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Bangkok Monday Hash House Harriers
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Run:- 1250 Date:- 5 March 2007.
Location:- Sri Nakarin Klong Bridge (under)
Hare:- Marc Lavoie
Scribe no 1:- Spinning DwarfAbout Time
It had been 223 weeks since Marc "Sebathtion" Lavoie had been coerced into setting a run for BMH3...... well done current trailmaster. The pack set off down the khlong towards the same bridge where the hare had laid a check for a recent BH3 run that took 25 minutes to solve. Maarten "Bog" Brusselers headed off in the same direction the trail had continued for that BH3 run and was briefly rewarded with finding the trail only to be hit with a false trail a few seconds later. Andrew "No No" Murison had claimed to check "200 meters" down one khlong path without finding the trail. Well it must have been 201 meters because Frank "Noriega" Allum found the trail down that same khlong path post-FT.
Being misdirected by "No No", I ran down wrong side of the khlong which added a 600 meter detour to my trail, yes, 300 meters past the turn in there was a bridge back across the khlong. Left well behind the pack, I was eventually joined by late arriver Tom "Pussy Virus" Ellefsen. The trail led through an abandoned partially completed housing estate and saw us running through the living rooms of what would have been multi-million baht mansions.
At the long run / short run junction most took the short run option. Exceptions, among others, included our young studly GM Lem "No Good Boyo" Morgan and Greg "Tickler" Cable. Tardy Hash Piss Tim "Crash Daly was thankfully at the "A" site when the pack returned. Lots of cold beer and snacks on hand for the circle.
Prick of the Week went, as expected, to the sole female visitor Supaluck "Victory" or "Nong" or "Witsakey" Chaichoosak. Prior to the POTW award, Noriega had attempted to give it to her, a hash name that is, but it appeared to be somewhat premature. Announcements were made for long time BMH3 hasher Paul "Big Nosed Bastard" Underwood's farewell party down in Pattaya and BMH3's 25th anniversary hash next week.
The hare was a no-show at the excellent Northern Thai food restaurant. Noriega quickly ordered northern favourite "khao soi" for himself and left it up to the others to fend for themselves. Conversely, Ian "Ajarn Khee Mao" Slater refused to eat or drink....he must really enjoy the company. John "Tinker" Lukens thought the massaman curry was fantastic but had some trouble identifying if it was beef or pork. We called it an early evening, by BMH3 standards, and headed home before 11:00 PM.
On on, SD
Scribe No 2:- Tom "Pussy Virus" Ellefsen
BH3 runners knew better than to come to this run. The old farts this Scribe talked to mumbled about a "disaster" on a Saturday not too long ago where this hare was so clever that the hounds did not find paper at this run site until 40 minutes after the run should have started. Having prior knowledge of this, I cunningly decided to arrive 30 minutes late, which would give me 10 minutes to change clothes before the pack found paper. However, when I arrived, there was no one there but the hare, who strapped a GPS on me and said good luck. Maybe they had started the run 40 minutes early today?
The run started along majestic Klong Prawet. There was a lot of running along the klong until we finally turned right along a smaller feeding canal, arriving at a small bridge where we in good Hash style had to walk through someone's house to exit onto fields that connected to a massive failed housing estate. Running in a landscape that, but for the lack of sand, could have been used for the filming of Mad Max, I finally connected with the pack. That is, I found Spinning Dwarf, who had been separated from the pack because he had decided to run on the wrong side of the klong on a stretch where there was no bridge. We followed the trail through some burned-out old houses and soon found ourselves running along side small canals again. At the "wimps" / "studs" junction a little further on, Spinning Dwarf decided to play it safe, while your Scribe ran along another way to make the most of his run. Fortunately, I soon caught up to the pack, who were milling about for no good reason. I ran straight through them and joined up with Beefeater, who generously provided verbal entertainment for most of the remainder of the run. Another big housing estate (not burned down and looted this time) and several bridges later, we found ourselves back where we started. The hare pulled the GPS off my arm, and it read 8 km. A good, long weekday run. We should use this location more often.
I don't know who provided snacks, but they did a good job. The chopped salami was popular (at least with me). A good Circle followed, although, as usual, I didn't pay much attention. I do recall Katoey Kickboxer giving unwarranted attention to a new Harriette -- he's such a nice guy looking after the new people, I thought to myself. Perhaps not surprisingly, this new Harriette found herself strapped to a penis at the end of the Circle, as Prick of the Week. The Hare almost got the Prick for abandoning his son's birthday in favor of the Hash, but the excitement of a big phallus strapped to a woman won the day again. Speaking of strap-ons, it was whispered in the Circle that Noriega had taken home a nasty ex-con visiting from the US, and that she had plenty of experience with strap-ons from her stint behind bars. Why must people spread such rumors on the Hash? They should really keep such secrets to themselves.
On On - Pussy Virus
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On Monday 5 March we had 19 Harriers, 4 Harriettes, 0 new boots and 1 visitor, total = 24. The sole returner was Tom "Pussy Virus" Ellefsen.
