Hash trash

[Michael Northcott]

Budapest Hash Trash 30/April/2023.

(Run No. #1723, or #1722, respectively, depending on who counts)

Hares: Finnish Me Off, Photo Finisher and Likes to Watch

Hashers:

Rabies

Smørrebrøt, returnee

Buttlegger, visitor

Web Fucker, visitor

Fucking Professor 

Ivana Nukok

No-Name James (virgin, friend of Rabies)

No-Name Kristina 

Hare’s instructions: “Good morning Hashers! Sun is shining and it is a beautiful hash day. ☀️ From Szell Kalman Ter take tram 61 or 56A in direction Huvosvolgy. Get off at NAGYHID. The trail will start from there. OnOn!”

We met at Szell Kalman tram station just after Pope Francis finished the end of tour Mass for his second Papal visit to Hungary in as many years. Why he likes Hungary so much provoked some ribald, and some political, speculation, neither vein of which it is possible for this humble scribe to print here. Although established members of Budapest Hash were pre-instructed by the Hare on Zuckerberg’s full spectrum surveillance app otherwise known as Facebook which he somehow dreamt up as a way to keep in touch with his school friends while at university - and which your scribe, Fucking Professor (FP from now on) does not believe for one moment - and since your scribe is not a fan of this particular outpost of US cyberspace FP did not get the message. But after some WA exchanges - courtesy if the myth is true of the same tech monopolist mass-surveillance billionaire - FP made it to SK and hares and hariettes set off on tram 61 which was more closely packed than a can of sardines and were ejected at Nagyhid where the opening check took 6 minutes to crack. 

The trail led up, somehow it always seemed to be up on this particular Sunday, through a cave at one point which added prehistoric interest, to an especially fine rocky viewpoint Kisharshhergy where numerous photos were taken as hashers and hariettes disported themselves around the outcrop mainly dressed in black Lycra with the odd pair of baggy shorts or stretch jeans.

After this fine view in the sun, the trail proceeded through some more quite hard to crack checks in the forest, which kept your lazy ass scribe quite close to the rest of the pack for much of the day, and past the Batori cave alleged to have been a monk’s hermitage at some point in the distant past. After two more bloody hills the Kaan Karol watchtower provided an even more exceptional, and this time 365 degrees, view and Rabbies attempted to share communion in the form of small cups of beer but most were not having it while photos were taken en masse. The next more realistic beer stop was also refused by the party for mostly non-religious reasons so the trail took the party down and up yet another steep climb to the crowded and mountain bike infested spot of Janos-Hegy. Your scribe by this point wanted a break so he found a warm wooden bench in the sun where he proceeded to max out on vitamin d long enough to lose the party going down but from then on the trail flour was more plentiful so even without Rabbies regular high decibel staccato broadcasts - though with the help of a bit more WApping to confirm the party were ahead of him and not up the tower taking yet more selfies - your scribe followed the trail down to the grassy opening in the woods where the Hash circle was already in full swing, Various libations were offered around including a misnamed sweet cherry drink that was mysteriously called ‘ale’ but then as they say much is ‘lost in translation’.

Rabbies did the honours as choral master on this Sunday yet again but though some of the tunes might have been familiar even to a Jesuit Pope, the words would possibly have surprised him though actually I doubt that. Ivana Nukok strutted her stuff as master of ceremonies, James the Virgin was suitably initiated though he will have to come again to obtain a hash name, and the Hares and Hariette were thanked for having set the most mountainous hash your scribe has experienced since a 280 kilometre Hash Treck he undertook around the Annapurnas in Nepal in 1987.

It was another very fine hash, only the second on the Budapest Hash for your scribe but if this standard keeps up he will for sure be out of church and on the trail for the rest of his posting here.

OnOn,

FP

[Michael Northcott]

Weather has turned. Looks like rain from Sunday after 1400. So I propose leaving early, gather 1100 sharp at Szel Kalman square & take 1110 tram 59 to Martin Aron Ter. On on. Your hare FP

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Michael S. Northcott
Professor of Ethics
New College
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh
EH1 2LX

Email: m.nor...@ed.ac.uk m.s.no...@gmail.com