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are changes within 60 days of 05/15/2002| Ray's Popular Chico area liquor store, known for a wide selection and reasonable prices. | ||
| "Real Men Don't Use Porn" An odd billboard spotted amongst the fields along Highway 99 midway between Chico and Sacramento featuring several professionals and a somewhat obscure football player [Ed note: it was a 49'er, but I can't remember who] and this memorable slogan. There was no information as to who sponsored the billboard, but it was kept up for a goodly while. | ||
| Red Apple Ranch Down Highway 4 from camp lies a small farm with a store fronting onto it: the Red Apple Ranch store. The store sells all manner of apple related products such as ciders, cakes and such--the best of which are their apple cinnamon doughnuts. Staff members regularly blazed past the small store for years until Jeff McClellan began making early morning sorties to the shop for a fresh batch of donuts for the Sunday staff-only meal. This was our first inkling that despite his hardass exterior, he might be an all right guy after all. [term suggested by Jeff McClellan] | ||
| Red Dog Saloon Bar up in Bear Valley, closest civilization to camp. Given the regular attendance there by the staff elders, the place became something of a nirvana for the younger members to one day reach. | ||
| the Red Room Downstairs bathroom at The Snowbird Place, painted a particularly virulent strain of red with scalloped textured walls and painted ceiling. The room is bright enough that it casts a reddish glow in a relatively dark house. | ||
| reds Marlboro regulars. Named thusly for their blood red packaging. Marlboro was by far the most popular brand among the House and related friends. | ||
| Res Dogs Reservoir Dogs, the gangster-film debut of Quentin Tarrentino. The second most popular house movie, after the Star Wars trilogy. | ||
| reverse drink Not to be confused with booting. Reverse- drinking is the expellation of recently imbibed fluids. There is rarely any particulate matter, and the process is much less violent than barfing. Your body has had too much fluid induced into it, and is simply rectifying the situation. While one usually does not recover the evening from booting, one can get right back upon the horse after a reverse drink. | ||
| rice rocket Extremely fast Japanese motorcycles. These were real popular in the late-80s, but have tapered off in popularity. | ||
| Rick's Dessert Diner Down in midtown on K street exists a restaurant serving fine desserts exclusively. With a not-at-all tacky 50s motif, late night hours and patio seating, it’s a destination at which to wind down an evening. | ||
| Rick's Uptown Market The somewhat-less-so-but-still-kinda-scary former Compton's market on the edge of downtown Sacramento. Rick's has engaged in numerous billboard ads attempting to win the favor of the important midtown crowd who continues to pass it up for the likes of the Alhambra Safeway. | ||
| Rio Linda Every area has that one town that everyone else laughs at, that the people who live there try to avoid claiming as home. For Sacramento, this place is Rio Linda. Rio Linda is characterized as the white trash capitol of the Sacramento Valley--and this says quite a bit. Rio Linda is due north of the downtown areas a few miles out, just east of the North Highlands area. To add insult to injury, the area is also prone to flooding during heavy rain years. | ||
| the River Road A roadway that runs from Sacramento down the Sacramento river down into the deltaways and into the Bay Area. The road goes through several small farming communities and across numerous small bridges and levee roads. CalTrans calls this route HWY 160. In an ill-advised plan, Geoff and Roy once struck out on mountain bikes for a ride down the River Road from the Landing down to the small town of Locke before running out of steam and calling Hank to pick them up. The River Road is also the route one takes to go to the Grand Island Mansion. | ||
| "riveting anecdote" What Big Dave will tell you at the end of one of your stories. This is said in a "so what" kind of manner. | ||
| road trip The difference between a trip and a road trip is slight. One could actually go on a road trip, but never drive. A road trip, under house definitions, should contain some fairly random elements and a large degree of alcohol either before, after, or during. Therefore, a trip to the local supermarket becomes a road trip under the correct circumstances. | ||
| rookie move Really stupid faux pas during a drinking game, usually spilling or blatant rules violations. Penalty is, of course, one drink. Rookies rarely get penalized for rookie moves, and usually manage to avoid making many of them, ironically enough. | ||
| Rosemont Neighborhood in the center of the Sacramento metropolitan area, bounded by Folsom Blvd/HWY 50 to the north, the rolling rural area to the south, Watt to the west and Routier to the east. This area is mostly three and four bedroom homes, of which many are rental properties. A number of the homes in the area were built to house Air Force personnel at the nearby Mather Air Force Base. Since the base closed, its been relatively easy to find housing in this area. Rosemont is the location of both the Oxwood place and the Golden Eagle place. | ||
| Rubie The Rubicon, local Sacramento area brewpub. | ||
| "Rugmuncher!" Exclamation made by WE Jen at Lil' Jen's wedding. This ties with Shavor's comment for most inappropriate wedding statement. | ||
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| Run to the Top A punishing weekly cross-country run up at camp. Contestants run up the road to the highway: 2.5 miles up and 2.5 miles back with about 1200 feet in elevation change each way. To make matters worse, the road is comprised of crushed rock, loose granite stones, soft soil and glacially carved slabs of granite. Surprisingly enough, this is a fairly injury-free event. | ||
| Sac State California State University Sacramento is the state school of choice for many Bay Area and Sacramento high schoolers. The CSU system always sees itself as number two behind the larger and better funded University of California schools--the fact that while there is a UC in Davis, self-loathing Sacramento received the state university. Sac State's large rival is the nearby UC Davis, but only in football: inter-collegiate parties are fairly common. Sac State's campus is located in the suburbs of Sacramento and is mainly a commuter school with little housing on or around the school. This contributes to the school having very little in the way of college pride or unity, especially for such things as attendance at sporting events and the like. | ||
| Sacramento Perpetual location of the House. Located in pretty much the smack-dab of California, Sacramento still remains something of a cowtown despite its population at above 1 million in the greater metropolitan area. Sacramento still is very much a farming community, as is evidenced by the tomato trucks of late summer and the rice field fires in late fall. Sacramentans are very self-depreciating about their town and its shortcomings. One of the common statements about Sac is that its 1 1/2 hours from pretty much anywhere. The resulting joke is "...and its about an hour and a half from pretty much anywhere". Sacramento's weather in the summertime brings ungodly daytime temperatures (110+ at times) which fade into extremely balmy evenings. As such, Sactown has a very active outside nightlife during the summer--most restaurants and bars have outside patios. | ||
| The Sacramento Bee Sacramento's only daily newspaper. The Sac Bee has a number of sister publications in nearby cities and is seen by some as being an evil empire. Indeed the founders at one point had a Hearstian/Kaneian way about them. The quality of the Bee is about what one would tend to expect from an area of one million--fairly poor. In recent years, the Bee has managed to absorb several popular local online publications in something of a disturbing trend. The Sac Bee's attempt to become new-age media can be found at http://www.sacbee.com. | ||
| Sacramento River The river that runs north-south through Sacramento down from the northern part of the state. The river is heavily levied, as is the American, but in this case the levy reaches right down to water level making it a captive river. The result is that the river is a boating-only river, with very little swimming traffic. | ||
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| San Juan Rapids The American river below Folsom Lake is fairly wide and calm. Giant raft amalgamations are created and filled with young drunken adults, or soon-to-be-drunk adults. It is, therefore, a good joke on God's part to put the San Juan Rapids roughly in the middle of the course. While by no means terrifying or extreme, the rapids are certainly challenging for the drunken barges that go floating through them. | ||
| San Ramon 1) A town in the middle of the East Bay Area. Strangely enough, four of the horde lived in this small town in the Bay Area at the same time and never knew each other. Lil' Jen, Molly and Charlie Bill all grew up there, living only about 10 minutes apart from each other though Charlie Bill went to a different high school from the two girls. Roy worked at the Warehouse record store in San Ramon for a while as well. San Ramon is the epitome of suburban sprawl, having nearly no form of recreation or nightlife. Hank's mom recently moved to Danville, just one town down from San Ramon. Local high school kids, being firmly in the upper-middle-class are prone to epidemic amounts of underage drinking and drug use. 2) The high school Charlie Bill attended, ironically in neighboring Danville. | ||
| sausage bread Back when the House was in its infancy, the various House parents would contribute to their adult children's bare larders whenever they would visit. Mama Dawe would regularly send back sausage bread, a delightful concoction of bread with sausage baked inside (surprise)! Sausage bread all but disappeared from the scene when Geoff moved back home for a time, but would make a cameo appearance at the Holiday party when brought by Roy's friend Robert. | ||
| sausage party A party populated entirely or predominantly by men. Ex: I thought that I was going to be able to hook up with some chicks, but it turned out to be a sausage party. This has considerably more negative connotation than dudefest. A sausage part is one desperately in need of women, whereas a dudefest simply has no women present. | ||
| Save Our .... One of a number of for-profit parties held as fund raisers. Rugs, houses, and even a friend have been saved. | ||
| scrumpy A cloudy, vinegary fermented apple drink, apparently known only to the Britons and a few in-the-know-foreigners. Also known as Scrumpy Jack, this stuff packs in a really mean wallop. Fortunately unavailable in this country, Charlie Bill was turned on to this beverage by a friend in the English pub business. | ||
| SDL Suck Dick Lips. Full, sensual lips. Such were all the vogue in the early-90s, but their popularity seems to died off with the rise of heroin chic. Also arranged as DSL: dick suckin' lips. | ||
| Second Saturday A monthly art showing in abandoned buildings (and galleries) in the run down area of Sacramento known as Del Paso Heights. What started as a great idea has become somewhat of a monstrosity as full-time galleries are springing up in the neighborhood. One of the best locations remains the shell of a old motel, about midway down Del Paso Blvd. The event is still fun, if one can discount the artsy-fartsy folks taking themselves way too seriously. | ||
| "See how you are?" Another Big Dave-ism that he'd drag out after he did something you found annoying, but did yourself. | ||
| serape Essentially a blanket folded in half with a hole for the head. The serape's Charlie Bill and Henry have were more like ponchos then serapes, per se, but the name stuck. Dennis picked up the serapes on a trip down to Mexico, bringing back all sorts of pullovers, tequila, and other goods from south of the border. The serapes were especially popular when many of the House members would hang out outdoors while smoking. | ||
| Sex on a Regular Basis A tropical drink that includes amongst its ingredients, pineapple-orange juice, Myers dark rum and Malibu. Its a good mix for hiding a lot of alcohol and is enjoyed by people who are into serious drinks and foo-foo drinks alike. The name was esablished by Cheryl and Molly who'd been downing concoctions made by Charlie Bill and Roy all afternoon. Bill protested that, as a single guy, he wasn't getting sex on a regular basis and therefore found the name objectionable. They countered that while he wasn't getting sex on a regular basis, he could still get Sex on a Regular Basis. | ||
| Shakin' the bush (boss) Taking a leak. Originally from Cool Hand Luke, where prisoners working on road gangs were required to shake the bushes to prove that the were still in 'em. Often used in a male . | ||
| "She barfed on my thiiiiiiigh" Ex-camp staff member Rob had this weird tic that he claimed that he'd woken up with after sleeping on his neck wrong one night. Like many staff members have been, Rob was something of a spaz and not exactly what one would call Mr. Charisma. It was, therefore, surprising to us to find that he had a girlfriend. When the subject came up, he confided that he had tried to encourage her into oral sex. Somewhat reluctantly, she complied, gagging then vomiting in Rob's lap. We, of course, thought that this was the funniest thing we'd ever heard, especially since it happened to Rob. This, along with the tic, were worked into characterizations of Rob. | ||
| the shield Charlie Bill made a shield for a freshman history class in high-school. Being only 14 or so at the time and not possessing the wicked set of tools he would in later years, the effort was a little rough around the edges. When Bill found it moldering at his parent's house, he decided to fix it up and add his recently discovered coat of arms: family heritage and power tools. Either following the dictates of manly projects or bowing to the pressures of the notoriously manic-depressive project drive of the Libra personality type he eventually lost interest in the project after spending a number of hours on it. Big Dave finds this inexplicably funny. | ||
| shit-on-the-bed incident Bad things happen to good people, and alcohol only seems to intensify this. A friend-of-a-friend shat upon Geoff's bed after imbibing too much one evening. While this is a hilarious story with time healing most wounds, some still refuse to see the humor in it. There was a house commandment barring discussion of this incident for some time. | ||
| shopping-cart incident Geoff and Roy thought it would be good fun to ride a shopping cart through the Golden Eagle place. Charlie Bill didn't think so, and to this day Geoff can't figure out why. | ||
| short bus Van-based bus that typically picks up the "special ed" kids for school. Often also seen on rural routes and other places that small packs of students need to be transported, but rarely would this term apply. | ||
| shotgun 1) The passenger position in the front nearest the door. In North America, this is the right-hand seat.. 2) The cry one gives to lay claim to the above position. Northern California rules state that "shotgun" may not be called until one is outside of the building, all occupants are together, and you are headed towards the vehicle. When several large guys are trying to fit into a small car, this becomes a hot competition 3) To open a beer can in such a way to minimize the consumption time and maximize beer flow. The preferred method for doing this is to puncture a hole in the can's top, holding the can upside down, then popping the top. Note that this also forces full-beer consumption as the can will no longer hold fluid and stand upright. | ||
| "Shut up and smile into the fern" Yet another Big Daveism characterizing a surreptitious video taper of the sex act. House members are always a bit afraid to borrow friend's video cameras for just this reason. | ||
| Sick & Twiested Spike & Mike present two animation festivals down at the Crest theater annually, this being their better known and more heavily attended. The Sick & Twisted festival features all manner of animation, from the up-and-coming features (both Bevis & Butthead and South Park were seen here before they gained widespread popularity) as well as those films that will never get any further than the Sick & Twisted show. The festival has a number of series that return annually, including "Nana & Little Puss-Puss" and "No Neck Joe". | ||
| Sierra cement 1) The extremely hard-packed surface that makes up the majority of pistes in Northern California. The fact that it doesn't get all that cold makes for "wet" snow. The snow packs down incredibly easily and makes for a near-ice surface. 2) A method of lodging poles and the like into the ground using increasingly smaller aggregate to fill in the spaces around the post. This is easy to do in the Sierras where granite decomposition creates a good supply of the raw materials needed. This was a popular method for setting up gateways and the like at camp. | ||
| SITE Awards The somewhat ridiculous awards for best Sacramento area website given by the Sacramento News and Review. The idea of a local award on the world-wide web is silly enough, especially when given by a dead-tree publication with a laughable website of their own. The House led an unsuccessful ballot-stuffing bid in 1998 to get a mention for their site. | ||
| sixer Six-pack | ||
| skeg To be hit upside the head. Originally a surfer term describing what happened to unwary surfers diving into a wave (the skeg, or fin, of a passing surfer would smack the diver). | ||
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| Slow Dancing The name of a bad porno the chaunches watched together back in the Desmond Hall days. Though, then again, the term "bad porno" is a bit oxymoronic. The chaunches still occasionally drop references to the movie, leading one to wonder if there wasn't a little slow dancing of their own going on. | ||
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| slushball The ultimate end of the confluence of drinking and softball. The two work so well together that it would be only natural that someone would come up with an idea that merged the two. In regular slushball, the keg is placed nearby second base and runners can not continue past that point without chugging a cup of beer. Also, unlike many combinations of drinking and sport where the losers are penalized, thereby assuring their perpetual bottom-rung status, in slushball the competitive field is evened out as better players get drunker faster. | ||
| smoke out To smoke marijuana. |
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