"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." —Mark Twain
Running . . . for adults
Dear hashers, I wrote this back in the heyday of the X-Files. I hope hashers today still watch the reruns, otherwise this won’t make a lot of sense, nor will the interesting bit of ancient internet history at the end. Episode # 69: Trail to Nowhere Scully: Mulder? Mulder? Mulder: Here, Scully, down here! I’m […]
Unintentional humor results when an online content farm runs a stolen article on hashing through Google translate in order to avoid a copyright suit: Hash House Harriers is full name of HASH. The short titles are Hash, HHH and 3H. It is a kind of relaxation world sport. In the year of 1938; the Malaysia Kuala Lumpur […]
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 […]