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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 1526
Monday 24th September 2007
‘Meena Port’

The Event:
On the observance: Our Lady of Walsingham Day (The title derives from belief that the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared in a vision to a Saxon noblewoman in the village of Walsingham in Norfolk, England on the 24th September 1061), the devoted followers of the Island Hash descended in pilgrimage upon Meena Port in anticipation of possibly the finest hared run in the region.
In reality however it was disappointingly crap. It went away from the waterfront and the sand and instead weaved through the not so picturesque mass of industrial sheds in Meena, and by the time it routed back to the waterfront it had turned dark.
Many were in fact tempted to follow the markings for Run 1520 that was still present (and in fact considerably more visible than those laid for Run 1526) however, and with the exception of a few short cutting bastards, all stayed faithful and saw the run to the end.

Turnout
A blood thirsty pack of 43 Hashers, 6 Hash Brats and 2 Hash Dogs

Verdict
Calls from the circle claimed the run to be ‘shit’, ‘crap’ and ‘rubbish’. It was ‘no good at the beginning and awful by the end’
There was too much salt in the air and too much snow
Those that normally complain that the runs are too long this time whinged that it was too short
Scores ranged from a miserly 1.1 to a less than magnificent 3.2
All that nonsense doesn’t really matter as I award it a majestic 10/10

HM – Bigears
Hares
VB and Dunebasher were called into the circle amidst a clamouring of adulation, and in the absence of the latter who was off hunting for the meat for the shawarmas, Ralph was called in for throwing water.
Not calling On-On
FRB’s Rich, Hernia and GI Joe
Loiterers
Worse, Carpet Burns a ctually sitting down at checks and 6 other ladies were sent down for aiding and abetting

Virgins
David from Walkabout’s in Australia who may well hash again
Cecil with a frightfully strong English accent from Cambridge, where she is a member of a ‘more athletic hash’… she may hash again but wants to check out the mainlanders first. I think we may be seeing her again…
Marie-Anne a hasher from Qatar, Bahrain and Jordan and who will hash again

Returners
Evan
Hernia
Perthy Cutter
Romany

New Members
Cecile, Debbie and, if I heard correctly, Tiffany’s Dogs???

Hats and lots of natterers were also called into the circle before Her Majesty’s work was done.

Hash Social
During a flurry of activity at the newly formed Hash Souk, Ballbreaker bravely proceeded to announce that there will be a ‘good’ progressive dinner on Friday, and that she will be taking names for the Dhow Trip with Iftar taking place on Wednesday 3rd October at AED 35 per head.

44ish people expressed a desire for the Re/De-Hydration Run taking place in Al Ain on the 23rd November. Note that you will need a tent…

Hash Numbers
Whiplash and Evan for reaching 25 Runs

RA – Perthy Throwup
After an initially and quite shocking little outburst of whinging from RA that the singing hasn’t improved, PT launched himself into making the following charges:
Hash Brats
Can’t read my writing – something to do with brats and Heather Wendy for refusing to carry her grandchild
PT then charged the following to ‘uphold the sexual standards of the Hash’:
Debbie for ‘taking’ something
Shane for giving PT the horn by wearing sexual attire
VB for offering a little hard one on the night
Whiplash for telling PT about her white breasts
Truffles and Jo for I think some jiggy-jiggy
Heather was charged for being a spoil-sport and, in a fit of excitement, opening her envelope to find out where her, VB and Anita were to start off at Friday’s progressive dinner.
Leith and Perthy Cutter for sitting in the Hash Circle
Debbie for wearing a yellow T-Shirt on Hash and Maurice who was spotted by VB football training with the Irish Society at Zayed Sports City in Yellow T-Shirt on Tuesday night.
Dave for asking PT ‘what Hash?’

Charges from the Floor
Rich was charged with child abuse by Ballbreaker for knocking over a roller-skating brat
Something else I can’t read.

The Grub
Shawarma’s…on-mass

Message from Perth:
G’Day VB,
Pass onto the Hash that Katrina and I are well and preparations for the multitude of Hashers that will be coming to the World Interhash are well under way.
Anybody who will be passing through Perth is more than welcome to look us up and there is always a bed available (in a hotel).
On On,
Nick Middleton (aka the Dancing Queen)

PLEASE:
Take hash water job of Kangaroo Keg who has done it now for 2 years
Let us know if you are planning to bring a virgin along
Clean up after yourself at the on-back
and please shut up during hash circle!
If you haven’t Hared any runs or hosted the Down-Downs, Georg with one E would like to talk to you. We all need to take our turns

Social Events
Friday 28th September 2007
Ramadan progressive Dinner

NEW EVENT
Wednesday 3rd October 2007
Dhow trip followed by bottle session back at the Club
1830 and 2030 hours respectively

Mid October 2007
Iftar Dinner

AL AIN RE-HYDRATION RUN – 23rd to 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

Aging. A story from Perthy that I suspect will resonate with many on the hash…
Have you ever been guilty of looking at others your own age and thinking, "surely I can't look that old." well...you'll love this one.
My name is Alice Smith and I was sitting in the waiting room for my first appointment with a new dentist. I noticed his DDS diploma, which bore his full name.
Suddenly, I remembered a tall, handsome, dark-haired boy with the same name had been in my high school class some 40-odd years ago. Could he be the same guy that i had a secret crush on, way back then? Upon seeing him, however, I quickly discarded any such thought.
This balding, gray-haired man with the deeply lined face was way too old to have been my classmate. After he examined my teeth, I asked him if he had attended Morgan Park High School "Yes. Yes, i did. I'm a mustang," he gleamed with pride.
"When did you graduate?" I asked.
He answered, "In 1959. Why do you ask?"
"You were in my class!" I exclaimed. He looked at me closely.
Then, that ugly, old, bald, wrinkled, fat, gray, decrepit son-of-a-bitch asked, "What did you teach?"


And another I was sent that made me chuckle…
One evening a man was at home watching TV and eating peanuts. He'd toss them in the air, and then catch them in his mouth.
In the middle of catching one, his wife asked him a question - and as he turned to answer her, a peanut fell in his ear. He tried and tried to dig it out but succeeded in only pushing it in deeper.
He called his wife for assistance, and after hours of trying they became worried and decided to go to the hospital. As they were ready to go out the door, their daughter came home with her date.
After being informed of the problem, their Daughter's' date said he could get the peanut out. The young man told the father to sit down, then proceeded to shove two fingers up the father's nose and told him to blow hard.
When the father blew, the peanut flew out of his ear. The mother and daughter jumped and yelled for joy. The young man insisted that it was nothing.
Once he was gone, the mother turned to the father and said, "That's so wonderful! Isn't he smart? What do you think he's going to be when he grows older?"
The father replied, "From the smell of his fingers, our son-in-law.”

AUH4 Run Number 1526
Monday 1st October 2007
START TIME:1800 Hours
LOCATION:Canadian Embassy
HARES: Liz, Anita and possibly GI Joe
DIRECTIONS:9th Floor West Tower Abu Dhabi Trade Tower (Abu Dhabi Mall), Tourist Area. This is the tower nearest to Le Meridien Make your way up the lift to the 9th floor for the run start
ON BACK:Same Place

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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