PRINCETON HHH HASH #699.4


Date: February 7, 1999
Weather: Pre-debacle
Venue: Boring
Time: 1:19
Set By: Tropical Repression
Hashers:  Natural Born Lesbian, Speed Bumps, Geezer, LLLoda, Hey Yo!!
Paully, Table Toes, Throat Deep, Road Jaundice, Hand Solo, PyroMan,
Excremental Earnings, Chris Round


Rookies/Visitors: Joanna Olson,Sudha Pamidimukkala, Andrew Mead, Steve Tyler



                        Descriptions, Polemics, and Lies:



        There was YOMAMA, the Year of Many and Malicious Assholes, and last
year was the YOW!,  Year of the Whine, and, so it appears, this year has
been called, quite uneuphoniously, I must add, the Year of Debacle. It
occurs to me that you might not know the origin of the word "debacle."  It
comes from the old French, and is a corruption of the name of Comte Henri
Aristide Louis de Barnacle, the scion of a nautical family, who, in fact,
invented the barnacle in 1536. The barnacle was such a disaster for the
shipping industry, that his name, in a degenerate, corrupted form, has been
associated with misfortune ever since. In fact, another member of this
family, Jean-Pierre Phillipe de Barnacle a la Merdetete, continued the
family tradition and invented the Zebra Mussel. Merdetete, a renowned and
flamboyant transvestite, described his invention (in a recent appearance
before Ken Starr) in his charming accent: "Alors! Of course one must have
zee mussels when you deal with zee bra. When you are not born to zee cause,
as eet waire, one must develop zee mussels that allow zee snapping and
unsnapping, n'est-ce pas?"


Well, I just thought you would want to know.


        What about this run? Straight line from A to B, more or less, from
hard-by Ice Blue Ball's abode, through the red tower in Little Rocky Hill,
where Inbred Fred tried to kill the Geezer, across route 27 into the
quarry, through Hasty Acres where both Ice Blue and Catherine the Great
keep their horses, to the tow path. Boring? Yes. Passable as a prelude to
the Great 700th? Sure. Nice Apres. Decent cookies, OK beer. Neither Darwin
nor the LRF was there.


        Now of course, what you all really want is more over-wrought hype
about next week. And I say NO! What have we become that we forget the
solumn nature of the "G" hash next week? For shame. It is a mere accident
that #700 coincides with one of the Hash's High Holy days.  I must take a
moment to tell you the story of Alberto Stephano Ignatius Gispert, "G", one
of the founders of the Mother Hash in KL:


        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 was posted to Malacca in 1937 where he joined a club called the
Springgit Harriers who operated weekly under "hash" rules and are believed
to have been formed in 1935. Actually, the idea of Harriers chasing marks
was not new in Malaya in the late '30s. Frederick "Horse" Thomson first
became involved with paperchases in Johore Bahru in 1932 and the Kinta
Harriers were active in Ipoh at the time. Some time between September and
December 1938 G was among those (Thomson, G, Cecil Lee, "Torch" Bennett,
Eric Galvin, H. M. Doig) who founded the original club in Kuala Lumpur. Of
course, the war soon interrupted runs until 1946.


        In December of 1941, Gispert rushed back from leave in Australia to
join the forces in Singapore, only to be killed in Dairy Farm Road, early
on February 11, 1942. I quote from the history of the Argyll and Sutherland
Highlanders: Chap. XI, p. 111, "About 0400 hours (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.
__________________________________________________________________
Remember: February 14, 1999:


There will be pain and there will surely be much suffering.


NOTE: 12:30 at the usual gathering point behind Stevenson Hall, 91 Prospect.


NO MONEY, NO T-SHIRTS, NO WHINING, and, of course,
absolutely NO MERCY!


Hardt Kore


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