Hashing folklore abounds. The KGB once detained some runners in the middle of a hash near Gorky Street because they were following what it thought was a subversive and counter-revolutionary trail of white powder. They subsequently warned all embassies in Moscow that ?group jogging could lead to accidents with serious injury to people? (true enough - an accidental KGB truncheon whack across the shins could seriously injure you). In Boston’s glitzy neighbourhood of Beacon Hill white powder was once noticed at the bases of lamp-posts. They contacted the police and reported that someone was poisoning their pets. On the boat to Tasmania from Melbourne for Interhash 2000 a harriette (that’s the name for lady hashers) from Ohio had a lot of difficulty keeping her clothes on and she wandered up and down the ship dressed in white socks and holding a cooler of beer. ?Of course I’m not naked. I’m wearing socks, ain’t I??, she kept saying. She had a good point – two in fact, if my memory serves me right. Right here in Grenada I once set a trail for a hash on the Saturday morning in the usual way. It skirted the sea. The tide was out. When the pack set off, at 1600 hours in the afternoon, the tide was back in. Have you ever seen pictures of drowning rats? Oh how I laughed. I am still receiving the death threats, the obscene telephone calls, the hate mail.
A feature of the Grenada Hash is a yearly cabaret before Christmas known as Hash Bash. It is somewhat risqué and is not for the fainthearted but it is curiously popular and it is invariably sold out. It lampoons everything and everyone and it blends together seamlessly everything that a fine theatrical production should have - with the possible exception of actual talent. But for fifty bucks (EC) including dinner what did you expect? Shakespeare? (Actually we did a Caribbean Shakespeare once. “To Is Or Not To Is. Dat de Question”. We were not asked again).
For more information call 440 3669 (Evan) or 440 2615 (Ken) or 440 8844 (John) or 444 4425 (Arthur) or 440 3243 (Paul).
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