Jakarta Hash House Harriers
Scribe
Sheet Run 1699
Hashit Holder: Tom Jones (no need to
mention the co-hares)
RUN NO.
1699 4 June 2001
Members:
28 New Members: 5 Old Members: 1 Visitors: 2 Yoshi’s
Driver:1 Total: 37
Hares: Angie, Magic Dragon
Location: Down by the Riverside
First of
all let me say what an honour it is to finally attain the position of scribe.
It is a position that renders all other positions meaningless. The scribe has
the final word on the run and everything that transpired that evening. It is
possible to mould the truth into what you think it should have been. It is a
very lucrative position; it is easy to solicit ‘donations’ upon the mere threat
of a negative mention or exposure of some unfortunate incident that may or may
not have taken place. Since memories become faded it is very easy to suggest to
a person what he ‘did’ that night. The response is usually ‘did I really do
that? You won’t be mentioning this in the sheet of course …..will you?’
THE RUN
Chaos prevailed at the start, with all of us running around like headless
chickens looking for paper that wasn’t there. All except Tarzan, that is. He
went off in a totally different direction, where there also wasn’t any paper,
which didn’t prevent him from calling ‘on-on’.
Two checkbacks were found without any paper leading to them. How could
two such experienced hashers be stupid enough to place checkbacks without any
paper leading to them? It then transpired that they had actually laid paper
FROM them on the other side. Or maybe we had arrived at the checkbacks from the
wrong side. Anyway we sussed it out and got going away from the golf course.
They
appeared to be doing dumb things with checks again when we reached a
checkaround which led us to another
checkaround, unconnected by paper. This completely mystified the Betawi tribe,
but more experienced hashers pointed out that the second checkaround was from a
previous run.
It looked
like being an early finish as we came to the entrance of the golf course but
the hares had kindly arranged a little romp off the tarmac to finish. This
little romp turned out to be a 30 minute trek through mire, kampungs, fringe of
toll road and finally across the greens (I think that’s a golf term) in
semi-darkness.
As it was a
public holiday and people were relaxed the comments were fairly complimentary
and the hares got away with a good run verdict. Which makes it run of the year
so far.
THE
CIRCLE
In the absence of the new Hash Master (traditionally, new Hash Masters rarely
appear during the first twenty runs or so of the hash year) MGM quickly stamped
his authority on the circle. He was repeatedly interrupted by RA Pitstop who
wished to leave his mark on the circle, as
this was again his last night before leaving Jakarta. For those
interested in historical trivia he was impeached as RA for excessive foreign
travel during the 1996-7 hash year. He has a habit of claiming a leaver’s mug
every time he comes back. Tonight was the first time under the new jurisdiction
that we had less than three active RA’s in the circle, but Pitstop made up for
this. He humiliated all those who looked Welsh for the sins of the vicar in
Swansea who got his congregation to sing ‘ding’ and ‘dong’ in the absence of
bell ringers. One dong that was dingin was that of Yoshi who paid the price for
confessing that he had brought an unmentionable and was consequently iced. He
was given a quick reprieve however on explaining that he relied on his
unmentionable to drive him to the hash. There is nothing wrong with bringing a
driver to the hash. And what you do with your driver after the hash is your own
business.
Some fine
songs from Sheepskin. Sukardi was iced for replacing the bucket that Pitstop
broke the previous week (on Tarzan’s head) with a small cheap one. Pitstop duly
broke the new one. The cost of replacing
buckets is
now approaching that of soft drinks.
Stretch was
rewarded for staying so long in the circle, leading to speculation that his
missus was out of town. Finally Magic Dragon serenaded us with all twelve
verses of that uplifting song ‘Viagra’. This led to Jonesy lamenting that on
more than one occasion he has had enough money to buy the little blue pill but
then doesn’t have enough money left to pay for the girl. (Solution to this
problem: buy half a pill and look for a half-wit.)
Hats off.
Pots on the floor. Swing Low.
The on-on
was at the Top Gun if anyone went and if it was open.
Col.B.
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