BFM #201 – Do Ravens have tryptophan?
There’s a widely held belief that eating turkey will cause drowsiness due to tryptophan (cheddar cheese and milk actually have more tryptophan than turkey). Its actually not true, it’s the carbohydrate-rich foods that one has with turkey that causes the drowsiness due to an (indirect) mechanism*, increasing the production of sleep-promoting serotonin and melatonin in the brain.
A very laid-back mob slowly trickled into The Raven and as I was getting the straws together, Softcore Analyst said, “Don’t bother with that, I’ll hare. Son of a Goat Fucker then volunteered to co-hare. Sweet! I tucked the straws into my backpack and went back to my beer.
Who came:
2 Clump Chump, 3 Balls, Anal Pro-boner, Ass Sweat, Bumble Beaver, Europee’n on Me, E = My Cock2, Fiber Opdick, Horse Whacker, Midnight Tranny to GA, Nappy-Headed Ho, Just Kim, Tight Lips, Mr. Snuffleupamuff, Rear Engineer, Son of a Goat Fucker, Softcore Analyst, Strap-on, Just Chad, Just Dev
I followed the co-hares outside and said that we were going to give them a good 10-minute start since, despite the fact that it was 20:02, the mob was still trickling in. They informed me that they were planning a beer check at, what Softcore Analyst referred to as: “the bar with the lesbian on the wall.” I said, “Ok.” and walked back inside. It then occurred to me, “Wait, lesbians? Where exactly are they going?” I must have been having serotonin / melatonin issues as well because I casually ran it by Anal Proboner and she said, “Lesbian is on the wall…the picture of He’s a Lesbian…Callahan’s.” "Duh, right. That place," I think to myself. :: she rolls her eyes ::
Remember the old Faberge shampoo commercial where the female hair model tells a friend about her shampoo and the voice-over states “and she tells a friend and so on and so on and so on…” yea, well, instead of shampoo, it was about the beer check. By the time I circled people up, no more than 4 minutes later, everyone knew the beer check was at Callahan’s.
Let me just say this: I’m an on-sec, hash flash, and hash cash, but while I’ve got a big mouth, I’m certainly no RA. Thankfully, there were no virgins and so I was able to get us through circle super quick. Phew. On out!
I’m sure Softcore and Son did a great job of laying trail but given the fact the mob knew where the beer check was, most either totally ignored or partially ignored trail. Bumble Beaver and I followed part of the mob over on 19th street but when we realized they were short-cutting, we figured the hares would head through Rittenhouse Park and so we headed down Walnut and saw the rest of the mob on the other side of the park on 18th street.
We caught up to them at Spruce Street and then then they turned back around. Bumble and I figured we’d head up Spruce and meet up with the mob again. No luck. We attempted to find trail but were unable to until 24th and South Sts. By then we were two blocks from the beer check and headed in.
It was damn hot in Callahan’s and spent most of my time trying to cool down, while catching up with Heave Ho. After the pitchers were gone, we headed back out and down 26th street and up Lombard. We turned down 25th street and made a left into the Schukyll Park at the check. A freight train was coming down the tracks and most of us hesitated and then r*n across the tracks into the park. Heave Ho and I were too busy chatting that we r*n about 1/10 mile before we realized that we weren’t on trail and the entire mob was following us! Oops! We all headed up the stairs and headed down Walnut street. We r*n down 23rd street and I broke off from the mob and headed up Samson to find myself an ATM, all the while hearing “on-on!” parallel to me on Chestnut street. I found my money tree and ran into the mob at 18th and Samson and we headed on-in.
Again, I’m not an RA so I was happy to have E and Rear present so I wouldn’t be forced to run circle. E said he was feeling very mellow and that if Rear wanted to step up, he was cool with it. So a 2008 nomination for RA, Rear Engineer (learn those songs, buddy!), stepped up to the plate.
Trail: Not enough: falses, straight running, beer checks, bums, trains
Hare(s):
- Softcore Analyst
- Son of a Goat Fucker
Visitor(s): Ass Sweat (from Diego Garcia)
First In: Anal Proboner (she totally short-cutted tho!)
Last In: E = My Cock2
Virgins: none
Auto-hashers:
- Rear Engineer
- Horse Whacker
Cums Lately:
- 2 Clump Chump
- Nappy-Headed Ho
- Fiber Opdick
- Heave Ho
Accusations:
- Mr. Snuffleupamuff for running into a Comcast van…and then bouncing off
- Mr. Snuffleupamuff for his string of false accusations in circle
- Just Chad – for calling False, continuing to r*n and then calling on-on
- Rear Engineer – for not having announced first-in and last-in at the beginning of circle (does it really matter what the sequence is?)
Announcements:
- The Philly/BFM/Hockessin New Year’s Day hash will be at 11am at Johnny Bears. There will be food and alcohol.
- The Philly H3 hash will be on Saturday at 3pm (that’s 29 December). It’s their Annual Boxing Day Extravaganza. So bring a gift you don’t want and re-gift it for the Pollyanna
- Pub Crawl – Saturday, 05 January at 8:00pm starting at The Raven in celebration of Bumble Beaver’s birthday. Be there!
The rest of the evening was laid back- everyone chatting about their holidays, plans for new year’s eve and generally catching up with one another. There certainly wasn’t a lot of beer consumption either but the mob seemed hungry so Rear Engineer ordered three HUGE pizzas which were inhaled within 10 minutes. Shortly after that, this on-sec called it a night.
On-on, bitches!
Europee’n on Me
* Carbohydrate rich meals will increase the amount of insulin in your blood which will then absorb other amino acids into the muscles but not the tryptophan. The tryptophan is then absorbed into the central nervous system and converted into serotonin and melatonin in the brain making you sleepy…in a nutshell.
the he’s a lesbian look-a-like whose photo is hanging on callahan’s wall is a police officer who was killed in the line of duty; callahan’s is a cop bar, like bonner’s.
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