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| Tower Theater This old theater is located in the Land Park area of Sacramento and is one of the old movie palaces, though one would be hard pressed to call it "grand". It lacks the décor of the Crest, even if one imagines it in its unbifricated, pristine state. The theater loaned its name to the Tower Drugstore, which would later become Tower Records and launch a global empire and at the same location, the Tower Cafe. The theater shows art films nowadays, which makes it the perfect compliment to the Cafe. Patrons of one of the Tower locations often frequent the others to round out the evening, though at this time they are all unrelated in all but name. | |
| The Town Lounge Our favorite Chico dive bar | |
| Traffic Calming Project An attempt by the city planners to lighten traffic in certain areas of midtown by making them completely unnavigable. The first step was making some one-way thoroughfares two-way streets, then adding barriers and traffic circles to ensure as much vehicle vs. pedestrian and vehicle vs. bicycle mayhem as is humanly possible. While this has caused some calming in the targeted areas, it has not reduced traffic any, just re-routed it onto other streets, making a larger mess. | |
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| the Trilogy Spoken in reverent terms; the best movie series of all time. Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi. Lucas is working on a pre-trilogy trilogy to be released starting in 1999. | |
| triple sex On two separate occasions back in the Desmond Hall days, triple sec was served resulting in evenings with extreme amounts of groping in the corners as the party wound down. This was seen as a somewhat disturbing side-effect of the orange liquor and it was thereby eschewed for some time. The effect does not seem to be in effect in Grampa Roy's Kamikaze which is served quite often, probably due to its relatively minor concentration. | |
| tunaboat 1) Describes off-Alaska fishing vessels which hunt little to no tuna. Loads of cash can be made by doing long, smelly, laborious, and somewhat dangerous shifts on the tunaboat. We met Roy fresh off the tunaboat; he shares the distinction of tunaboat member with Big Dave. 2) Used to describe a really big car, preferably convertible. Henry's ex- girlfriend Marni owned a tunaboat in the form of a white convertible Malibu. | |
| The Turf Pub in Oxford, England, where Becky worked when she was an exchange student over there. The pub was ancient and low-ceilinged, not exactly the place one wanted to be a 6'2" American. When Charlie Bill came visiting, a number of Becky's cohorts from the University of San Francisco were in town (many were exchanging throughout Europe) and they all congregated here. The Turf is somewhat difficult to locate, being surrounded by buildings with the entrance closest to a major throughway being a small alley that is poorly signed and eclipsed by a famous flying walkway. Henry managed to take a picture of this very archway, but completely missed the entrance on his first attempt to find it. | |
| Tuscany 1) Place Roy, Bill & Cheryl discussed ex-patrioting themselves to during the winter of 2000. 2) Place where Amy ex-patrioted herself to during the 2001 school year. (WE MISS YOU, AMY! BE SAFE! HAVE FUN--HRS) | |
| UC Davis The smaller town got the bigger school. The city of Davis is somewhat overwhelmed by their campus and much of the local atmosphere is colored by the university. Being a college town, on-campus events are both more frequent and more heavily attended than they are in a larger city like Sacramento. UC Davis is also cursed with a self-loathable fact: that it is primarily known as an ag school and is the largest such in the state. Your hard, tasteless tomato came from UC Davis farms at one point. On a good day you can smell the cow manure quite clearly. UC Davis features several barns, numerous fields and a extremely large and spread-out campus. | |
| "under the J street bridge" For a period, the House wasn't able to find an apartment or house for lodging in their price range that would allow four college students to board together. Our alternate form of housing was living in cardboard boxes under the J street bridge, close to campus. This has become the future "home" for anyone short-timing their lease with no future housing plans firmly made. | |
| The Underground Every town should have a scruffy rock-and-roll establishment, and this one is it. With several locations in the valley, the Underground is the end-all location if you are feeling a bit rebellious. The store stocks a very modest selection of CDs and cassettes, carries lingerie and other sexually-oriented clothing, and supplies pot pipes, hair dye, jewelry, T-shirts and leather items guaranteed to make one whatever rebel you are striving to be at the moment. Appropriately, their original Sacramento location was struck by lightening and burned down to the foundation while the store next door survived undamaged. Of the stores, the Chico location is by far the largest, best-stocked and most popular. | |
| The Union Sacramento had, for a long while, two competing newspapers: The Sacramento Bee and the Union. The Union was a bit more right- leaning than the Bee and was subscribed to by those who thought the Bee was an evil empire. The Union finally closed up shop in the early 90s, citing the rising costs of publication. | |
| up in one's shit Encroaching into one's personal space or business, often in an unwelcome manner. Ex: My boss was all up in my shit after I came in late this morning. | |
| use the Force From Star Wars. To put your fate in God's hands. | |
| The Varsity A medium-sized theater in downtown Davis which showcases primarily local area talent productions. Lawsuit used to have a big show here annually for a while. The venue is overshadowed by the far larger productions hosted by UC Davis. | |
| vessels A Geoff-ism for shoes. Geoff has also been known to use the term "boats" in connection with shoes, though this makes even less sense. | |
| The Virgin Sturgeon The back of the menu at this restaurant on the river reads like a soap-opera: the place was built and then a few years later burned down. Rebuilt and it burned down again. The restaurant is somewhat quirky, constructed on a barge which actually floats upon the Sacramento River, connected to the shore by a retired airplane jetway. What's a jetway? Several hundred tons, but that's not the point. Rumor has it that this Sacramento seafood restaurant bit the big one in 1999. | |
| vitamin b 1) beer 2) B-12, one of the vitamins which becomes destroyed by alcohol, causing hangovers. | |
| w-x expressway A two mile by eight-lane section of roadway that runs between W and X streets. Along this section, nearly every major freeway running through Sacramento will merge in or out: I-5, I-80, HWY 16, HWY 50 and HWY 99. Only local news folks actually call this section the w-x expressway, illustrating once again why they are the nations poorest excuse for media, right behind the "It's 5:15, 15 minutes after the hour" thing they all do. | |
| wake-n-bake The process of getting stoned first thing in the morning. Often used as a hangover remedy, or by those with nothing better to do with the day. | |
| walk of shame The trip one makes after having a "quickie" of some sort away from the tryst. Most often describes the participation of third parties in observing the event. | |
| wall of shame Traditional home to historic House photos in one of the HRS locations. In the fourth House the name fell apart as it's now more of the stairway of shame… | |
| We Go Fishing This campfire staple was originated by Shavor, Passout Paul, and John Hamlon back when they were in Troop 429 in Concord. The sketch was later taken over by staff members and performed for several years with a rotating cast including Jon Hill, Charlie Bill, Shavor, Brendan and Paul. The skit involved, as the story goes, some fishermen who passed the time by performing modifications on a simple sea chantey. Some of the modifications sounded suspiciously like "Mack the Knife", U2's "She Moves in Mysterious Ways", "The Brady Bunch", the Door's "Break on Through", the Beatles rendition of "Twist and Shout", and Nirvana's "Smell's Like Teen Spirit" amongst others. Each variation on the song would involve prop and costume changes (without missing many beats) and ended with the fishermen once again fishing with their simple chantey. A definite crowd pleaser. | |
| "We're heroes" Phrase uttered by Miles constantly on his relief trip to bring back to camp a young girl a camping expedition had found wandering downstream. Staff still uses that phrase when going on S&R type exercises. Pronounced very nasally. | |
| "wear shoes" Sage advice given by the podeitrist who dealt with Charlie Bill's mangled toes after he dropped a steel loading ramp on them whilst wearing sandals. Charlie Bill has taken to giving this sage advice whenever foot injuries occur. | |
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| West Sacramento Just to the west of Sacramento lies West Sacramento, underscoring the imagination of our city founders. The two cities are separated by (surprise) the Sacramento River, the banks of which are dotted with landings and decomposing landings. West Sac is rough and tumble, being the site of much of Sacramento's remaining heavy industry and a number of business parks. A number of the major roadways through town run though low-income sections, coloring the local opinion of town as somewhat run-down and undesirable. | |
| whiskey dick Impotence that has its roots in over-consumption of alcohol. As Shakespeare said: "Lechery, [drink] provokes and provokes: it provides the desire, but it takes away the performance." (Macbeth) | |
| White Trash Party Shavor's infamous party that resulted in his eviction. The participants were all instructed to come in proper trailer trash attire. Unfortunately, much trailer trash behavior ensued, including bags of vomit being tossed from the balcony. The eviction notice came during a slugfest viewing of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, ruining that movie forever. | |
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| Whitney Mt. Whitney, tallest mountain in the lower 48 states, located nearly mid-state near Death Valley. Site of 2000 and 2001 attempts to scale it's heights by House members. At 14,494 feet, the trail winds a good five to six miles into what mountaineers call the "Death Zone" of altitude danger. While not a extremely technically difficult hike, it is an incredible mental hurdle. | |
| "Who's the asshole now?" In the movie Swingers, the drunken Trent makes a scene (well, several) in a diner. Midway through, he jumps up on the table and shouts a line that we've perverted thusly. Used in any good overly-loud drunken encounter. | |
| Whole Earth A three day festival of music, food, and just plain fucking off in the great outdoors. Held at UC Davis on Mother's Day weekend, the event has a definite hippie vibe about it. Icon of the 60's Wavy Gravy is often in attendance, sometimes walking his pet fish. While beer is not allowed on campus, they don't seem to have a problem with everyone blazing up. | |
| wifebeater A white ribbed tank-top undershirt worn as the only shirt. This style is fairly common with the vatos, some groups of skins, and white trash. | |
| Wild Orchid Topless bar on the south side of downtown Reno, across the river from the strip (no pun intended). This club seats 500 and, being topless only, features a full bar at extreme prices. This was the destination for both Roy and Young Dave's bachelor parties. Unlike many of its cousins, the Wild Orchid actually is something of a "gentleman's club", as its billed, having a men's room with attendant and requisite amenities. | |
| William Land Park Large park in the middle of Sacramento. The park hosts the city's laughable zoo, as well as a small amusement park for kids, pony rides, a municipal golf course, and numerous ponds. | |
| The Wolfeboro Movies During the pre-season of Wolfeboro 1990, Shavor and Brendan were in Chico and could not attend a very important staff meeting. To please Cam and Beth, they made a video and sent it for viewing at the first staff meeting that included the "young-uns." This short video, while crude, set the tone for two more movies (and a fourth never-edited one) whereby Shavor and Brendan would play almost all the roles and very distinctly poke fun at each of the staff's quirks during their "guest appearance." Plots included kidnapping Beth and Cam's plan to turn Wolfeboro into a cement Disneyland. In the later videos, staffers would help in production (Charlie Bill played Golfes, Jesse played Charlie Bill). The narcissic videos were a highlight of Shavor and Hurd's college friendship, although huge fights and "walks off the set" were common since Brendan "never had time" and Shavor, "was obsessed with the project." The original tape is lost; "alleged" victim of Charlie Bill's mom, although Charlie Bill swears he returned it. A mysterious "copy" is maintained by Shavor and brought out various parties, despite frequent moans.(Ct'sy Chris Shavor) | |
| The Wolfeboro Road Road into camp that winds about 2.5 miles over a rocky granite infested track. The road is subject to quite a bit of erosion, being as it is in snow country, and is usually only passable by 4x4s and similar sturdy vehicles. This road, being the only way into or out of camp, is regularly traveled by all sorts who have given each stretch of road a name over the years: Top of the Road, Upper Bongos, Lower Bongos, Steel Pipe, Preacher's Turn, Garbage Turn, Buttercup Meadows and the infamous Jackass Slide. | |
| "woo" girl Mo's term for women who express excitement with forced "wooo" whoops. | |
| Woodland Northern California is bisected by a valley running it's length. The valley is dominated by large farms and the occasional magnet town supporting the locals. The first such town as one leaves Sacramento is Woodland. Woodland is typical of many of the farming magnet towns: hot, ugly and consisting of little more than the bare necessities. In recent years light industry has moved into the area a bit, utilizing it's proximity to Sacramento and the relatively inexpensive land values to construct superwarehouses: Walgreens and area music outlet Valley Media both have large facilities here. Hilary lived and worked here--the latter unavoidable and the former inexplicable. | |
| Woodstocks A popular downtown Davis pizza joint. Their large and somewhat secluded upstairs seating area made it a popular hangout for TCR freaks, as well as other large groups trying to hook up in the downtown area. Their pizza is some of the best in the valley, and certainly the most accessible. | |
| worked 1) Insulted, though not necessarily verbally. Ex: You see Kobe take Webber to the hole? Man, that boy got worked 2) Exhausted. | |
| yardsale A skiing term referring to a particularly spectacular wipeout. Clothing and equipment are strewn along the crash path, resembling a yard sale. | |
| "you are racism" A fellow camp staff member told Brendan this once after being ribbed mercilessly by B-rock. The camp staff is something of a family and are prone to good-natured insults, just like all brothers do. Its a way of blowing off little amounts of tension between people that might otherwise boil over in time. No target is safe: appearance, weight, hair style, hometown, sexual preference or ethnic background. Our culture has such a taboo about the latter type (especially when across ethnic lines) that this is sometimes not seen in the playful manner in which it is intended. | |
| "You don't get it, do you?" Brendan's father on a trip up I- 5 with Shavor and Brendan in the car attempted to make the trip more bearable by sharing a joke which was a bit esoteric. He repeated this phrase while attempting to explain the joke in great detail. This is a popular characterization used by Brendan when imitating his father. This same trip found the somewhat gruff elder Hurd wondering aloud what the appeal of Chima's was. | |
| "You don't understand." A popular Tuy-ism, used any time someone really didn't understand or (more commonly) disagreed with his viewpoints. | |
| "You kill it, you fill it" When the camp eats, each table sends a representative "host" camper who is the table's waiter of sorts. During those times that staff eats alone, everyone chips in towards the common responsibilities. When someone empties something, they are honor bound to refill it, hence this phrase. It was, of course, stolen and perverted by use in drinking games. | |
| "to you!" Originally, this was a toast that Brendan would give in the middle of meals up at camp. He would stand, usually encouraging an entire table's worth of scouts to rise with him and toast one of the better known people in camp like: "Cam Fraser, to you" The "correct" response was to return the toast, "no, to you!" This is best done with a vaguely French sounding accent. The popularity of this toast has come and gone, returning again in late-1999. [this is the 900th entry] | |
| Zyzzyx road Road in the middle of nowhere in between Barstow and Las Vegas. Geoff and Hank passed that way on an impromptu trip to Las Vegas. They were both extremely punchy at the time and found the road's name hilarious. In a strange turn of events, they found it mentioned as the cover story in a short-lived publication called "Far Out" the next week. No trip to Las Vegas can be complete without spotting the road, which apparently lead to a health spa at one time, and now leads to nothing. |
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