06.5.13 - May the farce be with you

Yesterday’s Wan Chai hash provided two stories that are blogworthy. Here’s number 1.

At the end of each hash there is a university-rugby-club-esque event called The Circle, where the convenors of the run, committee members and people from the ‘floor’ can put people forward for fines. These usually consist of a smallish cup of beer…which is not so bad, unless you happen to get multiple fines.

The Wan Chai hash is one of the more inventive. The usual things come up – screwing up the run, complaining, saying something daft, forgetting some kit, etc. But they also do bizarre researched fines, involving stuff going on in the news, and will find someone with a very tenuous link to it to fine – e.g. a huge fire breaks out in an HK this week; anyone living near-ish to where it happened is fine for ‘being a pyromaniac’.

Sunday was, apparently, Star Wars day. And so, the circle delighted in finding people to put into our very own Star Wars cast to fine.

The picture is probably a giveaway, but after the comedy ones were given out, we still needed a Luke Skywalker. It gives you a detailed view of the demographic of the Wan Chai hash – the number of women runners and the age profile of the chaps – that after an awkward search of those present, they had practically no choice age-wise than to settle on me.

Oh dear.

I have been compared to Mister Bean and to Jack Dee many a time – not very attractive figures. So Luke Skywalker makes a refreshing change.

Yesterday’s Wan Chai hash provided two stories that are blogworthy. Here’s number 1.

At the end of each hash there is a university-rugby-club-esque event called The Circle, where the convenors of the run, committee members and people from the ‘floor’ can put people forward for fines. These usually consist of a smallish cup of beer…which is not so bad, unless you happen to get multiple fines.

The Wan Chai hash is one of the more inventive. The usual things come up – screwing up the run, complaining, saying something daft, forgetting some kit, etc. But they also do bizarre researched fines, involving stuff going on in the news, and will find someone with a very tenuous link to it to fine – e.g. a huge fire breaks out in an HK this week; anyone living near-ish to where it happened is fine for ‘being a pyromaniac’.

Sunday was, apparently, Star Wars day. And so, the circle delighted in finding people to put into our very own Star Wars cast to fine.

The picture is probably a giveaway, but after the comedy ones were given out, we still needed a Luke Skywalker. It gives you a detailed view of the demographic of the Wan Chai hash – the number of women runners and the age profile of the chaps – that after an awkward search of those present, they had practically no choice age-wise than to settle on me.

Oh dear.

I have been compared to Mister Bean and to Jack Dee many a time – not very attractive figures. So Luke Skywalker makes a refreshing change.