The Sydney Mooning Hareld
___________________________________________________________ First Run 1967 O N O N . A L W A Y S . Number 2448 June 2, 2014
THE FRUCK TYRE JOINS BUMCRACK’S TRIBE OF WANNABES AT WILLOUGHBY’S TO CELEBRATE THE QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY
**** Major Major Disaster has offered a bottle of his Penfolds 389 to the first person who can correctly identify BUMCRACK in the Moon River photo below.
What was it?… the non-winter weather?… the central location?… a let down after the VIVID experience? Whatever, only about 32 POSHMEN signed on at the Willoughby RSL Club including 3-out-of-10 Committee members. Without temporary Past-Pres XXXX to take over, MOISHE, KITTY LITTER and BENNY THE SWEDE were left to still-the-ship. They may not be able to amble on as spritely as in “the good olde days”, so BUMCRACK and TYRE FRUCK, who know how to set a good Hash Run, this time instead, set a pretty nice Walk (i.e. only 4.7K) but to add a degree of colour and dispense with any criticisms, these cunning old blokes enlisted the expertise of one WOMBAT to do a perfect impersonation of our QUEEN… so good that a Bingo player nearby was overheard exclaiming “She looks a little butch, doesn’t she.”
WHERE WE WENT: Google Earth – cool…
Right from the get-go, LITTLE SHIT spotted the QUEEN’S arrival and was excited about possibly being awarded a “K” (that he insisted was the correct reference to an impending “Knighthood”). Ah-hah! Rounding the corner into Fourth Street and there she was resplendent in crown and wrap with heart-warming Pims#4 for all. The ‘K’ was not granted to LITTLE SHIT however so he passed on the Pims and slunk off into the darkness. Not so SMILEY however who said ‘Fuck the K’ and swallowed at least 4 of the #4’s. GOD KNOWS’s preference was tea and he stayed until the table was dismantled and no one remained to listen to his renditions of bawdy English limericks. BENNY, just back from realigning the computer systems for Singapore and South Korea, led the group into the darkness that TYRE had so carefully warned us about. This was the stuff that keeps GRAPE APE coming back each week (the tarmac apparently wears out the cleats of his boots). YOUR CHOICE exalted in the fact that he could pace with the likes of CINDERS and SUPER who were feeling the effects of their Great NOSH experience the day before. FOXFACE, who covered the piddley 4.73K in record time rushed past KHYBER who, missing his ‘gone bush’ mate WRAPPER, instead found POLY and YAKKITY This was not a tricky trail so why PAYLING, JTR and VI should finish 30 minutes behind must remain a mystery (what goes on in the Bush remains in the Hash).
The ON-ON was exciting…umhh, well… to those that held BINGO sheets anyway. Even if you didn’t you still had to listen to the ‘calling of the wild – wild numbers that is in order to win. The steaks were… umhh, and $6 more than The MOSMAN Pub and a few other hotels. S-Bends was cheered off on his adventures for the next three months and although KL had primed P-DUB to provide some top humour, the Bingo ladies won out and we had to leave without the usual smiles on our faces.
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Having exhausted the contingent of “runners” to set Hash Runs including the top guns – CINDERS, and LIGHTNING for, BENNY’S recent Summer-in-Winter Run, MOISHE is approaching Crisis mode for Hares. We need every POSHman who runs more than four x’s a year to make his annual contribution and help set a Run otherwise we ‘fold the tent’.
AND AGAIN NEXT WEEK! Joint Run Harriettes START & ONON: Lane Cove Bowling Club – 151 Burns Bay Rd Lane Cove – 6:30pm ————————————————————————————————————
Last week’s POSH VIVID Run with the ferry to the Circular Quay Start was, by all accounts, a great success. We became the first H3 followed by the Harriettes on Wed. Thurs night it was Thirsty and this Tues it’s the Larrikans. Arrows in every possible direction.
Hares should recognize that less emphasis on the running course and more on the attractions on the trail and the On-On seem to encourage more to come along.
THE GREAT NOSH RUN – 01 June 2014:
Most of you ‘old school ‘ POSHMEN have traversed this track from Lindfield to Seaforth at some time so you know how tough it is. Now, as we’ve become a singing/walking Hash, few are still interested in taking on this serious challenge. Organisers have extended the course to almost 16k but have also added a 70+ Category that has managed to maintain the interest for KITTY LITTER and FLCL who finished First and Second on Sunday. The other contingent in the 60 -69 Category, produced a similar quality result CINDERELLA – First and SUPER GLUE – Fifth.
Many fear that we will be ‘rudderless’ without the charismatic drive of our President – MM; our photo man; newsletterman; and infamous joke man-T-T; our left-hand man; Jerk-of-All-Trades – J J; and Past-Pres CV. This Boxes of Shit or whatever, is a serious interruption to their duties as was their recent off time for a Min/Max/Mundane kinda bike ride. So what the F&^%$ has all this to do with running, walking, cycling, kayaking, or golfing ? …DRINKING maybe ??? The wolves are baying you guys <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGMsAYgoL3Y>.
HASH FLASH JUNGLE BUNNY
Drivers: Fergus Maclagan & Trevor Wilson Drivers: Jim Forbes Bruce Miller Shitbox Type: \’92 Ford Fairlane Ghia Shitbox Type: Ford Falcon
In Oct/Nov last year, a crew of your notables went to the ‘real’ 75th Anniversary of the HASH in Kuala Lumpur. After one of the Runs, the welcome from the PJ Hazards -Malaysia was of such significance that MM declared them a “Sister Hash” with an open invitation to run with us in Sydney. They have accepted the offer and 30/40 Hashers are planning to lob onto us in Sydney for 3/4 days in November. This is an opportunity to meet with a rather special group of guys who enjoy most of the lifestyle that we do (often greater) but within a different environment. We will have a new Committee by then but could offer suggestions about accommodation and other events now. With that many men they can maybe take over a motel or a conference centre somewhere.
•••• It is with considerable regret that we pass on the late news that GILLIAN GRAY “MISS BADDY TWO SHOES”, a well known and popular Harriette, has died after a very short return of the cancer that we thought she had conquered about 10 years ago. No doubt more details will be available at next weeks Joint Run.