Venue: Port Dickson
Hares: Jimmy Legman, Robin Hood Cox, Dave Wilson
Scribe: Gary Murrell
A lot of the regular Saturday bashers were not in attendance either because of the distance, the cost of petrol, the cost of the meal, the cost of the accommodation, or they just missed their mum and went overseas to celebrate Xmas/ New Year with them.
The run was set in Palm and Rubber about 200kms from KL down in the Port Dickson country side and was eventful to say the least.
The hares claimed that they had only done two recce’s was probably true, judging by the comments during and after the run.
The run was believed to have been mainly organized by Mr. Jimmy Leg opener and his trusty GPS which somehow came unstuck or the battery went flat just after the beginning of the run and then mid way thru it…..
After the off at 16.30, thru palm estate with good tracks, and across a narrow plank bridge over what was judged to be the cleanest stream seen so far in Malaysia. Runners were all called back, as they had somehow managed to locate the home trail, and were within 5 minutes of returning to the wagon. [Young Jimmy did say it was a short run, but 10 minutes was a bit short]
F.U No 1 [there were a couple more] Pack eventually called off to the left thru young palm and another check, had to have been at least 500 metres to the paper, down a ridge past a farm house of some sort, with RAMBO seen leading the way, and explaining to all who would listen, that the hares had, through some amazing piece of trail laying ability, actually screwed up, difficult to believe, going by the wealth of experience amongst the three hares, that were laying the paper, eventually this trail led us thru rubber over a ridge and down to a barbed wire gate that was easily opened, but hashers were threading their way between the strands, risking the odd prick here and there, as Harriettes do. With the gate open it was across the road and thru another tall gate that was soon opened as it was a danger to the family jewels by those that attempted the climb.
From then on it was thru the palm for a half Kilometer or so and we found ourselves in amongst swampy ground that offered no obvious exit to the home trail, [although there was a lot of recce paper about ] with the pack scratching about for the best part of 20 minutes or so some person relayed the paper back to the in trail and called On On and so we all trooped back down the in trail and through the two gates and the palm and then back into the rubber where Tony Campen had been seen an hour earlier heading for home through the edge of the rubber estate.
While we were heading for home we came upon two hares heading out into the palm [Jimmy Legless and Dave Wilson ] hoping to recover some of the stragglers from the remains of their run. At about the point that the run suffered its first F.U we came across Jimmy the Legend’s car, the hares having been too exhausted to walk the trail in. At Jimmy’s car, the paper was laid to the right, but there was nothing to indicate the trail really went left [except common sense]Most hashers went right and came all the way home on the out trail, a number of the smarter ones [dumber] followed the trail to the left alongside the fence back to the wagon.
Most of the conversations were to do with the post mortem of the run, with Robin the Hood denying he was involved with setting the trail and only laid paper where told to.
Mia Hercus [a.k.a. The Bitch, Madam Lash, Nympho + Cherry Blossom] was seen trying to add a young goat to her family zoo of 4 boys, 4 dogs, 3 cats, 5 birds, 2 sheep, 10 fish, a tortoise, a horse, and a hare, In spite of her usual speed she couldn’t catch the black kid, and did a smart u turn when she spied the owner eyeballing her attempted ‘kid-napping ‘
After the run it was back to the hotel for the cleanup and the circle before hoeing into the Xmas Dinner.
One person told me that the food was ‘all right’ and nothing special and most went to bed early except for a few who kicked on until about 2am….
However another couple said:-that the Dinner was really GREAT, a very jolly Christmas atmosphere, with a good spread of food, roast turkey and cold cuts. Wine was plentiful and free flowing.
There is no pleasing everybody and if you get 51% of them reasonably satisfied then you are on a winner
Much appreciation should go to Ron, Candy and Amelia and the committee for their efforts in making this annual Xmas dinner a success.
Some of the charges that were noted are as follows:-
Chug [SLEEPWALKER] for keeping all three rooms to himself, obviously sleep walks and like a bit of space to do it in.
Yoong Neem Chee apparently was attacked from the rear on the way to PD and either him or his car required medical attention.
Ursula [‘BATTERIES INCLUDED’] for pushing the children aside to get to Santa Claus first, looking for a bigger Vibbbbbbo-rat-orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ….zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz than the one she was given by Santa Claus last Wednesday. Be careful as they will chip your teeth if you use them wrongly.
Jackie [HEAD HUNTER] Broak and Dave [JUNGLE JIM] Pendlebury were in trouble for smooching at the table, but was there any truth to the story that Jackie disappeared under the table looking for the turkey neck.?
Carlo gave a fine demonstration of how the hares had indiscriminately laid the trail paper and the recce paper in all directions and deserved the TOILET SEAT for screwing up what had the potential to be a reasonable run.
Candy was seen being helped thru her window by an unnamed Hasher, the truth was that Candy was feeling lonely and went out hunting and managed to drag some helpless drunken male hasher off the street and through her widow. She tried to say that she was locked out of her room, but she really had the keys in her pocket and was eloping, but she got it wrong.
On On
Posted by onsec at January 2, 2004 05:20 PM