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Run 1489
THE “COLD CORNER OF THE CORNICHE” RUN

Monday 15th January 2007
HARES: Big Ears and Dancing Queen
ON BACK: Chez Perthy Cuter and Perthy Throwup

THE RUN
About 35 brave souls braved the cold, darkness, the water and Al Salaam road and set off from the carpark near the Corniche on Al Salaam street. There were lots of clear green & yellow chalk marks, lots of long false trails which even had the knitting circle in tow on several occasions until they became immediately lost and easy to find check back marks (well there were a lot of them) no crossing of any major roads, almost no soft sand, and only a few difficulties finding the arrows as the light began to fail (five minutes after we started).

THE RUN – VERDICT
No arrows – “good ‘cos we can just go for a run” +5; Chalk +2: Soft sand +5: Too much ocean: -4; Length just right 10: No major roads -5: arrows 15/10; soft sand -3; it was too long; not enough mingling with the bimblers; too much ocean; bimblers got lost -6; too much chalk & flour; more whinging, moaning and grumbling for an excellent score of 9.5

THE HARES
Despite immense verbal pressure from several chatterboxes, HM ‘Ooz ‘Ee got the gathering underway and gave down-downs to Big Ears and Dancing Queen

VIRGINS
Gilles from Canada somewhere and has Hashed for 2 years in the Carribean somewhere. On being presented with his delightful down-down he complained that it was warm, so he was awarded a second lovely drink.

THE PROGRESSIVE DINNER
Was a great night out and many thanks to Ballbreaker for organising it. No doubt there will be several charges arising from some sterling performances on the night. These will be mentioned in next weeks hash

BLABS
Big Poo, Bagbum, Shiela, Gilles, Ooze Ee, Pashmina & Ralph

The GM, Ooze EE had several charges
The Acolyte Posh Doris Aka Hash Crash who left the Hash mugs at home “I didn’t know I had to bring them every week” Doh!
Bronwyn & Big Ears for new shoes

The RA, Dancing Queen, proceeded to pick on numerous innocent Hashers
Hash Crash for asking “what are the circles for?”
Barry for not running tonite
Chopper for a Hash Slash
OoZE ‘ee for being a back seat driver
Perthy Throwup for successfully managed to elude all those Hashers who were following him back to the down-downs
Jo for “whinging” at her son Matthew
etc etc etc

NAMINGS
Jo was invited to be named after a sensational fall from grace last week. She insisted the damage to the skin on both knees was from that fall. The injury prompted several very clever witty names to be proposed, including Scrubber, Carpet Burns and Dropout. But after long deliberations the unanimous choice was Carpet Burns.

Maurice was also asked to front the RA on charges stemming from his sterling efforts at the Liwa Hash several weeks ago, where he attempted to level several 100 metre high dunes with his car. Two names were selected Dune Basher and Sand Blaster but again after careful contemplation Dune Basher was unanimous
Both were duly anointed with their new names by the RA

SOCIAL EVENTS
The Tony Foxx run on January 26th
Something on 23rd February at the Revolving restaurant
The 1500th run 30th March


After a very messy and often loud circle the Hashers feasted on some fantastic tasty Indian food from the Taj Palace. On the night the Dal was praised as the best ever eaten and so everyone had seconds or thirds. According to all, the memory lingered on for a day or so after and could be the reason for several divorces!!!!

NEXT WEEKS RUN - Run no. 1490:
Monday 22th January 2007
Hares: Jolly Rogerer and Kevin
Run – Mosque across from British Embassy
On Back – British Embassy – the Rabbit’s Hutch

CAN YOU HELP?
In order to avoid the clutches of the UK Inland Revenue we are looking to spend some more weeks away from the U.K. before April 6th 2007, and not spend a fortune in doing so, which would defeat the object. Does anyone know of anyone who has a house that they'd like sat for a while? Doesn't matter where. We're willing to garden, decorate, walk the cat, fight off intruders, etc.
Thanks!
On On
Big Poo (Barry Keywood)

Don’t forget –
If you haven’t Hared any runs or hosted the Down downs committee would like to talk to you. We all need to take our turns
Numbers have been climbing so if you are bringing Virgins along please let Hash Committee know as we would hate to be embarrassed by shortage of food and even worse run out of Hash Water




Some Politically Incorrect Humour
The three wise men arrived to visit the child lying in the manger
One of the wise men was exceptionally tall and smacked his head on the low doorway as he entered the stable
"Jesus Christ" he exclaimed
"Write that down Mary" said Joseph "It's better than Derek"


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