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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 1535
Monday 26th November 2007
The where the f**k are we? Run


The Event:
By the time everyone had found their way to the actual start of the run from where they were instructed to meet by the Hares, it had already got dark. But to be fair that probably had as much to do with the winter? months as it did the length of time to find the start of the run proper. And what a run, the multitude of checks evidently eliminated the necessity for arrows, and after much convoluted looping and crossing of the same streets the hashers were so disorientated they were left dumb and even more confused than when they were trying to find the start, and all they could do was follow the flashlights of the Hares back to the safety of the on-back. As well as AUH4 Run 1535, other significant events that have occurred on the 26th November include the founding of the National Hockey League in 1917 with the Montreal Canadians, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs and Toronto Arenas. And there was me thinking it was an American sport. Insignificant events associated with the 26th November include someone called Franklin Delano Roosevelt (a British Governor of the United States or similar) singing a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as for a pretend Christmas entitled Thanksgiving Day. It did however prove so popular that it was subsequently copied by the Canadians.

IT APPEARS AS IF VB DOES NOT KNOW HIS HISTORY IF HE DID HE WOULD KNOW THAT THANKSGIVING WAS CELEBRATED IN CANADA AT LEAST 54 YEARS PRIOR TO THE U.S. EVENT. (Sheila’s comment)

Turnout
Eventually, around 40ish hashers and a number of hash brats. No Hash Dogs for a change.

Verdict
After the 2+ hours run in the desert in the weekend all were looking for a recovery run but were instead treated to one of Truffles marathon training runs
It was too long
and too short
Too much orange chalk on yellow pavement
Too many angry dogs, especially when they saw Angry Pussy
The walk was fantastic
The walk was crap
There were no marks

GM – Big Ears

Hares
Georg with one E, Herman, Teaboy

Virgins
Kevine. A frog here to teach English?! for six months and will hash again
Suzannah from Wales, visiting Liz for the Dubai 7’s
Lucy from Ditto, will not be back again
Gilly Willy from the Wirral (that would make you a scouser then) here for one week and will be back again if invited/resists the urge to knick something from Teaboys’ Tina, also from Ditto but not sure if the same one as Lucy
A confused Sam from either Holland or England visiting mum Rona. Going back Thursday, but not sure where to

Hash Birthdays
Sam, 20

Leavers
Gina, been here for three weeks and now thoroughly sick of us all. May be back after a bit of recuperation

New Members
Yasmin no. 1059
Prancer no. 1060
Rona no. 1066
What happened to 1061-1065??

RA – Jolly Rogerer
Jolly Rogerer began her charges with one for
Big Ears for dropping her in it as RA at the weekends Dehydration Run…and then telling her to shut up before she even got onto the charges
Dunebasher who, as Hash Beer, forgot the wine and
Pashmina for bloody whinging about it
Liz and Virgin Suzannah for racing. Very naughty
Anita and Heather for talking shop. Also very naughty
Wendy was called in as her cleaner is called Sheila.
Sheila was called in for, as her husband, probably being that cleaner

Charges from the Weekend
Dan the Man for bringing politics on the Hash by purposefully missing the Canadian, German and Chinese drink stops and going straight to the USA
Georg with one E, GI Joe, VB, Gavin, Dan and especially How Much for getting bored with
Jolly Rogerers’ jokes in the circle and starting a brawl with the Mainland Hash
GI Joe for twice getting his Jeep stuck in the sand…and both times having Ballbreaker pull him out/off. Both in the middle If I heard correctly Dan for having a cold arse?

Sex on Hash
GI Joe for providing a strip show in the circle.
Pashmina had sex or something.
Shane for doing an impressive sumo/splits technique to pick up a piece of card of the floor with his mouth, mistakenly thinking it was a game whilst everyone else wondered what the f**k he up to doing

Charges from the Floor
All Australians. Firstly for being Australian which is reason enough, but also apparently because they’ve all gone soft and voted in a left wing commi PM. B***ards
GI Joe called in all the English for missing out on qualification for the Euro 2008 Championships. Duly noted that the gleeful Irish, Welsh and Scottish were not considered worthy enough forces in sport to even bother charging for the same
Jolly Rogerer called in all those involved in the Dehydration run;
Kangaroo Keg, Sheila, Wendy and Big Ears were given a down-down with thanks for a great weekend

On-On

The Grub Hot, hot Curry sublime

If you haven’t Hared any runs or hosted the Down-Downs, Teaboy, Georg with one E and Herman would like to talk to you. We all need to take our turns:
Andrew.clarke@mottmac.com 050 626 1452
Georg.vitt@mottmac.com 050 667 0357
Herman.kao@mottmac.com

Social Dates for your Diary:
Friday 30th November 2007
Brunch at the Revolving Restaurant

Thursday 13th December 2007
Hash Xmas Party, venue confirmed as Whiplash’s Grotto
Events for your Diary:

HASH BALL – with Mainland and Wasps at the Club – 17th January 2008
AED 170 Members / AED 200 Non-Members

WORLD INTERHASH – Perth 21st to 23rd March 2008
Please see Website for details

My sincerest apologies to Hernia for batting these straight back at you, but made me chuckle and in the light of a lack of alternative material and all that…

Trevor the farmer was in the fertilised egg business. He had several hundred young layers (hens), called 'pullets' and eight or ten roosters, whose job was to fertilise the eggs. The farmer kept records and any rooster that didn't perform went into the soup pot and was replaced. That took an awful lot of his time so he bought a set of tiny bells and attached them to his roosters.

Each bell had a different tone so Trevor could tell from a distance, which rooster was performing. Now he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report simply by listening to the bells. The farmer's favourite rooster was old Gordon, and a very fine specimen he was too.

But on this particular morning Trevor noticed old Gordon's bell hadn't rung at all! Trevor went to investigate. The other roosters were chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing. The pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover. But to farmer Trevor's amazement, Gordon had his bell in his beak, so it couldn't ring. He'd sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one.

Trevor was so proud of Gordon, he entered him in the West Berks County Fair and Gordon became an overnight sensation among the judges. The result: the judges not only awarded Gordon the No Bell Piece Prize but they also awarded him the Pulletsurprise as well.

Clearly Gordon was a politician in the making: Who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most highly coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the populace and screwing them when they weren't paying attention. Do you know a Pullitician called Gordon?

What a coincidence!

A chicken farmer went to a local bar, sat next to a woman and ordered a glass of champagne.
The woman perks up and says "How about that? I just ordered a glass of champagne, too!"
"What a coincidence" the farmer says. "This is a special day for me, and I'm celebrating."
"This is a special day for me too. I am also celebrating!" says the woman.
"What a coincidence!" says the farmer.
" As they clinked glasses the man asked, "What are you celebrating?"
"My husband and I have been trying to have a child and today my gynecologist told me that I am pregnant!"
"What a coincidence." says the man. "I'm a chicken farmer and for years and all of my hens were infertile, but today they are all laying fertilized eggs."
"That's great!" says the woman. "How did your chickens become fertile?"
"I used a different cock," he replied.
The woman smiled and said, "What a coincidence

AUH4 Run Number 1536
Monday 3rd December 2007
START TIME:1745 Hours

HARES: ’Ooz ‘Ee

LOCATION:As a change from recent tradition, 'Ooz 'Ee's run will not be starting from the "usual" place, and I'm not going to tell you where that is or you'll all go there - I know what hashers are like!!
It is in fact going to be from near where the old Khalidiyah Palace Hotel used to be. For the 97% of hashers who don't know where that is, go to the Emirates Palace Hotel main roundabout, and continue towards the public beach.
At the next roundabout turn left (Emirates Palace on the right again). Turn right in front of the construction side hoardings and follow the track onto the beach (or what's left of it).
See map; see web page
ON BACK:The on-back will be at Pashmina and 'Ooz 'Ee's abode: Villa T-10, 3rd "green street off 32nd street, near the late Mothercare building. Best to park at the usual place, in the car park off on "green" 1st street just off the Corniche - oops, I wasn't going to tell you where that was!
Don't forget to bring torches, flashlights, fairy lights, burning carpets or anything else that will shed light on proceedings. Bring chairs to the on-back if you really need them, but we may not need too many extra. Please let ‘Ooz ‘Ee know (jwilliams@pi.ac.ae) if you will participate in the hash nosh AND didn’t put your hand up last week.

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 Teaboy, Georg with one E and Herman 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



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
Click to be transported to photo site No longer accessible to anyone in the UAE! New Photo Site

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