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Run No:- |
1055 |
Date:- 9 June 2003 |
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Location:- |
Wat Champa, over Rama 5 Bridge |
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Hares:- |
Todd 'Spinning Dwarf' Wilkie |
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Scribe:- |
Andrew 'Agent Orange' McPherson |
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The Run
When I arrived at the run site a large group of hashers had already started to congregate, the hare was seen in his usual role collecting the run fees even though he had just set the run. 5.30 pm and On On was called and the pack were off.
I caught up with Genghis or was it Genghis who caught up with me and we strolled along the trail, I was pleased to have been granted this private audience with this soon to be retired UN exec. Did you know that he had been touting the rental of his bungalow in a timeshare at Hua Hin through the hash mailing lists? It turns out he bought this place because they didn't have condo's for sale in Pattaya when he had first arrived in Thailand, I suppose that would have been because concrete had not been discovered at that time and going up to these heights was not recommended using bamboo.
Soon we were crossing the newly built autobahn and off into the orchard area, after a short while, we could no longer see or hear anything of the rest of the pack, but just as we were resigning ourselves to an easy stroll around, we came to a temple where other hashers were also arriving, they must have been running off paper because I know we were on paper. Soon we were running amongst the rest of the pack, albeit not for long. Where did these guys keep disappearing to, I began strolling again, this time on my own, I assumed Genghis was by now taking a shortcut back to the piss.
After about another 2 hours running, I came upon this magnificent looking small temple that over the past year or possibly five, had been undergoing a massive renovation. The finished job looked fantastic with every bit of shiny colored mosaic glass gleaming. This was one of these moments that you need to stop and take a mental picture as you listen to the wind-chimes jingling from within the eaves.
Just as I was departing the temple area I spotted Bullet and a couple of others, (I really must find out where they had all been). Well I was still on paper and had by this time been running for at least 3 hours.
Tastes Great came up behind me and was soon pushing on and past, I never saw him again until the on on restaurant, And I figured he must have found a suitable place for a rub and a scrub, but wasn't wanting to share this info with his fellow hashers and fobbed us of with some tall story about a conference call.
As we walked in on the On In trail, I mentioned to Bullet that the temple we had just passed was looking magnificent, I realized by the blank look that met this observation meant that they hadn't noticed this temple.
Well we must have been running for at least 4 hours by now and were really glad to be back at the finish.
On congratulating the hare, he commented that at 1hour and 5 minutes the run time was OK.
Only one hour and 5 minutes!
Had I imagined the four hours or was it five hours since I had started running? Was there a magnificent looking temple out there? Had I indeed heard the wind chimes? Had I imagined that people had been for a rub and a scrub out on the trail?
The Circle
Many were called in for various reasons and down downs were administered.
The highlight of the circle was the award of prick of the week to a young American lady who must have paid baksheesh to her fellow female hashers to cheer for any of the other candidates except her, however she was shown that this really is not the way that these things work out and that these decisions have been made prior to her getting of the aero plane in fact this may have been one of these decisions that had taken place soon after she had been born, you know the, "This is your destiny, You are going to go to Bangkok one day in your future years and whilst you are there You are going to hash and You will be awarded POTW"
However once she had realized this was a foregone conclusion she quickly donned the necessary articles, and started strutting around looking quite comfortable and dare I say proud of her new body parts. (It must be noted that the Prick of the Week should really have gone to Flying Finn who was uncharacteristically & shockingly insensitive when he had a piss on the temple gates!, I am surprised that Khun Narest didn't throw him out of the temple area! ed.)
A photograph was duly taken (of Caroline from North Carolina) and can currently be viewed at www.wobbly-dukes.com
ON ON, Agent Orange
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On Monday 9 June we had 25 Harriers, 11 Harriettes, 0 new boots and 3 visitors, total = 39. Returners included Gengiz "Disgusting" Ertuna, Sunee "Phonysex" P, Vilai Jareet, Peter "Maverick" Laverick, May, and Rin "Jumpstart".
