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| Tim O'Shit Hallmate of the gang in Desmond Hall. Was Eric's roommate for the second semester. Tim was a prototypical frat boy, going so far as to get his fraternity letters and ID number tattooed on his ankle. Tim entered the local radio scene after college, working at a few sports radio stations before settling at KHTK with his own show. | |
| tip 1) In a particular style. Ex: "We were on the freak tip" 2) Penis | |
| tocque A strange Shavor-ism that he claims to be a Canadian term for knit caps. The tocque was a cornerstone of the cabin trips, usually held in the fall or spring when nighttime temperatures could drop considerably in the low mountains. The house could only be minimally heated and sweaters and caps were the order of the day. Everyone raided the cabin's clothing stores, with many of the garments gaining their own names over time, such as the "nipple tocque". The common spelling as "tocque" was flavored by a cabin version of Brendan's House Rules. [Thanks to Mark Franklin, an honest-to-God Canadian for correction on the spelling. Maybe they're not such bad people after all. Naahhhh] | |
Tom
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| Tom Nakagowa The self-titled karaoke king of Sacramento. Tom is found in the unlikely environs of Old Ironsides weekend nights warming up the room for the alternative acts that usually follow, singing lounge hits while being accompanied by his faithful karaoke machine. It's the approximate mesh of Don Ho opening for the Sex Pistols. While the crowd is not always attentive, it's usually fairly respectful. | |
| tomato juice Charlie Bill swears up and down by this as a hangover remedy, though no one has yet to join his bandwagon. Bill has managed quite a number of Lazarus-like returns from the dead using tomato juice to prime the pumps before a hangover breakfast. | |
| Tough Shit Market Formerly a Circle-K, this convenience store had a very minor makeover when it was decomissioned but remains, at heart, the exact same store sans gas pumps. The store is actually the "TS Market"--the full name was added later by Charlie Bill. The Tough Shit is located on Kiefer Blvd near Mayhew, smack dab inbetween the Oxwood Place and the Snowbird Place. | |
| Tough-guy One of Shavor's somewhat spooky neighbors (the likes of which seem to compose the majority of his neighbors) who went around saying "Hey, tough-guy". A little scrappy dude, we weren't sure whether or not he was trying to invoke confrontation, or thought he was being friendly. | |
| Tower If you live in westernized country, or have even been to one, you've no doubt heard of Tower Records. Tower is an international chain that started in Sacramento back in the late 40's as a corner in a small drugstore. The name came from the Tower movie theater which dominated the structure the drugstore cohabited. The record store eventually overtook the drugstore and then moved across the street to its present home. The original location has since been taken over by the Tower Cafe, a funky downtown eatery. The original sign still stands above the cafe, though, and is sentimentally maintained by the president of Tower Records. | |
| Tower Bridge As you come into town from the Bay Area, one of the first things you see is the Tower Bridge. The bridge, lit up brightly at night, is a large deco-style drawbridge straddling the Sacramento River. It is one of the more remarkable city landmarks, and certainly one of the nicer attractions in the Sacramento skyline. The Tower Bridge is located on Capitol Blvd next to Old Town. | |
| Tower Cafe A funky restaurant located in the old Tower Drugstore. The restaurant serves world cuisine to a fairly hip clientele. Their indoor seating is decorated somewhat as if a Cost Plus store shipment had been diverted to the restaurant. Outside the restaurant maintains a large patio section that nearly doubles their seating capacity. On the warm spring and summer months, this is the place to sit at the restaurant. During the chilly months they bring out space heaters so it remains somewhat hospitable except in the worst of weather. The service is best described as "casual": patrons seat themselves and are well served to expect a leisurely meal or to have their transactions all lined up to minimize the long dissapearances of the wait staff. The food is always good and there are always specials available on the menu. | |
The Tower of Technology
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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. | |
The Trap
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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. | |
| trippy Weird, unusual, or unexpected. From the drug "trip", especially acid and other hallucinogens. | |
| Trog Charlie Bill first met Big Dave at a bar in Roseville with a cluster of TCR folk. Dave was suckered into calling in that night using the handle "Trog" and the rest was history. Recollections are hazy, but there is some memory that the name was used in the pre-TCR days as well. A goodly number of people still identify him as "Trog Dave", despite his relative abandonment of this title. | |
| 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(10/09/2001) 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) | |
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| The two Seans At Roy and Cheryl's engagement party out in Rancho Murieta, the wait staff was comprised of two guys both named Sean, one of whom was very pretty and was setting off gaydars left and right. | |
| type-b woman The type of woman who'd "look better with my dick in her lips". Yes, its quite piggish. Used mostly as a straight-man setup: "She's a type-b woman." "Type B woman?" etc. | |
| 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. | |
| ugly lights The lights that are turned on in a bar or club around quitting time. This hastens the realization that the person whom you have been dancing with for the last two hours is real ugly. | |
| ULC The Universal Life Church, in which both Big Dave and Charlie Bill are ordained ministers. | |
| Uncle X Not a leader in the Black Muslim movement, rather as "Uncle Chris" and "Uncle Hank". You know who we're talking about here: maybe he's a real uncle, maybe he's just one of those close family friends who gets the honorary uncle status. He's always the one who spurts the somewhat off-color jokes, often of the "pull my finger" variety and always in inappropriate, family-oriented gatherings. Shavor first used this term in reference to his own behavior at Becky's wedding reception, where upon shaking the groom's hand looked down at Charlie Bill and Bob in the receiving line and said "huh, guess I'm the only guy here who hasn't gone out with Becky." Given that this was said right in front of the groom, the bride, and both of their families while shaking the largest guy there's hand made it all the worse. | |
| "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. | |
| Val Valley Girl, hunted to extinction by about 1985. Vals rode in on the tide of New Wave and went out about as fast. They did, however, make a significant lasting impact upon modern Californian slang. Not only did the Vals drop a load of new slang upon the scene (most quickly vilified upon their passing), but indeed a whole speech pattern with exaggerated rises and elongations. The term itself is usually pronounced in that manner: Val-l-l-l-l. | |
| 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. | |
| vatos Spanish for "homies". Implies a certain degree of stereotypicism used both by la raza and others. | |
| 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. | |
| voodoo 1) Another one of Charlie Bill's other names, this one was used in his geek days on TCR. 2) A mystical practice that mysteriously seems to fix a technical (usually computer) problem. There is usually no actual remedy here, but its a perversion of the scientific process akin to 1800s medicine. Ex: He said that he couldn't get Netscape to run right unless he called up Notepad first, but that sounded like voodoo. | |
| 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. | |
| Wacky Cathy A spooky French girl who Shavor had at one of his parties (might have been the infamous White Trash Party). She was hard-up, probably due to her general spookiness, and was attempting to put moves on anything that might have had a penis. Hank attempted to get together with her after the party wound down, but was prevented from doing so by an unexpected call he had to make to Ralph on the big white phone. Apparently Collin Dupres ended up moving in on the already warmed up Wacky Cathy. This was a topic of much delight for Shavor, Brendan, and Bill, who ribbed Henry about this episode for months. | |
| (Ro)wah Canadian goalie Patrick Roy pronounces his last name not "roy": but "wah", or sometimes more fully "ro/wah". This is yet more evidence that there is bill/nocanada">something wrong with Canadians. It does, however, make another nickname for the mysterious Roy. | |
| 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… |
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