1969 Harvard pancake champ received chemical assistance
The Harvard Crimson reports that Richard Tarnas was using performance enhancing drugs when he won an eating contest by consuming 17.5 pancakes in December 1969:
Trainer David R. Bishop 72 attributed Tarnas’s victory to his rigid two-week training program.
“We had Rick on a tough schedule-smoking grass every day and never going to bed before 4 a.m.,” said Bishop. “Then the stoned Munchies-brought on by two pre-contest joints-floated my man to victory,” he added.
Richard Tarnas is currently professor of philosophy and psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. His most recent book is Cosmos and Psyche. The astroknavery blog describes the content of that work:
Subtitled, Intimations of a New World View and based, Tarnas claims, upon 30 years* of research, it strives to address what he calls “the profound metaphysical disorientation and groundlessness that pervades contemporary human experience” by suggesting a “new metanarrative that transcends separate cultures and subcultures, an encompassing pattern of meaning that could give to collective human existence a nourishing coherence and intelligibility.”
That meta-narrative, as he calls it, is astrology.
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I know said
March 10, 2007 @ 12:14 pm
In 1969 teens were experimenting with much more than marajuana. As far as its effictiveness in an eating contest, i am sure back then marajuana could easily coast someone to victory considering the competition and final totals were a joke. Marajuana and Black Hole have similar ingrediants designed to give you a quick hunger fix but thats where it ends. Neither will expand your stomach and neither will bring you an MLE title.
Anonymous said
March 10, 2007 @ 12:54 pm
Tarnas knows too many words.
badlands booker said
March 10, 2007 @ 1:44 pm
Pass the dutchie pon de left hand side boi!
Gentleman Joe said
March 10, 2007 @ 3:12 pm
I know for a fact that many other eaters have tried this regimine. I might myself, but I think the danger of “cotton mouth” to be too great a risk.
Anonymous said
March 10, 2007 @ 4:40 pm
(Butch) I think Tarnas just wants to try to impress somebody.
anonymous said
March 10, 2007 @ 5:57 pm
Smoking weed before a contest? Sounds interesting Joe. There is one eater in particular just by looking at him you can tell he indulges in the stuff
KevinRoss said
March 10, 2007 @ 8:45 pm
Although I can see weed making people want to eat a lot, and I’m sure many eaters have tried this, I can’t see it helping in an eating contest all that well. Can you imagine someone who is baked doing anything fast? Maybe if the eating contest took the entire duration of Dark Side of the Moon, then they’d have a shot.