Lakeside Hash House Harriers The drinking club with a running problem
LAKESIDE HASH HOUSE HARRIERS COMMITTEE 2007-2008
Grand Master: Eva “Codpiece” Hookey 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 Soc Sec: On Sec: Liz “Cheesecake” Kelly Hash Haberdash: Hare Raiser: Rowan “Cooch” Compagnoni Hash Flash: Eva “Codpiece” Cox Web Master: John “Klingon” Perkins
Run 1309, 27 Feb 2009 Hare: WSHHH Venue: Oxford Scholar – Red Dress Run.
Friday’s Red Dress Run was a wonderful success, with some 60 hashers turning up to run in their finest red dresses and collect money for the Salvation Army’s Bushfires Appeal.
The money in the tins will be counted by the Salvos soon, and the totals will be reported. Nearly all the tins were VERY heavy, and apparently many contain heaps of folding money, too! But even before that amount is tallied, we raised over $1800.00 through the door take and donations, including a very big cheque from IBM and some nice extra cash donations from Ginger Beer, TJ, and Took Too Long!
HardCore’s photos are up at http://tinyurl.com/aclree and mine are at http://tinyurl.com/2009rdr
We had attendees from every Melbourne-area hash, and visitors from the UK, Brisbane, and Cairns! Visitor “Simmo”, who last hashed in Azerbaijan, couldn’t remember his hash name…..
It was noted that a couple of D&E hashers were among those who lost houses in the fires, and that worst of all, Warrnambool hashers Missionary & Toitus lost their daughter & son-in-law and two young grand-daughters.
The Salvation Army rep, Kris, explained that there are NO admin costs taken out of the donations, and that money is exactly what is so needed now. He was very impressed with the “couture rouge” on display, although he pointed out that some had neglected leg-shaving! (Among these was NOT Lester, who had beautified himself thoroughly, and de-fuzzed his legs AND chest!)
During the run, Phart Lap was told by someone that “a man in a dress” had made “inappropriate comments” to a young lad in his group. “Was it him?”, she replied, pointing to Lester, who was with her and the Junior Woodies at the time. “No,” the fellow replied, “it was the other one!”. ” ‘The other one’? There are 50 of us!” “Well, he was older and a bit overweight!” the complainant stated. Yeah that narrows it down…..! 😉
The run went through the usual high-traffic areas – Swanston Street, Chinatown, the theatre district, and Southbank. The drink stop by the Southbank pedestrian bridge consisted of water and also red watery frothy beer — which, oddly enough, many went for seconds of! It was a balmy night, and happily not the 37 degrees (nor the rain) forecast.
And prizes – we had so many great, donated prizes!! Thank you all so much!! Firstly to the publican of the Oxford Scholar Hotel, Malcolm Wulf – not only does he always provide the meals at a good price so we can maximise donations, he gives us the down-down jugs free, and this year he donated 12 bottles for prizes – 2 bottle of gin and 10 nice reds!
Thanks for prize donations also go to: Coffin Box BB & Highly Bookie & Hard Core Pissed Basher Phart Lap & WoodCock Lester & Scrubba Leech & Ringing Wet Special K HeadLamps XR8D & StripTease Cheesecake EatMe & HandCrank and anyone I missed, probably a few, as we had more than 35 prizes!!!
Best Dress(ed) Winners included: “Queen of the Night” – Old Boar (Lakeside H3) Blonde Bombshell – Lester the Molester (WSH3) T&A Award – Heavy (Ballarat H3) Best Actual Female: Coffin Box (WSH3) Chick Magnet: Taylor (PLH3) Man Magnet: Shadow (selling kisses for $20 each on the run!) (WSH3) What a Sight award: Highly Infectious (appropriately enough, won the “farting gnome” prize!) Junior Division: Woody’s kids: Kelly, Jess & Alex Klingon (Lakeside H3) – for attending all 14 years of Red Dress Runs (only BB has also done this) GG (MH3) – most brave (foolhardy?) collector, went off on his own Cheesecake (Lakeside H3) In Limbo (RPH3) Special K (WSH3) Woodcock (WSH3) Sooty (WSH3) HeadLamps (WSH3) Empty (RPH3) Tumbleweed (PLH3) EatMe (WSH3) Modnoc (Cairns H3) Prawn Fraser (MLH3) Jockette (MLH3) E & B (Lakeside H3) and I think a few others too!
Prizes also went to the Running Trail hare, Doona and the Walkers Trail Hares, HardCore & Coffin Box Registration Helper Took Too Long and organiser BB. Thanks again all! for your great efforts!
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