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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 1515
Monday 9th July 2007
‘Ladies Day at AUH4’

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY – The Caprotinia, or feast of Juno Caprtotina, were ancient Roman Festivals which were celebrated on 9th July in favour of the female slaves. During this solemnity they apparently ran about, beating themselves with their fists and with rods.
ON THIS DAY IN 2007 – In honour of the Caprotinia (I’m sure we’re all in favour of female slaves), AUH4 run number 1515 took place from the Khalidiyah Ladies Park, but with a little more decorum and minus activities involving the fists and rods.

On Back: Justin and Tiffany’s Hallowed Home

THE RUN – Verdict
Remarkable enthusiasm for a run which, too be honest, stank in the literal sense of the word for large sections of the route
Positive comments included that it was well set and made good use of hills. A couple of enthusiastic Aussies thought it was ‘really good’ Justin and Curtis were thought to have given the hashers ‘Perfect Length’ Others thought it was perfect crap
One happy hasher touted for a score of 11/10. What’s wrong with people???

HM – Big Ears
Hernia, Sheila and Dancing Queen took it in turns as song master to serenade the following called into the circle for a down-down:
Hares Justin, Curtis, Tiffany and a dog who also brought along his mini-me

Virgins
Heather and Olivia from Canada. Here since Wednesday, on holiday until August and will come again
Christine and Big Jack. Have been here for a year and will leave when they’re done. Hopefully they are not done yet so they can hash again
Jamie from New Zealand, here for 2 ½ years and will hash again

Repaired Virgins
A shameful Raji full of bloody lame excuses

Leavers
None! Most unusual, must have been all the damn positively floating around the hash on the night. I however was tempted.

Hare Raiser:
Next run at Dancing Queen’s, after that at an unknown Embassy…
Need more please

Hash Social:
Bistro Night at the Club 12th July. See details.

RA – Perthy
RA had the following charges to make:
Lateness Hernia for being late. Some excuse for lack of clarity in the directions that didn’t appear to faze the rest of the hash
Leith and Rich for also being late, although miraculously appeared from Spinney’s carpark halfway round the run.
RA Abuse Evan for denying Grandpa light with which to see

Moral Charges – Child Abuse
Marissa for feeding her dog water from a thimble
Tiffany for drowning her dog in a bowl
Christina for making Big Jack cry
and Heather for sending her child to get firewood, taking the celebration of Caprotinia too far. Please note, Heather, that Canada passed an Act against Slavery in 1793, so don’t try that at home.

Standard of Attire
Has been notably slipping some what in recent weeks
Carpet Burns for wearing black socks on hash that were not even her own! Also in the circle How Much? for supplying fore-mentioned items
Russell for his ‘Budgie Smugglers’ and probably should have also included Perthy for looking in the first place.
Sex on Hash
Romney for ‘being good for two weeks’ and coming with VB
Jolly Rodgerer for training for the Hash in the Tavern on Friday
Sadia for wearing a thong
Rich for being racy

Other Charges
Big Ears and Viagra Baby for making toast on Friday and not going to PJs, VB also for forgetting his hash number
Sadia for taking a dirt on her shoes to avoid a down-down and Tiffany for recommending she does so.
Rich and Leith for leaving lost property at the Canadian Embassy, thus causing a security panic
Romany for phone abuse
All others that had not been in were called in to Suck and Swallow at the behest of Sheila.

Charges from the floor
None ???

The Grub
Lots and lots of burgers, sausages, fish, a vat of baked beans, salad and garnishing…need I go on?? Thanks to the yanks, top effort.

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 Rodgerer 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. There is a dress code for men, notably no sandals - especially with socks!
Cost 120 AED per person. See Ballbreaker if you would still like to attend.

July 2007
PROPOSED PROGRESSIVE DINNER – 10th August
Details to follow

August 2007
PROPOSED BOWLING NIGHT
Details to follow

Updated: AL AIN RE-HYDRATION RUN – 23rd-24th November NTNH Site (2006), Al Ain, UAE. Please see Website for details.

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

Updated: WORLD INTERHASH – 21st-23rd March
Further details to follow as an when… … …

Following complaints made to the IRB about the All Blacks being allowed to motivate themselves by performing the 'Haka' before their games, other nations were asked to suggest pre-match rituals of their own. The IRB Rugby World Cup 2007 Organising Committee has now agreed to the following pre-match displays:

a. The England team will chat about the weather, wave hankies in the air, attach bells to their ankles and dance around like nancy-boys before moaning about how they invented the game and gave it to the world, and how it's not fair that everyone still thinks New Zealand are the best team in the world.
b. The Scotland team will chant 'You lookin' at me Jimmy?" before smashing an Iron Bru bottle over their opponents' heads.
c. The Ireland team will split into two, with the Southern half performing a Riverdance, while the Northerners march the Traditional route from their dressing room to the pitch, via their opponents dressing room.
d. With regret, unfortunately the Committee were unable to accept the Welsh suggestion following strong representations from the RSPCA and the Lamb Marketing Board.
e. Argentina will unexpectedly invade a small part of opposition territory, claim it as their own "Las In-Goals-Areas" and then be forcibly removed by the match stewards.
f. Two members of the South African team will claim to be more important than the other 13 whom they will imprison between the posts whilst they claim the rest of the pitch for themselves.
g. The Americans will not attend until almost full time. In future years they will amend the records to show that they were in fact the most important team in the tournament and Hollywood will make a film called 'Saving No.8 Lyle'.
h. Five of the Canadian team will sing La Marseillaise and hold the rest of the team to ransom.
i. The Italian team will arrive in Armani gear, sexually harass the female stewards and then run away.
j. The Spanish will sneak into the other half of the pitch, mow it and then claim that it was all in line with European "grass quotas". They will then curl up under the posts and have a kip until half time, when their appeal for compensation against the UK Government will be heard.
k. The Japanese will attempt to strengthen their team by offering good salaries to the key opposition players and then run around the pitch at high speed in a highly efficient manner before buying the ground (with subsidy from the UK Government).
l. The French will declare they have new scientific evidence that the opposition are in fact all mad. They will then park lorries across the halfway line, let sheep loose in the opposition half (much to the delight of the Welsh) and burn the officials.
m. The Australians will have a barbie before negotiating lucrative singing and TV contracts in the UK. They will then invite all their mates to come and live with them in Shepherds Bush.

Response to Hash Scribe Query on 090707
Romany questioned why, on the AUH4 website, the Interhash in Perth is advertised with a Sri Lankan Flag. As promised I’ve looked into this and the results of my research (as extensive as logging onto the webpage) are below:

As it quite clearly states, the Sri-Lankan Flag is in reference to the 2nd South Asian Interhash 2007, Not the Interhash in Perth 2008, for which one might expect a flag with the Union Jack in the corner. Not sure if you’ve been to Australia but one might also expect the flag bearer to be a kangaroo rather than an elephant.
I trust this satisfies your curiosity.
If anyone else has a question worthy of a down-down the following week please don’t hesitate to ask, I would be happy to try and help.
VB

Thought for the day comes from Perthy:
“Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual”


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

If you are preparing food please remember that the Hash has a few strange people that don’t eat meat. I think they are called herbivores or something?

AUH4 WEBSITE
Don’t forget to look up the AUH4 website. Many thanks to Sheila for putting so much effort into a GREAT website - and check out any incriminating photos of yourself!!

Web site - where you are now

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