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Vol. 15 No. 7D
July 2016
(Formerly Asia-Pacific Harrier)
www.harriermagazine.com Editor / Publisher Jim Edens publisher@harriermagazine.com Administration Lisa Sukita customerservice@harriermagazine.com Design / Artwork / Photos / Layout Digital Edition / Website Jimmy Wilkins jwilkins@harriermagazine.com America Correspondent Gina Lollobrigida: s.machine.ph4@gmail.com
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Europe Correspondent Julie Burgess: jaburgess007@gmail.com Africa Correspondent Julia Stanton: Julia_Stanton@hotmail.com Contributors (in order of appearance): Editorial / Photos / Graphics Moose Diver Nuredin Avdyli SOMFATMTYLM GladHeAteHer Wayne Jensen Chuka Dieobi ‘Slippery Comer’ Short Stump Tinker Short Circuit Regular Contributors: Kurt Bodmer, Julie Burgess, Paul Cade, Jim Edens, Randall Salisbury, Ian Slater, Lisa Sukita, Stockholm H3, Jimmy Wilkins Contributors Welcome! We welcome anything related to hashing. * All submissions are subject to the editor’s axe. DISCLAIMER: The views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect those of the magazine, its advertisers, publisher or contributors.
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Editor’s Notes The hills are alive with the sound of hashers The call of On On, is it far, is it near? My heart fills with joy when I find some paper We’ll find our way home, then we’ll drink our beer! Can our modern day Von trapped hashers escape the watchful eyes of the Schaffhausen guards and their invincible Commandant Ludwig VonMoosediver? Will they make it out of the castle or be locked in the dungeon? Will they drown in the Rhine river or drink all the bubbles? Read all about it in this feature where our cover girl nearly went over the edge. So pack your Swiss Army knife and tap your Swiss bank account. It’s time to party! Sin City will be awash in red when a sea of virgin transvestites invades the famed Las Vegas Strip. How many will wake up on Monday morning to witness a weekend showgirl shaving her three-day beard? What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, and at $69 how can it go anything but right? Pan Africa Hash heads to Lagos, Nigeria next, but wait, there’s more. The 4th National Nigerian Nash Hash takes place next month in Warri. If you haven’t hashed with the Warri Hash House Harriers now is your chance to move and groove to their happy hip-hop beat.
Mekong Indochina Hash sold out in 12 days, but don’t say we didn’t warn you. There’s a new twist to runs thru the ruins this time. The revitalized Thinking Drinking Hash will emerge from the ashes. Who are these people and where did they come from? Read all about how the TDH3 began and why the rash reports of its demise may be premature. On the Ice offers unique insights on the finer points of imbibing. Have a drink before trying any of the advice given herein. Ajarn Kee Mau is not a medical doctor so take what he says with a grain of salt, or more if it lines your margarita glass. A plethora of HHH events will be coming to a hash near you in the coming months. Our Running & Racing Calendar is the best compilation of these in the Asia Pacific region. I hope to see you on trail soon. On On, Jim Edens, Editor-in-Chief & Founder Harrier Magazine International Edition Fun on the run since 2002 www.HarrierMagazine.com
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his year on the weekend of July the 29th a very select group of lucky hashers will get to spend a whole weekend in a castle situated high above Europe’s largest waterfall, and as it’s also the Swiss National Holiday on Aug 1st there will be fireworks in every sense of the word.
The castle is quite new, being first established in the year 858 A.D., and it’s still called Schloss Laufen after the original residents, the family of the Barons of Laufen, and it’s a perfect place for hashers because the German word Laufen means running. It’s rumored that the next family was the von Beer family, but some suggest it was actually the von Wine family, but more likely given its location it was the von Bubbly family. In any case we will celebrate all of these family’s liquid histories, and who knows, maybe some new families might get started over this weekend. The Rheinfall waterfall was formed 17,000 years ago around the same time that hashing got started in Kuala Lumpur, being 150 meters wide and 23 meters high, with 700,000 liters of water cascading over the rocks every second. To put that in perspective, it’s about the same volume as the liters of beer we will drink over the SNH weekend. It’s Switzerland’s number
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by Moose Diver some photos by Nuredin Avdyli
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aving donated more than $25,000 to local charities in the last four years, The Las Vegas Hash House Harriers hope to top the record with their annual Red Dress Run on October 21 - 23, 2016. This “charity event with a running problem” promises to pull out all the stops to entertain attendees while raising funds for local domestic shelter charity, Safenest.
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The event kicks off Friday afternoon with keg tapping near the pool followed by an evening “Wild West”-themed costume ball with live music. Saturday night, the event kicks into high gear with the fabulous and glamorous Red Dress Run including photo opportunities, a hash trail through historic downtown Las Vegas, beer checks at local venues, an outstanding dinner, and a DJ to dance the night away in an indoor
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by Chuka Dieobi ‘Slippery Comer’ edited by Julia Stanton, ‘Head Mistress’ photos by Chuka Dieobi & others
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ast month at Interhash in Bali, Harrier Magazine’s African correspondent Julia Stanton (aka Head Mistress) met up with hashers from Nigeria to find out more about hashing in Nigeria and more about this year’s Nash Hash and next year’s Pan Africa event. Thank you Slippery Comer for putting the information together. Pan Africa Hash – May 26th – 28th May 2017
With a population of around 175 million, Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and also home to 14 hash chapters. The Pan Africa Hash, next May 26 -28th, 2017 will take place in Lagos, the coastal, business capital of Nigeria which has the 6th largest African economy and one of the highest standards of living in Nigeria and in Africa. Current RA of Lagos Hash, Slippery Comer, told me the following: “Hashers in Nigeria have come of age and we feel we are now
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CURRENT & OLD LAGOS H3 HASHERS, BALI 2016
NIGERIAN HASHERS IN THEIR PAN AFRICA HASH TSHIRTS, BALI 2016
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Well he went down, down, down And the devil said “Where you been?” He went down, down, down He went screamin’ down around the bend Down, down, down This boy went solid down, yeah he went down. -Tom Waits
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hile I think Tom Waits, who certainly liked a drink – any man who writes a song called “The Piano Has Been Drinking” can’t be all bad – was probably referring to some existential descent into hell in the song lyrics quoted above, the phrase (indeed the command) “Down! Down! Down!” should be familiar to any hasher worth the salt on the rim of his Margarita glass. Indeed while hash traditions, trail markings, and hash etiquette may differ across chapters and kennels, one constant is probably the administering of down-downs (see how the word morphs into a noun here?) in the form of a glass of beer to be chugged, skulled, or got “down your fat neck” as fast as possible as punishment for some sin, real or imagined.
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Indeed, the ability to down one’s beer rapidly is badge of honor both in the hashing world and beyond. One Hash club to which I belong (discretion prevents my naming it, since, like Fight Club, one doesn’t talk about this hash populated exclusively by gentlemen) demands the downing, without vomiting, of a large steel vessel filled with approximately 2 large bottles of beer as a membership requirement. Meticulous records are
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