Main Page	Run 132, Friday 12th January 2007 Ikebukuro – 7:30 pm

The Hare: Guru Guru The Co-hare: Roman Style The Harriers (in order of appearance): Pee Wee, Rapunzel, Spermless, Love Shag, Chuck Chunder, Niku Doko?, Watch Me Strut My Furry Thing, Narita Cheetah, Seventy Percent, I Have the Clap, Flashing Banker, Calinton, Oshima-san, Bear Ass, Muff Diver, Kakapupu, Crusader, Master Shafter, Khuming Rouge, Jelly Mouth. Trail Report: As Hashers arrived for tonight's run, the Hare invited them to change into their running gear in his massage parlour(note) and leave their bags there during the run, intending - as the weather was dry and not very windy - to provide beer and snacks among the owls of the illuminated Moto-Ikebukuro Shiseki park (just a stone's throw from Snow White's glass roofs).

Certain harriettes, however, worked their wily charms and the Hare was persuaded to allow the hash to drink in comfort. That settled, the Pack set off southwards. The footbridge and tunnels where the street passes under all the tracks just south of the station inspired two CBs before the Pack found their way south between the JR and Seibu tracks. Then another CB! Soon the Pack were tearing south-eastwards through the middle of Zoshigaya 3-chome to the tricky Check 1 just before the tram stop. Then it was north east via another CB and Check 2 on the edge of the cemetery to the south end of Higashi-Ikebukuro station.

Check 3, 200 metres north of there, was even more tricky, especially as the on-on led immediately into a CB! (Somehow this Hash Crime went unpunished.) The true on-on was in the narrowest alley and in the next kilometre the Trail crossed the Arakawa line tracks about ten times. Then it was north to the Yamanote line, where the trackside paths and alleys were full of more CBs. Where the expressway crosses the Yamanote line, the Hare sent the FRBs round a sneaky loop over a footbridge and back, then over the tracks and under the expressway to pass beside the garbage incineration plant.

For the finale, the Hare sent the Pack westwards past the colourful sights of the love hotels to the site of Run 92's beer stop (but this time there was no beer stop). That was almost the end and when the Trail marks became difficult to find within sight of the station, some of the Pack abandoned the Trail and made their own ways to the finish. Under strict instructions to avoid spilling anything, the Pack tucked into the over-abundant snacks while doing their best to catch some of the intermittent supply of beer.

At his tenth F3H3 run, it was finally deemed an appropriate occasion to give Oshima-san a hash name. His answers to the usual questions were providing little inspiration until someone remembered to ask about hobbies. His domestic brewing activities had already yielded at least one candidate name but he then revealed his passion for music and especially for some of the less common instruments. Hence he is now known as Hurdy Gurdy Man.

Down-downs: awarded to Niku Doko? and Flashing Banker for fukinov before the Circle; the Hares for haring; FRB Rapunzel and DFL Bear Ass; Master Shafter and Khuming Rouge for not running and salaryman costumes; Love Shag and Narita Cheetah for nattering all the time on Trail; Pee Wee, Bear Ass and Master Shafter for racism at Disney World; Muff Diver for fukinov half-way through the Circle; the Hare for magicking away the stains from wine and beer spills (thereby allowing the Co-hare and Khuming Rouge to escape down-downs for spilling the beer and wine); Rapunzel for leaving his beer mug at the Hare's place last week; Rapunzel again for leaving his leggings at the Hare's place last week; Hurdy Gurdy Man for his naming; and Love Shag, Chucky and Seventy Percent for announcements.

AfterHash: where Fukinov is an Art...  the Circle was over but several Hashers hung around discussing topics such as music and unusual instruments.

Footnote: The Hare requests clarification that he would rather his massage parlour were not referred to as such. (On Back)

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