Kolkata Revolutionary Hash House Harriers

The Quebec Day Hash

Fete Nationale de Quebec - St Jean

We were 20 hashers assembled in front of Nicco Park with the Hash Flag. Late Cummer, I was late as usual waiting for French volunteer Anne Sophie, physiotherapist working in Uluberia - a town near Calcutta, who’d arrived at Howrah station only an hour before to spend a weekend with the hashers. Fiddler drove us from New Alipore to Nicco Park in his red Ford with AC and Hindi music much appreciated by our visitor. This was what we introduced her to.

Hares: Hungry Kya Alain, Stalker Ashish, La La Christyne
GM: Molester
RA: Pants Down and Bean Town
Drey: Sarah, Hissin’ Sid, Late Cummer
Hash Handled: Quack Quack Soma
Virgins: Minnesota, Yvonnik, Anne Sophie,
Returnee: Rajnish
Also rans: Fiddler, Sexy Legs Chiru, Avinash, Topsurd Chintu, Lickin Lucky
Latecomers at the Party: Sex Guru Saw, Pinky, Joy, Deb
Décor: Blue Balls, white streamers, Quebec standards
Beer: 70 large bottles of Kingfisher, Foster…
Shots: Prune liquor from Rumania
Music: Quebecois

We finally got the rabble together in Christyne’s driveway and set off on a trail in the by lanes, parks and alleys of Salt Lake. As we walked with our red hash flag the locals must have been wondering what foreign party we were campaigning for post-elections especially as the hashers were collecting the Communist Party plastic posters tied to lamp posts. Pammi and Chintu were seen playing cricket in the park. Chintu also went down a slide in a children’s park with great difficulty I might add. No one got stuck in the turnstiles. And more importantly, Pammi did not get lost!

We circled back in Christyne’s driveway just as a light drizzle started falling. On the steps, and then stood up against the wall like the offenders we were, we were given down downs by the acting RAs and GMs.

The Hares got down downs. Stalker had kept La La and Alain waiting so long they first set off in the car to lay the trail! Since that didn’t work they doubled back for a quick beer and set off on foot again. Still, hats off to them for not getting us lost on the trail or we’d still be wandering around as of course none of us knew the Quebecker’s home address!

Molester spoke feelingly about Quebec and other kingdoms ruled by superior governments. Stalker was made to sit in the ice bucket with the beers. Chiru brought an American girl, the 435th girl he’s convinced to come on a Hash and we drank to Minnesota. The new shoes were given down downs and Yvonnik had to serenade Anne Sophie on bended knee; since he couldn’t give us a French song, Molester sang Ou est le papier to the tune of the Marseillaise. La La and Alain wanted me to hand out the Quebec anthem, and Stalker had also made printouts of the new hash song Masturbator to the tune of Magarena as well as the Interhash and Nash Hash regos. This got me another down down for disrupting the circle. Soma from The Park had to be given a hash handle and Molester chose Quack Quack over Glam chick, so we drank to that. I got downs downs with other mobile offenders for using the mobile phone in the circle, misguiding Sex Guru Saw who still made it to the circle and hash bash afterwards. At this point I think I must have given up helping the drey as I seemed to be doing down downs with the best of em. As Sex Guru had finally reached with Deb and so had Pinky with Joy, the Late comers got down downs. Then we had the Hash song and La La and Quack Quack danced the Magarena while Sex Guru Saw, Stalker, Molester, and all sang to the lyrics I’d handed out. Hysterical.

The party took off after that and there was much revelry. La La had made pasta salads, crudités and dips, and Molester’s and my favourite –rice puff with marshmallows (to die for) and cupcakes. We listened to French music and a radio broadcast from Quebec interviewing Alain on how he planned to spend the Fete Nationale de Quebec called St Jean. They really had no idea how the hashers would celebrate! There was dancing, slap and tickle and a bonfire. The constant drizzle did nothing to dampen spirits.

posted by Calcutta Hash Walks @ 5:44 pm