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Ever since the beginning........
HIV has had a love affair with the golden drink, but how did that come about?
Well, it's quite simple really.
All of the Founding Fathers were partial to a sip of the Scottish nectar, so as another means of distinguishing HIV from the pack, they dictated
that a bottle of single malt scotch was to be available at every HIV r^n.
Basically, they liked scotch, they liked Hash, and they were convinced
that the two could only be better if brought together on a Monday night. How right they were.
Over the years we have destroyed many a dram, and probably shown more disrespect
to the fine bottles than we care to remember (not that we really can). So fittingly, a HIV down-down ditty was composed to
salute the scotch.....
Here’s
to the single malt,
That
golden drink.
At HIV
it’s the best we think!
How many
times has it made us suffer?
But though
the pain it makes us tougher!! .....written by Muka Puki.
Leading on from the decision to include Scotland's finest as part of the HIV
style, Lisa went web-surfing to see what he could discover about Hashing and scotch. Lo' and behold,
during one screen-sucking session, he discovered the website of SMASH3, the Single Malts Around Scotland Hash House Harriers.
Liking what he saw, Lisa shamelessly stole the "rules"
of SMASH3; lock, stock and two smoking barrels.
In a fateful meeting of livers, Lisa bumped into
Sickboy from SMASH3 at some Interhash event and a life-long bond was formed between SMASH3
and her colonial love-child, HIV!! This is a bond cemented in the fiery maelstom of a severe and un-relenting scotch-induced
hangover.
How a bunch of penny-pinching highland savages developed what we at HIV consider
the world's finest drink is just beyond us. But thank G they did!!
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