|
![[UPDATED]](image/updated.gif){kind=small}
and
![[NEW]](image/new.gif){kind=small}
are changes within 60 days of 10/16/2001| The Ranch 1) By far, the grandest of the Chicoite Houses in terms of parties. The Ranch had stereo bathrooms, a huge outside yard and a big-ol kitchen. The house after The Cherry, this is where the Chicoite's party-hosting skills reached their zenith. The group had a number of huge parties, attracting the likes of Red Barn. The Ranch is located at 818 Pomona Street, just a few blocks south of the Duplex. 2) Henry's family's property outside Valley Springs--an honest-to-God ranch with cows and everything. Geoff, Roy, Hank and Bill traveled there once with rifles and hangovers to do some plinking and have wanted to go back ever since. | |
| Rancho Cambodia Local's name for Rancho Cordova, a somewhat run-down section of town. Rancho is just on the edge of the continuously populated section of town, and as such is the home to industrial parks, warehouses and strip clubs. Rancho boomed up in the 60s and 70s and has generally fell into disrepair since then. Rancho is home to more than its share of strip malls that have gone bust for some reason that escapes us. | |
| Rancho Murietta Every metropolitan area has its swanky suburbs and then its ultra swanky suburbs -- Rancho Murietta is the latter for Sacramento. Located twenty minutes easterly from town on the cusp of the Sierra foothills, this secluded and gated community twists and turns around old oaks and immaculate golf courses, being The Place to be from while still not being obnoxious about it. While we all aspire to live there with our fleet of Lexuses someday, only the elder Becks live there currently. | |
| random drinking injury Any random injury sustained while inebriated, the source of which is later forgotten--mostly bruises and scrapes. | |
| Ray's Popular Chico area liquor store, known for a wide selection and reasonable prices. | |
| real jobs What your parents always ask about, even if you are pulling in 50-large. Defined as having a job that offers enough cash so that you never have to say "I can't, I'm broke". | |
| "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. | |
| Recon John While nobody aside from a handful of camp people knew him, Recon John was Charlie Bill's first boss up at camp and the head cook. He was also one of the first drunks that Bill would get to know and offered him his first "adult" beer. John also executed a rat from 50' with a .22 in a celebrated tale. John was also known for DUI'ing it back from the Red Dog and, on one occasion when he was too sick, letting a drunk Englishman drive who proceeded to DUI back to camp on the wrong side of the road. | |
| 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 happy%20sock">hardass exterior, he might be an all right guy after all. [term suggested by Jeff McClellan] | |
| Red Barn Chico association, mainly known for raging in a serious manner. | |
| 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. | |
| reindeer games From the old song about Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer where the other deer wouldn't allow the freak to play in any of their reindeer games. Any sort of cliquish or group activity usually with implied exclusion of some sort. Ex: After that guy puked all over the futon, he wasn't welcome at our reindeer games. | |
| Reno Johnny Cash's protagonist in "Folsom Prison" once shot a man here just to watch him die. Reno makes a man want to do that sort of thing. It's a squat town with few buildings in the downtown area much above four or five stories. Gambling is the business of this town, and its damned near the only business. While the other gambling centers of Las Vegas and Tahoe offer entertainment and family-style diversions, the only avenue here is straight-up 24/7 gambling. Buses regularly beeline from the Bay Area and Sacramento here, disgorging the optimistic many and the lucky few: pensioners, partiers and those die hard gaming addicts all cruise the streets. The crowd is older and less hip than in Tahoe or Las Vegas, but the wheels here roll harder, bigger and longer than those places. Notable House-related activities included Charlie Bill's stranding in the 1997 New Year's flood in the town for three days, a 1999 excursion here for Roy's bachelor party and a February 2000 trip there for Young Dave's bachelor party. | |
| 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. | |
| Rhonda 1) X Moey X's roommate for the first part of the year in Desmond Hall, she was later traded for Molly. Bill and Henry loved to torment Rhonda, especially by licking an electronic chicken that she had who would chirp when a circuit was made (by skin or, in this case, spit) between two contacts. She had a number of easily pressed buttons, of which Henry and Bill pushed many. 2) Sometimes female friend of Henry's whom he met in the dorms his first year. Rhonda was from San Ramon and friends with Will Haley back in high school--the same school Molly went to, in fact, though the two were passing acquaintances at best. Rhonda blew back onto the scene in the fall of 1998, showing up a few times and attending that year's House Halloween party before mutual flakiness took it's toll. | |
| 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. | |
| rodeo style To ride a vehicle standing up whilst holding on with one hand while the other flies in the air in the manner of a bull rider. This doesn't truly become rodeo style riding unless the vehicle is a four-by-four, you are holding onto the rollbar, and the driver is zipping offroad at an uncomfotable speed, thereby increasing the danger leve. | |
| 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. | |
| Roy See Oris. | |
| Roy! Cheerful, if gravelly, greeting afforded to Grampa Roy, a la "Norm". | |
| RT Regional Transit, Sacramento's bus and light-rail authority. RT is fairly decent as west coast mass transit goes. | |
| 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. | |
ruminating over the ruins of his life
| |
| 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. | |
| the Sacramento Gold Rush When the World Football League folded at the end of the 1992 season, the Canadian Football League took up many of the facilities renovated by the World Football League; in Sacramento establishing the Gold Rush. Support for another football team was limited, especially since their brand of football was Pepsi to NFL's Coke, or perhaps Oatie-O's to the NFL Cheerios. Whatever your metaphor, their lack of success drove the team from town after a few short seasons. Perhaps it was the fact that they played during some of the hottest weather in town... | |
| The Sacramento Kings One of the things that Sacramentans beat themselves up about is the fact that they have a sucky basketball team in the Sacramento Kings. They made they playoffs once...once. The team plays out at Arco Arena to mostly sellout crowds, usually there to see somebody else kick the King's butt once again. | |
| 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. | |
| the Sacramento River Cats Sacramento's very own AAA-league franchise, formerly the Vancouver Canadiens. The name was picked from over 6,000 submissions as the most youth-friendly and evocative of the nearby rivers. The team, one step away from the Major League Oakland A's, features up-and-comers, also-rans, and a the occasional big names sent down for a little rehab. It might not be the flashiest ball you'll ever see, but it's pretty honest. | |
| the Sacramento Solons Back in The Day, the Solons were one of the first teams in the old Pacific Coast League from 1903-1960 and then again from 1974-1977. Until the return of baseball back to Sacramento in 1999 in the form of the Steelheads, this was the name always bandied about when folks wanted to talk about the sports viability and history of the town. | |
| the Sacramento Steelheads In 1999, the short-lived Sacramento Steelheads would play their one and only season in Sacramento in the independent Western League. Before the team even arrived, the owner had run afoul of the local press and politicos. During the season, the drew sharp protest from the Land Park residents whose property was beset upon by the throngs heading to Sac City college field where the team played. At the end of the season and an alleged $250,000 in losses later, the owner moved the team out to Vacaville. | |
| The Sacramento Surge The ill-fated World Football League set up shop in Sacramento with the Surge, playing both at Hughes Stadium and at Sac State's Hornet Field in 1991 and 1992 before the league quit. There was quite a bit of Surge mania, some of which was in part fueled by the desire for locals to prove that they could support professional sports and perhaps get a "real" team. The Surge has two claims to fame: they won the championship in the second and final year and wrestler-of-the-moment Goldberg used to play for them. | |
Safety Town
| |
| salty Crude, rude, and coarse in demeanor. Often accompanied by a certain sexual explicitousness. Ex: She must be hard up or ovulating, 'cause she's hella salty. | |
| 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. | |
| Saucer What Hank calls Bill's family dog Sasha, a Shi Tzu mix. When he first met the dog she was wearing a giant plastic protective cone, looking a bit like a satellite dish. | |
| 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. |
Back to The House
