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March 26, 2004
The post formerly known as Leather and Lace***
During one of Girl-E's high school Spanish classes, the teacher stepped outside for a minute to talk to another teacher just before she was about to give the class a test. At that moment, it took Girl-E's crafty friend Brandon all of 20 seconds to go straight to the teacher's desk, find the folder with the answer key, absorb its contents, and shout out "Camels Cuddle Big Bad-Ass Bryan Adams! CAMELS CUDDLE BIG BAD-ASS BRYAN ADAMS!!!" so that the rest of the class would know the answers to the first seven multiple choice questions.
We're telling you this because 10 minutes after her meet-up with the bad-ass camel-cuddler himself, this story was about all that Girl-E could remember about the past 27 years*. Within a span of 85 minutes, without even knowing it, they each managed to consume what Bryan nicely referred to as "only one-half of two scorpion bowls". It didn't help that they were literally the only two people in the bar, so there was no people-watching available to slow them down. The moral of the story is that you just don't take a Princeton girl and an MIT frat boy** and drop them into an empty bar that serves its alcohol in troughs. She's fine this morning because it was early enough in the evening, but she's seriously considering becoming a Buddhist.
So Bry, whaddya say, hot chocolate next week?
*We're just kidding Bryan, of course she remembers everything you said. Your girlfriend's studying to be an actress, you're originally from Iowa, and the married friends that you hang out with all the time are Anarchists. Right? ;)
**These are the work hard/play hard capitals of North America, in case you didn't know. It's been written about in magazines.
***The age-old question of whether this Stevie Nicks duet is with Bryan Adams or Don Henley has recently been answered by about 3 minutes of Googling, and we are sad to report in this context that it is indeed Don Henley, making this original title lose all of its fraudulent appeal. We are happy to report it in general though, because we would much, much rather it be Don Henley.
Posted by The Twins at March 26, 2004 09:33 AM
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Comments
Burdick's.
Burdick's for hot chocolate.
Posted by: JJ at March 26, 2004 10:25 AM
Let me assure you that I would go nowhere else for hot chocolate. Especially considering I work less than a block from the place.
Posted by: EV at March 26, 2004 10:29 AM
I still have the piece of paper from when my sister, aged 7, had to memorize the planets in the solar system. It says "Many Vishuss Elefants Make Jelly Samwiches Using No Penut Buter." It's one of my favorite things ever, and now so is the Camels Cuddle story. Guess I'm just a sucker for mnemonic devices.
Posted by: nikita at March 26, 2004 11:23 AM
Going to go google what a scorpion bowl is.
Posted by: Debbie at March 26, 2004 01:37 PM
aww. fun !
sounds like a great time.
ps. i am totally jonsing for a scorpion bowl right about now.
Posted by: snowy at March 26, 2004 03:57 PM
A scorpion bowl is a tropical beverage made with hard aclohols and friut juices, served in a ceramic bowl with, usually, four extra-long straws.
Variations include:
- Floating little plastic animals on top
(Hong Kong in Cambridge, MA)
- Using a more elaborate bowl with a small built-in pedestal in the center in which brandy is poured and set aflame.
(Dragon Villa in Medford, MA and some little Chinese place in Brunswick, ME)
Posted by: JJ at March 26, 2004 04:33 PM
ours was basically booze, ice, cherries and an orange slice. oh, and three straws -- one for me and two for the twins.
Posted by: bryan at March 26, 2004 06:36 PM
Wait....I thought that was a duet between Bryan Adams and Don Henley. Who's this "Stevie" guy?
Posted by: aaron at March 26, 2004 10:17 PM
The thought of a Stevie Nicks / Bryan Adams duet has sucked all intelligent comments out of my head. I've had a number of reasons to glare jealously at Mr. Adams, but sharing a trough of alcohol with you is my biggest and best reason of all.
Posted by: Jules at March 26, 2004 11:11 PM
It's been far too long since I had a scorpion bowl. Chef Chow's House in Brookline also has the flame in the center, for completists.
Posted by: Hilatron at March 27, 2004 02:07 PM