Jakarta Hash House Harriers
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Sheet Run 1715
RUN NO. 1715 -
RAFFLES HILL - 17 SEPTEMBER 2001
Regulars: 21 New
Members: 3 Past Members: 2 Visitors: 5 Total: 31
Hares: Vatican Rag, Rommy, Alex
Navicidio
New Members: Ruslam Effendi, Paul
Robinson, Roger Webster
Past Members: Rudolph Stock, Alex
Navicidio
Visitors: Nightjar, Tilman Stock,
Shithouse, Corporal Punishment, Clemen. (Guess which ones out of these have got
hash names.)
Location: Raffles Hill, Jl. Alternatif
Announcements:
Missed them.
Mismanagement meeting: Tuesday 25 September,
6.30pm, Grand Ballroom, Shangri-La.
THE RUN
At last, a site which was reachable by 5.00pm without having to take
half a day off.
Having started in the same direction from this site before, I quickly recognized the first checkaround and once again chose the wrong direction in which to check. This blunder in the first two minutes sealed my fate for the rest of the evening. Why? Because when spying an opportunity to make up lost ground a little later I wrongly assumed that a bunch of responsible hashers like Supabrat, Jerker and Sadist were actually on paper on the other side of a sawah. I was in good (??) company in the shape of Tom Jones and new member Paul Robinson, who after some bad experiences on previous runs, thought he would stick close to a couple of reliable, knowledgeable leaders. I don’t think we’ll see him following us again.
Anyway, instead of reversing our steps at a checkback and looking for paper we cut across the sawah expecting to find paper and to join the pack. I also blame Witless, who encouraged us. But the elusive three mentioned above had disappeared and there was no paper on the road upon which they had been running and from which Jerker had been miming ‘on-on’ without actually calling it.
Convinced that the paper had simply gone off on another loop we continued on the same road expecting at any time to intercept the trail and the front runners. This was about 15 minutes into the run. As it happened, we didn’t see another hasher again until we arrived back at the umbrella at 6.55!
I won’t bore you telling you where we actually ran, because I don’t know where the f*** we ran, and don’t ask Tom Jones because he thought we were on a totally different side of Rafflesia. He kept on muttering ‘ojek, ojek!’ I said no way; you don’t train for a holy war by riding on ojeks. While we had heated arguments as to which side of Rafflesia, which side of the toll road and which side of Christmas we were, Paul was silent, probably muttering to himself that’s the last time he was going to follow these silly bastards.
I believe the run was actually a twisted figure of eight. Who cares!
THE CIRCLE
I missed it but I understand a minute’s silence was observed for the
victims of the terrorist attack in America.
Past members and visitors were called in, including Rudolph Stock who apparently last ran with JHHH 20 years ago. He must have had a bad run in 1981 to keep him away that long. Will we see him again in 2021? Will Jonesy still be a front-runner then? Will Magic Dragon be smoking Viagra-flavoured cigarettes?
We were also highly honoured to welcome Nightjar, alias Victor Mason, founder of the Bali Hash.
Nightjar entertained us with an original song about deviant sex, ranging from aural (correct spelling) sex to belly-button sex. He had actually written the song for KL’s 3000 run but they would not let him on the stage. What is more likely is that he couldn’t stand up on the stage.
Magic Dragon gave us the Music Man but gave up on it when there were too many verses for him to remember.
Vatican Rag performed Vatican Rag as only Vatican Rag can perform it.
Angie celebrated his 550 run achiever’s shirt by giving us a rendition of an original song, which unfortunately had no tune. It can therefore qualify only for the poem of the year award.
RA Konkrete Kok digressed from the traditional abuse of members of the circle to enlighten us as to the part the number 11 played in the New York tragedy. Here are some of the points I recall him making:
The attack took place on the 11th September.
There are 11 letters in Trade Center.
There were 11 hijackers on the two planes that went into the WTC.
The two buildings stood like the number 11.
He gave several other examples, but what he failed to admit was that there are also 11 letters in Konkrete Kok, also in Magic Dragon and in Victor Mason. Furthermore there are 11 letters in five plus one, so the conclusion must be that those three reprobates probably hatched the plot while sipping cocktails on the sixth.
On-on for survivors was at Sate Bangdul.
NEXT WEEK’S RUN: No.1716, 24 September. Beatles anniversary run. Konkrete Kok, Sheepskin, and if he can lay the run with his walking stick, Leeky Dick and also Crusty Nuts if he can get past airport security in Houston.
Location (same as last year, and the year before, and the year before that): Jagorawi, exit Cibubur, Jl. Alternatif, over first steel bridge, up the hill, left turn and continue for +/-6km. to the usual site.
On-on. Col.B.
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