Mummies’ Boy – 400th Run

The Australian wombat eats roots and leaves. The Australian male eats, roots and leaves. Yes, punctuation is important. The name is Mummies’ Boy, the boy of many mummies – not Mummie’s or Mummy’s.

MB started hashing with LSH back in 1996, however he wasn’t a complete virgin. Long ago he commenced his annual pilgrimage to Jordan where he and his archaeology mates continue to annoy people who died 14,000 years ago. Eventually they’ll dig their way through the earth’s core and pop out on Pitcairn Island. Way back then his mates said “Why don’t you join us tonight – there’ll be hash, grog, girls – you’ll love it.” So young MB rocks up to the Hashemite Hash, all keen for some hallucinatory hi-jinks. He was much disabused – after a 10km jog through a hot desert, all he could manage was the grog.

MB’s arrival at LSH coincided with the onset of the slow-moving Thylacine Period with GMs Deeper and Udder, desperately fending off the extinction of their short-lived relevance. They regaled us early and often with the following repartee – Deeper/Udder: “That never would have happened when I was GM!”. Udder/Deeper: “Nothing ever happened when you were GM!”.

MB’s own stint as GM in 2003 segued into the overheated Internecine Period when the mischievous, Machiavellian master Klingon orchestrated a palace coup whereby GM Boomerang fell on his own sword, and Klingon was installed as GM for life, or eighteen months, whichever was the sooner. Then followed the more placid Plasticine Period with the pleasantly pliable GMs, Cheesecake and Prince in control, sort of.

MB got to 400 runs at the glacial rate of 19.047619 runs per year, mostly because his fascination with the sedentary lifestyle of the ancient Natufians frequently takes him to Jordan. MB achieved academic notoriety in 2007 when he dug up an ancient Natufian tool kit.**

The following year his team found an angle grinder and last year they dug up Makita 18 Volt Mobile 8 Piece Cordless Combo Tool Kit.

We didn’t see MB for two or three years when he took time off to have a baby. It’s no secret (well, not now !) that MB has struggled with his post baby body. A comparison, albeit cruel, is with Rebecca Judd, wife of erstwhile Carlton captain Chris Judd. With four children, Rebecca has achieved a svelte post-baby body with rigorous exercise and a diet of carrots and celery sticks – whereas for MB it’s pretty much no exercise and lots of bread sticks. It doesn’t help when he stops off mid hash run at the local Readings Book Store and crashes a famous author’s book launch as he did recently. After scoffing kardonnay and kanapays, he resumed his run back to the on-home.

MB pre-baby body	Bec Judd post-baby body

**This is fair dinkum, he really did dig up an ancient tool kit. It was a significant discovery which was written up in various archaeology journals. You can read about it the ABC Science website.

NickelB set another excellent run, which was well marked despite the rain. There was a run report and charges of which I can’t remember anything other than every second charge was directed at No Balls.

Cheesecake