Run No. 988

Date: 25 August 2001

Where: Lorong Sesuai

Occasion: -

Hares: Ditch

Members: 41

Guests:  12

- Returnees : 1

- Visitors : 2

- Virgins : 0

 

A bit different, this – no Bukit Timah hill for a start – and lots of scrambly jungle work with a couple of daunting gorges (Don’t be melodramatic – Ed.) - well, they looked pretty daunting to me. Ditch did excellent sweeping duties at the back while Bully got steadily sloshed back at the run site at the top of that bugger of a hill.

 

Frontarse was in solitary splendour this week and got things going in the circle. The ice was present and he was just itching to invoke it. The hares were called in and all agreed that it was a good run for a virgin hare – and we don’t mean you, Bully.

 

Next week’s hares are Big Hammer, Max, Kiasu Lun. Make your way to Chestnut Avenue. They promise great giveaways and a brilliant on on.

 

There were no virgins and only a couple of visitors – Dave the Pom and Toad Piss – really a returnee, who didn’t even have a hash name when he ran with us in the 80s, so you might remember him as Rob Faraone. He explained that he got his name in the Philippines when he picked up a frog – (You’ve picked up a few of those in your time haven’t you? - Ed.) Yeah, and they never turned into a prince either. Anyway, this frog repaid his friendly gesture by pissing in his face.

 

Machine was welcomed back, although he hasn’t actually gone, if you see what I mean.

 

Indecent Exposure had actually stayed around this week to be presented with her 300 runs tankard.

 

Then it was straight on to the Mystery Whip. Kiasu Lun focused on Coo Chi Coo for calling him a fat arse. KL protested that he’s just well built. And he got Machine as well but I didn’t hear what the charge was and neither did any of my spies. Answers on a postcard please… And that was it.

 

Still no ice. But its moment of glory was fast approaching…

 

The Mystery Mystery was Big Hammer. He called in a bemused Bully and started a long involved story, which had him looking even more baffled as it went on. Bully had been spotted buying treats for his dog in Cold Storage on Tuesday. The checkout girl asked if he was over sixty, which he proudly admitted. The cashier said he would have to prove that he actually had a dog as its illegal for old people to eat dog food. (Aha! A joke – Ed.) Right. Quick change of tense. So he goes off home, comes back with his dog, and is allowed to buy the doggy treats. The next day he tries to buy cat food and is told the same thing, so he has to go and fetch his pussy. Then on Thursday he brings in a box with a hole in it. Tells the cashier to put her hand in it, which she does, only to recoil in horror. “Yeuchh!” she cries. “It smells like shit!” “True.” replies Bully. “So now can I buy some toilet paper to set the run with?” Well, it seemed pretty funny at the time.

 

His second charge was against Strapless who had been seen trying to extort water from Ditch’s daughter at the water stop. Stash – lookalike Skidmark!!!- was whipped for the same charge.

 

The Prick was presented by Halfpenny, who wanted an opportunity to take the piss out of all races and nationalities, so she called in Big Hammer, Machine, Stiffy, Impossible, Coo Chi Coo, Squire, Corny Linguist and poor Dave the Pom an a substitute Kiwi, so he, of course was put on the ice to keep it warm. She said that it’s funny what you do when you’ve got nothing to do at the office. “Good thing you’ve got that, then” suggested CCC, indicating the giant dildo she was cradling fondly. Well, apart from that, she went on the Internet and found a survey about why various nationalities are proud of themselves. The English have warm beer, Union Jack underpants, and have learned to be gracious in defeat. And it beats being Welsh. If you’re an Ozzie, you are proud because your granddad was a murdering bastard, you annihilate the English at cricket, are freethinking about homosexuality, and are known for your tact and sensitivity. (Do I detect a shade of irony here? – Ed.) The US had a woman president without even electing her and you can buy a gun even if you’ve had a frontal lobotomy. If you’re Irish, you drink Guinness, father 15 children, and no one can remember the night before. If you’re German – no reasons. In Singapore, you can be proud of chilli crab, laksa, murtabak etc etc. And if you’re Scottish, who gives a fuck. So the Prick went to the Scottish representative – Corny Linguist. And she never even mentioned the Kiwis, so Dave the Pom froze his bollocks off for no reason.

 

Frontarse brought in the Hash Challenge* guys. Firstly though, he got Big Hammer to sit on the ice as he, Slocum and Shoeless had abandoned Jack Off and left her to complete it on her own. Other challenge entrants were Strapless, Fanny and Corny Linguist, and the No Frills team of Sherpa, Skidmark, Quicksand and the GM himself.

 

All very sedate so far but Frontarse decided to call in the Ice Liberation Freedom Front for summary execution after last week’s attempted coup. Singapore, he declared, is not a democracy, and he’s going do deal very harshly with any insurrection in the ranks. Gypsy was about to ask for his cigarette and blindfold but on the way unfortunately tripped over the ice stand, which promptly toppled over. Well, after a few nudges anyway. And obviously both guilty ones had had a little too much of the amber nectar as, would you credit it, Astronut somehow got his foot caught in the other ice stand and over it went too. What a coincidence. And they both chased the ice blocks valiantly round the circle for a while, but they kept dropping the pesky slippery things until they broke up into small chunks. One of the finest ice double acts since Torvill and Dean, if you ask me. So they sat on the empty stands looking smug. Gypsy managed to rescue a small token piece. Zipp offered to stand by, or sit on, her man but was hustled out of the circle. After the guilty pair had taken their punishment Frontarse noted that Gypsy was still trying to steal the ice but in even more devious fashion. Peering into the Gypsy’s stand, he noted that there were two pieces there when he sat down…..

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AOB Zipp saunters back in to announce the Kampong hash charity run on 15th September.

 

Stuffy had been carrying round the No 1 registration tee shirt for what seemed like centuries and finally spotted the recipient at the run site staring off into the jungle. Down Under came forward to claim her prize but refused to off-off.

 

And Chastity Belt thought it was a nasty job but someone’s got to do it so he whipped CCC and Shitstream for doing a bike training session rather than the run

 

And thence to the on on at the Red Lantern which to some of us is becoming more familiar than out own living rooms. The food was excellent as usual and seemed to go on forever. So thanks, hares for a great evening and a really nice tee shirt.

 

On on

 

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