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Hash Links: for the Hampshire Area

Royal Berkshire Hash House Harriers (this is an excellent site with good Hash provenance).

Contacts:

Whilst the new web site is being built, please feel free to contact us on

Web****er: Seis Matters annajohn47@hotmail.com

Hash Thrash: Soggy Fringe & Dickhead stevebook@tiscali.co.uk

Hare Raiser: Kerb Crawler grahamwilson.1@btinternet.com

Swing Low: The worldwide Hash Hymn

In most hashes around the world, this song is sung after the circle is concluded. The format varies. Usually, the chorus is sung to vigorous arm actions. This is repeated but humming only. The only shouted word is "coming". This is repeated a third time in silence but with the actions and the word "coming". The song is concluded by repeating the chorus aloud, vigorously and fast!

Of the five verses, only verses one and four are in common use. If you can learn the whole song, with the actions, you'll be the star at any Interhash.

Chorus (in bold):

Swing low, sweet chariot
Coming for to carry me home
Swing low, sweet chariot
Coming for to carry me home

I looked over Jordan and what did I see
Coming for to carry me home
A band of angels coming after me
Coming for to carry me home

(chorus)

Sometimes I'm up and sometimes I'm down
Coming for to carry me home
But still my soul feels heavenly bound
Coming for to carry me home

(chorus)

The brightest day that I can say
Coming for to carry me home
When Jesus washed my sins away,
Coming for to carry me home.

(chorus)

If I get there before you do
Coming for to carry me home
I'll cut a hole and pull you through
Coming for to carry me home

(chorus)

If you get there before I do
Coming for to carry me home
Tell all my friends I'm coming too
Coming for to carry me home

(chorus)

The History of the Hash

By far the best history of the Hash comes from the Mother Hash itself.

The Hash Hymn (left) is all part and parcel of hash lore of which there is plenty.

Did you know the origin of the 'red dress run'?

It started in San Diego when an elegant female, new to the concept of hashing, turned up dressed to kill in a little red number. True to the chivalry of the hash she was humiliated beyond all reason and thus was born the 'Red Dress Run' now celebrated by hashes world-wide. People run wearing anything red, preferably a dress - men included!

When was the Hash formed and who formed it?

The first formal hash was organised in Kuala Lumpur in 1938. Tony 'Fruit 'n Nut' Case has started many hashes in his life, but not this one!

How does the hash song go?

Me - me - me - me - me

Here's to -----, (s)he's true blue (a blue)

(S)He's a hasher through and through

(S)He's a bastard (pisspot, w*nker) so they say

And (s)he'll never get to heaven

(and (s)he tried to get to heaven)

in a long, long way.

(but (s)he went the other way.)

Drink it down, down, down (repeated ad nauseam)

The version in brackets is more common in the new world.

There's any number of hash web-sites that will provide huge volumes of detail about the Hash. There's even an entry in Wikipedia. Beware, some hash songs are not for the faint-hearted!!

Never ever wear new shoes on a hash run. The penalty is to drink your down-down from the shoe. Not only does this spoil the taste of good beer (although it actually improves Boddingtons), you really don't want to catch Athletes' Throat.

How to set a Hash

The easy way is to join Richard 'Mountain Rescue' McAllister and gaze in awe at the master.

Seriously, if you are new to hashing, join an experienced hare for your first few attempts. Plan the route, walk the route, dream the route. In Hampshire terrain, ground is covered at about 4 miles per hour and it takes you twice as long to lay the hash with two hares.

Let's say you want a hash of 60 minutes duration. Plan a four mile route. Start laying it at 8am and lard it with checks. Expect to finish at 10 am, ready for an 11am start.

Footloose: One day, this will be the repository for the Hash Trash (newsletter)

NH4 Events:

Contact Hash Thrash for details

Friday 27^th - Sunday 29^th January 2012: The New Forest Weekend 129046

Karelia Holidays

Horton Road
Ashley Heath
Ringwood
Hampshire
BH24 2EE

Tel: 01425 478920

Instructions:

Bring sheets and pillow cases. If you are the first to arrive at your cabin, please contact the Reception and report to Sue for the keys.

Directions: Take the A31 west out of Ringwood and about 0.7 miles after the Texaco Garage on the left, take the slip road signposted A338 Bournemouth. Turn right over the A31 towards Horton. Pass the entry to the holiday park and say "Oh Bother! For the 19th consecutive time I have missed the entrance. I shall have to turn around and try again from the other direction." After repeated iterations of the above, you will arrive at the cabins. How the door locks on the cabins work stumped Houdini so it's likely to fool you as well!

Arrive in Ringwood on the Friday evening. Eat in the Fish pub.

Saturday, hashing in the New Forest.

Sunday, hashing from the Log Cabins.

Around mid-Summer 2012: The Swanage Weekend

December 2012: CHRISTMAS PARTY

Events:

DUTCH NASH HASH 2012

NORFOLK HASH HOUSE HARRIERS 1500th RUN

The Norfolk Hash Paralytic Olympics, from Friday 17th August to Sunday 19th 2012.

Book soon as numbers are limited. (Note: Price goes up after 5th April.)

Could you please print some flyers and registration forms, and circulate
to your fellow club hashers, to help promote our event, thanks.

Registration form:

Flyer:

INTERHASH 2014 BELGIAN BID

CHINESE MEDICAL ADVICE FOR HASHERS

Q: Doctor, I've heard that cardiovascular exercise can prolong life.. Is this true?
A: Your heart only good for so many beats, and that it...don't waste on exercise. Everything wear out eventually. Speeding up heart not make you live longer; it like saying you extend life of car by driving faster. Want to live longer? Take nap.

Q: Should I cut down on meat and eat more fruits and vegetables?
A: You must grasp logistical efficiency. What does cow eat? Hay and corn.  And what are these? Vegetables. So steak is nothing more than efficient mechanism of delivering vegetables to your system. Need grain? Eat chicken. Beef also good source of field grass (green leafy vegetable). And pork chop can give you 100% of recommended daily allowance of vegetable product.

Q: Should I reduce my alcohol intake?
A: No, not at all. Wine made from fruit. Brandy is distilled wine, that mean they take water out of fruity bit so you get even more of goodness that way. Beer also made of grain. Bottom up!

Q: How can I calculate my body/fat ratio?
A: Well, if you have body and you have fat, your ratio one to one. If you have two bodies, your ratio two to one, etc.

Q: What are some of the advantages of participating in a regular exercise program?
A: Can't think of single one, sorry. My philosophy is: No pain...good!

Q: Aren't fried foods bad for you?
A: YOU NOT LISTENING! Food are fried these day in vegetable oil. In fact, they permeated by it. How could getting more vegetable be bad for you?!?

Q: Will sit-ups help prevent me from getting a little soft around the middle?
A: Definitely not! When you exercise muscle, it get bigger. You should only be doing sit-up if you want bigger stomach.

Q: Is chocolate bad for me?
A: Are you crazy?!? HEL-LO-O!! Cocoa bean! Another vegetable! It best feel-good food around!

Q: Is swimming good for your figure?
A: If swimming good for your figure, explain whale to me..

Q: Is getting in shape important for my lifestyle?
A: Hey! 'Round' a shape!