanna/Jinhong, where South East Asia meets China, imagine!
Sunday will offer a late morning city run to catch the sights of the city missed on the Bar Hop and culminate in a lunch in a unique venue!
The programme will consist of a Friday Night Bar Hop which will pass by most of the city’s famous sights and end up in the Kundu nightlife area. Saturday will have transport to an out of town run in the suburbs with lots of shaggy and hills, followed by a traditional local dinner featuring specialties
Our enthusiastic hare team has extensive experience at running regional and world events! So please do come and join us on this special occasion. Kunming, with its new airport, is easily accessible from anywhere in China, and has direct flights from most SE Asia hubs. Lao Airlines has direct flights to Kunming from Vientaine. For more information:
www.kunminghashhouseharriers.yolasite.com
and/or email:
kunminghashhouseharriers@gmail.com. We are Looking forward to welcoming you!
H H H News Rape, Revolution and Revival in Bangkok
A battle of the sexes and how the war was won by Rudiger Reinecke
“Thailand is never boring,” I often tell my friends who don’t live in this wonderful country. But it certainly stunned me when I saw the double-edged “Amazing Thailand” slogan of the country’s tourism campaign playing out in the world of hashing. The Bangkok Hash House Harriettes were founded in 1982 by Janet Baker – ex Jakarta Hash House Harriettes and former GM of Manila Mixed H3 – as a mixed hash with a female flavour. For almost 30 years the Bangkok Harriettes’ members and visitors had been running every single Wednesday despite little irritants like severe periods of flooding, violent political demonstrations, coups d’etat and curfews, not necessarily in order of importance. Run attendance had seriously gone down last year and the then Grand Mistress was worried about the possible extinction of the club. So she turned to the “Godfather” of the Harriettes, as he is called in some H3 directories, for counsel. His advice and guidance resulted in severe plastic surgery of body, mind and soul of the Harriettes.
was established: one male and – as a token concession – one female. (Have you ever seen a male CEO in the political, business or social arena who shares his power with a female partner on an equal footing?). A new mismanagement was installed, heavily weighted towards male dominance. All this didn’t go down well with the original Harriettes. “I felt like having been raped,” said a former Harriettes GM – and so felt many long-time members, male and female alike. They complained about the name and logo changes and especially resented the foundation date which was eventually restored to 1982. “The peasants are revolting,” quipped a male mismanagement member. The attrition had been stopped, though; run attendance went up again and steadied at previous levels. This was achieved because Bangkok Wednesday H3 had become the Siamese twin of the Bangkok Monday H3: longer runs than before in more distant areas, allowing more male hashers who couldn’t make it on the first business day of the week to have a good workout in the same mould on the third.
An uneasy truce prevailed until the recent AGM. When the male GM announced his choice for the next GM, stated that he had not received any nomination from his female counterpart and that it was therefore back to the one-GM format, pandemonium ensued. The female outgoing GM jumped up and declared her choice for GM, while educated and sophisticated, usually very courteous and emotionally restrained Thai lady harriettes got agitated, pointing fingers (not really done The name in Thailand) at the male outgoing GM and was changed shouting “no, no, no, you can’t do this!” to Bangkok W e d n e s d a y He meekly replied: “The meeting is closed.” Hash House Harriers and a new logo was By then the newly appointed male GM had used, initially comprising its 2011 foundation resigned and left, unwilling to share power. date, thus marking the day of the demise of So, ironically, it was indeed back to only one the Bangkok Harriettes. A dual GM policy GM, traditionally a lady, Kim Chaubert.
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The “Mother Hash” in Kuala Lumpur was founded in 1938 as an all-male hash and has remained so until now. But where would the worldwide hash movement be today without participation of girls and ladies? Overwhelmingly hash clubs around the world are mixed hashes. Guys who run with a mixed For hashers around the world there are some hash should not just tolerate but respect and take-away insights from this story which looks enjoy the female element – or run with a mensuperficially just like a political power play. But only hash. there is more to it. In Thailand we have a saying indicating even In one fell swoop the original Bangkok Harriettes deeper dependence on the ladies in our lives had been stripped of their heritage, identity and their power: “Women are the hind legs of and character. In much of Asia this amounts the elephants”. This goes a long way to dissect to “losing face” and without face one doesn’t this Bangkok Harriettes story …. have a life. A mixture of male chauvinism, arrogance and cultural insensitivity had created And finally, here is an invitation to join the 30th the conflict and lead to the confrontation. anniversary celebrations of the Harriettes on Expatriate hashers should be aware that they December 8 and 9 at a resort in Amphawa, live in a different environment requiring an Samut Songkhram province, some 70 km adjustment of thinking, feeling and conduct southwest of Bangkok. Mark your calendar: from what they grew up with. And sometimes the Harriettes are back with their renowned things are not what they perceive them to be. hospitality. At her first mismanagement meeting she moved to reinstate the name and the logo of the Bangkok Hash House Harriettes. Both motions were approved almost unanimously. The Harriettes had got their life back after a year in hibernation.
H H H News INTERHASH SHORTS IH 2014 Hainan, China
If you didn’t pre-register for Interhash 2014 Hainan when they were bidding, or failed to sign up at Borobudur, you may be wondering how you can register for the event now. IH 2014 Hainan recently announced that online registration is now available for US$150. For more information please visit www.hainaninterhash2014.com/.
Brussels 2014 - Welcome to Beer Paradise!
It’s not ‘Interhash’, but Brussels will host a major HHH event in July 2014. Despite NOT winning the World InterHash 2014 title there will be some serious partying and hashing in Brussels over the last weekend of July 2014.
want to attend both events.
Unlike some “Interhash alternative” events in the past, there are no sour grapes here. The Belgium event bid effort attracted over 2,200 pledge holders and delivered a flawless on-stage presentation at Interhash 2012 in Borobudur. Both Brussels and Hainan organizers decided beforehand to host events in 2014 regardless of the vote outcome: Hainan Interhash will be in in March, while Brussels will take place in July. There’s plenty of time in between for those who
Always looking on the brighter side of things, Brussels will have a somewhat smaller event as compared to the World Interhash with about 2,000 to 3,000 attendees. Expect unique trails, plenty of socializing with hashers from different cultures, while discovering Belgium and Europe, and receiving an event T-shirt regardless of the moniker. On-line registration is now open again so you can purchase pledges Mk III while remaining stocks last. To grab this good deal go to: http://register.interhash2014.com/registrations/add/ Check the Latest HHH News for regular updates on Belgium 2014 and other events at www.HarrierMagazine.com/.
H H H News INTERHASH SHORTS (continued) Fiji Announces Bid for Interhash 2016
Just after the 2014 Interhash election results were announced at Borobudur Temple, Fiji spokesman, Sir Dr Cock announced that Fiji would bid for Interhash 2016. According to their website, Fiji’s 333 islands offer an unspoiled landscape of shimmering lagoons, coral reefs, colorful marine life, majestic mountains, virgin rainforests, rivers and waterfalls, and a perfect setting for hashing. Fiji’s warm hospitality has earned the country its reputation as one of the friendliest nations on earth. More information on the Fiji 2016 Interhash bid can be found on their website www.interhashfiji2016.com/.
H H H News Angkor H3: Pre Lube to Mekong Indochina Hash 2012 The Angkor Hash House Harriers will host a Mekong Indochina Hash Pre Lube in Siem Reap, Cambodia from 19-21 October 2012. This 3 day event in Siem Reap will be the weekend before the main event which runs from the 26-28 October in Hanoi. According to Mr. Short Stump, spokesperson for the Angkor H3, the Pre Lube will include a welcome party at the 5 star Angkor Victoria Resort & Spa on Friday night, a classic Angkor H3 run and dinner on Saturday, and a Liver Crawl on Sunday. Those wishing to stick around Siem Reap for another day might be able to join a bike trek around the Angkor Wat Temple complex, which is located just a few kilometers from Siem Reap town. If you have not seen the Angkor Wat Temples before, or if you want to revisit this World Heritage site, this is an excellent opportunity for you to do so. Book at the 5-Star Angkor Victoria Hotel, for a package rate of USD 299.00 per room for the Angkor H3 Pre Lube weekend to Mekong Indochina Hash 2012. The package includes 2 nights stay, welcome dinner, OnOnOn dinner, breakfast on two days, the runs, beer and soft drinks during the dinners and runs, as well as a goody-bag.
H H H News If runners opt to stay elsewhere, it is USD 60.00 per person for the Pre Lube, and includes all of the above minus the rooms and breakfast. We have secured rooms in a decent 4-star hotel at USD 50.00 net per room single/ double, including breakfast. The hotel is located near the Victoria, so you will be close for transportation to the runs. Guest houses are plentiful and will probably be around the USD 20.00 mark per room. Check www.HarrierMagazine.com for regular updates on the Angkor Pre Lube to Mekong Indochina Hash 2012 in Hanoi.
IN MEMORIUM: Prof by Amnesia
It is with deep sadness I have to advise that Dr. Gordon ‘Prof’ Williams, a long-time member of Bicester Hash House Harriers, died this morning. I first met Prof in 1978 when he arrived at the hash one Monday evening. From first sight he was something of a character and perhaps a cut above the rest of us, being a rocket scientist at a local secret establishment, and with a brain sharper than the rest of ours put together. To go with his extraordinary mental ability he also looked like he ought to be a scientist, but we soon learnt that coupled with his outward appearance, he harboured a superb, some would say wicked, sense of humor. It did not take long for the hash to realise what an asset Prof was to us and on his second or third hash he was elected a Joint Master. Considering in those days Bicester H3 did not have Grand Masters, considering them far too grand for a hash, this was an accolade indeed. He remained a JM until 1980, when he became Bicester’s first GM. He was re-elected in 1981. He became On-Sex in 1994 as well as taking over the editing of The Word, but as was Prof’s want, he was not satisfied with just telling us where the hash was, or what had happened on previous hashes. He produced a Word that won the award for the best world hashing words on four separate occasions. It was also at this time that he produced what is arguably his finest achievement in hashing, in developing the UK’s first hash website. He maintained this website until very recently when his illness took its toll. Prof was my friend as he was a friend to many others. He was a constant member of Bicester Hash House Harriers and hashed all over the world where he made many friends. He always reminded people that hashing was fun and not to be taken too seriously, although Prof always took it seriously. He was the father figure of our hash and will be greatly missed, not only in Bicester H3 but by his hashing friends all over the world.
GERMANY Castles and Volkswandering By Yark Sucker
Before the hash was known by many local Germans, they were already doing a form of hashing called Volkswandering (people’s walk). Originating in Germany just after World War II, a trail is laid in the forest, mainly with tape, and it is possible to do 1-3 laps of the course. Refreshments, including tea, schnapps and beer are served on trial.
Rescue” McAllister. Like many of the early German hashes, the pack were from the local British Military base. The Berlin Hash started in 1979, and is currently the longest running hash in Germany.
A large percentage of the hashers in Germany are locals. Germans have taken to hashing quite well as they love their beer and their nature. Those Germans Like the hash, this activity has grown, with who hash even have a hash-like sense chapters in many regions throughout the of humour (It is not just a rumour). The world. Hashing made its debut in Germany Inaugural German Nash Hash was in in the summer of 1971 in Lübbecke, 1989 in Mönchengladbach, and German between Osnabrück and Hannover, Nash Hash has been an annual event and was founded by Richard “Mountain ever since.
The 3rd German Nash Hash, dancing in front of the town hall with the Lord Mayor of Riepenburg
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The Vineyards along the Rhine from the Frankfurt Vineyard Hash
Sidewinder dancing on the tables
Hashing in the hills above Heidelberg
The earliest German Nash Hash photo we could find is from the third edition, hosted by Hannover H3 in Riepenburg, near Hameln. The 120 VIP hashers were welcomed by the Lord Mayor of Hameln himself. On the previous page you can see the hashers dancing and singing the “Father Abraham� Song directly in front of the Hameln Rathaus (town hall).. Hannover H3 is still going strong, organizing 5 German Nash hashes over the years and recently celebrating their 700th Run in April.
amount of diversity between the various regions. In Southern Germany, both Munich and Stuttgart have hosted beer fests since the early 19th Century. The hashes in these cities take advantage, and organise annual beer fest style hash weekends, complete with schlager songs and dancing on the tables. This September, the Munich Hash is hosting its 20th Oktoberfest Hash Weekend, which will include a charity red dress run.
The famous Munich Oktoberfest is the largest beer fest in the world, yet Stuttgart Germany is comprised of 16 provinces and hosts the 2nd and 3rd largest beer fests has 82 million inhabitants. There is a large at the Cannstatter Wasen. In the spring,
Python and Shit Happens drinking a mass (1 litre beer) in Munich
In Germany, with beer and women, Size DOES matter!
Combined Rhine Area Pack, otherwise known as CRAP. The CRAP Hashes in the nation’s most prolific industrial area of Cologne, Bonn and Düsseldorf. If you are up for meeting the crazy, young military hashers, the Sembach hash is not to be missed. Last year they put on a fabulous German Nash Hash Weekend in the Roman Spa village of Trier, complete with Germans love their cars, and driving at Roman Ruins and a wild toga party. top speeds on the Autobahn. A visit to Stuttgart is not complete without a trip to the Mercedes and Porsche Museums, Camping weekends are popular with where there are many on display and most all of the German hashes, notably you can see a large selection of vintage the Neuglobsow weekend hosted by automobiles. Berlin, the End of Summer Bash hosted by Sembach and the Stuttgart camping Berlin is the political capital of Germany, weekend in the Black Forrest. You can and Frankfurt is the financial centre and enjoy the German countryside, and sip a main transport hub. Frankfurt is having nice lager or pils by the fire. Join us in their 25th anniversary celebration this year. Germany for the castles, beer festivals, Both clubs have hosted 3 Nash Hashes. vintage cars and trails through the Black Two other active hashes are Hamburg and Forest. the Stuttgart Hash organises the annual Frülingsfest (Spring Fest) Hash Weekend. As this is a more local fest than Munich, their motto is More Bier, Less Tourists. It is a busy year for the Stuttgart Hash as in August, Stuttgart looks forward to hosting the 24th German Nash Hash, also in historic Bad Cannstatt.
Websites of currently active hashes: www.stuttgarthash.de www.hannoverhash.de www.munich-h3.com www.frankfurt-hash.de www.berlin-h3.de sembach-hash.de www.bonn-h3.de www.hamburghash.de
For more details on the history: Hazukashii’s History of Hashing in Germany: dsth3.gotothehash.net/hhhistoryinde.html Likk’mm’s German Nash Hash Almanac: gnh2010.harrier.ch/Almanac/ For hash T-shirt dirndls or Hashing Lederhosen: www.boo-coo-toor.com (in case you are interested)
For hash T-shirt dirndls or Hashing Lederhosen: www.boo-coo-toor.com (in case you are interested)
Harriettes looking hot in Traditional Dirndls and also dirndls made of hash T-Shirts at the Cannstatt Volksfest
Circling-up in front of the Heidelberg Castle
PI Hash bashers crossing the river...
Subic Bay is one of the Philippine’s top playgrounds for water sports and extreme adventures. Subic’s diversity in culture, cuisine and leisure activities make it an exceptional travel destination. The panoramic coastal views from nearby mountain trails make Subic great hashing country as well.
...Up and over the mountain to...
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by Scott Paul
...Circle up in front of Treasure Island Resort, Subic Bay
Now it’s downhill all the way...
...to the Harrier girls on the ice
Let the cool breeze of Subic Bay welcome you to paradise. Adventure or relax, Subic Bay has got it all...well, that’s what it says on the official tourist board posters. But if you really want to find out what’s going on in Subic join the Subic Bay Hashers on any Monday at the hash home Johansson’s Bar in Barrio Barretto, Olongapo City\Subic Bay. The Hash with a view. ‘It’s NICE with ICE’... we always cool down our hashers with blocks of ice for their sitting pleasure. Our runs are through the hills of Olongapo and Subic. We have wonderful views of the Subic Bay coastline and the surrounding hills. One of our main hiking areas is the Kalaklan Ridge, which separates Barrio Barretto from the rest of Olongapo. Johansson’s, Mango’s, Midnight Rambler, Johan’s, Downunder and Sit N’ Bull are our main venues for Hash Circles. The Hot Zone is the place to head after the circle. This is our Grand Master’s bar and all hashers get happy hour prices. Hot Zone also features the best dancers in town.
Mountain men: Arseholeo & Son of Bimbo
Tip a canoe and hashers too If that’s not enough night life, you can always head to any of the Dryden Group’s bars www.drydensubic.com/ where you will be entertained with drinks and friendly Filipina women. There are many more bars and hotels on the strip, and you can always head to Baloy Beach which has floating bars (during dry season), and more drinking establishments and hotels. Hashers from many of the sister PI hashes, in Angeles City, La Union, Manila, and Puerto Galera attend the Subic Hash from time to time. Philippine Nash Hash will be held in Subic Bay in April 2013. Check out website for registration information. www.subicbaynashhash2013.com/
Offshore floating bar
Up Subic hill with Single Malt
USA:
10 years of Bungle
in the Jungle by Barb “PMS” Mickeletto
On a remote section of the Meramec River, about 90 miles outside of St. Louis, Missouri, some 100 hashers are gathered on a sandbar laughing and drinking. These aren’t your average weekend floaters. Three men are roasting hot dogs on a make-shift grill, clad in a Speedo, a thong and shiny red briefs. A blow-up doll makes her way around the crowd, covered in mustard, ketchup and relish. A group gathers around an inner tube where hashers take turns placing their heads into a busty Harriertte’s tits to receive an interactive Apple Pie Shot. This is Bungle in the Jungle.
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Bungle in the Jungle began in August of 2002, the brainchild of PMS (Purple Muffin Stuffin’) and Norman Bates of the Big Hump H3. The first two years, the event included camping, an all-day drunken canoe float trip on Saturday and Skydiving on Sunday. The skydiving was dropped the third year due to a lack of interest (jumping out of a plane with a hangover? still drunk?!?). Some details have changed since the beginning, but the heart and soul remain the same. PMS continues to organize the camping event located in the Missouri Ozarks and just celebrated the 10th anniversary in 2011.
the Harriettes rides on his 4-wheeler to use the facilities at his cabin and brought us a folding table to use and hung out and endeared himself to the hashers. Flash forward a year and Just Dave, now named R U Shitting Me?, was attending our weekly hashes and we were having Bungle in the Jungle on his property. R U Shitting Me was a natural hasher, as well as a man with a heart of gold. He loved to host a party, and Bungle in the Jungle was held at R U Shitting Me’s place for four years until his untimely passing from cancer in 2007. Every year we raise a beer. RIP R U.
At first, a public campground did the trick. With only 12 hashers in attendance, they didn’t create a complete spectacle of themselves. The second year, we stopped on a gravel bar midway down the river for lunch (weenie roast) where we met Just Dave, who happened to own the property along that stretch of river. Just Dave gave
In 2008, Bungle found a new home at the Bird’s Nest Lodge in Steeleville, Missouri. Bird’s Nest has a private area away from their public campground (ideal for our debaucherous needs). The property has an air-conditioned house that sleeps about 20 (so hurry up and bring your jukebox money!), plus enough surrounding land to
riverside weenie roast
pitch dozens of tents. In addition, there is a sand volleyball court, numerous campfire areas and a hot tub for all of our nekkid hottubbing needs. In addition to the float, we usually try to plan a headlining event for Saturday night. At a particularly drunken on-after, it was decided that Bungle would host Spaghetti Wrestling in 2009. We dumped 200 lbs of raw spaghetti, water and oil into a blow-up pool and let it sit in the sun all day until we returned from the float trip. The previous year, the event fell on Global Harriette Day (08-08-08) which inspired 4 official hash runs. With tongue in cheek, we held a “Green Card’ wedding between a Canadian and an American hasher in 2007.
In 2011 we added Bungle Twister, which is, well, you can probably figure that out. We also include at least two Midnight Nekkid Hashes, a Hangover Hash and other activities such as Nekkid fire-jumping, Dance of the Flaming Asshole and Tour de Chug (kudo’s to Tu Tu Fairy of Nittany Valley H3 for providing the BH4 with an official jersey). Postage Tramp (Big Hump H3) and Calvin Klein (Chicago H3) have RA’d some amazing 2 hour circles on the Sunday after the Hangover Hash.
H3). How many chances do you get to see a wheelchair in a canoe on the river? The food is outstanding and abundant. Friday’s dinner is 80 pounds of hand-jerked chicken and lots of sides provided by the Bungle Committee. We always have a vegetarian option as well. Saturday dinner is catered by a local Ozarks BBQ joint. PMS cooks hundreds of egg sammiches for breakfast, and the FRB’s on the river cook hundreds of wienies for Saturday’s lunch.
And finally, a staple at any hash event: the One of the more popular attendees, Hot beer. A local distributor provides us with Blood (formerly from Trash H3), floats a a beer trailer to keep the dozen kegs we keg of beer down the river in his canoe. need for the weekend cold, refreshing and Another sight to see is Lazy Ass (Big Hump easily accessible.
We’ve hosted hashers from every kennel in the Midwest as well as many from east and west (and north!) of the Mississippi: “It’s aboot the best weekend to get wet & wild ever, eh! A most excellent river trip with a bunch of hosers in the armpit of Missourah. A well-run weekend that has never failed to entertain. Eh.” - Dapper Sapper (Hogtown H3) “It’s the best food and hot showers at a camping event. They even include your canoe rental at no extra cost. Worth coming from the east (or west) coast for.” - Shit Happens (Happy Heretics H3) “Great trails, great camp, great hashers and a wonderful beer-laden canoe float. Hell, they even provide their own jeweler (Hummers Para Libré, jeweler to the hashers) when you lose your wedding ring in the river after “accidentally” dumping your floating buddies into the water!” - Tu Tu Fairy (Nitany Valley H3) “Hashtastic event: people, activities, food, and of course beverages. I’ve traveled all over the world and look forward to this one every year. Been to #7, #9, #10 and now #11 (Ms. Ed got knocked up for #8 - kidding). The venues are excellent— in center of the United States, and the value for your money is great.” - Mr. Ed (Minneapolis H3)
10 point review
Another Interhash has concluded, and by now we’ve all had some time to let it sink in. So let’s take a short look back at the event so the organizers of the next interhash in Hainan, China, will know what we, the hashers who gather every two years from around the globe, expect from the largest event in the hashing world.
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Photos by Jimmy Wilkins
In a nutshell, this event was damn near perfect in most every area that hashers consider important. Some of these categories been major problems at previous Interhashes. The committee really outdid themselves. So how did it go? Welcome to Jogjakarta: First off, free bus transportation was provided from the airport to the HQ hotel. This was reminiscent of the Tasmania interhash. Nice touch. 1. Registration: Registration was held at the newly opened Hotel Rich, which was in the finishing stages of construction. Additional rooms were actually being finished during the event, and cement was poured on part of the parking lot the day before the event started. Registration was in a huge ballroom on the second floor. No queues at all. Everything was very efficient. A lot of hashers, like myself, were listed as EFT, which meant Electronic Fast Track. This meant you were supposed to go through the registration process very quickly. Still not sure how this worked for others, but it worked great for me. I was in and out in of registration in about 10 minutes, instead
of the annoyingly long queues we see at some hash events. Tables were also set up for the Red Dress Run registration and the Hammersley Offshore Run. The ground floor of the hotel had a large lobby bar where many hashers congregated before and after registration. Two free drink tickets were supplied in the goody bag for beers at this bar. I guess it would have been nice if we just had unlimited free beer at the HQ site for registered hashers, and I suspect that was considered by the committee, but you can’t have everything. 2. Hash Bazaar: Basement level was where the Hash Bazaar was located. There were three aisles of stalls set up and it seemed to work well. Hashers ambled down the steps from the hotel lobby thru the Hash Bazaar on their way to board the busses to the runs. 3. Goody bag: In short, one of the best ever.. I really like the backpack. Very functional. If it stands up to the test of time, I will be using that baby all the time. Within the backpack, we got two polo shirts.. The red one has all the interhash logo’s since the first one printed on it. Really cool design. The other shirt has
a more subtle design of Borobudur, but the red one is my favorite. Also in the bag were a floppy hat, a luggage tag, a coozie, the magazine-the best one ever, a bath towel, a small hand towel, a patch, a sarong, and miscellaneous other stuff. 4. Hash Magazine: The Interhash publication was online a full 30 days prior to Interhash. In the past many IH participants never saw the Interhash magazine because the left it in their rooms while they were running and parting all weekend, and then they through it out to lighten their luggage before leaving. Not this year. The magazine was a keeper. 5. Communications: This is something many organizers fall short on, and something that Hainan needs to remember. Good communication is essential before and during these events. IH2012 did an outstanding job in this department. I think I received 35 or 36 newsletters before the event started. There was a two page spread in Harrier Magazine with Interhash News for two years prior to the event. Great idea and it should be emulated in the future. The magazine in the goody bag was an excellent source of information. I actually looked at it instead of reading it on the plane trip home. If Hainan repeats what Java did, good communications will go a long way towards ensuring a successful event. If Hainan does not keep pace
in this department this may be a major challenge for the event in general. 6. Food: Great variety every night, lots of it, and no queues. What more needs to be said? You could pretty much get food any time you wanted it at the venues. Box lunches were also provided on the run buses. I did not hear a single complaint about the food. Top notch! 7. Transportation & logistics: Staging for all runs was done from the HQ hotel. They had a giant open area next to the hotel building which was perfect for boarding and unboarding... No long walks a kilometer down the road to get to the staging area (as has been done at some previous interhashes). This went smoothly as far as I could tell. They also had shuttle service going between the HQ hotel and the Malioboro hotels where most people were staying. Buses were comfortable. That was good as most of the bus rides were at least an hour. Also buses left on a regular schedule from the venue back to the hotels, so that was good for people who wanted to leave before closing each night. 8. Event venues: IH2012 had two venues. The first was Friday night at a temple complex called Prambanan. Some of us got out there early enough so we could tour the temples before it got dark. It was worth seeing. The stage was
set up so that the temples were in the backdrop. Awesome view. Words alone just cannot describe this. There was a fireworks display (two of them), plus an Indonesian dance performance which I think had a 100 dancing girls. Sound was good, and if you wanted someplace more quiet, you just went over to the food area. They also had bid presentations from Brussels, Hainan Island, and Fiji.
on Friday and Prambanan on Saturday and Sunday, I know other hashers felt the same way.
Both venues had very large stages and great sound, plus auxiliary screens. The latter are essential at an event of this size. Food was set up to one side in a series of small tents. Again, no problem with queues because there were so many of these set up. The only criticism The other venue for Saturday and I would make is that there really wasn’t Sunday nights was at the Borobudur any provision for inclement weather temple complex. It was also quite nice, (something I have seen at previous but I preferred Prambanan.. Borobudur interhashes). But it wasn’t an issue as didn’t have the dramatic temples in the there wasn’t a single drop of rain the background like Prambanan, but they did entire weekend. Sooner or later though, have something called video mapping it’s going to bite a future organizer in the of the temple which was kind of cool. If ass. Hainan, take note. it was me, I would have had Borobudur
I didn’t notice many toilets. Not a problem for me as I was able to locate alternative spots, but I didn’t hear anyone bitching about this, so I guess they were about, but hey did not seem to be close by. 9. Runs: In general, it sounded like this went off pretty well. No problems with locating buses for the runs, and they pretty much stuck to the schedule posted in the magazine. Runs were very well described in the magazine including elevation changes, so I don’t think anyone was surprised by the run they chose. Lunch boxes were provided on the buses or when they arrived at the run start. Trails were well marked with paper and there were water stops. The one I chose on Saturday started from the same place as the President’s Run and
Voting process: Of the 4,400 or so participants at Interhash 2012, only 2374 voted. A strict procedure There were also side runs.. Hamersley was set up for voting Friday and Saturday Offshore Run on Friday which I did attend. night, which included a requirement for Also, a Red Dress Run on Thursday which every vote to be cast in person by the was held in the town of Magelang. I skipped participant, the participant’s registration this one but the reports were good. I was number on the ballot (which was then cut told the chief of the military was on the run off when the vote was cast), indelible ink placed on each voter’s index finger, and and did a down down. the vote stub cut off the IH wristband. was quite hilly. The ball breaker run was 18 miles long. Glad I stayed away from that!
10. Voting: Whatever issues people had with voting in Kuching were addressed this time around. The process was completely overhauled and is described below. My only comment is that I had trouble locating the voting area on Friday night, but I finally found it. There was a bit of a queue for voting, but this was necessary so that hashers could be identified to prevent double voting, etc. as was alleged in Kuching.
Of the 2374 votes cast at IH 2012 Borobudur, Indonesia, 59% (1401 votes) went for Hainan. There were 125 votes for Fiji and 848 for Brussels. Since Hainan won over 50% on the first count, there was no second count to determine how many that voted for Fiji would have gone to Brussels or Hainan as their second choice. Hainan will host IH2014 in March 2014. Fiji announced that they will continue to bid to host in 2016, and will continue to bid until they win the vote for IH.
Brussels announced that they will host an event in 2014 after IH2014 and will not bid for 2016. Brussels had almost 2100 pledges, but obviously many pledges did not vote, probably because many pledges did not register nor attend IH 2012. Of the approximately 1000 registered for the Great Hash Migration in Mombasa, about 700-800 attended. Of those who attended GHM, about 60 went on to IH2012 in Java. CIA Comment.. Some food for thought here. If all the people who went to Kenya had instead gone to Java, would Brussels have won the bid? Most of of those folks supported Brussels, so the vote would have at least gone to the second round.
there with Tasmania. Maybe they have a slight edge, but it is damn close. Having the President of the country show up and participate in a hash run is unbelievable! I doubt that will ever be repeated. Thanks for all your hard work! It was also clear that the people of Java welcomed us and wanted us there, unlike some previous interhashes where the local businesses saw us as marks for marked up prices for everything from hotel rooms to the price of drinks prices at the bar. It was a fantastic event that will be talked about in years to come..
Overall summary Major kudos to the Java committee. You On on to Hainan! Interhash 2012 in folks pulled off an event that some feel Jogjakarta has set a very high bar indeed was the best interhash ever. It is right up for any future Interhash.
Charity
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August 4, 2012: Montreal Hash House Harriers Red Dress Run. Montreal, Canada. Funds will benefit the Canadian Transverse Myelitis Association. August 11, 2012: New Orleans Hash House Harriers Red Dress Run. Last year, proceeds benefited 60 local charities.
www.RedDressRuns.org
August 19, 2012: The Howlin’ Hash House Harriers Red Dress Run. Bisbee, Arizona, USA. More information. August 25, 2012: Albuquerque Hash House Harriers Red Dress Run 2012. Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Benefits Paws and Stripes. More information. September 8, 2012: Amarillo Hash House Harriers Red Dress Run. Amarillo, Texas, USA. Noon start. Proceeds to support the The ArrowPanhandle Assessment Center. September 8, 2012: Pittsburgh Hash House Harriers Red Dress Run. September 15, 2012: Pikes Peak Hash House Harriers and Harriettes Red Dress Run. Colorado Springs, Colorado. September 16, 2012: Lubbock Hash House Harriers Red Dress Run. Intersection of Avenue U and 13th Street, Lubbock, Texas, USA. Details to be announced. September 22, 2012. New York City Hash House Harriers Red Dress Run. Fontana’s Bar & Night Club. Register here. October 6, 2012: Washington, DC Area Hash House Harriers Red Dress Run. Rated by Harrier Magazine as “among the classics,” The Red Dress Run supports the Beer for Brains Foundation. More information. October 6, 2012. Bell Scott Hash House Harriers Red Dress Run. Friday’s South Bar & Grill, 624 S. Illinois Ave., Belleville, IL 62220. Start: 2:00 p.m.. Registration fee of $40 includes at least 4 beer stops, a T-shirt, pizza and beer. Supports the Southern Illinois Autism Society. October 27, 2012: Las Vegas Red Dress Run. The event starts with a Halloween Costume Ball on the 26th, the Red Dress Run on the 27th, and a Recovery Run on the 28th.
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Oct 6-8 2012: Japan Nash Hash. Hiroshima, Japan. Oct 11-14 2012: Rumson H3 Rat Race. Wall NJ, USA. Oct 19-21 2012: DIVA H3 Prosecco Weekend. Conegliano, Italy. Oct 19-21 2012: Angkor H3 Pre Lube www.hannostamm.com/hash.htm Oct 19-21 2012: Blue Hen H3 20th Anniversary. Contact Fuk Stik, tel 571-218-2412. Darlington MD, USA. Oct 21-31 2012: Virtual Nash Bash. Australia. Oct 26-28 2012: Amsterdam H3 1000th. Amsterdam, Netherlands. Oct 26-28 2012: BerZuBa 2012. Transylvania, Romania. Oct 26-28 2012: Las Vegas H3 RDR. Las Vegas NV, USA. Oct 26-28 2012: Indochina Mekong Hash. Hanoi, Vietnam. Nov 9-11 2012: OTIS St Augustine Pub Crawl. St Augustine FL, USA. Nov 16-18 2012: Hogtown H3 25th Anniversary. Toronto, Canada.
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November 20 Antarctic Ice Marathon/Half/Mile/100k Antarctica, South Pole www.icemarathon.com
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December 2 Angkor Wat 1/2 Marathon/10k Siem Reap Cambodia www.angkormarathon.org/en/index.html From USA: www.kathyloperevents.com
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August Featured Running Event Sport Bicycle presents “The Queens’ Cup Hua Hin International Triathlon 2012”
The 4th edition of the increasingly popular Queens’ Cup Hua Hin International Triathlon will take place on August 19, 2012 in the idyllic fisherman village Kao Tao, located 10km south of Hua Hin and 200 km from the vibrant city of Bangkok.
Hua hin Triathlon will raise further the profile of such races, and are set to become major sport attractions in Thailand in the future.
The event has been created to celebrate her Majesty the Queen’s 80th birthday and their Majesties commitment to sports.
A prize money purse of 200,000 baht will be awarded to the winners in different categories.
The Queens’ Cup Hua Hin International Triathlon is set to become one of the largest Triathlons in The event is supported by the Hua Hin municipality South East Asia with an expected attendance of , Sport Bicycle Company Limited, the Tourism 500 racers from around the world. Authority of Thailand and the Thai Hotel Association The race is open to individuals and teams. (THA).
Hua Hin, also known as “The Royal Beach Resort” Eco-friendly and outdoor activities are becoming provides an experience of endless beaches and a more and more popular around the world and in wide variety of international-class resorts. Besides Thailand in particular. Now Thailand is experiencing just sunbathing, snorkeling and swimming, it is the a surge in the numbers of athletes interested in place supporting attractions and activities such as multi-sport and endurance events, as triathlons golf, spas, caves, peaks, waterfalls, shops, seafood have become very popular. Events such as the and nearby national parks.
The Queen’s Cup Hua Hin International Triathlon 2012 When: Sunday, August 19, 2012 Where: Kao Tao, Hua Hin, Thailand Distances: Triathlon Swim: 1.5km Bike 41km Run 12km Website:
Duathlon Run 5km Bike 41km Run 12km
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The race will also enhance the image of Hua Hin and Prachuab Kirikhan province as a perfect destination to experience adventure, the great outdoors and a healthy lifestyle. Registration is now open. If you are looking for a new triathlon experience in an exotic location, then this might be the race for you. The competition date has been carefully chosen to maximize the benefit of the event for Hua Hin. Held during the low season, the race will certainly help the tourist industry throughout a typically quite period and will be also a boost for the local economy. The triathlon event is being organized by Active Management Asia, a reputable sport event management company specializing in athletic events such as marathons, triathlons, trail running, Road & MTB races and adventure races. AMA is operating in Thailand and Southeast Asia. -Serge Henkens | Managing Director Active Management Asia Co., Ltd.
For more information: Active Management Asia Tel: (66) 2 718 95 81-2 Fax: (66)2 718 95 83 Email: info@active-asia.com
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The boilerplate at the top of this page says something about the purpose of the column being to make fun of stupid things done by hashers (or words to that effect). Regular readers will know that I occasionally stray ever so slightly from that mandate, largely due to deadline pressures and to laziness, but today I return to my original commission. It has come to my attention that a new hash kennel (or at least something purporting to be such a thing) has sprung up in my home base of Bangkok. This red-headed stepchild of the greater Bangkok hashing community calls itself the Bangkok Thursday Hash. OK, so no points for creativity there, since they do appear to run on Thursdays in Bangkok, but no deduction of points either. From there, however, things get steadily worse. The group bills itself as “the alternative, healthy hash”. Oh dear. It seems (according to the group’s poorly written web page) that they will run only in the city in areas easily accessible from the Bangkok Metro system (“for working people”). Runs will start at 6.30pm (“for working people”). People who cannot do the trail are not welcome (“Fitness is our focus. No bench warmers”). Runs will end
at a pub, shop, or convenience store where runners can buy their own drinks (“We don’t want to encourage people to ‘get their money’s worth’ of beer because they pay a run fee”), and any circle will end at 8.30pm (“for working people, it’s possible to be home by 21:00”). It does get worse but readers wanting to waste time can look up the group themselves. Frankly, this sort of nonsense is an affront to hashing, at least as I know it in South East Asia. Hashing is about running with your mates in interesting areas and drinking afterwards. It is about being part of a community distinct from every day rules and cares. It is not a fitness club for wage slaves who don’t want to get their expensive trainers dirty. It is not for those who want to make sure that no one “takes advantage” of a run fee by drinking more beer than anyone else as this may offend their retarded capitalist principles (leaving aside that, if they were able to succeed in the capitalist system, they wouldn’t be wage slaves in the first place). And it is not for people who need to be home in bed masturbating themselves gently to sleep by 9pm so that they can get up in time to eat some organic muesli before heading off to the
...”for working people” 66 HARRIER Digital
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Bluntly titled, “Do Alcohol Consumers Exercise More?”, the research answers its own query with a resounding yes. In fact, the data show, the more people drink, the more they exercise. The study, found that “drinking is associated It seems then that “alternative” hashing means with a 10.1 percentage point increase in a headlong rush into prissiness, conformity, the probability of exercising vigorously,” the and a lack of freedom masquerading, as it authors write. More specifically, “heavy drinkers almost always does, as freedom. Give me exercise about 10 more minutes per week than then the alternative to “alternative hashing”, moderate drinkers and about 20 more minutes which by both word and deed is hashing: and per week than abstainers.” Meanwhile, the give the “brains” behind this misguided venture authors continue, “an extra episode of binge seats on the ice should they ever show up at drinking increases the number of minutes of an actual hash, being mindful to charge them total and vigorous physical activity per week individually for the amount of ice their flabby for both women and men.” I like the reference buttocks melt. to an “extra episode” here, implying that at least one per week is standard. Nice. And what of the other adjective chosen by these clowns to describe themselves: “healthy”? What are the reasons for all of this, you may The clear implication here is that running is ask. Well, the authors speculate that some somehow “good” and drinking somehow “bad” drinkers are drawn to a “sensation-taking – a dichotomous perspective coming easily to lifestyle” that includes adventurous, extreme small minds. Well, assuming the management styles of exercise. That sounds to me like team of this so-called hash are honest in their they are talking about hashing, although not professed objectives (“fitness is our focus”), “alternative hashing”. On the other hand, they may care to take note of some interesting imbibers could be “socializing and drinking research published in The American Journal of after participating in organized group sports.” Health Promotion. If that isn’t the hash I don’t know what is. office to experience the Pavlovian pleasure that comes from the unspoken approval of their bosses because they showed up on time, just as the bullock learns to yearn for the harness.
So you see, if our “alternative” friends (readers might care to ponder the meaning of “alternative lifestyle” here) are sincere in their professed desires they might actually wish “to encourage people to ‘get their money’s worth’ of beer” by instituting a run fee and purchasing some cheap piss. Two or three of their members might even enjoy “an extra episode of binge drinking” and think how beneficial that would be. After all, fitness is your focus.
and seek to downplay its integral place in hashing. I can do no better than quote to you the great American writer Charles Bukowski: “Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you’re allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It’s like killing yourself, and then you’re reborn. I guess I’ve lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now”.
Alas, I fear however, that this running group (it hardly merits the name “hash”) exhibits a strong streak of wowserism in addition to the other distasteful traits that make up its mongrel breed. Shame on you who denigrate the Amen to that, brother. Time for a beer. On on transcendent and liberating power of alcohol to the next edition.
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