Lakeside Hash House Harriers
The drinking club with a running problem
Lakeside run on Wednesday nights starting at 6:30ish, usually within 10kms of the Melbourne CBD (Central Boozing District). Runs cost $2, the food costs $3 unless it is at a pub, and all drinks cost $2. Visitors are always welcome – just show up and ask for a drink!
LAKESIDE HASH HOUSE HARRIERS HASH TRASH
Run 950 October 2, 2002
Venue: John Curtin Hotel, Carlton
Hare: The Captain Bryce Canter – joint run with D&E
Joint runs are always a strange affair, and especially those that draw hashers
from a number of clubs. New faces, bizarre customs, exotic costumes. It’s all
a bit like watching late-night SBS.
Last Wednesday’s Captain Bryce Canter was no exception. Despite billing as a
joint-run with Lakeside, D&E stole the thunder with their collection of
remarkably loud men in flashy attire. A martial air was lent to the
occasion by the uniforms and a remarkably talented bugler. Those army boys
sure know how to blow!
The Melbourne Ladies were well represented in matching pink jumpers. Boner
represented Western Suburbs, and a few hashers from Melbourne Men’s admitted to
the fact. Ballarat and Peninsula flew in for the evening as well.
Lakeside managed a decent turn-out for its 950th run. Our long-time-no-see
contingent consisted of Lipstick and Deep Throat. Quasimodo was pleased to hear
that Cardiff won the Interhash bid and was busy tutoring eager hashers on how
to pick up a sheep in Welsh. Twll dîn pob Sais! GG was there to be the whipping
boy for Collingwood. The fact that D&E GM Ken Dome is a fervent Brisbane
Baboons supporter didn’t help matters any.
The trail, like most things associated with D&E, wasn’t as nearly as long as it
was claimed to be. Still, it took some interesting twists and turns through
Carlton and Fitzroy, down ankle-twisting cobblestone lanes, and past some
Melbourne landmarks before bringing the pack back to the John Curtin.
In any case, the publican was kind enough to slap together an upstairs bar with
some bits of wood, brass, and gaffer tape. It served its purpose for the
evening before being dismantled and returned to the “Secret Life of Sluts”
set.
$8 earned each and every hasher a dinki-di Aussie meal of lasagne and chips.
Do you realise you’re the only country on earth that considers this a suitable
combination? A tribute to Australian ingenuity in the face of
multiculturalism! The $8 also got you two raffle tickets for the infamous D&E
Everlasting Raffle. Stickers and bumbags have nothing on the trash they
discard in the name of gambling. A couple of lucky winners walked away with
grog – the rest got cast-offs from the Brotherhood of St. Lawrence.
Charges, most of which went to Capt. Bryce, were accompanied by a variety of
songs that most Lakesiders were unaccustomed to. The revelry looked set to
last long into the night so I grabbed my bottle of Queensland champagne and
made a run for it.
On-on
TDTD
UPCUMMING RUNS
Date
Run Number
Hare
Venue
Melways
Et Cetera
9/09/2002
951
Wings
cnr Napier & Leicester Sts, Fitzroy
2C C5
Back room
16/09/2002
952
Quasimodo
Swan Hotel, cnr Chapel & Eastbourne Sts
2P H1
Bring money for self-serviced pub crawl. Be on time
(!)