Chiang Mai Saturday Hash House Harriers
Drinking and Running Since 1991
Hash Trash 1544 Grand Master – Skid Mark Haberdasher – Hot Nipples
Historian & Awards Master – Superman Hash Cash – Titty Smoker
Joint Master – Just Cumming Beer Monster – Deep Throat
Religious Advisor – Chuck Wao Hare Raiser – Bushy Tail
Deputy Beer Monster – Sheep Shagger On Sec.– Stumbling Dyke
Run 1545
The location for today’s outing was 12km down the Canal Road from the Sameorng intersection and I was the hare, so there isn’t much I can really say about anything that went on during the run. About 35 of the regulars turned out on a beautiful day neither being too hot or too cold. The run was in total about 5.3 km with the wimp being about 3km. most of the runners finished in under an hour. Even Tip Toe and Square Rooter finished with about 30 minutes of broad daylight to spare. For this reason I awarded the wings to Tip Toe. I could have given them to Square Rooter, but Tip Toe is more polite to me.
As I have been hashing in Chiangmai since 1998, over the years, I have witnessed many weird, wonderful and momentous occasions. Alas many of my memories have been assigned into the category of a drunken haze, but I suppose that’s what hashing is all about. Although there is one strange and weird event, I would like to recount which I remember with clarity and such luminaries as Superman, Pamela, Captain Hook and Superbitch will totally be able to corroborate.
It all happened on a CSH3 run sometime in 2004 and the A bucket was just outside one of those Chinese cemeteries in the Doi Saket area not far from The Wan Tan resort. I can’t remember who the hares were, or much about the actual run. But what happened during the circle is one of the strangest phenomena I have ever experienced at any time anywhere. The circle started as normal, I think Wombat was the GM at the time. Superbitch was in the position of Hash Flash. During the evening she had busily been taking various pictures with Wombat’s new digital camera – this was at a time when digital cameras were at the cutting edge of technology and smart phones were still a concept of science fiction.
At the end of the circle Captain Hook was perusing through the photographs that had been taken by Superbitch and found in many of the pictures there were, what looked like, solid golden coins. These weren’t those shadowy circles that are sometimes found in digital photographs, but solid golden discs in what seemed high definition and some of the discs had very elaborate designs on them almost resembling some kind of ancient written script. There was absolutely no logical explanation for these, what can only be described as, apparitions whatsoever.
Many people might say there must have been some kind of anomaly with the camera. But to my knowledge this camera never captured such images again. As it transpires this Chinese Cemetery uses some kind of coins during the burial ceremony. It was all very bizarre. Perhaps the spirits were trying to send us a message about buying Bitcoin – which by the way is now trading at over 1 million Baht each- because that is the only gold coin, I know of, that totally exists within the ether.
Whatever the case it was all very strange and totally true.
OnOn Stumbling Dyke …