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are changes within 60 days of 05/15/2002| Camp Camp Wolfeboro, where Brendan, Shavor, Charlie Bill and eventually Jessie and Mike Brown worked. A summer camp located approximately 2.5 miles from Bear Valley. Former camp staff members are known to sing camp songs quite loudly and off key when drinking. | |
| Captain Leaky Announcement that a person is leaving a drinking game that is in progress for the express purpose of taking a leak. There is usually a three drink penalty involved with invoking Captain Leaky. The Captain's close cousin in Captain Smoky, which is a between-game announcement of a smoke break. The latter captain must be agreed upon by a majority of players. | |
| card condom The little pouch on the newfangled folders that restaurants use to bring your check to the table. The card fits neatly inside and peeks out the top, indicating that the bill is ready to go. | |
| Cattle Club One of Sacramento's best music clubs, now folded. A number of really big acts passed through the Cattle Club at one point or another, including most of the Seattle scene, during the club's heyday. | |
| the causeway Section of I-80 that separates Davis from Sacramento. Most of the year it doesn't really qualify as a causeway so much as a raised freeway, but the winter months see the river spillway floods pretty regularly, forming a large lake. The causeway is only about ten miles long, but is psychologically much further. This is probably the result of heterogeneous nature of the road and scenery around it, or the lack thereof. | |
| Causeway Classic Local contest involving the two local schools, a ton of alcohol, and a lot of debauchery. Oh, they play a football game too. | |
| the center of the universe The Taco Bell in Chico has been proven to be the center of the known universe. On a number of occasions random encounters took place at the Taco Bell, sometimes bringing people together who hadn't seen each other in years. Geoff ran into Bill and Hank up there completely by chance once. Taco Bells in general have the strange property of being centrally located so that as one drives into a new town and goes "where the hell am I?", the Taco Bell will magically appear. | |
| century club Members of the century club have successfully consumed 100 full beers over between Friday and Sunday nights. This works out to nearly three beers every hour, not including sleeping/pass out time. As far as we know, the only person with ties to the House who even claims to have tried this is Big Dave who alleges gaining full club membership. We have to take him at his word at this as he is unable to supply any corroborating evidence to substantiate this claim. Dave states: The trick, by the way (besides being an alcoholic) was to drink a LOT of water during the process. And to tell the truth, from Friday noon to Sunday midnight is 60 hours. Subtract about 16 hours for sleeping and you get 44 hours of drinking. That's only about 2 beers an hour (a little more), and that is easily accomplished with the proper training and diet. | |
| CFM Boots Come-Fuck-Me Boots. Also "fuck me boots". Long, often shiny boots that run in length from just below the knee to mid-thigh. Think Julia Roberts' footwear in the poster shot for Pretty Woman. Long stiletto heels help, as does wearing a ridiculously short miniskirt or dress to show off a bit of thigh. | |
| the chalice Giant glass chalice that Brendan found in his parents backyard in Berkeley. This was his favorite drinking glass for some while and proved neigh-on indestructible. Brendan was demonstrating how indestructible it was by throwing it on the concrete walkway when it smashed. Brendan than ran inside and attempted to blame Charlie Bill, despite a dozen or so eyewitnesses who'd be able to testify under oath to the contrary. | |
| Chapel of the Bells One weekend evening Jon and Crissy went to the Dollars out in Roseville to catch a movie. True to form, the place was packed and they decided to go home. As they were getting on the freeway they were offered two options: Sacramento or Reno. As the story has it, the two looked at the sign, looked at each other and headed up to Tahoe to get married in Nevada. They stopped at the first place they found, the Chapel of the Bells. | |
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| The Cherry The second of the Chico Houses. A small, poorly insulated, poorly heated house. The things that made this one of the best houses was its proximity to Langdon Hall, which had 24-hour bathrooms, the fact that it was circular, and if he wasn't there, Matt's Loft. | |
| cherry eject The action of a cigarette when it spontaneously drops its cherry (or burning part). Common causes of cherry ejection includes jostling, high winds (such as having the cigarette out the car window), and cigarette manufacture. The old Winston cigarettes had long filter papers that overlapped the tobacco containing section, causing frequent cherry ejects just before filter hits. An ejection is often cause for much panic, especially when it falls on one's person or on upholstery. | |
| Chico There's two types of people in Chico it seems: students, and white trash. Chico is, like Davis, a mixture of farming town and college town. The town is very much at odds with itself--a very active and alcoholic student population perpetually at war with its populace. The townies regularly pass legislation and begin unpopular construction projects in the summertime, when students are mostly gone. The school was nominated by Playboy as the #1 party-school in their first such ranking around 1990. This propelled the town from major-leauge drinking into superstar, hall-of-fame style drinking. An annual week-long celebration held by the school, Pioneer Days, had to be cancelled after it grew too rowdy that same year. The town took it up the next year, calling it Rancho Chico Days, and was treated to a full-scale riot running their streets. Chico still drinks mighty hard, but the town and school is trying to tighten down on its populace a bit. The town is still pretty lax though--hordes of drunken revelers roam the streets on the major drinking holidays with helpful police and university volunteers guiding them along. Bar competition is fairly stiff in the early evening hours--specials are quite common, such as the bar offering $.25 drinks, getting more expensive each five minutes. The student population is very friendly, and will offer a couch or a beer when in need. The cops are also fairly friendly, and are massively efficient at killing parties, having their own keg disposal truck. | |
| chiefing Any sort of mischief perpetrated upon a (drunkenly) passed out individual. Geoff, Bill and Roy attempted to chief Henry with the "hand in the warm water" trick once at the Landing. The traditional chiefing involves some sort of disfigurement that won't be immediately apparent to the victim, like a big "I'm lame" written in magic marker on the victim's forehead. | |
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| chilling Plain old hanging out, doing nothing of any particular importance, often in a social context. Ex: "Nah, I'll be right over, we weren't doing anything important, just chilling. | |
| Chima's A convenience store and gas station in Dunnigan, on I-5. A popular mid-point stop on the way to Chico. There was once a well-told conflict between Chris, Brendan and "Papa Chima" over the amount of carbonation in their sodas. | |
| chow beer Beer who's only redeeming quality is it's cheap price. Bought in situations where quantity is preferable to quality. The Chico favorite for a number of years was Black Label or Milwaukee's Finest. Sacramento seems to prefer Old Milwaukee or Milwaukee 1851. | |
| chronic An oldschool inner-city term for marijuana, often used somewhat tongue-in-cheek. | |
| chunder 1) Vomit 2) The act of producing chunder. | |
| Chunder Lane/Chunder Alley The section of I-80 starting at HWY 113 and progressing through the W-X expressway into downtown Sacramento. If you are on the road, and have a passenger who is in danger of booting, this is where they will do it. | |
| Citrus Heights Once part of Sacramento County, this recently incorporated city usually gets lumped under the generic "Sacramento" that applies to most of the county. Citrus Heights is one of the largest and most residential of the named areas of Sacramento and typifies suburban sprawl: nothing but tract homes, supermarkets, strip malls, gas stations and convenience stores as far as the eye can see. This part of town is also geographically the furthest from any of the freeways, a fact that tends to turn major roadways into high-speed thoroughfares. | |
| the City San Francisco. Use of this term usually indicates having spent some time in the Bay Area. Since all the House members are originally from there, and nearly all the House's cronies grew up there, this is the standard pronunciation of San Francisco. People who refer to it as "the City" are repelled by the term "Frisco", which makes them think of cooking grease. | |
| clown To tease, often as "clowning". Ex: Yeah, after they saw who spent the night that one time, they've been clowning me | |
| clown car A car so small that one expects a bunch of clowns to come piling out of it when the car comes to a stop. The vehicular opposite of a tuna boat. Molly at one point owned a Ford Festiva, a definite clown car. | |
| Club 400 A topless bar in downtown Sacramento. Club 400 has a full liquor license, differentiating it from the myriad of harder juice bars throughout town. It's proximity to downtown makes it the name to drop when one wants to generically refer to nudie bars. The club shut down in late 1999 and was replaced with a blues club. | |
| co-ops The Davis Co-Ops. An incorporated, UCD supported housing group on the UCD campus. A group of four semi-connected large houses with a common courtyard. The group was self-managing and usually bought food as a group. The co-ops brought a wide variety of usually fairly open-minded and easygoing types. With a dozen or so living in each house, the chances that a party of some type going on was fairly good. The co-ops were nearly designed for such mayhem, having a secluded common courtyard and large common areas in each house. | |
| Coffee in Ten A member from TCR going by the moniker Angst would call spontaneous "coffees"--essentially parties without alcohol being the key ingredient. These get-togethers would be announced on the board and would usually happen as soon as everyone could log off and get their asses out to his house (hence, "in ten"). The CiTs collapsed under their own weight after they started happening every Thursday night, and attendance started getting out of hand. The CiT banner was taken up by several other people from time to time, especially when the parties started getting too big. The gatherings usually wouldn't start until 10 or so, and sometimes lasted as late as 6 am, which accounted for their being on a Thursday (so everyone could slack on Friday). | |
| coin Money Ex: I can't buy any beer, I've got no coin. | |
| Combat Lucky A Lucky supermarket on the north-central part of Midtown. The Lucky has no windows to speak of: while this is a growing trend amongst modern supermarkets, this store was designed this way back in the days of glowing glass markets. It is also one of the smallest major-chain stores in terms of square footage in Sacramento. To make matters worse, the store's entrance is not towards the street as one might expect in a heavily pedestrian neighborhood, but rather more towards the center of the parking lot. As a result of these odd design characteristics, the store has something of a bunker feel. No sooner than this entry hit the lexicon but the Lucky chain merged with Albertson's, making the store actually the Combat Albertson's, but it remains to be seen if the latter name will garner acceptance. | |
| "Coming? I'm not even breathing heavy!" One of Big Dave's favorite responses to the innocent question "are you coming?" | |
| The Commandments A list of hard-and-fast rules that House members were expected to live by. The commandments were made necessary after a number of misconducts during the first major party. Worded intentionally vaguely, they provided some order among the chaos. | |
| Compton's The spookiest of the three midtown markets, the other two being the Alhambra Safeway and a small and spooky Lucky on the north end of midtown. Compton's underwent a name change a few years ago to "Rick's Uptown Market", the "Uptown" being made up of the letters of Compton's--the C's turning into U's. The store attempted an image change at the same time, but it's failure in that area is reflected in the still-common usage of the old name. A few more upscale Comptons remain in the East Sac and downtown area. | |
| conn On a ship, the conn is the center of navigation. In Star Trek the Next Generation, a show watched fairly religiously by House members at one time, much ceremony is made of relinquishing the conn from one commanding officer to the next (the old show they just left, hoping someone would fill in). In a male-centric household, the center of navigation is the television remote and it is held and relinquished with just as much fanfare, passing it off to one's relief saying "you have the conn". | |
| copper chopper Sheriff's helicopter which is based near the House. Overflights by officers with nothing better to do are fairly common. | |
| The Cornerstone A popular midtown eatery down on J & 24th streets. The cornerstone does a fairly good-sized business folk breakfast crowd during the week and on the weekends an even larger crowd of midtown residents, most of whom are suffering from the effects of the night before. The Cornerstone serves typical greasy spoon fare. To it's credit, it was one of the first restaurants in town to serve Java City coffee and to heavily promote that fact. | |
| The Couch Shavor's Buick. So comfortable inside it was like riding in a couch. The original couch was a red Pontiac 6000 which met its end in Sacramento. The opulence of the vehicle was enhanced by the fact that Shavor's previous car was a mid-70s station wagon of the tuna boat variety. | |
Country Club
2) The nicest of the houses, and the last true Chicoite house. A big old historic Victorian-style on the outskirts of town. The building was split in half, and the next-door neighbors were common at Country Club parties. The Country Club was located at 1735 Magnolia in northwestern central Chico. | |
| cow town Small, rural community. Most of the Sacramento Valley can be described as cow towns. Usually, this has a derogatory implication. | |
| Crawdads Only in Sacramento could you build a bar on a floating platform with a view of Chevy's and a levy and have people packed in every weekend. If the idea seems a bit odd, it is: Crawdad's is a normal if somewhat smallish bar with a huge outdoor patio which is literally on the Sacramento River. Now, while there a number of areas along the Sacramento that are extremely scenic, this isn't one of them. The big draw is the fact that the place has one of Sacramento's surprisingly few dock areas and has a good quantity of visitor berths. On the summer weekends, the place becomes quite the meat market as boaters get liquored up and cruise the river either to or from the nearby dockage. The rest of the crowd is made up of Sacramentans attempting to escape the summer heat and find solace and delta breezes down by the river. | |
| The Crest One of Sacramento's two remaining movie palaces, the Crest has changed little from it's glory days. Undergoing a fairly major renovation in the early 90s and an expansion in more recent years, the Crest still regularly shows movies and uses it's large theater for all sorts of mid-sized venues. | |
| Cricket's Bar that was kitty-corner from The Landing. The House boys were regulars over there, except for Charlie Bill who only went there once: the House moved out of the complex on his 21st birthday. Cricket's has since gone under, and even the bar that replaced it has gone under. | |
| cum trees A peculiar variety of tree in Sacramento that smells for all the world like male ejaculate in the spring and occasionally in the fall. | |
| Curtis Park An area of central Sacramento due south of midtown and downtown. Once a fairly affluent area, the region has fallen upon somewhat hard times. As the midtown area has gentrified, many first-time homebuyers from that region have been turning to the still close and far cheaper area to the south, thereby serving to improve Curtis Park as well. | |
| "damage waiver!" The plaintive call of all gathered when running into situations that might cause problems with rented equipment such as rafts and U-Hauls. While the waivers are usually a fool's bet, they afford a certain piece of mind in high-stress situations, such as crashing a raft into submerged trees. | |
| "Dammit!" This phrase, while normally common, becomes Wolfeboro-specific when said quickly in a shrill, high voice. The statement is an imitation of long-time Wolfeboro Program Director Beth Limberg. Shavor mocked her in three of the infamous Camp Movies. This phrase coming from "Wolfeboro Wars.", third video in the series. (Ct'sy Chris Shavor) It should be noted that Chris's Beth characterization became commonly used amongst staff, and Shavoresque falsetto characterizations became the norm when "quoting" women. | |
| dank both and adjective and a noun describing marijuana. In the adjective, one is describing the pot as being particularly strong, earthy and moist--high quality dope indeed. In the noun form, one rarely implies that the pot itself is dank, instead using the noun as a synonym for marijuana. | |
| Dark Ages Period at Camp when there was a high level of distrust amongst management and staff. Bad attitudes ran high, firings were common, and things happened willy-nilly. From 1991-1995 Cam Fraser was at the helm and he managed to reverse many of the uglier trends and made camp a happy place to work, filled with people of vision and drive. The ship was run tightly and the direction was true. His departure has seen things backslide in recenter years. | |
The Darth Vader Building
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| Davis A city across a floodway from Sacramento. Davis is primarily a college town, but is rapidly becoming a bedroom community for Sacramento. Davis started out as a UC Berkeley extension, and its ag school heritage have made an indelible mark upon the community's feel and politics. Davis is infamously rabid about several skewed ideas about the world, especially snoring, frog tunnels, and smoking. These attitudes re seen as justifications for Sacramentans for living in Sacramento and giving their country cousins a wide berth. | |
| Davis rocks On either side of the causeway that separates West Sacramento from Davis, there are massive levies to keep the water in its place. On the "dry" side of the Davis levy is a bare patch of earth where people have brought all sorts of large river stones. The rocks are regularly re-arranged by fraternities, for people's birthday, for I "heart" U messages, and once by Coca Cola. These messages are forty or so feet high, and can be clearly seen by traffic heading eastbound on I-80. | |
| Davis tap For being one of the most progressive cities in the valley, Davis has the most backwards water supply in the area. Not only is the water somewhat foul tasting, it is often seen to have semisuspended particulate matter in it which will settle if given enough time. There have been a number of studies showing that Davis's water does, at times, range a bit on the unhealthful side, contaminated in part by the large-scale agriculture in the area. Davis's tap water is bad enough to have been used as a penalty drink (warm) in a vicious game of asshole. |
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