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| | UU World Mar/Apr 2002: An Unexpected Connection, by Dan Kennedy |
 | | If you'd ever heard of Nasiff, it was, no doubt, by his stage moniker: "Hank the Angry, Drunken Dwarf." Nasiff was one of the regulars who make their way through the New York studios of The Howard Stern Show. |
 | | Known collectively as the "Wack Pack," they go by such charming appellations as "Gary the Retard," "Crackhead Bob," and "Beetlejuice," a dwarf who, as a comedic bonus, is also mentally deficient. |
 | | Nasiff's genetic condition was achondroplasia, a bone disorder that is the most common type of dwarfism, affecting by a very rough estimate 25,000 to 50,000 Americans. |
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