History of
the Hash, where it all began
The
Hash House
The 'Hash House' was the
mildly derogatory nickname given (for its unimaginative, monotonous food) to
the Selangor Club Chambers, by the British Civil Servants and businessman who
lived and dined there. Originally, the ground floor housed the main Selangor
Club dining room, and between the two World Wars it became a social centre of
the times, used regularly for lunch time meals by the members who worked in the
immediate vicinity.
Situated
close to and behind the present Selangor Club, its function changed after
independence in 1965 and it became a key office for the local Water Board, the
place where all Kuala Lumpur (K.L.) residents came to pay their water bills.
Sadly, it gave way to the relentless march of time around 1974, being bulldozed
to the ground under the north-bound lane of Jalan Kuching. The buildings
housing the original stables and servants quarters are still in existence.
Ancient
Harriers
The idea of Harriers chasing
paper was not new to Malaya in 1938, as there had been such 'Hare and Hounds'
clubs before in Kuala Lumpur and Johore Bahru, and there were clubs in
existence in Malacca and Ipoh (the Kinta Harriers) at the time.
"Horse" Thomson (one of the KLH3 founding fathers) recalled being
invited on a run, shortly after his arrival in Johore Bahru in 1932, which
chased a paper trail and followed basic Hash rules every week but the club was
so magically organized that it had no name. The club flourished in the early
1930's but is believed to have died out around 1935.
The
other branch of our ancestry comes from Malacca, where A. S. ('G') Gispert was
posted in 1937 and joined a club called the Springgit Harriers, who also
operated weekly under Hash rules and are believed to have been formed in 1935.
Some months later, 'Torch' Bennett visited him and came as a guest on a few
runs.
Hash
House Harriers
By 1938, Thomson, Lee,
Bennett and Gispert had all moved to K.L. and founded their own club, following
the rules they had learnt elsewhere. It was 'G' Gispert who was apparently the
moving spirit behind the club, though he never acted as On-Sec or a Joint
Master. There were probably only about a dozen members of the original HHH,
including :
- A. S. ('G') Gispert
- Cecil Lee
- 'Horse' Thomson
- 'Torch' Bennett
- Morris Edgar
- Eric Galvin
- H.M. Doig
- John Barrett
- M.C. Hay
They were soon joined by a
few others, including:
- Frank Woodward
- Philip Wickens
- Lew Davidson
- E.A. Ross
It is not clear that the club
actually had a name at the very beginning, but Gispert is credited with
proposing 'The Hash House Harriers' when the Registrar of Societies required
the gathering to be legally registered.
'Torch'
Bennett technically missed being a founder member, because he was then on
leave, but on his return he introduced the first necessary organization - a
bank account, a balance sheet and some system. More importantly, he seems, with
Philip Wickens who joined later in 1939, to have helped to keep things going immediately
after the war.
Sadly,
Gispert had only a short time with his extraordinary creation, being killed in
the fighting on Singapore Island on February 11th, 1942, whilst serving with
the Argylls. Of the original founding fathers of the HHH, Cecil Lee and 'Horse'
Thompson are still alive, though sadly no longer hashing. The founding members
were all British, although Gispert's origins were Spanish, his parents having
migrated to London some time before he was born. Extraordinarily both he and
Bennett were accountants, as were Paul Barnard and Jack Bridewell who made a
significant contribution to our activities of later years. Some Hash
psychiatrist should investigate whether this type of work leads to extreme
forms of escapism.
The
HHH duly celebrated its 100th run on 15 August 1941, but only 17 runs later was
forced into temporary hibernation by the arrival of the Japanese.
Postwar
Rebirth
Post World War II, it was
nearly 12 months before the survivors reassembled. 'Torch' Bennett put in a
claim for the lost hash mugs, a tin bath and two old bags, on the fund set up
with the proceeds from confiscated Japanese property and run No. 1 was a trot
around the race-course in August, 1946. Subsequent to the 1,000th post war run
the celebrations surrounding it were considered to be such a success that the
117 official pre-war runs were added to the total so that we could celebrate
the 2,000th run as soon as possible.
With
the advent of the Emergency in 1948, the Hash was automatically in bad official
odor, as their activities were generally illegal in terms of the curfew imposed
on most of the areas around Kuala Lumpur, and in the years 1948-51 they
maintained a precarious existence at best. The turn round came with the famous
bandit incident at Cheras.
This
has been widely misreported, but what actually happened was that below where
the Lady Templer Hospital is now, in an area that was then rubber and secondary
jungle, the Hares on a darkening and rainy evening came across some men wrapped
in ground sheets sleeping on the ground. They turned back to alert the pack and
speed on to the Cheras police station, alerting the army, who laid ambushes on
tracks leading out of the area and first thing the following morning bagged
three bandits trying to break out. One of them was found to have a substantial
price on his head and the bounty was sufficient to buy both the hares a new
car, though the hounds were apparently of the opinion that it should have been
shared amongst them all !
Other
colourful incidents related by Cecil Lee, include how 'Torch' Bennett once
nearly drowned in quicksand, and how on one memorable occasion the erstwhile
unathletic 'G' was actually leading the pack: sadly his moment of glory was
short lived as the paper trail turned to be false. Swimming would seem to have
been an unofficial prerequisite for all Hashmen too, for Cecil remembers having
had to swim across a mining pool in order to get home after being lost on one
occasion, and on another it is reported that several Hashmen ran in to a stream
where bathed some unsuspecting Malay maidens. The girls screamed; their menfolk
came hurtling to the rescue with unsheathed parangs flashing, and the errant
Hashmen broke land speed records in their eagerness to clear the scene.
The
Hash Spreads Out
The second Hash Chapter was
founded in Singapore in 1962, followed by Brunei, Kuching and Sandakan in 1963,
Jesselton (Kota Kinabalu), Sibu and Miri in 1964, Ipoh and Penang in 1965,
making a total of ten chapters who celebrated the 1,000th post-war Hash run in
K.L., on 12 March 1966. Sydney was the first chapter created outside Malaysia
and Singapore, in 1967, and the worldwide expansion had started, but even by
the time of K.L.'s 1,500th run, in 1974, the total was only 35, so the
subsequent explosion has been spectacular indeed. The 1996 Harrier
International Hash Directory will probably total around 1,600 clubs in over 150
countries and all continents (including Antarctica), where the hash format has
to be adapted to environments very different from the neat rows of Malaysian
rubber trees amongst which it was conceived. The Kabul HHH understandably
foundered, but what can it be like to hash in the deserts of Sinai, the streets
of Beijing, the mountains around Addis Ababa or the icy winds of the Falkland
Islands?
This text was shamelessy lifted from the Mother Hash Web
Site in order to get it “right” from the source.
The
Remaining text is the humble beginning of the Carolina Trash Hash House
Harriers
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CAROLINA TRASH HASH HOUSE
HARRIERS
by
Red Dog
Revision 1.00, May 1999
V
1.5, June 2002, IUD
The Carolina Trash Hash House Harriers was founded in April 1984 by LTC Byron Hoot Hooten and LTC Terry Bush Whacker Brady of the U.S. Air Force. The original name of the Trash was the Carolina Trash Haulers Hash House Harriers. The term Haulers in the original name referred to the practice of Air Force pilots making "trash" hauls which means something or other. This name didn’t last and we are now and forevermore known as the Trash.
Carolina Trash's 1st Trail 1APR84
The next earliest know Trash document is the
sign in sheet from Run #40 from 27 January 1985. The original Book of Trash is
still in existence but is missing the first 39 runs. The Hare for run #40 was
Pete Bensely and the run began at the Westminister Church on Village Drive. It
had 4 runners in the pack, Craig Blasberg who was a relative of the first
Grandmaster, Don Blasberg, better known as Warm Beer. George Frink, a newspaper
guy. Jerry Thrasher, the head of the local library whose hash name is Smut
and Walter Vick, an architect whose name was L.A. which was short for Late
Ass.
In the beginning the runners signed into
the Book of the Trash using their mortal names. Hash names first appeared in
the book at Run 66, 18 August 1985.
The earliest know Trash Hash Note comes
from Run #42, 10 February 1985 set by Keith Clayton and Smut beginning
at Pope Park near the Cape Fear River. The run apparently involved a river
crossing. The hash write up in the book noted that the Hares marked two dead
cats on the trail. The note is set forth below;
The Hash Lament
You’ve come to a river,
Deep and wide,
Too Cold to swim across,
We hares are gone
Nowhere in sight
We hope you don’t get lost
But have no fear
Some help is here
Just read between the lines
The trail begins
anew and fresh,
Look to the other side
A warning to you!
Do not get wet,
Stay with ground and cement.
Look upstream there,
And you will see
The answer to your prayer
Ancient Hashers from the First Book
of the Trash
Warm Beer - Don Blasberg, named at run #65, 11 August 1985
for having warm beer at on home
B.O. Craig Blasberg
Wrong Way - Jeff Adams
Maggot - Don Bray
Smut - Jerry Thrasher
Late Ass - Walter Vick
Cough - Keith Clayton
Splat Tony Gajeski
Melanie Gajeski
Terry Brady (Founder)
Craig Blasberg
the Kid Charlie Vickers
Coach Bill Rivas
George Frink
Iceman Jerry Iverson
Briar Boy Ralph Zappe
Steve Hannah,
Hot Tits Claudia Ericson-Ende, well endowed, scantily dressed
Kiss my Ass Scott Ash
Havana Pete Bensky ( routinely smoked a cigar on trail)
Shit Head J.D.
Squirt Chuck Adkins (1st run #78 10 November 1985)
Greyhound Pete Russo
Red Dog Pitt Dickey (1st run #111) 29 June 1986
Semi Ancient Trashers from Rosters in
the 3rd Book of the Hash
April 1987 Roster of named Hashers
Wrong Way Jeff Adams
Squirt Chuck Adkins
Mr. Vice Mark Baker
Havana Pete Bensley
B.O. Craig Blasberg
Warm Beer Don Blasberg
Maggot Don Bray
River Rat Jim Brown
Grunt John Buck
Swamp Creature Arlen Chapman
Kuth Keith Clayton
Red Dog Pitt Dickey
Buffy Melanie Gajeski
Splatt Tony Gajeski
Coonskin Norm Gill
G-man John Gregory
Short & soft Jeff Harrison
Ronbo Ron Hilston
Tag Along Karen Johnston
Killer Bob Keller
Horse Mark Ledford
Boardwalk Dennis McConnell
Insane Lorraine McConnell
Big Mac John McMullen
Checkless Dwight Reed
Coach Bill Rivas
Hot Tits Claudia Rohn
Crash Cecil Roper
Indy Bert Stull
Hash Fart King Thompson
Smut Jerry Thrasher
Tarzan Ross Van lerberghe
L.A. Walter Vick
The Kid Charlie Vickers
Bahama Earl Walter
Bird man Jerry Warden
Alcatraz Mark Warden
Shithead J.D. White
Turtle Bob Wolters
Magnolia Willie Wright
Briar Boy Ralph Zappe
1 September 1989 roster of named
Hashers
Stinky Dave Bullen
Snake lady Gretchen Floyd
Dog Breath Walt Henderson
Hot Blood Stan Plummer
Ranger Steve Pullen
Stumpslayer Shawn Schultz
Bloodhound Steve Shoup
Teats de Swampe Pat Sullivan Florez
Pervert Doug Taylor
Turtle Boby Wolters
Magnolia Willie Wright
July 1990 roster of named Hashers
Bare hare
Coach
Cumtroller
Dog Breath
Emisus Rex
Faggot Flourgirl
The kid
Last but not yeast infection
Le Maggot
The Magnolia
Monkey Man
Nabob
One Bitch Barking
Prodigal Son
Puffin
Ranger
Red Dog
Rolex
Snake lady
Snowballs
Stinky
Stumpslayer
Swamp Rat
Teats De Swampe
Thai’d Down Down
Turtle
Two Dogs Fucking
Wet Weenie
June 2002 Roster of Named Hashers
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Bagless Bald Eagle Driver Barf Boy Bloody Fucker Briars Ice Milk Bustin' Loose Can't Cum Chocolate Starfish |
FLB Fuck it Like you Stole It Have Cum, Will Travel Industrial Entrance Kibbles and Dicks Locked Box Mac Puppy Manholio Monkey my Wrench Mister Pussy
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Niagra Balls Oral Transgression PBJ Prick in Zee Douche Queen Biach Sasquach Crotch Scab Snatcher
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List of Grand Masters of the Trash Dates are estimated but such is life.
Warm Beer - Don Blasberg 1985- 1987?
The Kid - Charlie Vickers 1987 -1993
Red Dog - Pitt Dickey 1993-1995 , 2000-2001
Mr. Pussy - Teri Henson 1996
Peaden Dump- Alan Smith 1997
Pivot Man - Dan Belvin 1998
Butt First- Shawn Powell 1999
Muff Singer- Bryon Gallagher 2002
IUD- Ian Davis / Poison Penis- Jim Peterson 2003
Bumper Bullets- Lynn Thornberg / IUD - Ian Davis 2004
Great Moments in Trash History
April 1984 First Hash of the Carolina Trash is set. Adult
beverages consumed. Hashers lost. Songs sung. Tasteless events occur. Some
things never change.
12 April 1986 100th Hash of the Trash, Set by Ronbo,
Wrong Way, Havana & Steve Manis. 27 runners and a
commemorative Tee Shirt with Hash logo and 100th run printed on it
Hashers were:
Warm Beer Blasberg
Briar Boy Zappe
The Coach Rivas
The Kid Vickers
Shortie
Maggot Bray
Coonskin Gill
W.D Pfieffer
Shit head White
Smut Thrasher
Alex Thrasher
Squirt
Tarzan
Greyhound
Kuth Clayton
Steve Manis
Bert Stull
Hot Tits
Pat Patterson
Lou Botta
Mark Baker
Tim Bender
Jeff Harrison
Push Up Hannah
LA Vick
Brick Johnek
Bushwhacker Brady
9 January 1988 First S.O.B. Intercourse. The first Trash sponsored
interhash occurred at a snowbound South of the Border at beautiful Dillon, S.C.
Six inches of snow on the ground. A run by perplexed grave diggers in the snow.
. Missed Fantasy organized the event for the Trash. S.C. was represented
by the Columbia HHH, featuring Wandering Dick, More Leggs, Baby Doc.
December 1990 First Annual Prom from Hell is held at the Little
Berlin Restaurant. A splendid time is had by all.
31 December 1990 Great New Year’s Eve Fire. Red Rambette (Debbie Haas) has the Hash New Year’s Eve party. A fire breaks out in her fire place,
the fire department comes and puts it out. All is well. The party continues.
Later in the middle of the night, the fireplace catches on fire again and her
house burns down totally. Hash Log book Number 2 is destroyed in this fire. Red
Rambette is the hare for the New Year’s day hash but the Hash has mercy on her and she doesn’t have to set the trail that day. The Hash has
its new year’s day run and goes over
to help her move what was left of her stuff out of the smoking ruins.
Interestingly enough, there are no runs listed in the 3rd Book of
the Trash.
20 January 1991 Fuck Sadaam Hussein Run. Run No. 348. In the
midst of the Great Middle Eastern War, the Hash dresses as Arabs, eats pork
rinds and belches in the direction of Baghdad in a fit of patriotic fervor.
5 June 1991 369th Run Pub Crawl. Hares Two Dogs
Fu*king and Stumpslayer lead the Trash on 3 days of debauchery thru
some of Fayetteville’s
slimiest taverns.
9 January 1992 First Annual Air Rodeo Hash. Put on by the Trash
in connection with the Pope Air Rodeo. Hared by Sky Dyke, Bullwinkle and
Backdraft. Multiple international pilot type hashers from all over the
world. Terrible rain storm. Bare Hare almost drowns in a culvert. Air
Rodeo cancelled the next year so this was the last First and last Air Rodeo
Hash.
9 February 1992 Search for Elvis Hash. Beer, bonfires and
moonpies. Saluting Elvis’s
death, the Trash meets at the Market House in downtown Fayetteville. Speckled
Bird dressed as Elvis stops traffic driving around the circle. A funeral
goes by and the mourners are cheered up at the sight of Elvis in downtown.
25 September 1993 500th Run. Hares Bullwinkle,
Temporary Relief and Aids Carrier. 500 hashes are celebrated as we are
now ½ way to a thousand
hashes which should occur sometime in the Summer of 2002.
29 April 1994 Trash’s 10th Anniversary Mother Earth Run. A salute to the
Mothers of the Hash. Headquartered at the Rodeway Inn out on the 301 Bypass.
The day after the hash someone is murdered at that motel.
13 March 1999 800th Run. Massive Adult beverage consumption. Whore D’Urve drives a U-Haul truck packed with Hashers and gets evicted from his apartment due to the post Hash party.
1999 – Whore Durve buys the TRASH BUS!!!!- its first major road trip is from Trash town to Camp Hedon!!!
Sept 2000 – Trash Host’s NC/SC Inter Hash at Raeford Drop Zone! Rained so much almost everyone’s tents flooded. Tinky Winky brought his Gay Gaymes to trash town for the first time, and several Hashers took their 1st ever Tandem Skydive jump. 7 Experienced skydiving Hashers attempted to do a group photo shot with the trash flag, but that didn’t work out too well.
Dec 2000 – Annual Prom held at the Back Door
27-28 January 2001 899.5 and 900th Hash and Pub Crawl: 2001 Trash Odd to See. OT lays sprinkle-ferry Battan Death Trail after a night of debauchery.
4 March 2001 Run 905: The Sharkey's Incedent. The trash adapts to changing start points, gat-pakin' gangstas, and Fayetteville's Finest.
4-6 May 2001 CTrH3 Cheap Mexican Hash. KFC and Cheap Mexican Whore host a most excellent weekend of "perfectly acceptable hash behavior" that left hashers crying "Aye Papi, sacelo, que duele!!!"
New Years 2002 Oral Transgression and Run Silent Run Deep lay trail thru the Marketfare Mall. HAZMAT teams close the mall in response to reports of people running and throwing ANTHRAX from a Gold Medal Flour bag. The terror continues
December 6th – 8th , 2002 - PROM FROM HELL & 1000TH HASH
Friday night Pub Crawl. GD was DD for the U-Haul that drove everyone brave enough to get in it to the bars this night. Last bar of the night was John J’s.
Saturday – 1000th hared by Poison Penis, Golden Dyke & Stump Slayer – Nice weather long trail.
Cheap Mexican Whore was bibbed along with Poison getting re-bibbed for his 100th Trash Hash. Lovely mess of a bibbing right down to Muddy Mallard Mole Fucker eating the chunks from the bibbing ingredients that had fallen on the ground. Prom Saturday night was held at the Ramada on 301/Bus95. DJ’d by Cheap Mexican Whore with assistance by Bumper Bullets. Other than dancing, there was of course Beer Pong and security did need to be called in on us a couple of time. I believe the hash is no longer welcome at the Ramada. That is at least until they get new management again. ;-)
May 2nd – 4th 2003 CHEAP MEXICAN HASH 2 Hash #1022
Venue: Raeford Drop Zone
Weather – good once the huge WIND storm passed through Friday night breaking tents for several hashers until Saturday night when it poured rain for hours.
Friday night Shooting Star Hash lead by Poison Penis.
Saturday, not only did Cheap and Shitty manage to get their trucks stuck in mud, but so did Whore X 4 as she attempted to get their trucks out. So with this, Scabby & Cinco De Layo set trail with out Cheap. We had a naming and 4 bibbings. Everyone got their trucks out of the mud in time for circle festivities. Laa Laa, Cinco, Black Cock & Bitch Where’s My Hand Job all were nicely bibbed. Cheap Mexican Whore DJ’d for everyone late into the night. Sunday, we had this guy Neil, a skydiver hanging out drinking with us acting a fool, like most we know. So we named him something Cheesy….Whorenado ended up burning Neil’s sneakers because she was cleaning up and when no one spoke up that they belonged to them (mind you, Neil was passed out and couldn’t talk) so in the fire they went! Fiber Opdick also decided it was time to burn Stunt Fiber since he was back state side and wouldn’t be needing the stunt-fill-in any more. Well wouldn’t you know it, but Neil goes down in at least Trash History, of being the only person ever to be banned from the hash. Yes, that’s correct. Banned. Neil wanted to drive home in his very drunken stuper even though he could apparently spit to his house. We had taken his keys from him to prevent this from happening and that’s when he decided to get really pissy and start to threaten people. Well, that got Cheap’s blood boiling and he got right in Neil’s face and said, “That’s it! You’re BANNED from the Hash! If you can’t act like a human being we don’t want you around us.” (or something close to that any way)
Sunday 20July03 Hash #1033 WINS TRAIL OF THE YEAR at Prom
Hares: Stump Slayer, Bumper Bullets & Just Steve – now known as Yucca til Dumb
Venue: Winn Dixie on Hope Mills road
Weather was HOT!!! Perfect day for our Mystery Float Hash
The hounds were off after the hares! After their 1st beer stop behind the Wal-Mart, the hounds were off again through some tunnels and back out and down Camden where what would their wondering eyes should appear???? Stump, Bumper & Yucca….with a truck load of inflated inner tubes….Wahhhoooo…hashers away….grab the kegs and lets tube!!!!
Again, the currents were fast so the tubing only lasted about 30 minutes before reaching our goal of an On Home, which was before Hope Mills Lake as the Hares decided to avoid any further contact with the Hope Mills Police Department on this fine day. While the pack was out tubing, Whorenado was keenly watching over the Trash Bus and saving the On Home from being moved by convincing the owner of that property that we did have permission to be there. ;-) Honest! Well, we did, only we actually crossed over onto his property because we didn’t really know where the “owner” of the property that we had asked to be there had ended. Lucky for us, this guy liked the looks of Whorenado and allowed us to stay! YEAH for WHORENADO!!!!
13 DEC 2003 Prom from Hell. Trash and Trash by injection/secretion gathered next to the Howard Johnson on Eastern Blvd. It was cold and windy. Pre-trail entertainment was the vomiting antics of SCAB ASS RISING. While on trail, WILLING TO LEARN and ANY OLE HOLE WILL DO (AKA THE LESBIAN KING) started a game of "On the Foot." At prom, Trashers managed to run-off and gang of lesbians and piss off the strippers (WHOOSH got game!!!).
1 April 2004: The 20th Aniversary of The Carolina Trash
22 August, 2004: TRASH FLOATS/DROWNS 2004 The third leg of the annual Trifucta weekend (Triangle, G-spot, and Trash). Pack gathered at Pyrates Sports Bar to brave the aquatic trail hared by STUMP SLAYER and IUD. Famous last words by IUD: "Trail is only 6KM. We should be done in 3 hours." SIx hours later the hardcore of the pack dragged their water-logged asses back to circle. The brave that decided to do the second leg of the trail were rewarded with having to tube over 2 dams. At the first one, AUNT JEMIMA decided he wanted to hang out in the undertow. The second dam had halong slope on the down stream. A perfect opportunity for SPOOGE BOB, BULL-IT, and DICK SNAIL to portray deliverance-Trashy Style. Advice to QUEEN BIACH: when asking parents for permission to do something dangerous, "But SPOOGE is doing it" is never a good reason. At the circle, those that are left unamiously decide that IUD is banned from haring until October.
Future Tortures
