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Run #1041 on Sunday, 22nd August 2010
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The "I've had This Deja Vu Feeling Before" Run Run #1043 on Sunday, 5th September 2010 Hares: Pencil Dick ++ Location: Long Thanh District, off the Vung Tau Road The Hash Bus departs the Caravelle Hotel at 2:00 pm sharp every Sunday, rain, hail, snow or shine. o O o Recent Run Reports #1041 - The Fool's Apprentice Run " #1040 - The Same Same But Different Run " #1039 - The Great Train Robbery Run " #1038 - The Triple Whopper Run " #1037 - The Pee Wee Herman Indecent Exposure Run " o O o - Receding Hareline - If you would like to assist on a future run, please email our We're always looking for volunteers to help set runs. If you've never set a run before, fear not! We can set you up with:
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Indochina Mekong Hash 2010
The registration fee is USD100, payable by credit card or by bank transfer. Note that registrations are capped at 350 people, so register early if you want to come. Plans are underway for a fully equipped Saigon Hash Expeditionary Force. At this stage, we're looking at a departure from Saigon on the Friday morning, arriving in Phnom Penh early in the afternoon, returning to Saigon on Sunday night. If we get enough interest, this will be an Official Saigon Away Hash™, i.e. there won't be a run in Saigon that day. Vung Tau Hash
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You don't need to bring much. For runners, running gear is all you need. Walkers need, above all, comfortable walking shoes (High heels are NOT recommended). On hot days, you may wish to wear a hat and use sunscreen. In addition, you'll need your run fee (VND180,000 for expats, VND100,000 for locals, 10,000 for ankle-biters) and optionally a change of clothes. For more information e-mail us at the address above. [Disclaimer: Hashing is not without its risks. Political incorrectness, snakes, feral buffalo, quicksand, tropical diseases, shiggy, monkey bridges, hostile natives, unexploded ordnance, incurable STDs, cirrhosis of the liver, irate villagers with pitchforks and burning torches and litigious lawyers are but a few of the hazards we intrepid Hashers face on a week-to-week basis. By participating in the Hash, you agree that you fully understand the risks involved. If you are injured, you agree that you will not sue the Saigon Hash House Harriers (The Hash) or hold anyone else responsible who is involved with The Hash. In other words, you take full responsibility for your own actions and will not try to legally screw anybody connected with The Hash.] Here's a brief tutorial, courtesy of Hash House Harriers of Sant'o Barbara and You Tube
Picture Gallery Hash Flash Good To The Last Drop looks after the Hash picture gallery, and has just posted some great photos from recent runs. If you have any pictures to contribute (or compliments, or suggestions, or whatever), send them to hash-flash at usa dot net o O o
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... The trail was through familiar territory, but the feedback afterwards was all positive. In the circle Pete scored the walk a 4 while Moose Gooser scored the run a .1 - a total of 4.1. RA Jack Off welcomed and interviewed 13 visitors, virgins and returnees - who included Floppy Dick, You Licker, Fuckoffee, C4, Moose Gooser and HanoiHHH Song Man. During the interview process it was noticed a "conscientious objector" was standing under an umbrella at the front of the bus. Morton was called to the fore and roundly roasted for his reluctance, and was spared the ice only because he was a virgin. But not so his American countrymen Floppy Dick and C4 who were iced instead! Fukoffee was hit was a condom (raincoat) wearing charge and a check was made to see if he had any undies under the condom ... "
Whenever you see Two Dicks name on the Hare list, you know it's going to be a tough test. Even so, a good crowd of masochists boarded the bus in front of the Caravelle for the 94 minute protracted passage to the run site. Runners were dropped first with a visitor baptising new shoes before they all departed, led by running hare Doggy Style....that's a worry in itself, considering we're always telling new runners not to follow him ! The bus then ferried the walkers down the ever-narrowing road before they too set off led by Two Dicks. Now I'm a pretty tall bloke with long legs, but it was a damn fast power walk for me, so pity the poor Viets who tried to keep up with the Two Dicks' cracking pace. The trail was excellent. Mostly through shady wooded areas on paths which had been muddied by the recent rain, across some new plantations and a couple of steep hills were all part of the picture. We circumcised ... " 
You'd have bet London to a brick we were going to get soaked to the skin after a Sunday morning downpour and black clouds hovering on every horizon. But that didn't deter the pack of "no-lifes" who gathered outside the Caravelle. Only 3 spare seats on the bus as we headed East, and GM/Hare Erectile Dysfunction handed out $100 dollar notes to everyone to buy beer as it was the 47th anniversary of the Great Train Robbery. Actually, ED could have been a young participant in that historical heist. At the pre-run circle, visitor Inbound anointed his new shoes in Hash tradition, virgins and newcomers warned not to follow Doggy Style and the runners were away. They hadn't gone a kilometre before the FRB's lost trail! ED gently showed them the way as the walkers wandered past. But the walkers also lost trail. There was a river where there was dry ground yesterday so they back-tracked to a well-used path. Thankfully the rain stayed away and we made our way through rubber plantations, along the dam wall with spectacular views of the lake, slipped and slid across muddy ditches and slithered down slippery slopes of leaf litter. But about 4 kilometres from the bus, ... "
As we gathered outside the Caravelle big black clouds were gathering all around us and as soon as we filled the bus down it came. This was obviously a sign of things to come. The rain kept coming; maybe we'd all be swimming instead of running. However the Hash gods were smiling on us because 2 Ks from the run start the rain eased to a light drizzle and stayed like that for the rest of the day. In the pre-run circle, hares Two Dicks, Doggy Style and Big Mac informed the runners and the WIMPY walkers that even though the rain had stopped that they would all get wet feet anyhow. Hare Doggy Style chastised (as you should) a VN girl in sandals that was going to run. The runners took off and, as usual, Doggy Style was in the lead to the first check, two minutes after the first check we crossed the creek for the first time, the hounds were looking for all sorts of ways not to get wet feet, Cheap Ride waited for Taxi Boy to give her a piggy back across. Another very small creek crossing and Comes in Style grabbed hold of Deaf Teapot's horn ... "
A rainy Sunday resulted in "Sugar Hashers" - they dissolve in rain. But the quality of the assembled group more than made up for the lack of numbers. So off we went in a remarkably well maintained and clean bus - in the same general direction we always seem to go when we are unlucky enough to have Jack Off as a co-hare. Upon arriving at the start point - we were advised by the hares (weedy-looking Jack Off and curvaceous Phuc Me Too) that runners start here and walkers start somewhere else. Fortunately Jack Off went with the wankers (sorry I mean walkers) and we had the pleasure of running behind Phuc Me Too for an hour or so. As hash runners, we love paddy fields - and on this run there were shitloads of them and we meandered and slipped and muddied our way across them with gay abandon (well Peckerhead did). The good news was that we were always either a) stumbling along on paper, or b) bumbling along trying to find paper, and as such we stayed together as one firm cohesive unit - no chance for the FRB's to make arses of themselves as usual. After getting lost a few times and harassing the locals more than a few times we arrived back at the bus again - feeling good about ourselves having run the extra k's. As expected german hit man Pissmeister and knob end Psycho Dick finished earliest - followed in by amongst others a dutch guy, a german doll, a jap sushi chef, a sud-African (who invited him?), some Vietnamese and too many aussies for my liking. Do aussies really have nothing else they can do on a Sunday? ... "
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that time of year is approaching. Run #1047 on 3rd October will be the Saigon Hash's 11th annual Red Dress Run. Time is running out for you to organise some scarlet finery for this momentous occasion. Want a custom made red dress? See In And Out, our Hash dressmaker. Meanwhile, for those who are new to Red Dress Hashing here's where it all started: the story of the original 
Want to get away for the weekend? The Vung Tau Hash House Harriers have their regular fortnightly run on Saturday, August 14th. The next run is Run #464. Check in is usually at 1400 hrs at Tommy, 3 Bacu St, VT and the run starts at 1445 hrs. However, you should get in touch with VTH3 at:
If you've never hashed before, you'll find the Saigon Hash a great way to exercise, meet people and get out of the city. Each week, we offer a run or a power-walk in different locations in the countryside around Ho Chi Minh City. No booking is necessary. Just roll up on Sunday afternoon and hop on the bus.
"It is the general consensus of opinion that 'near beer' is utterly useless as a beverage, that it affords no pleasure whatsoever, and that it is a waste of time to bother with it. The consumption of eight or nine bottles gives them a sense of nauseated fullness with none of the simulated sense of well-being that the old time beer gave only after two or three bottles."
- City of New York Department of Welfare, King's County Hospital, 1920
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