The Hash was hosted by the GM Julia Gillard at the Ford
Company in Vaitele. Your Scribe was told that the run went around the back
roads of Vaitele, basically a square around. It was suitably long and sweaty
judging by the state of the returning runners.
Calling the circle to order, the GM welcomed those new to
Hash, namely Tixus from Hong Kong brought by the “lady” from Aqua Samoa, Mark
from NZ who lived in Samoa as a 10 yr old – he had been brought by Godfather.
The GM decided to test their mettle with a down down. The retreads were ACDC,
Ozzie Osbourne, Ditch, Seismic, Offspring. Tallyho was requested to do the shoe
inspection, and failed.
The GM was rather perturbed that he had no bad stories to
tell, but had been informed that One Infection had been trying to reach
Lewinsky, and after 15-30 rings he had finally answered, and had been asleep at
3 PM apparently. When it was revealed that he had take the call in the car,
Tallyho ventured in for a dangerous driving offense. But Lewinsky has something
called Bluetooth, and thus the bewildered Tallyho joined in a rather tumultuous
down down, which included Rufie for use of real names and Cockblocker for being
a dick. Mind you, we were inside the Ford showroom and the acoustics were not
the best.
Turning back to Lewinsky, the GM had received confirmation
from 5 independent sources that Lewinsky had invited them to OTR for a free shout at 4 PM, but as none were free
to leave work, yet turned up, he pocketed the change for their additional spending.
Apparently he bought one round and buggered off. POD noted that he needed his
sleep!
Celebrity Awards went to Lewinsky (Mr Toilet comes to Samoa),
CB (pay peanuts get monkeys), Sassy (mediator story) and Gayboy (desexing of
puppies).
This Day in History Awards went to Poumuli (41 – Roman
Emperor Caligula, known for his eccentricity and cruel despotism, is
assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards. The Guard then proclaims
Caligula's uncle Claudius as Emperor – none of the Hashers understood this one,
aimed at GM), Poumuli (1393 – King Charles VI of France is nearly killed when
several dancers' costumes catch fire during a masquerade ball – he recently had
a dance related mishap), Ozzie (1788 – The British First Fleet, led by Arthur
Phillip, sails into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the
first permanent European settlement on the continent. Commemorated as Australia
Day), GM (1920 – Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the
Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer), Gayboy (1986
– Voyager 2 passes within 81,500 kilometres (50,600 mi) of Uranus, taking
pictures of its rings – much to Gayboy’s delight) and Lewinsky (1998 – On
American television, U.S. President Bill Clinton denies having had "sexual
relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky).
Tallyho then brought forth the Hash Shrine, and he had
discovered a clothes peg on the run, and since the run had passed so many
rubbish tips and dumps it was a most suited commemoration for the run. He had
to explain how one would use a clothes peg to calm one’s nose as this was a new
concept for the great unwashed. After adding this to the Shrine, Witch Doctor
presented us with the new Shrine that she had made, albeit interrupted by
Godfather’s rampant excitement for one more look at Soft Landing’s balcon
supreme. Tallyho nominated Eveready as the new Shrine Master, and he accepted
after a vote but declared that certain items would not be placed under his
pillow.
Poumuli offered an advertising award for Offspring for
finding the CD of The Offspring, while Rufie noted that he had been offered a
Ford brochure upon entering the premises. After the GM and the boer took
theirs, Sassy pointed out that sunglasses had been worn, so back in the circle
for Offspring.
Sassy wanted to complain about the AC in the showroom,
calling the GM a tightass for only allowing one to be running. The GM’s attempt
at levity asking whether hot flushes were a sign of menopause went down like a
pork chop in a synagogue so in he went.
POD congratulated ACDC on his engagement, but after some
discussion on how many times this was, had it doubled just to be on the safe
side. Eveready claims to still have a previous engagement cake in the fridge!
Lewinsky gave a congratulatory award to Tallyho for shouting the extra 30 keg,
as if we needed it!
Witch Doctor had been reading the blog and thought that no
one else had, as the GM’s invitation to wear auto related gear had failed, but
a few could be found in the circle, namely One Infection, Wahoo, ACDC, Prince
and the GM
A rather complicated award was offered by Sassy relating
first to congratulating two Hash meres for their fabulous run, but somehow
involved them complaining about pains in their ovaries. POD and Blowfish were
somehow at the centre of this, while IRA was also falsely accused. She tried
the menopause excuse again but it failed.
CB had been late for the run as per usual, and had been
taking a wrong turn up a hill when he spotted Tallyho with a bunch of girls following.
When Godfather pointed out that he too had been following Tallyho, this quickly
petered out into a Do Not Cross Godfather Award.
Since this is a family Hash the next award has been censored.
Transporter had been out on the town with mates, and had been waiting for One
Infection to have his Jeckyl and Hyde moment on the dance floor. Suffice it to
say that a double was awarded for his display of large, er, muscles.
Sassy then gave Dan a Hashmanlike Behaviour Award for turning
up pissed to the Hash. Witch Doctor had a further presentation to make in the
form of a mini-Shrine that she had welded for Tallyho, and which included in it
the pebble that felled Poumuli, the tail of the pussy, a Vailima cap, Gayboy’s
Observer clipping, a jandal and 20 tala hash cash from the GM. This was
followed by a rousing Hash Anthem rendition.
CB had finally located the Rooter Award, which went to One
Infection or One Direction as CB put it
It was intimated that the next run would be in conjunction
with the Super Bowl Party at OTR, but that is a moot point right now.
On On
Poumuli, IKA Slit