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| jobbed To be dissed, especially by a group of people. A derivative of "worked". Ex: Man, after that booty call, everybody was straight jobbing me the next morning. | |
| Johnny got hit by the bus The problem with camp is that it's seven weeks of a program that is pretty well repeated each week: new campers come in each week and the process begins again. That also means that what they want to do is also pretty similar from week to week. No better example of this is the camper-presented skit "Johnny got hit by the bus". While there is some marginal humor in a particularly well-performed JGHBTB skit, the humor is usually pretty few and far between. This, however, is one of the camper's favorite skits to perform and it gets stage time nearly every week; much to the chagrin of the staff members. | |
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| "ƒjugamos monos!" A camp phrase that was inspired from a really awful forced presentation on child abuse. It means "we all play monkeys" in Spanish, and is usually as a call and response with the chorus on the second word. Part of the video included a part where an older boy told a younger boy: "Lets go and play monkeys. You know, monkeys don't wear any clothes". This same video also introduced the members to the phrase "finding the best firewood". | |
| juice bar All-nude exotic dancing establishment. Law round about these parts prohibits all-nude dancing where alcohol is served, so these establishments sell soft drinks and juice concoctions starting at about $3 a throw. Then again, there's not so many places where the waitress who brought you your overpriced drink will be shaking her ta-tas later, so perhaps a balance has been struck. Touching of the women at juice bars is prohibited and the reverse is also true. | |
| junk A man's reproductive organs, especially the testicles. Usually only referred to thusly when it was in harm's way: Ex: ...and then she said "not even for $100!" and kicked me in the junk. | |
| K-Street Mall A several-block long pedestrian mall bookended by Sacramento's convention center on one end and the Downtown Plaza on the other. The pedestrian mall has, however, been there since before either of these two edifices. At one point the Mall was just another part of K street but it was closed off to create a shopping district. Unfortunately, with little in the mall to create a draw, the area fell onto hard times and has seen many business vacate the area. An attempt at revitalization was made at the time the Downtown Plaza was built, reducing the large number of homeless people in the area, but business simply did not return. The area has become something of a lunch spot with government workers during the week. | |
| Kamikaze As drunk by the House, a drink containing vodka, lime juice and triple sec. This was introduced originally by Grampa Roy who brought the 2:1:1/2 ratio we use to this day. The triple sec gives the mix a particularly potent finish, making this more of a shooting drink than a sipping drink. The mix can be found in the House's Mixology Guide. | |
| The Kamikaze Challenge Every time Grampa Roy made a little kamikaze mix, he always had to tell us about the Kamikaze Challenge. The more he talked about it, the more it sounded not so much as a thing done, but a thing yet to do. Chris, Matt and Brendan decided to host Roy's epic event at the Cherry house. The rules were simple: a shot of kamikaze every ten minutes until you were no longer willing or able to continue. Vomiting was an option and was not grounds for dismissal and in fact several people purged and returned to bingeing. Charlie Bill happened into the event about five shots in and was just an observer to the carnage which included Matt lying in the fetal position outside his house in the wintertime chill and insisting that he be left outside to freeze to death. In the end it was a shoot-out (or shot-out, in this case) between Grampa Roy and Shavor, the latter finishing the former off with the coup-de-gras 26th shot in the 260th minute. The sickly stench of kami wafted through the house for days to come. Only Jesus and Charlie Bill were able to drink the next evening. There was a long-held moratorium on kamikaze mixing after that--the extremely strong smell was enough to turn stomachs for months to come. | |
| Keg Olympics An ungodly event that centers around raw consumption of vast quantities of beer with little fanfare or ceremony. Events typically include: Laps Around the Keg where contestants run circles around the keg while sucking from its tap. Tending the Teat where contestants drink as much as they can in one sitting while an assistant counts the number of swallows. Keg stands where contestants do an assisted handstand on the keg, drinking for as long as they can. The person who scores best in each of the rounds is the winner and usually goes off to puke in the bushes. | |
| keg-b-que Mythical BBQ grill made out of a surplus beer keg. As keg registration and deposits became more and more stringent, the likelyhood of actually seeing such a thing diminished. Henry undertook the construction of a keg-b-que at one point but was stymied by a lack of suitable tools. | |
| kegerator A device used to both cool and serve keg(s) of beer. There are specially designed kegerators which have all the necessary parts built in, but most are DIY-jobs using old refrigerators. The beauty of the kegerator is not only the instant ability to serve cold beer, but the fact that you are using C02 to pump the beer rather than air means that the beer will stay fresher much longer. In the waning days of 2000, Henry built a kegerator out of a modified deep freezer and included such amenities as a tiled top and dual taps. Kristi, upon seeing it, commented that it was considerably less ghetto than she thought it would be. | |
| Key Largo 1) Labeled by it's manufacturer as "tropical schnapps", this beverage is a mixture of fruit and melon flavors and can be consumed in large quantities without chasers, but more often in orange juice. The beverage was popular both in Chico and in Desmond hall back in '92. Bill and Henry both consumed a pint each of the stuff on empty stomachs before a fee increase protest ralley on campus, ruing the decision immediately thereafter. The liquor, manufactured by DeKuyper's, has not been seen on area shelves for quite some time. 2) The closest bar to Sac State at one time, located just over the river about three blocks away. The place was a popular college hangout until it closed for unknown reasons in late 1991. It re-opened in 1992 for a time, but never regained it's original popularity. | |
| Keystone Billed as "America's Least Bitter Beer", it also holds the distinction of being America's most watery commercial beer. This pale, tragic lager is often sold on the cheap however and is therefore popular with the college crowd. Unfortunately, the alcohol content is also appropriately low, causing many consumers to hit "beer bloat" before they get a solid drunk on. | |
| La Esperanza Davis contains a wealth of smallish hella-good eateries, amongst them La Esperanza. This place down on G street serves down-home style Mexican food at reasonable prices. The food is tasty and the experience is only somewhat marred by the hit-and-miss service. | |
| La Riv La Riviera, a long meandering street that contains much of the CSUS-local rental housing. | |
| Laguna New contruction is going on in Sacramento in three locations: Northwest in the Granite Bay area, westwardly in the Folsom area, and southerly in the Laguna area. While this area shares a lot in common with the other two, it doesn't suffer from the snobbishness that they do. The area is home to a large Apple Computer complex that is interspersed with the housing. There have been several developments in the area of a somewhat experimental nature, such as one that used the road layout to encourage residents to walk through the community. | |
| Lake Almanor Charlie Bill's family's yearly campout spot. Bill has been going there since he was -3 months. The lake itself is 17 x 5 miles and is the manmade result of hydroelectric generation. | |
| Land Park The canonical name of William Land Park, though it also describes the neighborhood just south of Broadway and surrounding the park proper. | |
| The Landing Complex that was first home to the House. The House members were nearly evicted after two noise complaints in two weeks. Amazingly, they managed to stay a 13-month tenancy. The Landing was built upon a series of canals emptying into a large lake. The Landing had a pontoon boat for its residents to take out on the lake, but it was perpetually broken. The complex also had paddleboats the nocturnal "borrowing" of which was one of the factors in our near-eviction. After their noise complaints, the complex management called us in to discuss whether the House might like to be let out of their rental agreement to pursue living someplace more in line with their sensibilities. This experience soured the relationship between the House and the management. The whole experience culminated when the House transferred over to the Oxwood place, returning their keys a few days later. The management attempted to charge the House for rent in the period they'd had the keys, despite the fact that the complex had started doing work in the apartment. This sparked Roy's joyful confrontational spirit, causing him to leap up and whip out the contact. The manager, expecting physical violence, called in her superior, and Bill and Roy went around and around again. They left and Bill realized that they'd left the wrong address. Going back in, Bill overheard them nit-picking the check out, trying to find areas in which to charge the house, a later bill from them attempting to get $400 out of us. In a brilliant team effort, the House whipped out a position citing California renter's code directed at the management company, thereby shutting down the complex's punitive efforts. | |
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| large flat rock Back when we first met the LtCmdr he remained a bit aloof with his tough military exterior. Bolstering this image was a number of early group experiences whereupon Jeff proved what a badass he really was. He had taken leave from the Navy and was working around camp on the projects that he thought needed doing--often odious tasks that no one else wanted to tackle. In this case he was single-handedly reconstructing a twenty-foot long bridge suspended over a large wash. In order to build a firm base for this bridge he needed a strong foundation of flat stones on which to lay the bridgework. Large flat stones are plentiful in the valley, but getting them is another matter altogether. To this end, Jeff asked each camp staff member to bring a large flat rock to evening colors and to deposit them in a large cart that Jeff could take to the worksite. Not yet fully in awe of McClellan, most folks brought nothing to the evening flags. The only stone that was brought was smaller than the size of a man's palm. The next morning, replete in mirrored sunglasses. Jeff briskly walked to make his announcement and, holding the stone aloft in condemnation, said "What we have here is...a failure to communicate," in typical monotone. After that performance, everyone brought a large flat rock to that evening's colors. [Entry #700] | |
| Laura Petrie Hair Hair between the jawline and the shoulder with an outward flip like Mary Tyler Moore had during the Dick Van Dyke show in her role as Laura Petrie. Maria would, from time to time, tease her hair out into the stylized Laura Petrie flip. | |
| Lavender Heights An area of the southwest midtown area which is home to a large number of Sacramento's homosexual population. The area features a number of Victorians and grand large houses which have been immaculately maintained and restored. | |
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| the Lexicon Started in the summer of 1997, the Lexicon (which you are now reading) was to be one of the cornerstone documents of the House of the Rising Sun webpage. After reading Gus Mullers Big Fun Dictionary which chronicled the very Chico-like existence of a tribe of folks out in Charolettesville, WV, Charlie Bill was inspired to cataloge the vernacular of his own group which had, like Gus's, developed out of years of common experiences and a common geographical upbrining of it's members. The Lexicon originally lived on State Net's servers in the early days and hid out on a web server there where Charlie Bill could add definitions as he thought of them. The first year was the biggest in terms of growth with 666 (!)records entered in the six months of 1996 and fell off somewhat after that as the historical backlog was filled in: 234 in 1999, 90 in 2000. Terms now are pretty much added when they join the language or as something triggers the recollection in Bill's addled brain matter. The Lexicon gets entered into a Microsoft Access database and then using Perl and some black magic is chopped into pages and self-referenced: new terms are automatically linked to any existing records and vice versa. [This is the 999th entry[ | |
| liberate To steal larcenously that which one does not feel is living up to its full potential. Ex: I liberated a fifth from that party last week. | |
| like A throwback to old Val lingo that remains very much a part of the modern day verbiage, used most commonly as a placeholder (as with fuckin') or spoken comma. Ex: It was, like, probably fuller than I've ever seen it. Also commonly used to denote someone speaking. Ex: He was like "dude, get the goddamn shopping cart out of the house". | |
| liquid flannel Particularly strong sunblock. Henry coined the phrase to describe the SPF-45 he uses to augment his feeble tutonic melanin. | |
| liquid quaalude Ungodly concoction whipped up by Joe's in Chico. The drink contains about a bazillion different liquors and juices and can likely strip paint. A tall drink, one can absorb most of a normal evening's alcohol quota in one shot. | |
| Liquor Barn Throughout Northern California there were a number of grocery-store sized liquor stores named Liquor Barn and Liquor Mart. These sister stores were huge inside and stocked the largest collection of alcohol to be seen in one place. These places were the Mecca of Friday nights, the playgrounds for drunkards, socialites and professional drinkers alike. All manners of supplies and drinking provisions could be found within their doors. In the early 90s these stores began to close up shop fairly unceremoniously--in some cases the empty stores still exist. A number of years passed before the more upscale (and smaller) Beverages & More began spreading through the region. A few isolated stores still exist: one remains up in Redding. | |
| liquor?!? I hardly knew her! | |
| little dick film Charlie Bill described his ordinary Kodak film this way when compared to Young Dave's "Max" film at Geoff's wedding, the implication being that the "Max" film was something of a penis extender. | |
| Little Joe's Little Joe's is a discount steakhouse/greasy spoon located deep within Del Paso Heights. The place is famous as the location where a customer knifed one of the employees one evening. Little Joe's is somewhat surreal, especially back when it was open 24/7. The proprietor, Mr. Little Joe, is as crazy as a shithouse rat and sits behind his register at all times. The register area is bedecked by dollar signs and red sparkly stars (if you get a red star on your receipt, you get $20). | |
| Loaves and Fishes Sacramento's premiere soup kitchen, located in the southern part of Del Paso Heights. Loaves and Fishes provides additional services aside from free meals to the homeless, such as education. The place is loathed by it's residential neighbors who are beset upon by hordes of homeless people, some of which have little regard for the conventions of "polite society" and the property of the area residents. Adding to the situation is the nearby kitchen operated by the Salvation Army. Loaves and Fishes had a tough period in '97-'98 when they ran afoul of the city who threatened to shut them down for code violations and their running out of funds to continue operating. | |
| long-distance relationship Any relationship where driving to see one's honey becomes an integral part of seeing them. Conventional wisdom has it that long-distance relationships never work, and that certainly seems to be the case. Most folks will kick off a long-distance relationship or two during college, when travel-on-the-cheap and energy are abundant and commitment is at a premium. | |
| Loree's Little Shack by the Tracks One night at the Distillery the crowd started discussing dive bars that they had frequented. The subject of Loree's came up and it was decided that a group which included Greg, Bill, and Nick should go to Rancho Cordova and investigate. The bar lived up to its reputation: graphiti was writ on nearly every wall of the bar in black ink, the food was suprisingly good and the patrons ranged from straight white trash to occasional packs of strippers from across the street enjoying a pre- or post-work drink. An eclectic and somewhat scary bar and highly recommended. | |
| lucky cigarette The cigarette that one rotates 180 degrees upon opening a fresh pack of cigarettes. This lucky cigarette is always the last smoked. You either do it or you hate it: there is no middle ground. | |
| LUG Lesbian Until Graduation, a more specific form of the gay until graduation. Lesbianism is chic and arguably more socially accepted than male homosexuality, especially since it taps into a common heterosexual male fetish. | |
| macho mug Any large volume tankard, usually pushing 32 oz or more (about a liter for our non-American fans). The all-time best macho mug was one the Chicoites owned that turned up around the Ranch days that was labeled just that "Macho Mug" in a large silk screen with, inexplicably, the feel-good prozac-ish Ziggy on the side. | |
| macking 1) Kissin', usually of the involved variety. A popular Chaunch expression is "mack-and-cheese". 2) The taking of things in a somewhat larcenous manner. Ex: I needed some printer paper, so I just macked some from work. | |
| magic jello A recipe handed down from Grampa Roy. The "magic" being rum or, on rare occasions, vodka. Also magic melon, which uses a watermelon and similar magic. The other part of the magic is that the result is both food and a drink. Magic jigglers are a wonderful concoction, as they are easy to transport, a recipe for which can be found here. | |
| The Magpie Formerly "Sac This Week" and before that "The Aardvark Weekly", this was one of Sacramento's other "alternative" newspapers, the other being the News and Review. The Magpie was primarily entertainment-oriented, listing movie and show times alongside columns by Joe Bob Briggs and others. About a year after the Magpie changed its name the publisher left to pursue other interests and soon thereafter the paper became monthly and then folded. |
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