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are changes within 60 days of 05/15/2002| "10 will get you 20" A reference to the legal complications arising from sex with someone who is underaged. Ten minutes of sex with jailbait will get you twenty years. The state has recently made a big PSA-driven push towards statutory rape awareness, despite the fact that the majority of underage sex is between mutually underage people (which under CA law is still illegal, but not statutory rape). | |
| 17th &N Big funky Victorian in midtown. The biggest of the Chaunch houses where Molly, WE Jen, Maria, Cheryl and Larry lived for a while. | |
| 2 Tone Check the front of a good ska compilation, and you'll find a illustration of a 2 Tone. The extreme 2 Tone look includes a suit a-la Res Dogs or Pulp Fiction, but about two sizes too small with white socks. The 2 Tones were hunted to the brink of extinction in the late-80s, but a few die- hards remain and come out at a good ska show. | |
| 20/30 club Formally the "Active 20/30 club", this is an orgnization of folks between 20 and 30 best known for their out-of-control Octoberfest parties formerly held at Fairytale Town. | |
| 22 Hatchet Charlie, one of the Chicoites, was found (drunk as hell) to be humping the couch one evening while chanting "22 hatchet, 22 hatchet". This was disturbing, considering that a) he was having forcible "relations" with the furniture b) the chant was suspiciously like the name of one of the partygoers (a female who's name we'll just skip here) and c) that this wasn't unusual behavior for him. | |
| 409 an email term posted at the bottom of invitations to parties, indicating that the aforementioned party might get out of control. Generally used as encouragement for attendance purposes. Originating from the idea that if the party is extreme in fun-ness, everyone will need to bring a bottle of 409 for clean-up purposes [Ed note: this term is not used by the house, per se, but was contributed by Chris Dawe who quite regularly spams us all with contents containing said term from time to time and was therefore allowed] | |
| 420 The Stoner hour. Urban legend says that this is the police radio code for illegal substance, but we hear to the contrary. Cop codes tend to be the same as the laws in question (except for the 10-* ones). CPC 11357 is possession and CPC 11550 is consumption of marijuana. Either way, every good stoner will be home by then. | |
| 7-for-1 Insane drink special held at The Grad in Davis on a weekly basis. Proof that there is a benign god and that he was a college student. | |
| the 90s The decade that saw the House and its members come to maturity and independent adulthood. In this ten year span they went from fresh-faced college students to successful professionals. The early part of the decade was marked with copious amounts of drinking and debauchery that subsided some throughout the decade but managed to still hold a fairly respectable level as time went on. The closing years of the decade saw the onset of stable relationships, some of which went terminal and ended in marriage. The 90s saw the coming of age of Generation X,. The 90s was also something of a moderate decade with no singular dominant style or mindthought that one could use to characterize the age: no hippies, no yuppies, no recession, no inflation. Things remained fairly calm after a fairly tumultuous opening with the dual explosions of the Gulf War and grunge in the first years of the decade. The 90s were, for many of us, the glory days of our lives. For others, it was just the beginning... | |
| 99 Cent Video Closest video store to The Landing. Each of the House members had a card there, since the cards usually carried late fines of one sort or another that we weren't going to pay. The name of the store was something of a misnomer. Any film that was a "recent release" or a "hot title" was $2.99. Any movie you'd never really want to watch was $0.99--think Ishtar. There were a very few gems available on the cheap and the House members exhausted them in short order. | |
| the A.V. Hilary has had a long and storied career through college and afterwards working around animals. For a time, she worked at the UC Davis barn tending to the horses there. It was there that she came across the A.V., a large metal device used for collecting horse semen. Apparently, as the story goes, one would fill the inside with a hot watter bottle and some lubricant, hook it up to a support framework and let the stallion do his business. Presumably if a horse had opposable thumbs, this wouldn't be necessary. The fact that Hilary owned a horse chaunch was bad enough, but for a number of years she kept it on her wall as a decoration. Tragically, Hilary disposed of the horse chaunch in 2000. [This is entry #950[ | |
| "Adventure is the essence of the human spirit" Paul Barraza used to have this emblazoned on his day packs. While he found it slightly amusing at the time, the words would prove haunting to Charlie Bill. Years later he decided to track down just who it was who had spoken them. Unfortunately, Paul could no longer remember, though he thought it might have been an astronaut. The folks at NASA's history office couldn't track it down either, but they thought it might have been Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart. After finding Schweickart on the internet, Charlie Bill emailed him and even he didn't know. His response was: "Good Lord! Sounds like me... but do I recall it? No. Now what do you do?" The answer was to add "attr." on the attribution on the inscription, now emblazoned above the Snowbird place's front door. | |
| -age A stock additive to nearly any action verb to create an instant verb object or to indicate a certain quality of something. Coin becomes coinage, doobie becomes doobage. Another word for food is "grindage" from the verb "grind", to eat. If you snarf, the byproduct is snarfage, though in some senses one might actually exclaim "snarfage!" as one has created the latter from the former. | |
| the albatross From the Rime of the Ancient Mariner. In this case, it was a Cadillac hubcap found during a cooling-off drunken stumble by Charlie Bill after a really horrid New Year's party. The hubcap would later be seen by the House's landlord as proof that they'd been working on cars, which apparently violated his moral code. | |
| alcohol abuse The wasting of perfectly good alcohol, either by way of spillage, contamination, or dead indians. | |
| alcohol poisoning Alcohol affects the brain initially as a depressant and mild euphoric. Larger doses affect motor functions and higher- order speech functioning. At levels above this: incoherency, deliria, and eventually respiratory and heart failure. It is these last three phases which define alcohol poisoning. Lil' Jen and Brendan have both suffered from the dreaded alcohol poisoning at one time. A drunk chick (she arrived that way) had to be rushed to the hospital suffering from alcohol poisoning after consuming 18 shots at a bar and then showing up at the House during the House's final New Year's Eve Party. | |
| Alhambra Safeway In the dead center of midtown lies the Alhambra Safeway. Named after the former movie palace of the same name, this Safeway is the place to shop for midtowners: not only the largest and nicest store, it's the only one of the three midtown markets that isn't super spooky. All manners of odd downtown personalities can be spotted shopping this store, especially in the wee hours of it's 24/7 market dominance. | |
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| Alkali Flats The name conjures up images of barren wastelands, and in this case wouldn't be far from the mark. Alkali Flats is home to a number of small, run down houses and businesses. Through the middle of the Flats runs a railroad right of way. To the north end lies Goldies and beyond, the Sacramento River and Del Paso Heights. Near Goldies are a couple of soup kitchens which makes the area a thoroughfare for homeless people, not increasing property values any. | |
| all Another Val-ism that has stuck with us; most commonly denotes someone is speaking especially when in a very emotive state, though sometimes used as a spoken comma: Ex: And so he's all, "dude! I can't believe you drank the last beer!" | |
| Alpine Lodge The closest "real" restaurant to camp at about 10 miles out. The Alpine Lodge is all off by itself and is snow bound during the winter months. The Lodge has a nice open deck and friendly bar. The clientele runs the gamut from locals to campers to people just passing through. | |
| America Live A now-defunct megabar situated in the Downtown Plaza. America Live was subdivided into a number of regular sized bars each with it's own theme, including a comedy club, dance club, sports bar, country-western dance hall, and a piano bar. Despite the popularity of the bar it fell into financial trouble and was forced to close, owing the mall nearly $1.7 million in back rent. Anyone calling the bar to find out it's status at the time was greeted by a recording left by a disgruntled former employee containing a loop of 30 seconds worth of rasberrys. The massive area was vacant for a goodly while before one end was taken up by Sacramento's Hard Rock. | |
| American River One of two rivers that cuts through Sacramento. This is a goodly-sized river but it moves pretty slowly in the summertime and is shallow enough at points to be enjoyed as a swimming spot. A goodly number of rafting trips head down the lower part of the river as it cuts through town. Powered boats are prohibited on much of the lower sections of the river. | |
| American River Bike Trail Sacramento is largely defined by Folsom on the eastern side of town and Old Sacramento on the western. In between the two of these the mighty American River flows, and along its bank runs the American River Bike Trail. The trail is paved and painted into two goodly sized lanes with a dirt and gravel pedestrian roadbed on either side of the pavement. The trail is augmented by a number of levee roads of lesser quality which beeline down the levees and usually overlook the trail. This 30-plus mile trail has a number of parks along its length and is largely wilderness area on either side. | |
| anal libra tendencies Charlie Bill's coworker Michelle claims that all libras, which she and Bill both are, have anal-retentive tendencies in various areas of life. Bill believes that this is horseshit, so Michelle has made it something of a jihad to prove to him that it has validity. Bill has been forced to reckon with these anal tendencies, and now somewhat begrudgingly admits them. This is not to be confused with anal retentiveness, just tendencies in certain arenas--gardening for example. | |
| Angels Camp Angels Camp has, like many of the towns along the junctions of the small highways littering the gold country, grown up into a small-sized service town. Not so many people live there, but there are gas stations, supermarkets and all manner of stores a-plenty. It has, to an extent, managed to keep a goodly bit of it's charm in the old town section though, to its credit. It is also fairly well known for an overly aggressive police force; being a small town with little crime other than the occasional juvenile miscreant and speeding tourist. | |
| "anyone found bipedal in five wears their ass as a hat" An odd, albeit haunting turn of phrase used by Chris Dawe in his party invitations. It was never explained and was described as an "inside joke" of sorts by Dawe. 02//13/00 update: Mo was watching Raising Arizona when she discovered the line comes from the scene where John Goodman and his partner are robbing the bank and are ordering the customer's around. | |
| Apple Hill Between Placerville on the South and Auburn on the north runs Highway 49. Along and around that stretch of roadway extends what is known as Apple Hill; a loose cooperative of apple growers. A couple dozen growers sell baked goods and the type of kitsch that appeals to the sorts of person who would go up into the Sierra foothills to frolic amongst the apple orchards. The operations vary quite a bit in size, some being a small shotgun shack on a few meager acres to huge affairs resembling small amusement parks. The primary season is during the harvest in autumn, but some growers extend the tourist season considerably on either side. | |
| applehorn Danish-style pastry. Brendan was assaulted with an applehorn (from Svenhards, no less) during a bout of alcohol poisoning. Although he was incoherent and delirious before and after, he looked down at the applehorn and with perfect coherency stated "applehorn" before resuming his deliria. | |
| Arco Arena Sacramento's large indoor sports facility, primarily utilized by the Sacramento Kings and rock concerts. Unfortunately, as the place was more or less designed around basketball, the seating arrangement and acoustics are somewhat less than optimal for large-scale music events, especially as one reaches the upper levels where there are many obscured seats. Arco was laid out with the idea that there would eventually be a stadium adjoining the arena, leaving the surrounding roads and accesses with a currently odd arrangement to accommodate the phantom stadium. | |
| Arden Fair Mall The largest and most imposing of Sacramento's four malls. Arden Fair used to be like the other two Sacramento malls at the time, Sunrise and Florin, being comprised of a central mall with a few large satellite stores. The mall nearly doubled in size as it stretched out to encompass a Weinstocks at the far end of the lot, but not altogether cleanly--the old Weinstocks and the dividing line between the old and the new mall are fairly apparent additions. This is the mall in town to hang out in on the weekends though, becoming choked to near impassability during peak hours. | |
| Argosy Auction house in Del Paso Heights frequented by Roy and Charlie Bill from time to time with occasional accompaniment by Cheryl, Mo, and Hank. Argosy has all manner of estate stuff for sale and is a fairly reelected environment to do a little buying. The downside is the checkout which is a marathon event that tends to make one not want to bid unless you are certain that you will be coming home with a few things to offset the wait. | |
| Arnold Small town in the Sierras with about 6K people living there. The town is fairly centralized around HWY 4 which runs from Oakland to nearly the state line. Arnold is the largest town of any size to camp and is one of the first (or last) stops made by most camp-bound travelers. | |
| Artwat Just a handful of miles past the small town of Orland lies the road town of Artois. This latter town, while somewhat smaller, is the only one of the two listed on I-5 and is therefore used to countdown the miles left before the turn onto Highway 32. The towns "unique" pronunciation was influenced in small part by Shavor on a group roadtrip back up to Chico. | |
| "ask me if I am a train" Asked in somewhat the same spirit as "what does that have to do with the price of tea in china" mixed with a little "and why should I give a fuck?" Often used by Lil' Jen. | |
| -ass Modifier showing an extreme degree or measure: loud-ass, hard-ass (not to be confused with hardass), rough-ass, bumpy-ass, etc. Ex: I was up front at the deftones show last night. Man, that was loud-ass | |
| ass out Out of luck. Ex: dude, you'd better get some food now or you are going to be ass out. | |
| assfucking bar Defined on the Labor Day 99 raft trip down the American as the landing point whereupon the new fish Ron would experience a certain Deliverance-esque moment. Throughout the day, any suggestion in regards to "putting out" were told to defer until the group had reached this point. A case study in why co-ed rafting trips are a Good Thing. | |
| asshole hat A piece of beer gaming paraphernalia for the game "Asshole". The lowest member of the group is known by the title "asshole", and must have some sort of hat depicting his status. In a pinch, a the cardboard wrapper for a twelve-pack of cans can do. | |
| assholes and elbows Running away so fast that all one would be able to discern from the retreating form was assholes and elbows. | |
| astro tent The canvas tents that camp staff members live in provide little oportunity for customization. The posters and pictures that one has at home simply won't hang on the sloped walls of the tent. Staff members in the dark ages often would write on the inside of their tent surfaces with permenant marker--names, pictures and the like. The astro tent was another matter altogether. The residents of this tent worked in the nature department and created an astronomically correct map of the night sky with glow in the dark paint over their entire tent, including the floorboards. The floor panels were pulled up from year to year, so there was a chance that you would get some piece of the legacy of the astro tent, even after the tent's retirement. | |
| AV Hilary has worked for a number of jobs in animal medicine research both during and since her college days. Veterinary medicine is, of course, interested in all aspects of animal health including that which might be politely termed "animal husbandry". In a show of good-natured earthy humor, Hilary had a "marital aid" for male horses mounted on her wall, known familiarly as the "AV". No party was complete without graphic descriptions of it's use. | |
| b-12 Vitamin that is alleged to reduce the evil effects of hangovers. Despite some decent time spent attempting to research the efficacy of vitamin B-12 in hangovers, we've been unable to find any "hard" evidence that the vitamin does some direct good. Whether it is working or simply the placebo effect, b-12 is a regular companion on long drinking binges. | |
| Bad Experience Usually refers to an over-indulgence in alcohol that went seriously bad, leading to aversion to the drink in question. Ex: I used to pound Jäeger, but I had a Bad Experience once. | |
| balls out Any sort of extremely risky behavior. Ex: Dude, he slid through that corner and got all squirrelly; it was balls out. This term has fallen somewhat from popular usage. | |
| Banco de Hanko A personal loan, or covering another's debts. Ex: Pac Bell? It's covered by Banco de Hanko. | |
| bank Money. Ex:Dude, I can't go out, I've got no bank. | |
| bar pirates The original House cast went to the Hogshead brew pub in Old Town one weekend, and the band kept having a "drink with the band" pause. Any invitation to a social was always met with gusto, and quaffing the rich beers demanded something of a manly "arrrgh" when finished. This amused the band who dubbed the group bar pirates. The House thought that they should become regulars, including coming with Jolly Rogers and eye patches, but then they sobered up. | |
| bar time A time zone about 15 minutes ahead of "real" time. All the clocks in a bar will be set to bar time and last call will be announced accordingly. This time zone is in place to get people out of the bar before the real 2 am. | |
| Barbarella 60's era Jane Fonda sexual comedy. The greatest beer drinking movie of all time. Everyone drinks for each case of techno-babble. As the movie goes on, it makes less and less sense, but you care less and less. There's also more and more flesh, for those into that kind of thing. | |
| Barcolounger What Geoff insists on calling a La-Z-Boy; both terms are probably inappropriate uses of trade names for "reclining chairs". | |
| barley pop Homebrew with way too much sugar. The concoction was termed such by Grampa Roy, as if it were a desired thing. | |
| Bataan Death March 1) A distance traveled by foot that one feels is a bit longer than it should be, usually through parking lots or through restaurants. 2) A particularly long or brutal hike or backpacking trip. | |
| BBQ An event that contains more beer than meat. In fact, it could contain no meat and still be a BBQ. The best BBQs start of with grand intentions of having food, but progress to not caring after about an hour or so. | |
| "Be sure to wipe your Chris" At the adjournment of a morning senior staff meeting at camp, Shavor told everyone that he was "off to take a duke". There was a moment of silence as everyone turned to look at Duke, our salty shooting sports director who was new to camp. Shavor, of course, used that term all the time and didn't think twice before using it in Duke's presence. Duke fired back: "Be sure to wipe your Chris". | |
| Bear Valley The closest center of population to camp, Bear Valley provides the usual first stop on any weekend outing. The general store treats its regulars there like family. It's not unusual to spot a hypertanned Robert Conrad at the store, living in a house nearby. The place is haven to many weekend travelers during the summer months and a steady stream of folks who retreat from the summer heat to the mountains for extended stays. In the winter the area's ski resort provides employment for many area locals. |
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