Roman Numerals

An early record had been set. It only took five minutes for the Hannan's Hash House Harriers to clear out an entire venue! A record that has yet to equalled or beaten (maybe they are getting use to us.....).

The conversation turned to generating a logo/handle for the Hannan's kennel. Lisa proclaimed, as Lisa often does, that he already has an idea for a handle. Boner, being in his usual contemptuously scathing frame of mind, challenged Lisa, stating that it better not be something gay like H4 (those gay-fuck Hammersly cunts being foremost in Boner's thinking).

"No cunty" was the reply from Lisa in equally scathing tones. Boner shot back again, showing no respect for one of the Founding Fathers. "What is it then? Roman numerals I suppose, like HVI". Boner was onto something and Lisa was clearly rattled by the contest.

But Boner being a mathmatically and historically-challenged witch doctor had fucked up the Roman numerals.

It was the the quick response from Digga, who had been observing SAS-style from the side-lines, that corrected the situation and struck resonantly with the newly formed Hash club.....

"It's HIV, you dickheads" was the call from Digga.

HIV....fuck. That's awesome!!!

It was one of those blindly obvious deductions that left you wondering why no one had latched onto it before! Oh sure, there are a few Hash kennels spread thinly throughout hashdom that occassionally refer to themselves as HIV. But one gets the sense that they don't quite get into it.

Hannan's Hash House Harriers absolutley relishes the HIV handle. So much so that we usually refer to ourselves as HIV or the HIV Hash, and very rarely use our full name. In fact, using HIV as our common name has meant that we can reserve the full Hannan's Hash House Harriers for more austere and reverential occasions.

Some of the participants in the first r^n mused that the tag of HIV legitimsed the disease of the same name should they ever find themselves with a raging dose.

And so it was that Roman numerals entered into the lexicon of Hash in North Boulder - Boulder. It was only a small trip in the great stumble of logic that lead to Roman numerals being adopted for the r^n numbering system at HIV. A further extension of creativituy that distinguishes HIV from the rest of the kennels.

A recent development coined during the reign of Lisa as GM was the call of "XXX seconds" instead of "30 seconds" when rousing the pack to get their arses moving from a piss-stop.

Time will tell just how far Roman numerals can be employed at HIV. But we sure-as-shit like it so far.....