Trawling through the On Paper archives
The alleged first edition of “On Paper – The Organ of the hash in London” was published by Hedgehog in November 1991 (If someone has an older edition, come forward). You can read it for yourself on the LH3 website, along with most editions produced since then. I thought I would trawl through the archives to see if anything scurrilous could be found that might embarrass today’s hashers and harriets.
Whether I find anything scurrilous or not time, and you dear reader, will tell. From time to time a snippet will be added to this blog to save the lazier of you from looking through back copies yourself. At least long-in-the-tooth hashers will take some pleasure in seeing their names in lights once again.
First edition - November 1991
Black and White, typed on an appalling typewriter by Hedgehog, on Paper never the less indicates that the hash has not changed that much over 22 years.
The Committee at the time was reported as follows:
I know many of these are still regulars with LH3 and “Kaffir” - now politically corrected K4 – is still Hare Raiser.
A witty write up of a late Autumn run from Tattenham Corner had fillies, geldings and a few old nags going over the sticks. But times have changed; Prince (the scribe) was an FRB then.
More amusing commendably brief (future scribes please note) run-write-ups followed, together with a cross word from Nookie Bear. It is beyond my capabilities and probably consists of the names of a lot of hashers you have never heard of, so I have not reproduced it here. Fortunately Master Baker has stepped into her shoes as hash Quiz Master.
The appended Mismanagement minutes showed that the timing of Saturday’s on out has been a perennial sore, following a move to 4pm for the Saturday run. The minutes also state “It was agreed that the AGM should have a serious side instead of the usual chaos”, though no suggestions were made about what should be done about it. Plus ca change....
Humour was as smutty then as now but less sensitive to social vagaries than today (ie:woke). Here are some jokes for you:
Q: How do you know an Essex Harriet has had an orgasm?
A: She drops her bag of chips.
Q: Why does an Essex Harriet wear knickers?
A: To keep her ankles warm
I don’t know what Hedgehog had against Essex Girls. Here is one that brings some balance to the discussion.
Q: What does an Essex Girl do with her arsehole after sex?
A: She takes him down the pub.
On On,
Mouthwash
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Another oldie , What does an Essex girl use for protection during sex. .... A bus shelter . ... Sorry Essex girlies !
Blimey! I’ve come full circle!
Hi - Hedgehog here. I deny any use of a typewriter - I've never owned one. However I plead guilty to using terrible Microsoft typefaces and using the company photocopier at weekends. Before On Paper in 1991 there were of course Hash Trash newsletters produced on a smaller scale, and Menstrual of West London H3 went overboard with full colour editions of their Trash. Clearly his employer had fancier photocopiers than mine!
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Hedgehog
My thanks to the three people who viewed this posting, suggesting that the hash is not completely dead, but that the idea of this blog might be🤣🤣. One rule of blogging is keep it coming. (Must try harder, Ed)
Oi, us Essex girls don’t really drop our chips!!!! 😉