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  Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Medical experts suggest that what led to Nassif's death was a combination of cirrhosis of the liver and internal organ compression due to his stunted height.
As of 2006, all recordings which Nasiff made on the Howard Stern show are legal property of Infinity Broadcasting and in legal limbo indefinitely.
The only recordings of Nasiff Howard has left for remembrance are drunken karaoke bits from his appearances.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hank_The_Angry_Drunken_Dwarf   (535 words)

  
 Auntie Dynamite: Volume 10: What's the Handsomest Dwarf on the Internet?
Hank can usually be located in his favorite position, which is stinking drunk and incoherently pissed off in Boston.
People has fixed their CGI so that it either properly merges in "hank the angry drunken dwarf" with "Hank the Angry, Drunken Dwarf", or done so manually and slapped a postage stamp over it.
Hank was getting about a thousand votes per five minutes, Leo was getting about 4, and Flasher #6, wherever she is, was getting about a hundred.
www.hypercube.org /auntie/archives/volume_10_whats_the_handsomest_dwarf_on_the_internet   (804 words)

  
 Salon.com Technology | Death of a dwarf
One minute Hank was throwing up on the sidewalks of Fall River, Mass., where he lived with his mother; the next, he was voted the most beautiful person in the world.
The drunken Hank was a different animal altogether -- as I found out a week later when it was time to corral him for his official appearance in the winner's circle, an online chat.
The panties all had fraying elastic and had long since forgone any claim to color, so traumatized had they been by their experiences with the spin cycle; and the underwire was poking through so many of the bras that a doctor would have advised me to get a tetanus shot before I put one on.
archive.salon.com /tech/feature/2001/09/10/angry_dwarf/print.html   (1447 words)

  
 The Official Hank the Angry, Drunken Dwarf Fan Club!!!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Hank has an inner beauty that far exceeds any of the good looks of the "celebrities" on the list.
Hank is not too proud to admit that he fell down the stairs in a drunken stupor or vomited on himself.
Hank is always in touch with his emotions and is not afraid to express them to the world.
home.earthlink.net /~risenhour/fan.html   (166 words)

  
 Computer This, Computer That   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Hank is an artifact of the Howard Stern show.
Hank is very angry and, well, drunken, and he raves and vomits and generally behaves in a way that is not beautiful.
Sure enough, Hank will not be a most beautiful person in People's issue on the subject, although the magazine may very well do a story about zany Howard and his pranks, thinking once again that the celebrity must be the story.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/05/06/DD63910.DTL&type=printable   (664 words)

  
 Digital Kapital #6 - Of Hank and the Net's Quest For Relevance
Well, Hank is a wretched figure of a man who appears on the Howard Stern Show drunk and raving, in various costumes ranging, judging by the pictures I've seen, from a Viking outfit to some sort of pumpkin suit.
People didn't vote for a Hank in droves before this because they were too lazy, and the rewards of such nonsense too small to justify the effort.
The elevation of Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf to the Olympus of People-approved beauty is not a demonstration of the power of the people, only of the Net's facility for communicating the people's will.
www.ratcliffe.com /DK-6.htm   (3757 words)

  
 Hank the Angry, Drunken Dwarf   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Hank's vigil at New York's K-Rock studios began at about 5:30 a.m., and the Stern crew quickly took notice.
Hank appeared more than two dozen times on the Stern show, most notably outfitted in a pink bunny suit and always sounding off in his inimitable way.
Hank hit his pop-culture high point in 1998, when, thanks to a grassroots campaign by Stern faithful, he was named the Most Beautiful Person in the World per a 1998 People online poll.
members.aol.com /deathpool/obits01/hankdwar.html   (301 words)

  
 Take Part In A People Poll!
Hank had made it into 4th place as of Monday night with the help of this web site, the HS newsgroup and other various Stern pages and Stern fans like yourself.
As of 11:40AM eastern time on Tueday, Hank the Angry, Drunken Dwarf had taken the lead from the people-pole's front-runner, Leonardo DiCaprio, courtesy of Howard's mention of the poll on the show.
When questioned about this by my source, the webmaster admitted that they were aware of Hank on the Stern show and if he had the votes, then he would win the poll and be featured on the page and that the page would return, unedited.
www.koam.com /people-poll.html   (650 words)

  
 Briefcase: The poll and the beautiful according to Stern   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Hank -- a Boston resident who really is an alcoholic dwarf with an attitude problem -- is a regular on Stern's syndicated radio show.
Hank began rising in the rankings, and then, on Tuesday morning, Stern mentioned the campaign on the air.
Hank has been in first place ever since, as people e-mailed their friends worldwide to go vote.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/business/98/04/30/briefcase-dwarf_2-0.html   (189 words)

  
 Is the World Ready for Hank, The Angry, Drunken Dwarf? - Jun 12, 1999 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Jun 12, 1999, 12:00 PM PT On the eve of the new millennium, Hank, the Angry, Drunken Dwarf just may be the world's quintessential celebrity--an example of the fame game run amok and of its utterly strict requirements.
Hank's shtick--and they say it's no shtick--is that he's, um, not afraid to express himself (sometimes while outfitted in a pink bunny suit).
The road to multimedia fame started on August 16, 1996, when Hank and a friend from Boston dinner theater (yes, Hank was in dinner theater) drove to New York City and decided to try to get on the Stern show.
www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,4901,00.html   (681 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IS SHORT-SIGHTED If I saw a dwarf walking down the street, I would follow the code of political correctness: avert his or her gaze and pretend not to notice.
Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf would always show up loaded, with a bottle of booze and a chip on his shoulder about something.
If he wasn't angry when he walked into the studio, he would soon be set off by callers or other members of Stern's "wack pack," who enjoyed goading him about his 4'1" frame.
www.coreylevitan.com /features/hank.txt   (420 words)

  
 Hank-Mania Takes The NY Times!
Less immediately explicable is the ascendancy of Hank, the Angry Drunken Dwarf, in the magazine's online reader poll on the same subject, conducted via its World Wide Web site at www.pathfinder.com.
Hank voters say they are trying to make a larger symbolic point by touting a candidate who has become the antithesis of celebrity culture by being featured on Stern's show in a drunken stupor, vomiting on himself and falling down stairs.
One of the many postmodern aspects of the Hank phenomenon is that although the Internet is owned by nobody, the site on which all the supposed subversion is taking place is most definitely the property of Time Warner.
www.koam.com /ny-times-hank.html   (626 words)

  
 tonypierce.com + don't tread on me ... or my friends + businessweak
But nothing was as funny as when Hank, the famous angry, drunken dwarf would belligerently spew insults at the faceless callers of the nationally syndicated Howard Stern radio program.
At 4'1", thick glasses and permanent bedhead, Hank was the total package when it came to pure comedy, but add that mouth and you've got real genius.
From within Hank's mouth, home of yellowed, chipped teeth, belched some of the foulest insults ever slurred.
www.tonypierce.com /fall/hankweak.htm   (233 words)

  
 Hank, the Angry, Drunken Dwarf err.... Corpse
Hank is one of the many personalities on the Howard Stern show.
A campaign on the Internet to make Hank People Magazine's 'Most Beautiful Person In The World' was one of the first major demonstrations to the 'old media' of how grass roots activity on the Internet can keep things from going the way you might expect.
Hank and Ric Flair (no. 2) are definately there because of the Internet.
www.shorty.com /hank   (301 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Many didn't know Hank is a regular on the shock jock's radio show; they assumed he was a mythical creation designed to poke fun at the way People defines and quantifies beauty.
Hank's drunken dwarf debauchery might be as contrived as Leo's laddish charms.
In this photo Hank the Angry, Drunken Dwarf seems like the king of the damned, sublimely mocking the twin tyrannies of beauty and power.
www.citypaper.com /news/printready.asp?id=5594   (836 words)

  
 The Smoking Gun: Archive
Henry Nasiff was your basic run-of-the-mill dwarf until he was discovered/exploited by radio host Howard Stern.
Now Nasiff, 36, is a minor celebrity, known nationwide as "Hank The Angry, Drunken Dwarf." He is such a hit with Stern fans that they helped propel him to a massive victory in People magazine's recent online vote for the 50 Most Beautiful People.
Hank's appeal is rooted in his belligerence--behavior triggered, of course, by his prodigious consumption of alcohol.
www.thesmokinggun.com /dwarf/dwarf.shtml   (158 words)

  
 p o l y c o u n t   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A quick and dirty "Hank the Angry, Drunken Dwarf in Superboy Pajamas" Skin.
It goes along with the Hank Sound pak I contibuted, both are unprofessional and would have been better left to people with talent, but they didn't, so I did.
Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf has also made his live interpretation of Bob from Shiny Entertainment's "Messiah".
www.planethalflife.com /polycount/skins/quake2/astro/hank/hank.shtml   (218 words)

  
 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.
Among dwarfs, the "m—word" is widely considered offensive, conjuring images of sideshow freaks.
I heard from Hank less and less, which I didn't regret, honestly, as he got involved in the Howard Stern stuff and his alcohol abuse got even worse.
www.uuworld.org /2002/02/commentary.html   (1227 words)

  
 Howard Stern's Hank the Dwarf Dies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Hank the Dwarf would bartend at bacheolor parties for a price and get lousy drunk at the same time all based on his fame for being on the Stern show.
People can knock Stern for "exploiting" Hank all they want but you won't find anywhere else in showbiz a place for an angry drunken dwarf to be real.
Note the promos Hank did where he said he was dead and just pour some liquor over his body.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/517309/posts   (3354 words)

  
 Hank The Angry Drunken Dwarf on DHCP
When we first met Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf he was bombed out of his mind.
It was at the Smog Cutter that we met Hank.
Hank was drunk, smelly, foul mouthed and seemed mad at the world.
www.routergod.com /hanktheangrydrunkendwarf   (1242 words)

  
 Fun_People Archive - 1 Jun - Fun_People Updates 6/1/98
The Hank campaign was started on Usenet by fans of Howard Stern, on which Hank is a recurring character, and as it picked up momentum others began to see the piquant social commentary one could make by elevating Hank to the empyrean heights reserved for the likes of George Clooney.
Hank the Angry, Drunken Dwarf is now one of the checkbox choices.
Smith was often described as short, intense, often angry and even more often under the influence of some intoxicant or another.
www.langston.com /Fun_People/1998/1998AMT.html   (6291 words)

  
 Wired News:
Born Henry Nasiff, the oft-sauced and saucy little man made a name for himself in the terrestrial world as a sidekick on the Howard Stern show for the past five years.
On Yahoo's Dwarfism List, a poster named Mary wrote: "It appears another dwarf has died due to 'alcohol poisoning.' Another dwarf who had little or no self esteem, what a shame.
Although he wasn't much of a role model for his kind, Cara Egan, spokeswoman for the Little People of America, was philosophical about Hank's life, and death.
www.wired.com /news/culture/1,46566-0.html   (481 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
He's angry, he's drunk and he was recently voted "The Most Beautiful Person" on People magazine's Web site.
A self-proclaimed "radical," the 36-year old Hank says he voted for himself in the 1996 presidential election.
So we invite you to step inside Hank's tavern - where the politically incorrect discussion ranges from pot to Paul McCartney, manners are tossed out the window, and there's never a last call.
www.colleges.com /Umagazine/articles/199808/U.9808.GUESTEXPERT.html   (198 words)

  
 Comments on 9891 | MetaFilter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Even when his "angry drunken dwarf" bitterness had garnered a sort of counterculture cachet and fame, he apparently couldn't stop drinking.
Actually, dwarfs have a lot of health problems and generally don't live long lives.
On Hank, his some of his more recent (and lucid) appearances, in which he successfully competed with Fred and with Gary in Rock-and-Roll trivia were fun.
www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/9891   (1060 words)

  
 October 9, 2000--A conversation with...--Columbia Chronicle Online
Henry Nasiff is an ordinary dwarf most of the time.
The 4-foot dwarf is able to drink more then a 6-foot man, and has shown the ability to pass a sobriety test despite being noticeably drunk.
Hank kindly stumbled through some questions for the Columbia Chronicle.
www.columbiachronicle.com /back/2000_fall/2000-10-09/sports3.html   (472 words)

  
 Techdirt: Interesting Obit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
I heard about Hank the Angry, Drunken Dwarf passing away last week, and remembered his bout with internet fame.
However, here's a very interesting sort of obituary from someone who was working at People Online in 1998 when Hank was declared the most Beautiful Person, thanks to a "grass roots" online campaign that, well...
The writer talks about the interview she held with Hank, and how he continued to call her up randomly in the middle of the night.
www.techdirt.com /articles/20010910/0124255.shtml   (209 words)

  
 Washingtonpost.com: What Americans Think
Of course, the temptation proved too great for radio bad boy Howard Stern, who advised his listeners to e-mail votes for Hank the Angry, Drunken Dwarf, a Stern camp follower and sometimes on-air personality.
Of course Hank swamped the competition, finishing with 230,169 votes, or about 16 times the number who supported DiCaprio, the pretty face whom People declared the fairest of the fair and put on its cover.
Hank was duly crowned as the site's winner of the "Beautiful People Poll," and pictured wearing a pink bunny suit.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/politics/polls/wat/archive/wat081798.htm   (1053 words)

  
 The Smoking Gun: Archive
According to this Massachusetts death certificate, the immediate cause of death for "Hank the Angry, Drunken Dwarf" (aka Henry J. Nasiff) was "seizure disorder." Other "significant conditions" contributing to the September 4 demise of the 39-year-old Fall River man were alcohol abuse and chondrodystrophy, a growth disorder related to Hank's dwarfism.
Nasiff was a regular on the Howard Stern Show, where his alcoholism became regular fodder for comedy bits.
The death certificate notes that Hank was never married and worked as a self-employed "Entertainer" (1 page)
www.thesmokinggun.com /archive/riphank1.shtml   (86 words)

  
 Goody Goody   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
By the end of the week I had more than ten different references to the campaign for stuffing the electronic ballet box for People Magazine's 50 most beautiful people poll.
The last time that I checked, Hank the write-in candidate (and product of a Howard Stern humiliation stunt), had over 200,000 votes, nearly 20 times the next candidate.
The only genuinely humorous part of this is that early in the voting, five of the most common typos for Hank were also among the top twenty candidates:
www.starchamber.com /CoffeeCzar/goody.html   (641 words)

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