PRINCETON HHH HASH #1021.9

Date: January 2, 2005
Weather: warm
Venue: Belle Meade Inn
Set: Solo
Time: 1:47
Hashers: Excitable Boy, Homoerotic Tick Checking, Sarah Moore, Geezer, HYP, 
Ice Blue Balls, Sonnuvabitch



Descriptions, Polemics, and Lies:


                        Further Tales from the Belle Meade Inn

I waited until all the cars pulled away. The Belle Meade Inn was dark of course 
- Jorge had seen to that years ago. Nothing escaped his expert caulking. I think 
he used old Stegmeier labels. God knows there were always plenty of them. I crept 
through the backdoor and found my way down the darkened stairs. I knew they'd be 
there. They always were. I needed a couple of Stegs to wash out the taste of all 
that yuppified food and designer beer, and to ease the pain of another Hand Solo 
half marathon. The worst hash of the year.

And so it was. They were all there, Rojo all in fishnet, The Cuban Assassin massaging 
his horrible scar, Jorge cowering behind the bar, and Zaire himself, in the shadows 
as always: his aura of menace emanating from the darkness.

Rojo spoke: "They don't know about G."

The Assassin: "They don' know habout Gee."

Jorge: "Tell them about G."

Finally, what I feared most, as Zaire spoke at last: "You must tell them about G. 
You must do it."

And all I wanted was a Steg or two. But there was no choice. You don't cross A. G. Zaire. 
And I knew what had happened to that dwarf.

"OK, Geezer," said the Cuban, now sporting a smile that made me think of nothing nice, 
"have a Steg with us, and be on your way. You have work to do"

Just another Tale from the Belle Meade Inn, all of which are true.



G:  The holiest day in the Hashyear is always the hash closest to February 11th, the day 
that G was killed.


Born Alberto Stephano Ignatius Gispert to Spanish Catalan parents in London in 1903, he 
later anglicised his name to Albert Stephen Ignatius Gispert and became known as "G".  
He was a chartered accountant with Evatt & Co., and is generally recognized as the principal 
amongst the founders of the original Hash in Kuala Lumpur.  The period was some time between 
September and December, 1938. 

Frederick "Horse" Thomson first became involved with paperchases in Johore Bahru in 1932. 
"G" introduced "Torch" Bennett to the paperchasing hare and hounds in Malacca during 1937/38. 

 Gispert rushed back from leave in Australia in December, 1941 to join the forces in Singapore, 
only to be killed in Dairy Farm Road, early on February 11, 1942. To quote from the original 
history of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders: Chap. XI, page 111, "About 0400 hrs (11 Feb) 
a considerable force of Japanese from track junction 751150 moved up the track for 200 yards 
to within ten yards of Battalion HQ and halted. They surprised and silently caught Captain 
Gispert, the mortar officer, and three men and killed them."

ON ON, G!