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Vol. 18 No. 11 November 2017
(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 Europe Correspondent Julie Burgess jaburgess@planet.nl
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Africa Correspondent Julia Stanton Julia_Stanton@hotmail.com Contributors (in order of appearance) Editorial / Photos / Graphics Fuk Stik - GM Emeritus, Blue Hen H3 Lori Gill Laces Julia Stanton TicToc, Sydney Posh H3 SDC, Executive Chairman, Fiji Interhash 2018 Sharron Faff Regular Contributors Kurt Bodmer, Julie Burgess, Paul Cade, Short Circuit, Jim Edens, Randall Salisbury, Ian Slater, Lisa Sukita, 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 One night in late November, As close as I remember As I made my way back home from Monday’s hash. My feet began to stutter, So I laid down in the gutter, And a pig came up and laid down by my side. I was feeling rather high, When a lady passing by was heard to say… “You can tell a man who boozes By the company he chooses”, And the pig got up and slowly walked away. As 2017 comes to a close, and the cooler corners of Hashdom feel a chill, there is no good reason to halt your hashing. You can be as happy as a hog with your favorite holiday grog, and the good company of your Hash brothers and sisters. If you’ve not yet hashed with the Blue Hens this might be a good time to give them a try. After all, they’ve been around for twenty-five years, and they’re still going strong. If you enjoyed InterAm in Phoenix, what do you think about an InterAm cruise in the Bahamas? While cruise ships are
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known for fine cuisine, when was the last time you feasted on a platter of Haggis? Come to La Union, Philippines the first week of December for some Scottish Games, Hash & Haggis, and plenty of San Miguel Beer. And don’t forget to wear your kilt. She sells sea shells down by the sea shore, but has she hashed in the Seychelles? Head Mistress reports on her recent visit to this island paradise. The First World President of Hashdom was recently proclaimed by Aussies celebrating 50 years of hashing down under. We hope to see Darwin Don, 94 years young, at Interhash Fiji next year. Be sure to send in your nominations for The Best HHH Events of 2018 for publication in our next edition. We hope to see you at some of these events. On On, Jim Edens, Editor-in-Chief Harrier Magazine International Edition Fun on the run since 2002 www.HarrierMagazine.com
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Events InterAmericas 2019 Haggis Bash Fiji Hash Cruise Bimbo’s Birthday Bash 2018 Philippines Nash Hash 2019 IMH3 Post Lube, Phnom Penh Cambodia Nash Hash Thinking, Drinking 2018 Indochina Mekong Hash UK Nash Hash 2019 Kelso Interscandi 2019 Amari Midnight Run, Bangkok Kona Marathon 6 Harrier
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hether you’ve realized it or not, if you’ve been hashing in the United States in the last 20 years, you’ve probably stumbled across the Blue Hen hash, or at least one of its influences. Maybe it was a circle at a hash in Las Vegas (or Portland or Washington DC), where the RA’s mother hash was the BH4. Perhaps they showed up at your weekend hash, naked except for blue feather boas. No matter where you look, the Blue Hens seem to pop up everywhere. It’s hard to imagine that it all started off as a bunch of 18 or 20 year olds who all attended university together.
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“The Hash Boat” to feature a hasher-filled cruise ship!!
After enjoying a wonderful weekend of trails, beer, and terrific hospitality in Phoenix for InterAm 2017, a few half-minds actually remembered to cast their votes for the venue for 2019. It was a close call between perennial entrants Rumson (New Jersey) and the bid to host InterAm 2019 on a cruise ship. In the end, the cruise won out, and the committee would now like to invite one and all to join us on The Hash Boat in October, 2019. Currently, the cruise will be a 5-day, 4-night sailing on Royal Caribbean from Port Canaveral on Florida’s east coast. The ship is planning to set sail on October 14, 2019 and head (who said head?) to Nassau, Bahamas for two days of trails (including a Ball-Buster) and hashing frivolity and then on to Coco Cay - a private island - for sun, fun, snorkeling, hangover hash, volleyball, more hash games, bid presentations (New Orleans H3?), and the Mr/ Ms Interam contest.
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a Union Haggis Bash occurs at that time of year when we are all getting into party mood – we are on the slippery slope to Christmas. This year it takes place on Saturday 2nd December. It is the premier La Union hash event, normally attracting over 100 hashers from all over; from within the country, Angeles and Subic mainly, and overseas – we get a few Aussie Ockers and usually some expats from Thailand. It is a unique event, starting with a hash run, and followed by the ‘highland games’ which incorporates such fantastic field sports as the sack race, tug of war, plank walk, tossing the caper, egg and spoon race and ‘wanging the wellie’. The emphasis is more on mirth than might. The events culminate in the pie eating contest in which pies and scotch eggs are eaten, washed down with San Miguel and whisky – last year donated by L’escargot, our solitary French hasher. And the day would not be complete without our Scottish piper, who will be there in the person of Deviant from Angeles hash.
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t’s not very often that I take a plane to go to the hash but in early September I found myself doing just that to discover what the Seychelles had to offer in terms of hashing before I hit the beach for some R+R. Fortunately the hash was meeting 9km north from the airport in one of the suburbs of the tiny capital city (more like a small town of Victoria) so we took a taxi straight from the airport to the meeting point - a car park of an international school where a group of 30 were gathering and recognizable as the Seychelles Hash House Harriers.
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