Yeah, you read that right, this Thirstday is a themed hash. Dress up as your favorite character from Beverly Hills 90210 (the original series). Bonus points for coming as drunk Donna Martin!

Stuff that happened:
The Great Fire of London in 1666. Theodore Roosevelt’s famous phrase, “Speak softly and carry a big stick” is spoken in 1901.

Birthdays!
Our very own Ice Princess! William Somervile, Liliuokalani of Hawaii, Albert Spalding, Billy Preston, Terry Bradshaw, Mark Harmon, Keanu Reeves, Lennox Lewis, Salma Hayek, and Katt Williams.

Stuff that happened:
Mary Stuart ( is crowned “Queen of Scots” in 1543. The Continental Congress officially names its new union of sovereign states the United States in 1776. Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington in 1791. John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph in 1839. Ca-li-for-ni-a is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state in 1850. Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time in 1956.

Birthdays!
Lucius Domitius Aurelianus, Flavius Honorius, Luigi Galvani, Leo Tolstoy, Mary Hunter Austin, Frankie Frisch, Neil Hamilton, Robert Wood Johnson III, Elvin Jones, Otis Redding, Pamela Des Barres, Joe Theismann, Tom Wopat, Angela Cartwright, Jeffrey Combs, Hugh Grant, Adam Sandler, Rachel Hunter, & Michelle Williams.

We need hares for pretty much every Thirstday from here until the end of the year! Please, if you are interested in laying a trail, Mismanagement can help you find a pub and negotiate beer prices. Contact me at hasherofa1000names@yahoo.com to set up a date.

On²,

Half-Fag

Hey all,

This Thirstday will be a themed hash. Come dressed as a Saint or Sinner for the run. See you then!

Fun Stuff for today:
The first news dispatch by telegraph in 1858. The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote in 1920.

Other Birthdays!:
Johann Heinrich Lambert, Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l’Isle, Antoine Lavoisier, Lee De Forest, James Franck, Irving R. Levine, Don LaFontaine, Chris Burke (Corky!), Shirley Manson, Jamal Lewis, and Macaulay Culkin.

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Fun/Interesting Stuff for today:
American frigate USS Constitution defeats the British frigate HMS Guerriere off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada earning her nickname “Old Ironsides” (1812). The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio in 1954.

Birthdays!
John Dryden, Orville Wright, Coco Chanel, Philo Farnsworth, Malcolm Forbes, Gene Roddenberry, Ginger Baker, Johnny Nash, Ian Gillan, Bill Clinton, Tipper Gore, Jonathan Frakes, Peter Gallagher, John Stamos, Kyra Sedgwick, Kevin Dillon, Lee Ann Womack, Nate Dogg, & Matthew Perry!

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Fun/Interesting Stuff for today:
Cleopatra VII Philopator, the last ruler of the Egyptian Ptolemaic dynasty, commits suicide allegedly by means of an asp bite in 30 B.C. Chicago is founded in 1833. Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine in 1851. Asaph Hall discovers one of Mars’ moons, Deimos, in 1877. Armistice ends the Spanish-American War in 1898. Echo I, the first communications satellite, launched in 1960. The IBM Personal Computer is released in 1981.

Other Birthdays!
Cecil B. DeMille, Erwin Schrödinger, Zerna Sharp, Joe Besser, Cantinflas, Norris & Ross McWhirter, Buck Owens, George Hamilton, Mark Knopfler, Peter Krause, Michael Ian Black, Pete Sampras, Casey Affleck, and Plaxico Burress.


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Hey all,

This Thirstday will be the 3rd annual Toga Hash! If you haven’t run it before, please bring a toga to wear and run in on trail. If you’re lucky/fashionable enough, you might get a prize for best dressed! See you then!

Fun Stuff for today:

The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe’s Island in New York Harbor in 1884. Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip in 1888. The first electric traffic light is installed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1914. The debut of American Bandstand in 1957.

Birthdays!:

Guy de Maupassant, Joseph Merrick, John Marcellus Huston, Neil Armstrong, John Saxon, Herb Brooks, Rick Derringer, Patrick Ewing, Funkmaster Flex, James Gunn, and “Evil” Jared Hasselhoff.


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Fun Stuff:

King Olaf II fights and dies in the Battle of Stiklestad trying to regain his Norwegian throne from the Danes in 1030. The inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in 1836. 1958 – The creation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Marriage of Charles, Prince of Wales to Lady Diana Spencer in 1981.

Birthdays!

Benito Mussolini, Bernard Zondek (Inventor of the Pregnancy Test), Clara Bow (ROWR!), Thelma Todd, Lou Albano, Daniel McFadden, Peter Jennings, David Warner, Neal Doughty, Ken Burns, Tim Gunn, John Sykes, Wil Wheaton, Stephen Dorff, and Afroman!


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Fun Stuff:

Cleveland, Ohio is officially named for Gen. Moses Cleaveland in 1796. First ever motorized racing event is held in France in 1894. 1934 – John Dillinger is shot down by FBI agents outside the Biograph Theatre. Dezik and Tsygan were the first dogs to make a sub-orbital flight in 1951.

Birthdays!

Emma Lazarus, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, Alexander Calder, Bob Dole, Oscar De la Renta, Louise Fletcher (Nurse Ratched!), Tom Robbins, Terrence Stamp, Alex Trebek (Suck it!), George Clinton, Rick Davies, Danny Glover, Albert Brooks, Don Henley, S.E.Hinton, Willem Dafoe, John Leguizamo, David Spade, Shawn Michaels, Tim Brown, Rufus Wainwright, and Franka Potente!


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Birthdays!
Vladimir the Bold, Rembrandt, Dorothy Fields, Margaret Lockwood, Jacques Derrida, Linda Ronstadt, Jesse Ventura, Johnny Thunders, Terry O’Quinn, Ian Curtis, Marky Ramone, Joe Satriani, Forest Whitaker, Brigitte Nielson, Adam Savage, Eddie Griffin, John Dolmayan, Brian Austin Green, and Diane Kruger!

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The Declaration of Independence is read aloud in Philadelphia and the Liberty Bell is rung in 1776. The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published in 1889. Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.

Birthdays!: Ferdinand von Zeppelin in 1838, John D. Rockefeller in 1839, V.P. Nelson A. Rockefeller in 1908, Jeffrey Tambor in 1944, Raffi in 1948, Wolfgang Puck in 1949, Anjelica Huston in 1951, Jack Lambert in 1952, Kevin Bacon in 1958, Andrew Fletcher in 1961, Joan Osborne in 1962, Billy Crudup in 1968, Beck in 1970, and Zhanna Friske in 1974.

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Hey all,

This will be the last week of TH3 Elections (Erections?)! Since we didn’t have ballots out last week, you will get to vote twice this Thirstday!

On²,

Half-Fag

Fun Stuff:

The Battle of Gettysburg started today in 1863. Battle of San Juan Hill in 1898. SOS is adopted as the international distress signal in 1908. Grant Park Music Festival started this day in 1935 (and it’s FREE!). ZIP codes are introduced for US mail in 1963. Sony introduces the Walkman in 1979. Hong Kong became the sovereignty of China once more in 1997.

Happy birthday to Estée Lauder; Sergei Sokolov; Jamie Farr; Sydney Pollack; Debbie Harry; Fred Schneider; Dan Aykroyd; Diana, Princess of Wales; Carl Lewis; Pamela Anderson; Missy Elliot; Clair Forlani; Sufjan Stevens; and Liv Tyler (whew!).


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Fun Stuff:
696th Anniversary of The Battle of Bannockburn! Happy Birthday to Ambrose Bierce, Victor Franz Hess, Jack Dempsey, Jeff Beck, Mick Fleetwood, Tommy “Tiny” Lister, Curt Smith and, Mike Wieringo!

Hey all,

We’ve a Mismanagement meeting this day. It is open to all that wish to discuss the state of the Thirstday Hash. The current agenda is as follows:

• Haberdashery – Tech shirts or other ideas?

• GM Elections

• “Running of the Bulls” Hash

• Pink Dress Hash

On²,

~Half-Fag~


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Hey all,

Apparently, April 22nd is the anniversary of my mother causing all of you great pains and massive annoyance by bringing yours truly into this world.

I happily share my birthday with some pretty weird and interesting folks: Immanuel Kant, Vladimir Lenin, Robert Oppenheimer, Charles Mingus, Bettie Page, Jack Nicholson, Jason Miller, John Waters, Peter (F*cking) Frampton, Marylin Chambers, Ryan Stiles and Jeffrey Morgan. AND it’s the 40th anniversary of Earth Day! Woo Hoo!

SO… Come and join me in remembering this day by running my über shitty trail!

On²,

Half-Fag

$2 Miller Lite Drafts (Pints)
$3.50 Magic Hat #9 Drafts
$4 Blue Moon Drafts
$5 Glasses of House Wine, Margaritas, and Martinis.

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Hey all,

We’ve a Mismanagement meeting this day. It is open to all that wish to discuss the state of the Thirstday Hash. Mt. Schwiinga will be emailing an agenda soon. I might even post it to the site (wouldn’t that be special?).

On²,

~Half-Fag~

UPDATE

AGENDA (read on):

• Cowbell Wrap-Up – what went well, what didn’t..attendance / finance recap.

• Hash Cash – how much we have, how much we need for the future. (Those with haberdashery on hand, please bring approximate inventory of our current merchandise)

• Haberdashery – should be okay for now. Brainstorm ideas for summer.

• GM Elections – nomination process, timing, voting, etc.

• Summer Calendar / Hare Line
April – ???
May – ???
June – ???
July: “Running of the bulls” / July 8th? Something special for it? / Pre-POP
August – Toga Hash ?

• General – roles, attendance..website.. everything okay?

• Other / New Business

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Hey all,

Chip ‘n’ Dale’s buddy from a local television program will be filming the hash this day. We will be leaving PROMPTLY at 7:30 to accommodate them and their need for adequate lighting. Be there or be square.

UPDATE:

To those that may not have been able to make it to the Spring Fever hash a few weeks ago, we’ll have the T-Shirts for those that ordered one (meaning: “Come get your stuff, slackers.”)

See y’all tonight!

On²,

~Half-Fag~


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Hey all,

The Spring Fever Hash shall be running out of Will’s Northwoods Inn (same place as last year). The 10 bucks in Hash Cash will cover a keg, food, new hash song books (By the beloved Snatchsquatch) and giveaways! There will also be new shirts (image at right) at an additional $10 ($11 by Paypal) and will only be available to those that register by March 18th (regos are available at the hash, or you can fill out the form below to pay by paypal). Register early to get in on this deal!

On²,

Half-Fag

GOODIES UPDATE
The first wave of goodies for Spring Fever 2010 have arrived! What are they? Well I’m not going to spoil the surprise for all of you, but they came in this box (that’s what she said!)

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$1.50 PBR all night!!! Come on out and get shiggy on Chicago’s West Side!


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Hey all,

There’s been a last-minute change of plans. Both Schwiinga and Just Bill aren’t able to get out of work early enough to lay trail. So, I’ll be laying their trail for them. The meet-up and On-In is still the same location. Don’t forget to bring a Viking helmet!

~Half-Fag~


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Hey all,

The hares have suggested that whistles and flashlights be brought to this hash. Conveniently, TH3 purchased LED flashlights last week and are for sale at $6! They’re brushed aluminum with the TH3 logo on it and BRIGHT AS HELL! If you get one of these babies, you’re practically shining daylight at wherever you point.

See you all there,

~Half-Fag~


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Hey all,

This upcoming hash will be an auction to help raise money for Haiti relief efforts. If you have any hash gear that you would like to donate (t-shirts, mugs, lanyards, etc…) bring them to the hash and we’ll put them up for bidding. There will be additional haberdashery and gear, provided by TH3, to bid on as well.

On²

~Half-Fag~


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Hey all,

TH3 will be having our first Mismanagement meeting of the year. All are welcome to participate.

At current, the agenda will be discussing means of revenue for the hash as well as the results of our Haiti relief fundraiser.

If you have any other items/ideas to discuss, feel free to show up and share them.

On²

~Half-Fag~


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We have extended the time to order a TH3 hooded sweatshirt to Sunday. If you are interested in purchasing a hoodie, contact Mt. Schwiinga at ingaevenchik@gmail.com before Sunday evening. The price is $20 for a plain sweatshirt or for $25 with customized lettering (up to 8 characters).

With your order, please list your Hash Name, Nerd Name, shirt size and, if you’re customizing it, the lettering that you wish to have (again, 8 characters max).

Hare: Half-Fag
Why?: Last Trail of the year is mine suckas!!! (well… that… and… no one else volunteered)
Hash Cash: $8

Well, New Years Eve is upon us. So, in order not to conflict with our prospective evening bashes, Thirstday has moved up the On-Out time to accommodate. Come on out and get some exercise (?) and pre-lubed before all of the night’s festivities.

~Half-Fag~


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A hare is selected from a lottery/drawing of straws. One can opt out of being a hare, if they wish. The selected hare is then given a 5 minute head start to lay trail. All marks that are laid must follow the standard Chicago Area marks. After the 5 minutes are up, the hounds follow trail and attempt to “Snare the Hare”. If the hare is caught, the hound that caught them is now the Hare. That new hare is given a 5 minute head start to continue trail and the hounds follow thereafter. The process (depending on weather) continues for about 30-60 minutes. At that point, the last hare should be heading back to, or already at, the start (no ball-busters please). Obviously, because there’s no designated hare, there is no beer stop.

*Note to Hares*: If you find yourself crossing marks that have already been laid, be sure to cross them out before continuing on with your portion of the trail.

Circle to be held once all hounds have returned to the start. If there is no RA, one can volunteer or be nominated. Else, try having a circle where the one leads off by accusing a person/group. The one accusing must sing them a song. The accused then now has the option of accusing another or passing the honor onto someone else that has an accusation.

Have fun and Happy Holidays!

~Half-Fag~

Hares: Mt. Schwiinga & Just Brian
Why?: Thirstday’s Pre-Anthrax Scare Trail – Bring some penicillin!
Hash Cash: $8

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Hares: Snatchsquatch & Beer Spill Valdez
Why?: Because Snatchsquatch needs to show Beer Spill Valdez how to lay a proper trail.
Hash Cash: $8

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Hares: Glory hOle and The Dark Kunt
Why?: TDK’s virgin lay!!!
Hash Cash: $8


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Hares: Happy Ass Grabber
Bar: Rick’s Bar @ 939 S. Western Ave.
Why?: Because Turbo Dog needs the exercise…
Hash Cash: $8


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