"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." —Mark Twain
Long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away . . . Luke: You were in a hash kennel? Ben: I was once a Hash House Harrier, the same as your father. Luke: My father wasn’t a Hash House Harrier. He was a navigator on a space freighter. Ben: That’s what your mother told you. She didn’t hold with […]
Well, isn’t this interesting? NBC Nightly News screen grab from 6/2/14 We were watching the news last night when Pick’n’Flick said, “Hey, look at that!” I only caught a glimpse of it before it was gone, but happily the video segment was already up on NBC’s website and I was able to get this screen […]
Apologies & credit to Chris Onstad, creator of the Achewood web comics.
Apologies & credit to Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip.
I’ve been thinking about our upcoming presidential election, and not coincidentally about presidents and hashing. A few years ago the buzz in hashing circles was that Bill Clinton once ran a hash. That turned out to be an exaggeration: when Clinton was governor of Arkansas he once jogged near a week-old Little Rock HHH trail […]
Dear Doctor Down-Down, Remember that pornographic bestiality letter A____ D____ posted to Hash-L a few months ago? The one about the husband who came home and saw his wife getting it on with the dog? Well, I was surprised to notice I had this huge chubby after reading that letter, and ever since then I’ve […]
Dear Dr. Down-Down, I was thinking about hash elections for some reason. Every one I’ve seen goes something like this: the GM desperately goes around the hash asking everyone to do something, and asking all his committee members to do the same. Eventually they manage to find hashers for the various jobs. These people are […]
Dear Dr. Down-Down, The uproar about going into the new millennium amazes me. There is nothing mysterious about passing a certain point on the Julian or Gregorian calendar, a point which may be arbitrary at best. In the time the West accepts as 46 B.C., Julius Caesar of Rome reworked the existing lunar calendar of […]