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Bangkok Monday Hash House Harriers
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Run:- 1323 Date:- 28July 2008.
Location:- Unico Golf Course, Krungthep Kreeta Road
Hares:- Captain Erik and Suffle
Scribe:- No Good BoyoWhen you have the opportunity to study the modus operendi of the famed Bangkok Hash, it is, they say, worth paying extra to get back early from a magnificent Colorado in the summer and a quick intervening bike ride from Thali to Nong Khai, in order to savour the expertise of these ancient guys. However, it turned out to be just like gardening. Why gardening you ask? Well, because I recently saw an article on how to grow a square watermelon, and this is what you have to do….
Grow a square watermelon
This is really, really easy to do. (Note: you may be able to use this technique to grow other stuff in the form of a square (actually in the form of a cube) and apply the general idea to other shapes.)
And so, this was today’s run. Right, left, left, left and in – you townies may not know, but this is just like chaperoning a young lady from the Venecia night club on Rattanathibet to the Amorn Inn on the same road ...... but assuredly much, much less exciting and no ‘happily thereafter’.
So that was the run then. There was no piss when we got back, but there was a bucket of ice with water mysteriously left next to Erik’s car but everything else was looking tits up - when into the car park came Kim Normal freshly squeezed from Pranburi. She braked violently, pulled forward, then back, then forward again, then backed two more times just to get the angle right. The piss was unloaded, and so was a load of bread and cheese. But before the ladies had a chance to cut the cheese up into cocktail size, the supersize American came in and took slices of bread with super size slices of cheese. Oh Gawd, why are these people given passports!!! In the meantime however, we heard no complaints from Bogdiver who was too busy explaining about the docility of white sharks off Cape Town. I thought perhaps we might have a lesson on Botswana where Bog said he had previously been for a holiday, but this could not go forward when it was revealed that yours truly had worked at the British High Commission in Gaborone for four years and young Andrew Murison (who had tasted rat last week and decided to bring cheese) had also been there for two years, either as a VSO or selling tractors. So there was a fair bit of prior knowledge which precluded any bullshit tourist ramblings…..
In the absence of the GM, our ‘in the navy’ JM took over nicely. Visitors, returners and then Ajarn KM fresh off his super light butted framed bike sprang into the circle. I’ll give him his due, he will admit to admiring his own musings – and so do we, in much limited doses. But give the cheeky cobber his due again, he rescued a possibly deathly evening and introduced us to Suffle!! Now here was a man who had just moved off the birthday table of Khun Taksin and still covered in his crumbs. At the TOTW it was surely a foregone conclusion when there was just one female ‘director’ left in the circle. BUT, Lo and behold, the people, untainted by 30 Baht hospital schemes, village fundings etc raised their voice in unison to call back in the man covered with crumbs. Yes, Suffle had got the TOTW, but seemed to be disappointed in its size which was, he said (he would wouldn’t he!) apparently less than the real thing.
At the excellent restaurant I didn’t see Ajarn or Tickler eat a thing, but maybe they need to keep a lid on their weight. The rest of us had rather too much to eat with wine and beer at my end of the table and all this in an air-conditioned room! Thanks to Erik and Suffle who were generous with the wine and with subsidising the bill. Dunkin Donut and ‘supersize me on the cheese slices’ wanted to leave before the bill had arrived. I suggested that in cases such as these we ‘bar fine’ early leavers who must hand over B500 for the privilege. This covers the cost of the food plus a bit extra for inconvenience to the hare. Both paid without a murmur!
On On, NGB
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On Monday 28 July we had 19 Harriers, 9 Harriettes, 0 new boots and 3 visitors, total = 31. Returners included Bruce Marks, Leila Humphrey, Tuk Brusselers, Erik Ravn, and Lem Morgan.
