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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 1521
Monday 20th August 2007
‘The Double Ender’


The Event:
Happy hasher (well those that weren’t bitching about the directions) congregated in the infamous car park with the school buses on the corner of 2nd and 19, unbeknown to them (although to be fair the hares said they had a long one) the marathon that they were about to embark upon. Remarkably ‘Ooz Ee arrived before 1800 hours – forgetting, after a number of weeks absence, to be late. How he regretted that.
It was an hour long epic that seemed to cover most of the Island and that, in a cruel twist of fate, had a 40 minute encore – to lead many to believe they had just also covered run number 1522 a week ahead of schedule.

The walkers however seemed to thoroughly revel in a pleasant half hour stroll in the sun.

On Back:
Perthy’s Place

THE RUN – Verdict
‘Shit’ was voiced by the running contingency that made it back in time for the circle. Other comments included that there was no soft sand, and by the time we reached Maqta Bridge the appeal of seeing the waterfront had worn off.
Everyone was far too knackered to offer anymore support or otherwise to the evenings’ events. A score of 0.931 was put forward by the runners. ‘Perfect’ and ‘give it a 10’ was also offered, but unsurprisingly these came from walkers
The first run was awarded 4.655 and the second run also a 4.655, which rather cleverly adds up to (I hope) a score of 9.31.

HM – ‘Ooz ee
HM called the following into the circle for a down-down:
Hares
B**tards George with One E and Karl
Virgins
There were a couple of virgins, brought along by Richard and Steve but were scared off by the monumental run. The fore-mentioned duly took the down-downs on their behalf, for the later what became a night of permanence in the circle
Returners
Pretty much the whole hash. Lots escaping back from down under, with a bit of English and French thrown in for culture.
Sinners
VB and Karl for answering the call of nature mid-run

Hare Raiser – Georg with one E
Aussie or Kiwi? (they’re all the same to me as well, Georg with one E) Maurice. Will be supported by Please Finger Me. Will be somewhere in Abu Dhabi, I would suspect
The following week a joint run with the mainland in the offing

Hash Social – Shelia
Dancing Queen’s DO during September
Bowling during September
Progressive Dinner during Ramadan

Hash Numbers
Justine for 50 or 100 – certainly for too bloody many

Announcements
Richard announced that the first ever bike hash in the UAE was under discussion for a Friday afternoon later in the year. A truck will be arranged for bikes as it will be between here and Dubai for a circa 20k ride on Bitumen / Asphalt / Black Top / Tarmac… after much confusion around the circle and for the purpose of clarification it will be on the road.

RA – Perthy Throwup
To uphold the morals of the hash, RA made the request that no-one goes to a Welsh Rugby game, and laid the following charges at the feet of innocent hashers:
RA Abuse
Brian ‘cry of here to help the elderly!’ elicited much sympathy from the circle for RA
Georg with one E for playing with DQ’s bladder from behind, causing much confusion for the elderly
Richard for something
Canadians
Ralph for burning himself with an iron and missing work as a result
Sebastian for admitting to being Ralph’s son
Brian for having good cans
Ladies
Danni, Justine, Jan, Carpet Burns, CJ, Wendy, Pashmina. Apparently they only want a little one. I’m right here ladies…
Hashers on Holiday
How Much for dragging his ladies around Civil War sites in America – notably multiple appearances in Gettysburg.
Thunder Down under for, if I heard correctly, finding whores in America?
Carpet Burns for running over a Mexican on holiday – apparently one of them was drunk
Hash Brats
Brats and parents were pulled in – probably for ice offences again.
Other Charges
DQ for allegedly having the potential for being sorely missed and for blatantly trying to sell his wife on the premise of advertising his car
VB f or having an Aussie stubbie holder he pinched from PT
Richard for having his bike impounded again (although he claims he only drove because of the distance)
Teflon Evan for yet again being ‘squeaky clean’
Richard, again, this time for wearing a fetching thong on hash

Charges from the Floor
DQ pulled in PT for letting a random stranger break a drill in his arse. Not sure if I misheard that one.
Jan pulled in DQ for offering a lift and refusing to accept that she didn’t want it
A random stranger – the same one that broke a drill in PT’s arse? – walked through the circle and duly took a down-down.

The Grub
Another fantastic curry. Anyone might be forgiven for thinking that it was a popular dish with the hashers!

Social Events
September 2007
New: DO at DQ’s HQ – 7th September
Please bring money for food and your own drinks

September 2007
Bowling
Don’t know anymore than that. Keep an eye on the website

September 2007
PROPOSED RAMADAN PROGRESSIVE DINNER
Details to follow

AL AIN RE-HYDRATION RUN – 23rd-24th November NTNH Site (2006), Al Ain, UAE. Please see Website for details.
HASH VALENTINES BALL – with Mainland and Wasps at The Club – February
WORLD INTERHASH – 21st-23rd March
Further details to follow as an when… … …

Making the News This Week
From Sheila, an article published on Sunday 19th August in the Canadian Press. A stark warning to those amongst us who partake in a little bestiality on the weekend:
An Australian woman was killed by a pet camel given to her as a 60th birthday present after the animal apparently tried to have sex, police said Sunday.
The woman, whose name was not released, was killed Saturday at her family's sheep and cattle ranch near Mitchell, 600 kilometres west of the Queensland state capital Brisbane, state police Detective Senior Constable Craig Gregory said.
The 10-month-old male camel - weighing about 150 kilograms - knocked the woman to the ground, lay on top of her, then exhibited what police suspect was mating behaviour, Gregory said.
"I'd say it's probably been playing, or it may be even a sexual sort of thing," Gregory said, adding the camel almost suffocated the family's pet goat by straddling it on several occasions.
Camel expert Chris Hill said he had no doubt the camel's behaviour was sexual.
Hill, who has offered camel rides to tourists for 20 years, said young camels are not aggressive, but can be dangerous if treated as pets without discipline.


And sourced by Georg with one E, an article published in the New York Times on Saturday 25th August. A warning for Hares:
Daniel Salchow and his sister, Dorothee, planned to spend a pleasant afternoon marking a trail for fellow members of their offbeat running and drinking club.
Instead, they wound up in police custody after their clue of choice — flour — set off a bioterrorism scare and forced hundreds of people to evacuate an Ikea furniture store on Thursday.
“It was absolutely not in any way what we intended and not what we anticipated,” Dr. Salchow said on Friday at the New Haven courthouse.
Dr. Salchow, a New Haven ophthalmologist, and his sister, who is visiting from Hamburg, Germany, were charged with first-degree breach of peace, a felony.
The siblings are members of the Hash House Harriers, a group that bills itself as a “drinking club with a running problem” and has more than 1,800 chapters around the world. The runs typically end with beer stops at pubs or homes.
The club started in Malaysia in 1938, when British citizens there modified an old game called Hares and Hounds.
Dr. Salchow said that the group had used flour to mark a course two months ago in Washington without incident.
Dr. Salchow and his wife recently moved to New Haven, where he works with needy children through a Yale University program.
On Thursday, Dr. Salchow, 36, and his sister, 31, were the hares, meaning they marked a trail for others, the hounds, to follow. To make things interesting, they decided to route runners through the huge Ikea parking lot.
Just before 5 p.m., the police received a call that someone was sprinkling powder on the ground. The store was evacuated and remained closed the rest of the day.
The incident prompted a massive response from the New Haven police and authorities from surrounding towns.
Dr. Salchow was at home waiting for the others who took part in the four-mile run to arrive for an after-party when his wife called to say there was a problem. He biked to Ikea and tried to explain to the police that the powder was just flour.
The club’s tactics have caused problems elsewhere.
In 2002, a trail of flour caused a mall in Fayetteville, N.C., to be evacuated for two hours. A few months earlier, two runners in Oxford, Miss., were arrested after using piles of white powder to mark a route through a downtown square.
Dr. Salchow said that after the 9/11 attacks, club members started using chalk to mark courses. But as fears eased, they went back to flour because it is biodegradable. He said they would start using chalk again or find somewhere else to run.
Jessica Mayorga, a spokeswoman for Mayor John DeStefano Jr., said the city planned to seek restitution from the Salchows, and will meet Monday to decide how much.
Ms. Mayorga said they should not have used the flour if they knew it had caused scares in the past.
“You see powder connected by arrows and chalk, you never know,” she said.
Ikea would not provide an estimate of how much money it lost by closing.
The Salchows were released on promises to appear in court. They are due back in court Sept. 14.
“Not in my wildest dreams did I ever anticipate anything like that,” Dr. Salchow said.


AUH4 Run Number 1522
Monday 27th August 2007

START TIME: 1800 Hours
LOCATION: Palms Park (apparently)
HARES: Dune Basher, Sheila and Please Finger Me
DIRECTIONS: Meet in the car park in front of the park that is behind the Hilton Hotel - just past the circle fountain if you are coming off of the Corniche (16th Street).
See Map on web page
ON BACK: The on back (food/circle) will be follow the leader as it is out in the boonies where a bunch of boats and racing dhows are pulled up on the beach


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 Dancing Queen 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!!
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