RUN NO.1720 – SATE BANGDUL, JL. ALTERNATIF – 22 OCTOBER 2001

THE OFFICIAL HASH SHEET

Regulars: 29 New Members: 6 TOTAL: 35
Hares: Tarzan and the invisible Betawi tribe.

THE RUN
Good run till we reached a checkaround at a football field half way through the run. Then, like lemmings, we followed some dimwitted clown who was convinced the run went straight on. Following my 90%-of-the-time-it-goes-straight-after-a-checkaround rule, who was I to argue? Tom bin Jones assured us it couldn’t possibly go right otherwise it would be a two-hour run. Tom Jones is usually right, but when he’s not right, he’s terribly wrong. This was one of the occasions. Convinced that, having not found paper after half a kilometre, it must have gone left, Tom Jones urged us to bear left and we were sure to intercept the trail. Of course we never saw paper again, and only the sound of traffic from Jl.Alternatif prevented us from getting further lost. Highlight of the return to Sate Bangdul was not the 1.5km.drag along the main road. Only Sadist and Jonesy (!) claimed to have been on paper all the way.

THE CIRCLE
Amazingly Magic Dragon, the stand-in HM, noticed that unlike most weeks stand-ins for other positions were not required as we had an almost full turnout of the mismanagement. A sight normally seen only when there is free makan and champagne, such as at mismanagement meetings. We had no fewer than TWO RA’s, TWO MM’s and THREE scribes. All were put to work, including the three scribes, unbeknown to GoBlokM who thought he was the official scribe.

The co-hares were conspicuous by their absence. Apparently terrified by the calls for ‘ice’ from some returning hounds they decided to flee and leave their brave leader Tarzan to the mercy of the mob. In fact, the mob was quite generous towards Tarzan, who was quite prepared to sit on ice, and even did so briefly. A good run was accorded, although Angie registered a protest on the grounds that it was impossible to lay a good run from Sate Bangdul.

Roger Webster (time this new old fart got named or rodgered) got punished for impersonating Bin Laden and also demonstrated, with blue towel over his head and face, why Afghan women aren’t allowed to drive – they can’t see where they are going!

Excellent hare’s song from Tarzan, a variation of ‘Imagine’, namely ‘Imagine there’s no Osama Bin Laden’.

I was accused of writing it for Tarzan but that is impossible; I would never plagiarize my own original song (‘Imagine there’s no hashing’). John Lennon did so and got shot as a result. Similarly, John Denver’s private plane got shot down after he turned the ‘Jakarta Leaver’s Song’ into ‘Annie’s Song’. Right now, Max Boyce’s future is uncertain after he pinched ‘Hymns and Arias’. I am still trying to find out who turned the song ‘Too much wanking makes you blind’ into ‘You were always on my mind’. Some people have no respect for intellectual property.

Talking about which, Magic Dragon kindly sponsored a barrel in honour of his own intellectual property (his missus).

Our two MM’s treated us to a number of songs, with some particularly fresh material dragged up from scrappy bits of paper by Sheepskin. It was good to see Clarkunt again, having emerged from several weeks of lying low in the Canadian Embassy’s bunker on the 25^th floor of Wisma Metropolitan. (This is not the actual address; the real one is kept secret, like their phone numbers. It’s tough on Canadians when they need help, because their embassy keeps moving without telling anybody. This way, it’s much cheaper than paying for hundreds of policemen to defend it.)

Both RA’s got into the act. Konkrete Kok put Magic Dragon on ice for the still non-appearance of the yearbook. (It was about this time four years ago that the yearbook finally came out when Konkrete Kok was the editor.)

Elephant Man honoured Pretty Boy representing the Irish for their thrashing of the English rugby team last Saturday. Fortunately he didn’t bring up what the Irish did the previous Saturday. As a result of the Irish victory by the way, the IRA has decided to disarm and peace has returned to Northern Ireland. Following this success, plans are now under way to arrange a rugby match between America and the Taliban.

And so to pots on the floor. The makan at the on-on reminded me why I prefer to have beans on toast at home, but some seemed to enjoy the local haute cuisine.

NEXT WEEK’S RUN: Monday, 29 October.

Hare: MGM

Location: Ikan Bakar, Cimanggis. If you don’t know where this is, look in the Egon Ronay Guide.

On-on. Col.B.

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