Legal Hash

Yes, but you were barely flashing the delicate turn of an ankle.

Granny said :

That Floosie sure is hot, but you are so much more classy!

*chuckle*

‘Classy’ and ‘Hash’ are rarely uttered in the same sentence, paragraph or postcode.

That Floosie sure is hot, but you are so much more classy!

*chuckle*

Gawd, I love these context-sensitive ads. “Meet local runners at single-runners dot com!!”

Three post nutbag!

Be afraid! http://www.flickr.com/photos/7286707@N04/

Granny said :

So did you get ‘named’ in a circle somewhere?

Absolutely love the name, by the way!! What is the background? Sounds a bit ‘fishy’ to me.

Well, my girlfriend at the time said we should be spicing things up in the bedroom, so I brought home a barramundi and things were about to get really interesting when she suddenly said, ‘Not tonight, dear; I have a haddock’.

Actually that never happened.

We do lots of fun runs*, including the charity runs, and when I was still a newbie and as yet unnamed, I made an error on the web entry for a charity run out at Tuggeranong and took the cheapest $5 entry without buying some merchandise (which is where these mobs make some extra cash). When I was foolish enough to mention this, I was tagged as ‘FishAr$e’ (as in, ‘tight as a….’).

The irony of this being that I’ve been a charity fund-raiser since my teens and have coordinated raising over $100,000 for one particular cancer charity. But, hey, you cop your Hash name sweet, embrace it, and just run with it.

* Since I have my fingers in 27 pies at any one time, I keep missing most of the fun runs that the group goes in. There are three regular runs in the next six or seven weeks that I’ll have to miss. Except City to Surf; the four horsemen of the apocalypse would have to be massed on the horizon to keep me away from that annual blend of pleasure and pain.

I know!! But I would be a walking hasher.

After reading the Wikipedia article, this actually sounds pretty cool.

So did you get ‘named’ in a circle somewhere?

*chortle*

Absolutely love the name, by the way!! What is the background? Sounds a bit ‘fishy’ to me.

*boom boom*

I’ve had some funny looks from home-owners, shop proprietors and security guards and the occasional quizzical, ‘What are you doing?’ Especially when using the ‘stamper’; mine’s an empty 5lt oil container filled with flour, with holes drilled in the bottom so you can walk/run along, ‘stamp’ the pavement or dirt and get a Hash symbol come out in biodegradable flour. (If you check the Wikipedia link you’ll see how that got some of the OS Hashes into strife during the anthrax scares!)

And yes, Granny, there is the ‘Circle’ after every run. A bit of ritual, good-natured ridicule and a few down-downs. The exception is my home Hash (Canberra Hash) which has been going strong here since 1969 (third in existence in Australia, and 2,040 runs to date) but has never once had a circle. Just a couple of beers, a feed and the usual bullsh!t and banter afterwards.

Visiting hashers are occasionally horrified — some Hash Circles elsewhere can last up to an hour, involve run report, charges, parish notices, and CAN involve any miscreants being required to…. but no, I wouldn’t want to scare you off. Suffice to say we don’t have the practice I was about to mention on any of our regular runs, but they’re a staple at Nash(ional) Hash and Inter(national) Hash meets. I’ve got a separate flickr site with some pics; I’ll drag the link out later — it’s all letters and numbers in the title so it’s not one I know off the top of my head. But if you whack ‘Red Dress Run’ or ‘Nash Hash’ or ‘Interhash’ into a web search, you’ll get an idea from others’ photos.

“I’m a walrus and I Hash” bumper stickers coming soon, I hope?

Hope you don’t get arrested for graffiti, you green phantom, you! Do you do the mysterious ‘Circle’ stuff too?

ant said :

the Harriers do walks? That’s welcome news. achilles tendonosis I thought had put paid to hash house harrier activities.

time to look them up.

For sure. Hashing really hit its heyday in the 70s, so you can imagine that not every Hasher is up to a fast jog, so there’s always a walking option. There’s a mob out at Queanbeyan too which you’ll find through that original link (probably under NSW, though). Even for the runners, it’s not a straight out run; you have to stop at check marks (“Wait for the pack!”) and fan out to find where the run continues.

Granny, they’re mostly ‘dead’ trails (i.e. set before the pack takes off). In fact I had to set mine for tonight in the early hours of this morning, so if you see any green chalk marks around the city today, that’ll be me. Always a risk with ‘dead’ trails that kids and others will stomp out your trail. Please don’t!

If it rains and the trail gets washed out or the hare doesn’t turn up to set the trail, there’s occasionally a ‘live’ trail where the hare sets out about five minutes before the pack and basically makes it up on the run, as it were.

Belconnen Town Centre is popular for hash runs, in fact, a hasher actually owns a watering hole there somewhere up near the car yards and the bus depot.

It’s all for sh!ts and giggles and so long as the beers are cold and frosty afterwards, who cares about the trail?!

Even I’m a member (technically – long story).

No actual hash, although I once saw the notice for a run from the Pot Belly in Belconnen commencing at “Weed On” (ie “Weedon”) Close.

This is all quite fascinating, Overheard. So do you do “live” or “dead” trails?

Overheard said :

There’s one in Mexico City and one in San Miguel de Allende, but not in Marijuana as far as I can tell.

The fret thing was clinging to a rope, but that one is a no no, mate.

the Harriers do walks? That’s welcome news. achilles tendonosis I thought had put paid to hash house harrier activities.

time to look them up.

There’s one in Mexico City and one in San Miguel de Allende, but not in Marijuana as far as I can tell.

…Sooo this isn’t about marijuana?

@ Lilli. Will be happy to see you (plural or singular) there. Look for the people in the blue polar fleeces either out the front or in the front bar.

@ Joe C. Plenty of other days covered. There’s a Harriettes run this Thursday night in Duffy, Canberra Hash are on Sunday morning this week at Chapman, Capital Hash next Monday at Belconnen, Belconnen Hash at… er, get back to you on that one as their dates on their site are a bit how’s your father. There’s also a Tuesday night once a month at full moon, and the Sunday bike hash as well.

(Unfortunately I’ll miss all of the above this week due to radio, coast and trivia quiz hosting commitments.)

All details available by following the http://www.hhh.asn.au link.

Can’t make wednesdays but I’ll be inclined to come along some other nights

Oh – I’m too excited to finish reading the post before I comment! I actually read a bit about this after you mentioned them in another thread and was trying to work out how to quiz you about it. But, lo and behold, all the information is just above for me to read! Sounds like an awesome idea, and if I can wrangle my other half into coming along we’ll be there – if not for this WACT then for one coming up soon. Thanks for providing all the info, this organisation seems like a really well kept secret that I’m glad I found out about – cheers!