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The official organ of the Abu Dhabi Island Hash House Harriers AUH4


Hashing is a state of mind- a friendship of kindred spirits joined together for the sole purpose of reliving their childhood or fraternity days, releasing the tensions of everyday life, and generally, acting a fool amongst others who will not judge you or measure you by anything more than your sense of humor."
Stray Dog (From the Global Trash Hash Bible complete reference for the Hash House Harriers)



AUH4 Run Number 1513
Monday 25th June 2007

ON THIS DAY IN 1949 – The LONG-HAIRED HARE is released in Theatres starring Bugs Bunny with a supporting cast including Giovanni Jones.
ON THIS DAY IN 2007 – The NO-HAIRED HARE run took place in Abu Dhabi starring Ooz Ee with a supporting cast of Faithful Hashers.

The Run:
Run 1513 (or was it 1512 Big Ears?) took place on the corner of Corniche and 32nd. As Ooz Ee was Haring and couldn’t be late, this role fell to Dancing Queen who skidded into the car park and almost managed to take out half the Hash as they searched valiantly for the On-On.
Ooz Ee and French Fries (well mainly French Fries actually) took the masses on a run through a terrain mainly formed of car parks, playgrounds and parks which finished with an almighty On-In along the Corniche.
On Back:
Ooz Ee & Pashmina’s Residence (Villa T10)

THE RUN – Verdict
Too hot and too much sand
Too many false trails, playgrounds, car parks, underpasses, hills and parks
The arrows were too small, the On-In too long
The run ignored the new beach
What a bunch of whining b**tards we all are.

The final score was given, sorry Perthy, at 2, although by co-incidence I feel at liberty to point out that if one were to add 7.31, the score of 9.31 would be achieved. Maybe the next run can find an extra 7.31 from somewhere.

Truffles took the esteemed role of Song Master.

HM – Big Ears
The following were called into the circle for a down-down:
Virgin Suzanne from Sri-Lanka/Canada. Is here for three weeks with Romney and will not be hashing again. However I suspect we will see her next week!
Virgin Half a bit Whore. Just realised the contradiction! From New Zealand and has hashed in Australia, New Zealand, Iraq, Bahrain, Doha, Dubai and now Abu Dhabi- certainly a whore to the hash at least. He’ll be coming along until he gets the sack. If this is the reason for his attendance at so many hashes around the world, I feel Half a bit Whore might be coming into the circle soon for a leaving down-down very soon. Anyone fancy a sweep stake?
Matthew from Yorkshire and resultantly I would suspect, probably related to Big Ears. He is here indefinitely and will be hashing again.

New Members
Half a Bit Whore
Leith and Rich. Welcome!

Returnees
French Fries returns taller and faster than Ooz Ee after a Year in Provence
Perthy Throwup back from a tour of Perth

Leavers
Truffles, off for a 2 month holiday. Bloody teachers.

Hash Numbers:
Dune Basher was awarded a T-shirt for 25 faultless runs.

Hare Raiser:
Next run at the Canadian Embassy. See details.

Hash Social:
Bistro Night at the Club 12th July. See details.
Valentines Hash Ball, Al Ain Re-hydration, and the World Hash. Might have to wait for details!

RA – Perthy Throwup
Amidst dismay from the RA as to the lack of sinning in his absence, the following charges were made:
French Fries for having an iPod, racing as Hare and, in the process, missing false trails that he had himself set.
Tiffany for the purchase of a new dog behind her fellas back
Suzanne for being so shy that she didn’t run
Truffles If I heard correctly for bringing his one and only fan for the night

And in his self-proclaimed role as Sex Inspector the RA collared the following:
Ooz Ee for giving clues on the hash to women and telling them to ‘bare left’.
Russell for taking 15 minutes to change his T-Shirt.
Half a bit Whore for having miss-matching socks.
Teabag and Lloyd for loitering with intent.
Leith, Carpet Burns and Viagra Baby for wasting water in the name of a wet T-Shirt competition. I fail to see the problem.
Karl for phone abuse.
Half a bit Whore (again!) , this time for checking the trail pre-hash. And a seasoned hasher as well!

Charges from the floor
Dancing Queen went in and swiftly came back out of the circle after muttering something, about drinking from something else, this week in preference to next. Hopefully all will be revealed in Canada.
Perthy for getting down and dirty with a Grandma.
Ooz Ee, Ballbreaker, Brendan and (surprise-surprise) Half a bit Whore . For headgear.

Other Business
PLEASE NOTE
Big Ears raised the issue that the hash is making a loss, and although is non-profit making obviously needs to keep afloat.
Therefore in order to address this it was unanimously agreed to an increase in run fees of 10 AED (from 30 to 40 for members and 40 to 50 for non-members respectively). This comes into effect as of next week. There has not been an increase in fees for the last ten years and as it covers the run and all food and drink is still very reasonable.

The Grub
Chicken, bread, salad and absolutely delighted to see Saucison Sec. Good work Pashmina.

Social Events
July 12 2007
BISTRO NIGHT AT THE CLUB RESTAURANT – 2000 Hours or in bar beforehand.
Ballbreaker promises a “fab night with lots of drunken debauchery – more so if Jolly Rogerer is there”
Massive Buffet plus a bottle of wine EACH. IF you leave without finishing it (which is bad enough) PLEASE pass onto a thirty Hasher to save yourself the embarrassment of joining Big Ears in the hall of shame.
Cost 120 AED per person. Ballbreaker will be skiving from Hash next week so if you have not already paid, Wendy will be collecting at Run 1514.

August 2007
PROPOSED BOWLING NIGHT
Details to follow

AL AIN RE-HYDRATION RUN – November

HASH VALENTINES BALL – with Mainland and Wasps at The Club – February

WORLD INTERHASH – March
Details click on the link to World Interhash site… …

Australian Education

An article that appears on the New South Wales Department of Education and Training website states that “visit a public school during education week next week. You’ll come away uplifted, optimistic and certain the future is in good hands”.

Not too sure where NSW actually is. However, having viewed the following metaphors founds in NSW Year 12 English essays, I hope the future is a bit brighter for little Alex, Perthy. All other Aussies, be thankful your offspring have access to the British School in Abu Dhabi!

Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room-temperature prime English beef.
Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.
The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM.
The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.
McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.
Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.
John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
Even in his last years, Grandad had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.
The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.
The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.
"Oh, Jason, take me!" she panted, her breasts heaving like a Uni student on $1-a-beer night.
He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.
He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.
She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.
It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall.

Don’t forget –
Please recycle all cans – Perthy will take all cans back to assist their Harriss with an early return to Bangladesh – so please put all food scraps in a separate bag
If you haven’t Hared any runs or hosted the Down downs Dancing Queen 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


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