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are changes within 60 days of 05/15/2002| "here's to brother ..." Geoff and Tom brought with them from Walnut Creek a song that was seranaded to a person facing an imminent drink. This became tradition for those about to bong. For sake of example, if our bonger was Fred, the song would go: "Here's to brother Fred, brother Fred, brother Fred/Here's to brother Fred who's with us tonight. He's happy, he's jolly, he's FUCKED UP by golly/So drink motherfucker, drink motherfucker, drink motherfucker, drink! |
| Heritage Festival Weekend long concert by the river in Sacramento. The event features a "who's who" in the local music scene, and encompasses a wide range of musical genres. The name is doubly significant for Charlie Bill, as the concert is held in a Boy Scout camp donated and named after his grandfather. |
| herpes triangle There is some debate as two the exact three points of the triangle, but they are commonly listed as Sunrise and Greenback, the Rage on Arden Way, and the restaurant cluster of Chevy's, El Torito and Fridays on Howe. These three points describe an area where one can find most of the meat markets in Sacramento, by extension the meeting places for one night stands, infamous for spreading social diseases. |
| hide-a-bar Geoff's hide-a-bed which had a supporting steel tube running about where most people's lumbar was. This made for an extremely unpleasant night's sleep for most. |
| Highway 50 One of two eastbound freeways running through town. Highway 50 has the distinction of starting in town and ending in Ocean City, MD. The road is the lesser of the two freeways however, and gets narrow and windy just outside of town. In the higher elevations, the road is prone to being washed out by the rushing American river, as well as being taken out by mudslides and collapses of the embankments. During an extremely warm midwinter storm, the torrential runoff closed much of the highway for several months. |
| hiking A camp euphemism for drinking. Beer consumption was usually measured in "miles". Ex: We're going hiking tonight. I've got enough supplies for us all to go about five miles. This terminology was useful for those times where openly speaking of such things would be unacceptable. |
| Holiday Party An annual (4th) event were friends past and present and sometime unknown gather for good drink and good food---with the exception the year WE Jen and Maria collapsed the turkey. There is such a thing as over done. (Ct'sy Roy) |
| homo seat That seat left between guys going to a movie together without female accompaniment. Anybody sitting in this seat is, of course, immediately suspect and makes both parties feel uncomfortable--after all, one might actually make body contact! Eugh! |
| hooptie Any large late-model American sedan, preferably from the mid-80s. Large American cars seem popular in large urban environments where they become low-riders, tinted pimp-mobiles or plain old beaters. |
| Hop, skip, and go naked An oddly named drink with some odd components made popular by Roy. People, intrigued by the name, often are scared off when they learn that beer is one of the component ingredients. The resulting mix is, however, quite tasty. Directions for making the brew can be found thusly. |
| hot box To smoke pot in an enclosed location so that one would get a contact high just being there. Popular hot box locations include vehicles and bathrooms. |
| The House of the Rising Sun The author of the Lexicon realized after about 950 entries that, disturbingly, there was no entry for that which all the rest chronicled. The House of the Rising Sun is an institution which has survived in one form or another since 1992 when Geoff, Roy, Hank and Bill decided to move in together--initially it was going to be Bill & Hank and then Geoff was added on when the group he was trying to find housing with proved cumbersomely large. Roy returned from his tour of duty on the tuna boats and proved to be likeable (and homeless) so was added to the mix. Much like Chianti, the House was named before it even existed: the then-trio of guys decided that, in the grand Chico tradition, all good houses needed a name by which they could be referred. The name came from the blues standard of the same name, popularized by The Animals n the late 60's, the chief attractor being the line "mamas, tell your babies/not to do what I have done/to spend your life in sin and misery/at the House of the Rising Sun". Since then the lineup changed considerably: Roy moved out to live with his then-girlfriend Lil' Jen and during the subsequent three-bedroom house hunt, Geoff decided that the timing was opportune to move back to his folks house for a bit. Henry and Bill, down to the wire, kept the three-bedroom house and later added Big Dave as a roommate. Dave cut out a year later to live with old High School friends and was later replaced by Chris (though truth be known, that was all Hank's fault). After Chris, Bill and Henry vowed that there would be no others: they made enough by then to afford the rent and the additional friction caused by a third was simply not worth it. That was the way things remained for a number of years until Greg, finding himself out of a house after breaking up with Lori, was offered the then guestroom at the Snowbird place. Over the years there have been four locations of the House: the Landing, the Oxwood place, the Golden Eagle place and the Snowbird place. The future of the House is increasingly tentative as the core members grow up and start looking towards settling down. Whether the name will then be retired or passed along to a new, deserving generation remains to be seen. [This is entry #1000, entered on January, 7 2000 at Brendan's cabin up in Dunsmuir, CA, nearly four years after the Lexicon began] |
| House rules Set of drinking rules commonly used in the House and at House-participating gatherings. Based largely upon the Chico rules. |
| the House split When four of us lived together, it seemed that any topic that we could be bi-polar on, we were. Half would like one option, the other half preferred the other. |
| House toast “Here's to us, and those like us: damned few left!”. Always the first of the toasts. |
| Hughes Field Sacramento's largest junior college also has the only permanent stadium facility in the valley: UC Davis, Sac State and the other local schools all have girderwork bleachers. Hughes is an old-school stadium with concrete risers and all manner of facilities and accoutrements. For years, this was the home to the Causeway Classic until the matchup became a real NCAA event. The site provided a nice neutral location at which both schools could throw large inter-university ragers (overlooked by each campus's police force, of course). The location of Hughes and the lack of parking has made it somewhat undesirable as a location for other sporting or stadium-based events which is unfortunate--the stadium was a thing of glory built at a time when the j.c's football competition was the event in town to be at. |
| Hughes stadium The long standing home of the Causeway Classic until the mid-90s when the game became an official NCAA scheduled conference game. The neutral site allowed for all sorts of large combined party events. The cops were mellow about the whole affair, and the proximity of William Land Park made for a nice all-day event. |
| Hungry Prospector Another burger joint right down the road in Arnold from Jesus Burger. While their burgers were not as good, they had two things going for them: the fact that their staff wasn't so surly and the fact that the scouts all went looking for the staff over at Giant Burger. This made for an excellent weekend getaway. |
| "I am EAGLE!" Every Boy Scout hopes to one day reach the Eagle award. Both to commemorate his hard work and to encourage other scouts, there is much ceremony involved upon reaching Scouting's highest award. When John Hamlon finally made Eagle, he and many other staff members knew him and were involved in his ceremony. Shavor played the role of the Eagle in this little sketch thing where various troop members portrayed the various levels in Scouting. The best part, though, was the fact that when Chris stepped up to take his mark he stood right in front of a spotlight aiming at a hanging on the back wall, highlighting his private region. This, coupled with the military overtones this particular troop was fond of made for an entertaining spectacle. "I am EAGLE" booms out, spotlight Chris's package. Charlie Bill always uses this story as a foil to Chris's depiction of Bill's zoning out during his own ceremony. |
| "I am not a threat to you." This expression is followed immediately by the largest tooth-bearing face possible. This face is made by chimpanzees who are expressing the same sentiment as the spoken one, and is believed to be the predecessor of the grin. This is the direct cultural impact of too much Death and Destruction channel. |
| "I am reality!" Words uttered by Barnes, the dark character played by Tom Berenger in Platoon. Barnes came across the protagonist and his crew shacked up getting stoned in a bunker and began to berate them with the monologue that included this line. Our camp friend Paul Barraza took to quoting the monologue at length. This was made doubly disturbing as he didn't drink or do drugs and would take to quoting it while we were all fucked up. |
| "I don't want any fucking fries!" Travel can be a trying experience at time. You surround yourself with the same people for long extended periods of time: sometimes seeing the same people 24/7 for weeks at a time in unfamiliar surroundings. Mo and Bill witnessed the effects of travel fatigue in Baker, CA, midway between LA and Las Vegas in the middle of the desert. There, in the Burger King, the family patriarch hit the proverbial wall. The source of his anger wasn't the fries, of course, but Freudian transference won again. |
| "I got eyes motherfucker!" A statement indicating one is quite aware of the obvious. Brendan said this in response to Barraza's mention that the sun was rising. The two had been traveling Europe together for about a month or so at that point, and were sleeping behind the hostel in Istanbul, as they'd gotten there after the hostel closed. Paul was trying to suggest that Brendan get up so they wouldn't be found bumming it in the morning. Brendan found the information less than insightful. |
| "I had a girlfriend once too" Tim's assertion that the fact that one of the two Seans (the prettier of the two) had a girlfriend did not preclude him from being gay. This was one of the crowning lines of the evening from Uncle Tim and Uncle Larry who were both in rare form. |
| I Heart Teriyaki The I-Heart chain of restaurants in Sacramento serves up serviceable Japanese food on the cheap and on the quick, making them an ideal lunch destination. The odd thing is that the collective Sacramento unconscious (one might suppose the same one that is rabid for WWF wrestling) has never adopted the more correct definition of "love" for the symbolic heart used in the restaurant's name, instead using the literal "heart". |
| "I hope you die" One of Hurricane's many pithy sayings which also include "fuck me sideways". |
| "I killed a man" Phrase uttered by Melanie during the inaugural House party, usually in response to "how was your summer?"--she'd hit and killed a pedestrian who was on the freeway. While the police at the scene decided that she was not at fault, we always wondered. Frankly, we were surprised she'd done it with a car when we first heard this phrase. |
| "I need to feel your butt" Phrase uttered by Dennis to Kelly in Desmond. He was attempting to straighten her spine, and, to do so, had to touch her butt--he was so smooth. |
| "I remember you...you repulsed me." A memorable utterance by Cheryl after meeting ex-roommate Chris soon after the sock full of soap incident. Chris was not deterred in the least by this and continued to attempt to put moves on her, unsuccessfully. |
| "I saw your website" The four words that strike the most fear into the heart of Charlie Bill (just after "what does three blue lines mean?" As the website has grown it has become common for people who had drifted out of the local scene to happen across the writings. Unfortunately, many of the writings have been written with the thought that they were out of the local scene and would not come across them and are usually brutally honest and not always flattering. [This is the record of the beast, number 666] |
| "I wouldn't throw her out of bed for eating cracke A Big Daveism meaning that while the woman in question may not be perfect in all regards, she'd do. |
| "I'll be takin' these Huggies." "...and whatever cash you got." Charlie Bill had this inserted into his head around Jr. High days by a friend of his in scouts and has never been able to remove it. The line, originally from the Cohen brother's Raising Arizona come in handy anytime something needs group moving. |
| "I'll never get that drunk again..." Famous lie told by all serious drinkers. The proper response is, of course, laughter and derision. This is only ever said for comedic affect anyways. |
| "I'm burnt" When you are living with a tight-knit bunch of people like camp staffers, anyone proving anti-social or removing oneself from the group is instantly pounced upon. Such was the case of a staffer named Eric who had the bad fate of having his life in the real world turn somewhat ugly, culminating with a friend of his dying. Eric withdrew somewhat into a justified depression and coming down with an extremely bad cold, requiring him to be quarantined in his tent. This period alienated him from many other staffers furthering the harsh characterizations that were meted out in his absence. His admission that he was burned out became something of a group greeting: I'm burnt. |
| "I'm not that drunk" Henry's protestation to the check-in orderly the night he gashed his head open on a barbed wire fence (7/31/1999). Given that this was late on a Saturday night in Grass Valley, I'm sure the orderly had to ask whatever he'd been asking several times by then. We'll never know what he asked, but Hank was pretty emphatic. |
| I-5 By far one of the longest, straightest and most boring of interstates in the US, this is the queen mother of them all as far as the west coast is concerned. I-5 reaches from Mexico up into Canada, stopping through San Diego, Los Angeles, Fresno, Bakersfield, Stockton, Sacramento, Red Bluff, Redding, Portland, and Seattle. The road beelines through the hot central valleys of California through miles of fertile farmland. If you are going north-south in California, this is the road of choice, zoned as high as 70 MPH on some of the more remote sections. |
| "If hate were people, I'D BE CHINA!" The ultimate buildup to a conversation starting with the friendly "I hate you." The dialog was cribbed from the movie "City Slickers" and continues with "I hate you with the intensity of a thousand suns". |
| "If I knew it was going to be this kind of party..." "I'd have stuck my dick in the mashed potatoes". Originally, the line came from a sample at the beginning of the Beastie Boy's "Ill Communication". It became a regular phrase during those more bizarre party moments which seem to happen with some regularity. |
| "If I saw us, I'd think we were pretty cool." It is a great tragedy that WE Jen isn't currently famous. She could join the ranks of Yogi Berra and Spooner with her memorable quotes. If you hang out with Jen enough you can understand what she means--the first couple of times leave you a bit nonplussed. Jen uttered this memorable saying while we were all out one evening. |
| "If not you, who?" Standard closing on a number of Chicoite party flyers. |
| "If you can't stop...honk!" Sign by a Mexican restaurant in Hamilton City, on HWY 32 between Chico and I-5. The sign was ironically knocked over by a car that presumably couldn't stop. Charlie Bill regularly "can't stop" at this restaurant, either rushing to Chico or back to a shower and bed. |
| instant nostalgia A trend that seems to be gathering steam at the turn of the century. A major concert with full coverage is then re-covered a few days later. A few days after that the re-coverage is re-covered, and so on. It will get to the point, no doubt that one will be able to say "Remember five minutes ago, wasn't that great?" |
| iron phone Geoff's term for the old-style pushbutton phones, usually beige. Think the generic "phone" icon. This is in contrast to cordless phones and other cheap electronic foolishness which were mistrusted to a degree. |
| "Is it hard to be you?" During a weekend trip to wild and wooly Sonora, camp staffers managed to be in town the same time as Ronald McDonald. In a small, mostly isolated community such as this, such an appearance was just a bit less exciting than the second coming of Jesus Christ. It seemed that about half the town showed up, but the staffers showed up a bit too late to participate in corporate-sponsored good times. Brendan spied the wily old clown himself loading up into a chauffeured car to whisk him away to his next engagement. B-rock, knowing firsthand the difficulties of putting on a picture-perfect image, asked the painted sage if it was hard to be Ronald McDonald--attempting a little shop talk. McDonald, however, kept right in step and asked Brendan "Is it hard to be you?" Of course, in retrospect, perhaps this was a fair question. |
| "Is it me? Yah it's you!" Maria and Cheryl back in the dorms had a serious mildew/fungus problem going on in their room. The dorm was pretty new still and the kinks hadn't been all worked out and as a result, the duo had some serious funky stuff going on in their room (this of course was no reflection upon the women themselves: even Felix Unger would have been stricken). They were walking around one day and noticed something that smelled like their room had. A strange girl asked "is it me?" They delicately sniffed her and replied, "Yah it's you!" Apparently the girl and her mother had some similar funk action going on. The phrase became an instant dorm favorite. |
| "It all begins and ends with Star Wars" The Star Wars trilogy has spawned many regular house quotations as well as the occasional situational quotation as well. This phrase indicates the impact the movie has had culturally. |
| "It's all good" Big Dave and Charlie Bill were at a party held by a couple of their co-workers at which another one of their co-workers had an acid flashback and went apeshit, running home crying. He had a tearful conversation with the hostess, during which she uttered this phrase at least a dozen times. |
| "It's not the years, its the mileage" This catch-all phrase has been applied to a great many things since its first use in about 1991. It originally explained how some people were grizzled drinking veterans at an early age, but can apply to anything that shortens the lifespan, such as House member's general lifestyles. [Entry #500] |
| "It's the difference between love and like" This is the ultimate comeback to the stream of conversation which starts "You suck", followed by "you swallow"; it applies to any mention of swallowing, though. |
| "its not the taste, its the texture" Originally, this described the food eating process while talking to Bob, where everything tastes pretty much the same, but one notices the intricacies in textures usually eclipsed by taste sensations. The best case in point are "real" refried beans with identifiable bean parts still lingering. This phrase has found broader application, however, and creeps into all sorts of genres. |
| Jäeger Jäegermeister, a nasty German liquor. Somewhat reminiscent of Death Green NyQuil in flavor. A must for shooting, chilled. |
| Java City Sacramento's answer to Starbucks. This chain exploded from being in a couple of outlets to supplying coffee to what seemed to be every restaurant with a percolator during the coffee boom of the mid-90s. Java City in-store promotions are common sights in the city and the valley. |
| Jesus Burger Giant Burger in Arnold, CA. Thusly named due to its numerous religious posters and pamphlets. The religious fervor has mellowed out there over the last few years. They serve reasonable burgers, usually with something less than gleaming customer service. |
| "jiggle-jiggle" Henry's cartoonlike additions to any scene depicting breasts exhibiting principles of physics. |
| Jim-Denny's Originally Jim & Denny's, this tiny diner on 12th street has been a Sacramento fixture for years. The food is greasy and inexpensive, and there's always plenty of it. Their breakfasts are essentially eggs, bacon and pancakes in ever-escalating amounts and combinations. Jim-Denny's is in the rough neighborhood of Alkali Flats. |
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