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Kiss That Rego Goodbye!

Have you heard the latest news from Stray Dog’s World Hashspace InterHash Facebook Hash-L “G”-for-Gispert Global Central™?

“Due to the childish nature of the current people in the Heidelberg hash towards Global Interhash, we plan on cancelling the event for this year in Europe and holding it the first weekend in August in Birmingham, Alabama. [...]

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The Event that Isn’t … or Is It?

Here’s a screen capture from the Half-Mind Events Calendar:

Normally I include links in calendar entries so that readers can go straight to the event’s own website if they’re interested and want to know more. In this case, however, the event’s own website turned out to be no good, so I linked to the [...]

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Poachers in Red Dresses

Long title: defending Red Dress Runs from non-hashing poachers … and why it’s important.

Friend of the blog Hops recently posted this on Facebook:

Sadly, many hashers reacted like this:

Don’t get me wrong. I understand the reaction (even though it’s assholish). There are no rules, the minute we start getting organized we [...]

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(Updated) Guest Post: Acceptable Hash Behavior?

The following post was submitted to me by a hasher who attended the recent InterAmericas Hash in Savannah, Georgia. All I know is I wasn’t there, so it couldn’t have been me!

So my girlfriend and I just returned from the InterAmericas in Savannah. We have over 35 years Hashing experience between us: we’ve [...]

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Is Stray Dog “Poison for the Hash”?

Update (9/11/11): Was just informed that Stray Dog did attend an InterAmericas Hash, the one in Orlando in 1995. I updated the entry to reflect that, and apologize for getting that detail wrong.

Last month, after Stray Dog declared that Interhash 2012 had been taken away from Indonesia and given to Kenya, a Dutch hasher [...]

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Banishment (Oh, the Humanity)

Fair warning: this post contains dirty hash laundry. Sensitive hashers should avert their eyes, plug their ears, and sing “la-la-la” until they get to the next post down.

A local hasher emailed me, asking me to weigh in as a elder and condemn a guy for getting physically violent at a recent weekend hash. I’m [...]

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Kids at the Hash

The issue of kids at the hash has been debated for a long time, as witness this letter from the February 1996 Ask Dr. Down-Down column:

Dear Dr. Down-Down, Wanna hear my impersonation of the Hash List? Here goes: kids shouldn’t be allowed at the hash, I agree, I disagree, fuck off ya buncha whiners, [...]

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(Not Really A) New Year’s Resolution

Quit going to booze-centric hashes and hash events.

And that’s it. Pretty simple, yes? The beauty of it is that as a non-drinking hasher, it’s a resolution I can keep . . . in fact, it’s pretty much what I’m already doing, only I’ll be doing it more so.

A lot of people say you [...]

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