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are changes within 60 days of 05/15/2002| five-second rule Odd law of biology that says that a food object dropped onto a relatively unclean surface, such as the floor, is free from contamination if recovered in less than five seconds. Use of such a phrase shows too much bachelorhood and likely indicates other unwholesome behaviors such as drinking straight from the carton. Any particulate matter remaining on the object is obviously in direct conflict with the five-second rule and thereby invalidates it in such cases. | |
| flaming Dr. Pepper Specifically a boilermaker using a shot of amaretto or a amaretto/151-proof rum mixture. It is alleged that this tastes like a Dr. Pepper does, though one would have to consume a fairly large number of them to believe this to be true. this term was incorrectly used around Desmond Hall for a time to describe any boilermaker and is still sometimes heard in this context in House circles. | |
| Flatstar Nickname given to Nortstar, a ski resort in the Tahoe area. The resort lacks sharp dropoffs, having no bowl to speak of that would create steeper terrain such as this. | |
| flipping a bitch A U-turn. | |
| Florin Road The south side of Sacramento falls off into heavy industry and run down suburbs. Running down the center of this area is Florin Road, an ugly strip flanked by large shopping centers, a somewhat run down mall, and a large number of car dealerships. The area has been hurt by the automallization of the dealerships, leaving large tracts of abandoned buildings and cracking asphalt that never are re-leased. Florin road is often used to generalize this whole area. | |
| foccacia Polite usage of "fuck". Usually mispronounced slightly so as to be "fuck-atia". | |
| Folsom The city of Folsom strives to attain the idyllic status of uber-suburb: no crime, everybody is upper-middle class, everyone keeps good care of their home and drives nice cars. The irony here, of course, is that Folsom Prison (yes, that Folsom Prison) lies within the city limits, as does a large dam which had a serious structural failure in 1996. This sort of doublethink is the cornerstone to suburban living, however. The community clashes a bit culturally with the rest of Sacramento which, for the most part, is fairly laid back and down-to-earth. This is the southern cousin to Granite Bay. | |
| Folsom Lake The various forks of the American River all merge to form Folsom Lake, a large manmade hydro dam on the western side of the town that it derives its name from. The area has been long used for generating electricity, it was, in fact, one of the first power plants in the area. Folsom Lake is used heavily recreationally, being one of the only large stationary bodies of water near Sacramento. With the closure of Lake Tahoe to small personal watercraft, many such craft have found a new home on Folsom Lake. Back on July 17, 1995 one of the lake's dam gates broke, spilling enough water out to raise the river from 8 feet to 18 feet over the course of about 90 minutes. | |
| "for what?!?" Said after the bill arrives, especially when it breaks three digits. The exact origins of the phrase have been lost, but was the result of a dinner trip that resulted in an unusually high bill at the end of the evening, thanks probably in no small part to liquor charges. Geoff may have not been the originator of this phrase but is one of the primary figures in its adoption. | |
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2) Chicoite who was the purchaser of Shavor's first car, a giant blue sta-wag. The sta-wag was later found to be more or less abandoned in an apartment complex that Chris temporarily lived in, by complete coincidence. | |
| frankenboots Similar to puppy stompers except for the fact that the boots should be both black and bulky if at all possible, much like the type worn by Karlof's monster. | |
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| Fred Meyer On the outskirts of Chico sat the monolithic Fred Meyer. Well beyond any other store, Fred Meyer attempted to be the department store of all department stores, including inside a full-sized grocery store, clothing department, auto-parts department and hardware store, amongst others. The hallmark of Fred Meyer, at least to the drunkard population, was its walk-in beer cooler where one could frolic amongst the ice cold cases of beer while making a selection. Alas, Chico didn't really need a full-service store, especially when the mall was nearby and there were far more conveniently located grocery stores, and Northern California's only Fred Meyer closed its doors. The most recent encounter with a Fred Meyer store was Hilary, Bill and Hank's foray into the town of Brookings, Oregon when they needed to fortify their Packer's Cabin expedition. | |
| freeballing The masculine act of not wearing underwear. Men seem to have a need to share this vital fact for some unknown reason. | |
| Fresh Melon A somewhat worn and nappy stuffed watermelon. Fresh Melon was often the friend of those who had a bit too much. Oddly enough, Fresh Melon was pretty comforting. | |
| Frisco What those from outside the San Francisco Bay Area tend to call San Francisco. Of those who refer to the grand old place as "The City", hearing the term Frisco has the same effect as biting into tinfoil. | |
| Fry's Primarily a California chain, this mecca of electronics came into it's own during the computer boom of the early Internet Age. Before that, Fry's was a mid-sized electronics store, catering to Silicon Valley's growing computer industry. They have, for a long time, been a prestige shopping store for the geek nuveau riche and pretenders thereto. Fry's opened an outlet in Sacramento, taking over a failed Tandy (of Radio Shack fame) megastore called "Incredible Universe". Having not been built or designed by Fry's, it is missing much of the characteristic flair and quirky organization of their other stores, looking like the Fry's peg has been shoved in the Incredible Universe hole. | |
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| Fuck the Aggies Rallying cry of the Sac State football fan during the Causeway Classic. | |
| fuckin' Sometimes written as "fucken", this is used not only in it's more common "fucking" form as an amplifier or term of derision, but as a placeholder, akin to "um". Ex: So we went down to...fuckin'...you know, that place in Del Paso | |
| fud Gary Larson in the now-defunct "Far Side" comic strip had a panel in which a dog was trying to lure a cat into the dryer with large, ill-painted signs indicating that there was "CAT FUD" inside. This plays on the common and incorrect stereotype that dogs are semi-illiterate (and that cats are likewise). Charlie Bill often pronounces "fud" the way it is spelled rather than the way it was intended, especially when referring to cat fud or dog fud. | |
| Fuji's Brendan and Shavor first roadtripped to hang out with Charlie Bill when they were attending an Alpha Phi Omega conference at Sac State one weekend. One of the high points of the weekend was supposed to be a night out at this restaurant called Fuji's, sponsored by the Davis Chapter of the fraternity. The boys didn't have a map, and Charlie Bill, not having familiarity with the downtown region yet, soon got lost in a sea of seemingly identical streets. The trio drove around yelling (as much to themselves as anyone) "where the hell is Fuji's?" They finally got some assistance when they were likely around 13rh and P or so and found the place, discovering that other than the Sac State contingent and a lone guy from Davis, they were the only other Anglos there. | |
| funny ha-ha Funny ha-ha is usually used to clarify what someone meant by use of the term "funny". Interestingly enough, the other funny states are just that -- other funny states. They are rarely, if ever, articulated by name. Ex: "She was really funny in bed." "Do you mean funny ha-ha, or funny..." | |
| gaggle(d) 1) Gagglefucked. Really, REALLY fucked up. 2) Brendan, who got the moniker for gaggling things at times. Also "gags" or "gaggles" | |
| Garden Highway One can imagine that at one point there lay a road up the length of the Sacramento river connecting the myriad of little towns along the river to larger towns such as Sacramento. The town has, over time, completely overgrown any such road leaving only the River Road to the south and the Garden Highway to the north. The Highway wanders the levees and plains alongside the river for a goodly ways, at least as far as Yuba City and perhaps even further. | |
| gay until graduation Charlie Bill's friend Ella used this term to describe people who, during their formative college years, would experiment with their sexual roles during their early 20s when such experimentation was more culturally acceptable, especially amongst women. None of the House's gay friends are GUG, they're all firmly gay thank goodness. | |
| geeking Recreating using the computer. Usually refers to doing something on-line. | |
| "get some! get some!" Originally from a scene in Full Metal Jacket where a wack-job chopper gunner shoots randomly at peasants below while yelling this between bursts of the machine gun. Used any time that projectiles come into play. | |
| to get together with A much over-used house in the phrase. Geoff used to use it in a very general sense to mean "adult activities between two consenting adults". This could have been anything from "going back to my place" to "did the deed". It became a joking phrase to indicate that something was up between two folks. | |
| Get your swerve on An evocative Greg-ism for getting drunk. | |
| Giants and Dwarves A particularly brutal campwide game that pitted 300 campers against 30 or so staff members in a capture the flag type game. The sheer volume of people competing in such an event usually landed several injuries per game with the staff taking more per capita (the campers didn't always play nicely or pull their collisions). | |
| girl drinks In the world of cocktails there exists a subclass of drinks that are fruitier and lighter than the usual fare: tequila sunrises, margaritas, fuzzy navels and the like. This is not to say that these are any less toxic than their stronger tasting brethren, but they deliver their punch a bit more gently. These drinks have taken on the name "girl drinks" as they are more popular amongst the estrogen set than the fouler tasting concoctions, though you wouldn't know it by the drinks the women who hang out in House circles order. | |
| giving the fuck To give someone the penalty drinks in a drinking game. This usually implies malicious intent. Ex: Dude, who invited Suave'? I'm gonna give him the fuck. A classic example of giving the fuck is Shavor's "bongo force", where he fills one half of a pair or bongos with names for a session for beer trek and the other half with identical papers naming the most prominent character for the stooge's "random" selection. | |
| "Go back to sleep" Like the shit-on-the-bed incident, there are some stories that have an incredibly long half-life. Unfortunately dear reader, this is one of them. I assure you, however, it's pretty funny. | |
| goat Shorthand for "goatee", a term which is usually inappropriately applied to van dykes. House members have flirted with facial hair on and off. Roy and Henry both had beards, Charlie Bill had a van dyke, Dave had a moustache and Geoff had a number of tragic attempts. | |
| "God loves a drunk" Common Charlie Bill-ism, especially when things are going his way. There are times when things just seem to be going too smoothly, and this would appear to be the only rationale. | |
| Goete Park Pronounced "gay-o-tee" or more properly "ger-tuh", this large park is one of the few relatively untouched wildernesses left in the city. The area is located right on the river and features hundreds of acres of grasslands and groves of trees. The American River Bike Trail crosses the river on a pedestrian bridge high over the river here. This is the put-out point for many of the rafting trips, making this an extremely active park in the summertime. | |
| going commando The act of not wearing any underwear. | |
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| Goldie's Large, formerly bright pink adult store on HWY 160 on the outskirts of downtown. Unlike the more sedate Suzy's, Goldie's screams "get your vibrators here" from a half-mile off, looking for all intents and purposes like something one would find in North Beach. | |
| "Good Bless You Jud" Jud's closing in his infamous farewell note; this became a stand-alone phrase. This was especially entertaining due to the misspelling. | |
| Good Guys incident A local Vietnamese gang took over a Sacramento Good Guys in the south area on March 3, 1991. Whether this was part of a botched robbery or an intentional hostage-taking act was unclear. Members barricaded themselves inside, placing hostages on the floor in front of the only entrance to the store. TV coverage was thick except when the police were making moves and asked that (for the obvious reasons) they not shoot the front of the store. The event was high-drama, including having a police-officer strip down and hand over bulletproof vests. Police attempted a by-force entrance using stun grenades and commando tactics. The gang members then proceeded to run across the line of hostages while firing, causing a high number of fatalities and serious injuries before being stopped by police. The footage, shot from a number of different angles by local media, can be found occasionally floating around the "real-life drama" shows. | |
| Goofy explosion Also as "Goofy-head explosion". When one broke character in camp, usually through profanity or inappropriate behavior. | |
| gorf A long trough, often in the floor, used for expelling bodily fluids of all types. The original gorf is in the basement of the Harvard Lampoon. The Oxwood Place had a gorf running the length of the fenceline most commonly used for dogshit disposal. | |
| The Gothic Huge ugly couch owned by Chris. It, with its accompanying minigoth were retired after spending some time outside at the Ranch. | |
| gow lah Phonetic spelling of a Vietnamese phrase meaning "bitch". This was used as a long-distance greeting among Camp staff members one summer. | |
| The Grad The Graduate: Davis area bar best known for its 7- for-1 drink specials, also its meat market. There used to be a Sacramento Grad at one time, but it was forced to close due to violations. There is a Chico bar of the same name, but its relation to the other two is unknown. | |
| the Grand Island Mansion An sprawling four-storied building located in the heart of the Sacramento delta. This huge edifice was at one time a spa (in the 30s from the looks of it) and hosts such amenities as a small pool, billiard room, bowling alley of the nine-pin variety, an ice cream parlor and a number of huge ballrooms. Most of the mansion is museum quality, making it all the more fun to explore those places which bear large signs discouraging entry. Roy & Cheryl were married there in 1999 in an extremely nice ceremony. | |
| Granite Bay Upscale Sacramento neighborhood. Granite Bay is not just an address, it is a frame of mind, and not a pleasant one at that. | |
| granny panties Any unusually large or particularly unglamorous and unsexy pair of women's underwear. Often times these get bust out during That Time of The Month. | |
| The Great Hamlini A campfire skit performed by Chris Shavor and John Hamlon, though it was later taken over by other staff members, most of whom had a Troop 429 affiliation of some sort. The Great Hamlini was a so- so magician who's sidekick provided no small degree of acrimony. | |
| the Great Red Tide What Bill calls his work's massive force of seasonal employees. The size of the company triples in the late winter and early spring, dissolving back to normal size by summertime. Much like a tide, some things are washed up on the shores to remain around after the tide has receded. | |
| Great Wall A chain of inexpensive Chinese take-out restaurants and Mongolian BBQs, usually located next door to one another. These were common havens for dorm dwellers on Sunday nights when the food was usually its worst. | |
| the grid Another name for the midtown-downtown area where the streets run numerically north-to-south and alphabetically east-to-west. Anyone asking for directions within the grid is scoffed at. Charlie Bill often gives directions within the area thusly: "if the numbers or letters are going the wrong way, turn around." The term is often used to descrbie the coolness (or lack thereof) of one's house. Ex: Sheeze, I wouldn't go there for a party, that's outside the grid. We'd have to take a cab or something. | |
| Gridley A small farming town on Highway 99--one of those places you drive through and think to yourself that you're glad that you didn't grow up here. Well, unless you're Grampa Roy, in which case you think you're home. | |
| grind Outside of the common definitions, there are two predominant NorCal definitions for this term: 1) to eat. Food is also sometimes referred to as "grindage". This usage is somewhat obsolete, but still appears from time to time, especially seen in people who associate with surfers or hardcore stoners 2) skateboarding term to describe "sessioning" across the edges of concrete structures, wearing down both one's board and the property in question. The use of "grind" to describe dancing is fairly unheard of here. | |
| grog A concoction of hot water, lemon juice, sugar, and rum-o- plenty. Good for winter nights, especially when one has access to a hot tub. How do you like your rum drinks, matey? | |
| The Guild Old, rundown theater on Alhambra Blvd which for some time provided a home to punk rock acts. | |
| guns Biceps, usually of the large variety. Ex: Dude, that guy must be using steroids, did you see the size of his guns? | |
| Hall of Shame The corridor of the House which contains nearly all the group photos publicly displayed by the House, most of which involve drinking. | |
| happy sock When asked how submariners did "without any women for months at a time" in a submarine, the Lt. Commander responded: the happy sock. We were afraid. | |
| harples Hard nipples | |
| having a BBQ Differs from BBQing, in that you are simply describing a party with meat and fire. Also usually smaller than a full blown party, and during daylight house. | |
| he's huge! Uttered by Maria after a quantitative assessment of Roy's unit while both were quite drunk. This has been used to harass both of them for some time. It doesn't help matters any that this all happened in the Mushroom. | |
| Hell's Kitchen The canonical name of the area in which Camp is located. Camp is actually situated in a valley known as "Sand Flats", the sand being a coarse and highly abrasive by-product of the glacial activity that formed the valley. The Hell's Kitchen overlook gives some idea as to how the area got it's name--the glaciers carved a deep swath into the side of the mountain, leaving huge expanses of bare granite with the occasional deposit of sand and large boulders that later became plateaus. Much of the area remains to this day bare slabs of granite. | |
| hella Northern California slang for "hell of"--to describe large amounts or extreme states. Ex: dude, I was hella fucked up. The party quit after hella cops showed up. | |
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| Henry's Ranch Henry's family's ancestral spread in the central valley out in Valley Springs. This vast stretch of wandering hillside was visited only once by the House on a shooting expedition. The ranch house was demolished soon after the visit and the place sold a few years later, thereby vanquishing a prime shooting location for the House. |
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