World Hash Events: January 2019

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Hello hashers,

Sorry to start on a somber note, but with all the close friendships we make in the Hash, sometimes there are sad times. We lose hashers every year to natural causes, and hopefully they lived life to the fullest to their last days. Unfortunately, four hashers (Short Ass, Sweet Residue, Piston Shaft, and Toffali) from the Kampala Hash, left us too early as they were among the 30 people who drowned on Lake Victoria, off the coast of Uganda last Saturday evening when their boat capsized. May they RIP, and share many a true trail with G and the gang in the afterlife. A-men.

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On to lighter news, a quick update on Interhash 2020 in Trinidad & Tobago. Registrations have reached nearly 1800 paid hashers so far, with plenty of room for more. But take note, the price is currently $200US, and will increase to $225US on 1 January 2019.

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InterScandi 2019 has a new website URL, and there is still time to sign up . . . https://wagh3.webnode.se/interscandi-2019/

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You probably already know about the "virtual" International Hash T-Shirt Museum located on the internet at http://gotothehash.net/hashshirts.html . . . but you may not have heard of the somewhat new actual Hash T-Shirt Museum currently located in The Netherlands, for details see https://sites.google.com/view/hhhmuseum/homepage

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This months In the Spotlight comes from a recommendation from my good friend Moose Diver, a typical drunk Irish hasher, who splits his time between the Schaffhausen H3 in Switzerland and the Munich H3 in Germany.


In the Spotlight - Hash Genealogy

Much like your own family, each hash club has its own genealogy. The HHH Genealogy project was founded by William "Tumblin Bill" Panton back in the early 1990s. His goal was to capture the lineage of the hash, and how it has spread out since 1938. As you would expect, every hash club can be traced back to the "Hash House Harriers" (a.k.a. Kuala Lumpur H3, or Mother Hash). Now the question posed to me was which hash club has the most ancestors. But first, let's take a look at which clubs have the most "direct" progeny. Also as you might suspect, Mother Hash has the most direct progeny with 38 clubs that were founded by hashers who left KL and went off in their lives and started hash clubs in new locations. Mother Hash is closely followed by the Singapore H3 with 31 clubs, Okinawa H3 with 28, Jakarta H3 with 27, and the Hong Kong H3 with 23.

Getting back to the original question, after a bit of research I discovered 5 hash clubs that had 10 ancestor clubs, of which 4 are located in the USA (Dallas Fort Worth Family H3, Los Alamos Atomic H3, Nuclear Meltdown Full Moon H3, and the Old Frederick and Rural Territory H3). But the most diverse lineage of all was the Hindu Kush H3 in Afghanistan, which traces its roots through the Every Day is Wednesday H3 in Washington DC, the White House H3 also in DC, the Vindobona H3 in Austria, the Carthage H3 in Tunisia, the Islamabad H3 in Pakistan, the Shanghai H3 in China, the Beijing H3 also in China, the Hong Kong H3, Father Hash in Singapore, and finally to Mother Hash back in Kuala Lumpur.

Now to further expand the genealogy question, which has the most combined ancestors and progeny? Mother Hash leads off with the 38 progeny, Singapore H3 with 1 ancestor and 31 progeny, Okinawa H3 with 3/28, Jakarta H3 with 1/27, Hong Kong H3 with 2/23, the Bangkok Men's H3 with 2/20. Next is the Houston H3 with 3/18, followed by Bicester H3 with 5/15 and San Diego H3 with 4/16, Cheltenham & Cotswold H3 with 6/10, Vindobona H3 with 7/6, and the Whitehouse H4 with 8/4. If you would like to look up your hash club to discover its genealogy, see the listings at http://www.thehashhouse.org.my/genealogy/genpresentations.html

To read more short articles on the history of the Hash House Harriers, see http://gotothehash.net/history/inthespotlight.html

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A scan of the hash events calendar already lists 45 multi-day events already scheduled for 2019.

Upcoming hash events for the month of January 2019 are listed below. See the website for more details: http://gotothehash.net/e/hashevents19-01.html

Jan 4-7
35th Anniversary
Hosted by the Pattaya H3 in Pattaya, Thailand.

Jan 11-13
Hangover Skash
Hosted by the Hangover H3 in Snowshoe, WV, USA.

Jan 11-13
Indian Nash Hash
Hosted by the Madras H3 in Karala, India.

Jan 18-20
AGPU
Hosted by the Yorkshire H3 in North Yorkshire, UK.

Jan 18-20
13th Anal Crazy Hat Pub Crawl weekend
Hosted by the Gainesville Area Thirsty Runners H3 in Gainesville, FL, USA.

Jan 25-27
Ski & Snowshoe Hash Weekend
Hosted by the Old Man H3 in Franconia, NH, USA.

Jan 27 - Feb 3
Pirate Invasion Hash Cruise
Hosted by the Jolly Roger H3 sailing from San Juan, Puerto Rico.


See the whole two year calendar of events at http://gotothehash.net/hashevents.html

If you know of an upcoming event not posted to the calendar, please send me the info.

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Hashing is fun! See you on trail some day . . . :O)

On-On,
Hazukashii
Keeper of the old rusty pail, and Chief of the Royal Order of the Smelly Shoe!
http://GoToTheHash.net
Celebrating 20 years of bringing you worldwide hash house harriers information (1998-2018)

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