Steamin' at Hennys
The chat's eighth name. Set by [[Evan Bbbender]] on **2022-08-08** and held for **~115 days** through **2022-12-01**, when [[Kyle Derrick]] replaced it with [[Pebin' the night away]]. Roughly **10,035 messages** were sent under this name — the chat's first stable post-*Hoenies* settling point.
Steamin' at Hennys
The chat's eighth name. Set by Evan Bbbender on 2022-08-08 and held for ~115 days through 2022-12-01, when Kyle Derrick replaced it with Pebin' the night away. Roughly 10,035 messages were sent under this name — the chat's first stable post-Hoenies settling point.
Steamin' at Hennys is the chat's eighth distinct name. It marks the chat's first formal merging of two of its three principal mid-period vocabulary axes — Steam (the gay bathhouse) and Henny (Hennessy cognac) — in a single chat name. The third axis (hoen) had been the basis of the immediately prior Weekend at Hoenies (held for 9 days); the chat's preferred post-Hoenies fallback turns out to be the more stable Steam-and-Henny compound.
Founding
Evan Bbbender executes the rename at 2022-08-08 21:53 UTC. The name plays on three things at once:
- The chat's preferred Portland-bathhouse referent (see Steam).
- The chat's preferred liquor (see Henny).
- The construction Steamin' at [bar name], which mimics the kind of inscription that appears on bar t-shirts and printed receipts. (No member of the chat has ever explicitly noted this.)
Era contents
The Steamin' at Hennys era spans the chat's late summer 2022 through the end of November 2022. Major events:
- 2022-09-23 — Evan Bbbender posts the corpus's founding "Hoen lunch today?" — the formalization of Hoen Lunch as a recurring institution. (The phrase falls under this name, not under Weekend at Hoenies.)
- 2022-11-10 — Matt posts the corpus's first hoening ("Where is the hoening tomorrow?") — the chat's earliest gerund attestation (see Hoening).
- 2022-11-11 — Kyle Derrick coins Mmm alcohol ("Mmm alcohol") — the chat's longest-running two-word liturgy.
- 2022-09-21 — Daniel Miller files the chat's most-quoted post-bachelor-party gastrointestinal report ("the shit you take after rays bachelor party… made every other shit feel like practice"; see Mt. Bachelor and Shidding).
The Steamin' at Hennys era is therefore the principal incubation period for three of the chat's stable mid-period vocabularies (hoen lunch, hoening, mmm alcohol).
Era statistics
- Duration: ~115 days
- Total messages: ~10,035
- Successor: Pebin' the night away (Kyle Derrick, 2022-12-01).
- Predecessor: Weekend at Hoenies (Evan, 2022-07-30).