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Run 1491
THE “HOW MANY CHECK BACKS WHERE THERE?” RUN
Monday 29th January 2007
HARES: Ooze & Paul Dunnage
ON BACK: La Maison Williams

THE RUN
About 33 hashers assembled in the carpark in Khaladyia. They braved the cold, darkness, and lack of chalk or anything. There weren’t many chalk marks, lots of long false trails and check backs (even the Hares lost count) which even had the knitting circle in tow on several occasions until they became immediately lost and easy to find check back marks (well there were a lot of them) no crossing of any major roads, a little traffic, almost no soft sand, and only a few difficulties finding the arrows as the light began to fail (five minutes after we started).

THE RUN – VERDICT
No chalk – too cryptic “How may check backs were there? -10” Chalk -2: Soft sand +5:walkers trails 0: Length just right 10: No major roads -5: arrows 15/10; soft sand -3; it was too long; not enough mingling with the bimblers; too much ocean; bimblers got lost -6; too much chalk not enough false trails; more whinging, moaning and grumbling for an excellent score of 9.31

THE HARES
Despite immense verbal pressure from several chatterboxes and lack of respect for the GM, HM ‘Ooz ‘Ee got the gathering underway and gave down-downs to Tin Tin and Tea bag. Chopper & Tea bag were awarded another one for procrastinating

VIRGINS
Andy from somewhere in the good ‘Ol USA
No Repaired Virgins – as described in an article in the Gulf news today

LEAVERS
Kevin - back to Blighty again – but for real this week

The GM, Ooze EE had several charges
Whiplash for something – maybe nattering?
Kangaroo Keg and Dune basher for racing

The stand-in RA, Jolly Rogerer, made a dramatic comeback in the absence of Dancing Queen and proceeded to pick on numerous innocent Hashers
Hash Crash and Evan for designer Mix and match black and white clothes on Hash
Karl for wearing a yellow T shirt
OoZE ‘ee for not having his phone on the hash so Pashmina could call & ask him how many Hashers to cater for
Perthy Throwup for sending out the emails to Hashers without the attachments
Hash Crash for “saying hello to a marine and he completely ignored me and I was wearing my nice nurses uniform”
Truffles for “having a sugar hit prior to running so he didn’t burn off any fat”
Tin Tin for having a really sore knee and walking with his wife until the runners went past & he took off to run with them

SOCIAL EVENTS
23rd February brunch at the Sheraton
The Chris Lewis memorial run on the 26th Feb so wear your silliest hat
The 1500th run 30th March
Jolly Rogerer Announced “I am Welsh” - No sh*t Sherlock!!!!! The Welsh society are having a ball – cost TBD

NEXT WEEKS RUN - Run no. 1492:
Monday 5th February 2007
Hares: Truffles, Whiplash & Perthy Cuter
Run – Carpark at the western end of Alsaada Street
On Back – Bronwyn and Franzs Villa No. 2 near the Al Wahdah soccer stadium
- Approach from 11th street heading east, turn right after passing 2nd street just before taxi stand / bus terminal (at the corner of construction fence)
- Follow residential roads around the stadium
- 2nd (attached) villa from west end of stadium

Don’t forget –
If you haven’t Hared any runs or hosted the Down downs committee 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

NOTICES
Hi John
Greetings from Melbourne!
Just a quick note to say that I had a Hash run in Nauru last week while there for work. It was about 5-6 km and consisted of the runway at the airport then up into the hills and thru the jungle, down into the ravines amongst the pinnacles, thru caves, thick vines and undergrowth, and even old WW2 Japanese bunkers, and then finally to the Down-Downs. It was about 32oC and 75% humidity, so a relatively balmly day compared to Abu Dhabi in August!!
The run was dominated by Australian Federal Police (who I just managed to keep up with) who actually took it all a bit too seriously.
Not as well organised as your hash, they only new one song, didn't score the run, and the the RA didn't even tell any dirty jokes!! Still the beer was cold.
Pls pass on this short note to Nick and Mei as well and tell them to keep up the good work with yourself to make the Abu Dhabi Hash certainly the best group I've been involved with (except maybe for the Fins in Delhi in 2000, but that's another story). Off to Durban (SA) in March for work so will report on the Hash there if I get a chance.
Regards
Paul Clarey
Technical Director/Principal Scientist
Environmental Risk, Air Quality and OHS

OMAN HASH are having a Hash on Jebel Akhdar and unfortunately it clashes with our 1500th Hash. Details are on this web site
http://www.holiday-in-oman.com/jebel-akhdar2007


SOME POLITICALLY INCORRECT HUMOUR
A Woman comes home and tells her husband, remember those headaches I've been having all these years? Well, they're gone." No more headaches."What happened? he asked His wife replies, "Margie referred me to a hypnotist. He told me to stand in front of a mirror, stare at myself and repeat 'I do not have a headache'; 'I do not have a headache', 'I do not have a headache. 'It worked! The headaches are all gone." Well, that is wonderful." husband says.

His wife then says "You know, you haven't been exactly a ball of fire in the bedroom these last few years. Why don't you go see the hypnotist and see if he can do anything for that?" The husband agrees to try it.

Following his appointment, the husband comes home, rips off his clothes, picks up his wife and carries her into the bedroom. He puts her on the bed and says, "Don't move, I'll be right back." He goes into the bathroom and comes back a few minutes later, jumps into bed and makes passionate love to his wife like never before.

His wife says, "Boy, that was wonderful!" The husband says, "Don't move! I'll be right back." He goes back into the bathroom, comes back and round two was even better than the first time. The wife struggles to sit up and her head is spinning.

Her husband again says, "Don't move, I'll be right back." With that, he goes back in the bathroom. This time, his wife quietly follows him and there, in the bathroom, she sees him standing at the mirror and saying,"She's not my wife, She's not my wife, She's not my wife!

His funeral service will be held on Saturday.

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