Lakeside Hash House Harriers The drinking club with a running problem
LAKESIDE HASH HOUSE HARRIERS COMMITTEE 2007-2008
Grand Master: Phillip “Prince” Johnson Relig. Advisor: David “Point Post” Shearn Hash Cash: Mirian “Tiger Moth” Cruz Grog Master: David “Mothball” De Freitas Checking Chicken: Lai “Lotsa Fun” Leicester Sgt@Arms: Nick “NickleB” Leicester & Phillip “Mummies Boy” Edwards Soc Sec: Dana “Dangerous” Clementz On Sec: Liz “Cheesecake” Kelly Hash Haberdash: Lorraine “Egg & Bacon Pie” Hare Raiser: “The Shah”, “Flem “& “It Wasn’ Me” Hash Flash: Eva “Codpiece” Cox Web Master: John “Klingon” Perkins
Sorry – forgot the most important event of all. There was a naming. Joel got named Gump, as in, Forrest and was invested by our RA, Pointy with incantations and the dripping of full strength beer upon the namee.
Run 1246, 06 January 2008 Hares: Prince, Point Post and Sooty Venue: BBQs near Anderson St bridge, beside the Yarra
It is offensive to target a particular national group and make fun of their idiosyncracies. So here goes. An Aust and a NZ shearer were shearing a mob of sheep. They got to the last one for the day and the NZ shearer took it. The Aust shearer said: (he had a degree in the bleeding obvious) “Are you going to shear that sheep?” “No” replied the New Zealander, “You go get your own”.
Three NZ hares. One to set the run, one to do the cooking and one to organise the other two. It was basically a gigantic circumnavigation of the MCG, on-in to the Botanic Gardens and home. What made it truly dangerous was that we got sucked into the maelstrom of Iron Maiden fans outside Rod Laver arena at the check. Thousands of young males, all dressed in black, all with tatts, dreadlocks or shaved heads. They looked like they – needed a good wash – could disassemble a motorbike in the living room – have a chemical laboratory or pill press in the dining room – never use the dining room cos they can’t use a knife and fork. Fortunately Too Easy turned up in the nick of time and was able to give us safe passage through the crowd because she was wearing black.
It was a very traditional NZ dinner. We had a hangi in the form of a portable BBQ wherein were traditional NZ delights like sausages. The Maori invented sausages and when Captain Cook visited there in 1771, he was so entranced by their long brown wobbly things that he took the idea back to England where it became the pork sausage. We also had kumerah hash browns and buckets of salad. All accompanied by some lovely Maori ballads. And even NZ beer.
Klingon described the run and gave it 100/168. There was a bit of warm debate between the Maori and pakeha hares as to whether the Maori Wars preceded the Waitangi Treaty or the wars were caused by certain people ignoring the Treaty.
Visitors Fat Crushing Bastard
Returnees Joel, Too Easy.
Significant runs GG x 757, Klingon x 469.
Charges -Hares for being hares. -Prince for having NZ ‘big’beer’. -Sooty for having the hungi on top of the BBQ. -Colours for returning her Lakesaide hash T-shirt cos it’s the wrong colour. -Pointy for providing the glamour and organisation skills to the hare trio instead of actually doing anything. -Joel for running at the front of the back like he’s an energiser bunny. -Fat Crushing Bastard for not doing the run. -Too Easy for turning up late and still managing to do the run. -LubangOz and LUbeOil for going overseas. -Hares for not applying for a financer grant from the NZ Govt from the Waitangi Day Fund. -Cheesecake for not knowing that hash browns are made from kumerah. -Colours for being Rob Hulls love child. (Charge brought by GG who, on the walk, gave Colours a good old earbashing about his political views. Bet she runs next time.) -Klingon for making a presentation on Darwin Day (it’s Darwin’s 199th birthday next Tues and Klingon is talking about it at Anderson St BBQs.) -Klingon for running uphill backwards (like the Secular Party did at the election – talk about the survival of the fittest). -Klingon for having too much time on his hands and trawling through the Education Age to find Mummie’s Boy’s photo and an article about how he won’t leave the Natufians alone and keeps digging bits of them up. -Cheesecake for admitting that Education is the first bit of the Age that she throws out. -IWM and Flem for being stand-in Mummies Boys (because they live near him or have the same coloured hair, or same blood group) to take the charge of being a bigger media tart than Klingon.
Scribe: Cheesecake
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Upcoming Events
Next Full Moon run: Run No. 95, at 4pm 20 January 2008. Hares: Metty (Lube Oil) & Simon (Lubang Oz) Wreford. Location: O’Briens Crossing picnic grounds, Lederderg River. Map 609 E 11
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