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Run-5. 2002 - Chiang Mai, Thailand
2002 saw the
event move to Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand. Chiang Mai is not a
big city but it boasts four separate Hash chapters and they jointly
hosted MIH V The hosts were Chiang Mai Hash (CMH3), Chiang Mai
Saturday Hash (CMSH3), Chiang Mai Bunny Hash (CMH4) and Chiang Mai
Underground Male Hash (CUMH3). Observant readers will notice that
the Chiang Mai Bunny Hash is not referred to CMBH3 since its
alternative title replaces Bunny with Horny …
Dyke Converter had the unenviable task of being the Chairman of MIH
V and he was rewarded by having to mismanage a large pack of around
450 Hashers, as a result of the relatively easy and cheap travel
options for the members of the many Hash chapters that exist
throughout Thailand. The weekend started off with the traditional
TDH3 run which took the runners on a long run through forest and
finished at a large dam overlooking a lake. The runs on Saturday and
Sunday were notable for their trails up and down steep forested
hillsides where belaying and abseiling techniques would have been
useful.
However, for many, the highlight (besides the busses being given a
police escort, complete with blue flashing lights and sirens, to and
from the run sites so that traffic lights were never an issue!) was
the local girls’ high-school brass band, which performed as a
warm-up act at the On OnOn, and which, much to the girl’s surprise
(and your scribe suspects much to the surprise of the Hash
Mismanagement), proved to be a huge hit with the visiting Hashers.
The big band swing music of Glenn Miller plus the John Philip Sousa
marching songs had the Hashers standing on the tables and stomping
and cheering, The Hashers kept calling for encores and the band was
not allowed to leave the venue until their teachers pleaded that
they could no longer deflect the frantic calls of their parents who
were worried about them being out long, long after their agreed
curfew hour. They were finally allowed to leave to a standing
ovation. The “main” band, after several earlier abortive attempts,
was then allowed on stage only to discover that the warm-up act had
stolen their thunder. However, nobody could steal the thunder of the
girls dispensing the tequila shots to their willing customers in the
reclining dentist’s chair and one female customer was later named as
Oral Titillation after famously getting her shot topless.
~as
recollected by BoBo
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