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are changes within 60 days of 05/15/2002| make the jump from lightspeed In the movie Star Wars, Han Solo drops out of lightspeed to find that Alderan has been toasted. This usually applies to any deceleration after a high-speed travel by car or any unexpected appearance of a car traveling at high speeds down the interstate. California Highway Patrol officers regularly jump from lightspeed along I-5. | |
| margarini Alternate term for margarita, especially when used in the context of the overly pretentious display in a martini glass or around those who have had bad tequila experiences. | |
| Marino's Roy, Hank, Charlie Bill and Hilary on their trip up to Packer's Cabin decided that they needed a night on the town in beautiful Arcata--after all, they had nothing else to do. Asking the locals, they ended up in what comprised the bar district downtown; a number of bars situated around a large square. Being a Sunday night, the place was somewhat deserted. The four cruised the bars on the square and noticed one about half a block off. This was, by far, the spookiest of the five or so they'd seen. It was the only one you couldn't see inside and the window had been covered over by metal grating and light with large Christmas lights giving Charlie Bill cause to remark that it looked like "a strip club". "Right!" responded Roy, entering the bar. The four would prove to be the bar's longest and most obnoxious customers of the evening. The bar had everything you could want though: red vinyl booths shrouded in darkness, a jukebox with a really nice selection, a extremely long bar, a pool room in the back, and a good bartender. | |
| Master's Doughnuts Dougnut joint in western Chico that Charlie Bill and Hank frequented on their way out of town. Dougnuts are cheap and filling, and could hold a person for the hour and a half trip back to Sacramento. | |
| Mather Field A large former Air Force base in eastern Sacramento, near both the Oxwood Place and the Golden Eagle Place. The shutdown of the base has had an adverse effect on the businesses in the community and has caused property values to drop a bit in the area. The base has recently been converted to a hub for air cargo. The county has taken over the base and is trying to find commercial ventures to relocate into the former base structures. | |
| mayonnaise sandwich Charlie Bill came home from work one evening to make dinner from the supplies purchased just a very few days before. Back in the Landing days, the boys would regularly make trips down to Costco, collectively buying $200-$300 worth of bulk food. The problem was that like with any collective kill, the good bits go first. In this case, all that would be left by shopping time would be ramen and refried beans. So, having just spent around $75, a small fortune for food at that time, Bill set down to making a sandwitch. When he'd gotten to the meat laying step he'd found that there was no luncheon meat left--it hadn't lasted even 48 hours. Pissed that his school/work schedule gypped him out of the good stuff again, he bitterly ate the bread that was for all intents a sandwitch sans the meaty bit. This caused Geoff and Roy to go apeshit. A sandwitch without meat?!? You may as well have asked them to beleive in the tooth fairy. They reacted much as if Bill had been eating a shit sandwitch. What is suprising in all this was that they seemed completely unfazed by Hank's teriyaki spam. [entry #600] | |
| The Mayor's Office Code-name for the Distillery, the bar around the corner from Charlie Bill's office. The name was used jokingly but somewhat seriously as a cover-up to prevent certain undesirables from attending. | |
| McKinley Park A small block-sized park in the heart of midtown. The park's central location makes it a popular destination among the midtowners, especially during lunch hour. The park is bordered on nearly all sides by major roadways, giving the park an oasis-like feel. | |
| meat market A club whose sole clientele base is hard up prettyboys and glamour girls who are out to hook up. Meat markets usually have bad overly loud music, pricey drinks, and are as dark as caves. | |
| The Med Center UC Davis operates a teaching hospital smack-dab in the middle of Sacramento. As a teaching hospital, it attracts both lower income people and those seeking cutting-edge (no pun intended) treatment, as well as those for whom the hospital is local. The Med Center sits on the edge of Curtis Park and serves somewhat to separate the good part of Curtis Park from the bad. | |
| Memorial Auditorium Other than Arco Arena, this is the only place in town to hear medium-to-large size rock concerts in Sacramento. The Memorial is a grand old building built back when they still cared about the design and aesthetics of a building. The Memorial was closed for nearly a decade in the 80s and 90s due to it failing to meet earthquake standards--a somewhat laughable position considering the relative rarity of quakes in Sacramento. In addition to concerts, the Memorial is the site of most of the plays that come through town as well as Sacramento's WNBA team, the Sacramento Monarchs. | |
| meow meow Indication that a cat is speaking. This is much the same manner of speech as Henrietta Pussycat, from Mr. Rogers Neighborhood. | |
| Merlino's One of the signs of springtime in Sacramento is the arrival of the Merlino's Orange Freeze trailers cropping up around town. In addition to their restaurants and vendor locations, the trailers dish out fruit freezes of a somewhat stickier and gooeyer nature than most (its hard to describe unless you've had one--they ain't no slushee). Merlinos tried to expand out to various retail outlets in 1999-2000 and overextended themselves. As a result they ended up closing up shop in late 2000. | |
| midtown The area described as anything from about C-street south to about X, and from 11th street to 30th or so. The area is home to many house-based apartments and is suffering from gentrification of the young. | |
| MIP Missing In Pussy, the tragic occurrence when someone ditches their former friends to go out with their significant other, especially when it's a chronic, long-term absence. Ex: "Dude, I haven't seen Charlie Bill in a while, where's he been?" "He's MIP, man". The female equivalent substitutes Penis for Pussy which while gramatically incorrect tends to happen less so it's okay. | |
| "mistakes were made" Formerly a military cult classic, this phrase has been used countless times in recounting tales of woe from the night before. | |
| "mmm....no" Brendan's relationship with his fist ever girlfriend Jennifer would provide us the first in years worth of entertaning tales about his personal life. Brendan is a quite open person, often regaling others with tails of entertaining adventures of the sexual nature. In the first ever such story, Brendan apparently had already tired of the standard "missionary"-esque position and wanted to be on the bottom of things. Asking his girlfriend Jennifer if she'd go up top, she replied, "mmm....no". This phrase was used for years later, especially when underscoring someone's inability to get one's way, doubly so when failing to bed someone. | |
| moat The canal system that ran through the House's first location. Swimming in the moat was expressly prohibited by House Commandments. | |
| moat monster Cause of strange splashing sound regularly heard coming from the Moat. There were allegations that the moat monster may have been a catfish or toads, but no concrete evidence was ever found. | |
| mondo condo Camp term describing any domicile housing more than the average number of two staff members. Back in the Dark Ages, mondo condos comprised of a number of tents connected together like a desert caravan were quite common. The more residents, the greater the number of creature comforts usually available as a group, and a higher degree of creature comforts brought in. | |
| Mr. Smith Taskmaster in a drinking game of the same name. "Mr. Smith says pay", an indicator that someone should drink, has bled over into other drinking arenas as well. | |
| mung 1) The amalgamation of beer, liquor and food particles that seemingly saturates every surface after a particularly good party. Mung should be sticky, smelly, and cause the casual observer to wonder what the hell that is (but reservedly). 2) The subject of a Camp song: let's just say it starts with necrophilic tendencies and goes downhill from there. | |
| mung rag Rag used for cleaning up beer spillage and other less than solid matter. The mung rag is smelly, crusty, and as tradition holds it, washed as seldom as possible. A good mung should stand up by itself when dry. Every good drinking house should have a towel that is used solely for this purpose to make sure that somebody's favorite bath towl doesn't get liberated for this purpose. The official House towel (formerly the official Desmond towel) is marked "MUNG" prominently across the front with several warnings across the back. The House once bought Shavor, Brendan and Matt a super-shammy for this purpose that worked most excellently until it was eventually lost. | |
| Murder Burger A burger joint in Davis, CA. Murder Burger serves large amounts of food at fairly reasonable prices given the quantity of food. Murder Burger regularly has something seasonal--usually some sort of shake. A trip to Murder Burger usually will do most people for two meals. | |
| Murphys Small, gold rush town in the Sierra foothills. Most notably Miles' hometown, it is the next-door neighbor to Angels Camp. Downtown Murphys is comprised of a few small strip malls and an old town center which becomes somewhat choked with tourists on the weekends. Murphys is home to Mercer Caverns, as well as a growing number of small-to-midsized wineries, Ironstone being one of them. | |
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| "My carrots" Garden implements are not designed with a 6'2" frame in mind and when use by people that big usually involves a lot of stooping. Charlie Bill, after working a day in the hot sun stooped over diminutive tools, felt much like the old Chinese ladies who dominate the local community gardens. This is his imitation of them, albeit quite poor. | |
| "my knees!" Molly has, to the best of our knowledge, only ever gotten drunk to the point of belligerence once. She had the misfortune of doing this at a party at the Landing, however, and during a time when the boys were not exactly welcome tenants there. After drinking for some time, Molly somehow made her way to the poolside area where she sat on a chaise lounge for a while until the cold conspired against her and aggravated old basketball-induced knee pain. Unable to walk, unwilling to move, and impossible for her to remain where she was, Bill and Roy (also drunk) got the task of moving the uncooperative Molly back to the apartment. The terrain between was a bit treacherous, though, and Molly took out her pain from having her delicate knees jostled on the hair of Bill and Roy who were carrying her fireman-style. | |
| "My mouth tastes like a cat's ass" A memorable Shavor-ism one morning after a serious party. That furry, nasty taste has been characterized this way several times since. | |
| Nationwide Freezer Meats Nationwide is a purveyor of some of the best hamburgers and steak sandwiches in town. The place serves fine cuts of meats, and doesn't look like its changed much in the last 20 years. Frank, the proprietor, used to run the place as a butcher's shop, and his butcher's sensibilities are still in evidence today. | |
| Natomas Just west of Del Paso Heights and just north of downtown lies the area of Natomas. It is bordered on one side by the Sacramento River as it dumps into the tip of the delta. As a result the area runs from quite nice on the western, river, side to somewhat run down as you approach Del Paso. The Garden Higway runs through here and there are a number of unusual locales along here: floating homes and restaurants literally on the river such as Crawdads and the Virgin Sturgeon. The area has become a hotbed of development in the last few years, with many new office parks and housnig developments sprouting up. | |
| The Nebulizer Not any ordinary nebulizer, The Nebulizer was utilized as a drinking device by Geoff's neighbors. They would load the reservoir with alcohol and take hits from the alcohol-laden mist. Apparently since this delivered the hooch directly to the bloodstream, it managed to cause drunkenness off a minor amount of alcohol, leaving only the aftertaste and the buzz as a reminder. | |
| News and Review leftist leaning weekly "alternative" newspaper. The SNR has the most comprehensive listing of entertainment in one convenient (free) place. There's a Chico News and Review, and maybe still a Reno News and Review, which all seem to share topic themes for the paper. The SNR tend to be bandwagoneers when it comes to being anti-corporate, especially when it comes to Sacramento's only "real" newspaper, the Bee. | |
| nic fit A craving for nicotine. A nic fit is one of the first telltale signs that one has become a smoker, rather than someone who smokes cigarettes on occasion. | |
| "nice pooper on that trooper" A Henryism for "nice butt". | |
| Night Train Fortified white wine with a somewhat sickly-sweet flavor. Usually known as a bum's drink, bottles of Night Train are given to those who are recently "down and out" as the result of a car crash or other incident. | |
| NMP Not my problem: Camp term for when no matter how shitty someone's situation was, you were not going to lift a finger to help. Ct'sy Chris Shavor [Note relation to SEP field] | |
| no-evil shirt Usually a Hawaiian shirt, a good drinking shirt worn to ward off evil party spirits. | |
| "nobody likes you" A phrase oft-used by Big Dave. | |
| NoCal What Southern Californian hipsters call Northern California. Among area locals, they usually use the long name or "NorCal" when abbreviating the region's name. Since the introduction of NoCal, the term "LoCal" has been heard on occasion when referring to SoCal, somewhat tongue-in-cheek. | |
| NoFriendo What Charlie Bill calls the Nintendo. Originally from his high-school friend Brian Hasik. | |
| North Highlands North Highlands sits in the northwest corner of Sacramento where the town ends and the farms once again begin as you travel north. Much like Citrus Heights, North Highlands is mired in suburban sprawl, but of a more run-down and low-income variety. With the downsizing of nearby McClellan AFB, the area has been fairly hard hit--even the local strip club shut down. | |
| Nosh & Schmooze Brendan got a stint house-sitting one winter break for a nice Jewish couple who had gone off on vacation for a few weeks and left their Berkley house in his able hands. Being the good houseguest, he immediately invited a dozen of his personal friends over for a night of intense beer drinking at their home. The guests were massively entertained by the belongings of people who were not there and could not defend themselves. One such artifact was a flyer for their synagogue for the dedication of a new torah. The featured activity was "nosh & schmooze", Yiddish for "eating and hobnobbing". The term was, of course, instantly co-opted for the rest of the evening and was seen on the occasional flyer after that. | |
| nurdles What Charlie Bill calls styrofoam peanuts. | |
| "oh my God, he's PUKING!" When Geoff lived in Davis, his frequent parties were a regular destination for the Desmondites. Charlie Bill made the extremely rare offer to drive out to Davis, as he'd was taking alergy medication and had just sworn off mixing chemicals a week before after a cold-tablet infused blackout. He additionally offered to make sure Lil' Jen got taken care of, a fact that he was soon thereafter to rue. At party's end, Lil' Jen was suffering the effects of alcohol poisioning. Geoff suggested that if she weren't better by the time the caravan reached Sacramento, perhaps a hospital trip would be in order. Bill, frantic to make sure Roy wouldn't kill him after coming home to find Bill responsible for Jen's alcohol-related death, was in a hurry to get home to Sacramento. Cruising the dreaded Chunder Lanes, Bill felt an unseasonable drop of moisture strike his right arm just moments before Cheryl yelled "oh my God, he's PUKING!" Henry would end up puking one more time, just moments before reaching the dorm. | |
| "Oh, Rob" Said pleadingly. From The Dick Van Dyke Show's Laura Petrie originally, who is also the key figure in the promotion of "Laura Petrie Hair". This phrase is often used to characterize the latter condition. | |
| ohshit handles Handles provided in passenger positions in vehicles, usually about head level. Their intended purpose is unclear, but their usage, especially in off-road vehicles while off-roading is common. The name is applied as they are the surrogate mother form for which frightened homo sapiens can cling to in times of fear and stress. | |
| Old I Old Ironsides, Sacramento music club. The bar's smaller size and reasonable cover create a venue for many smaller bands to work their way through the ranks. In recent years, the Old I has had an increasing fraternity/sorority presence, which is not altogether welcome by the regular hipper-than-thou crowd. Their website can be found here. | |
| Old Town An area encompassing about ten square blocks on the extreme west side of town. This area was both a boat landing and train depot in the old days, and much of the original development happened in this area. The area became run down and quite seedy in the 40s-60s, but was revitalized into a tourist trap. Old town is bordered by the river on one side and I-5 on the other. Despite the high occupancy level, there remains several properties that are undeveloped in the area. The area hosts several popular meat markets and is overrun by 20somethings during the weekend nights. Businesses either go boom or bust in the area, and dead stores are quickly turned around with a new occupant. [400th entry] | |
| Old Weller A nice scotch that Geoff was fond of having around back in his early college days when he had the cash to be a generous host live in a somewhat sophisticated manner. This, of course, was fouled by Desmond hall freaks coming over and doing depth charges and boilermakers with the good scotch. The most memorable occasion with the Old W was when Geoff snarfed a good ounce and a half and spent the rest of the evening with watering eyes trying to clear his seared nasal passages. | |
| on the grid Roadtrip term: hooking the various assortment of Too Much Electrical Gear into the RV's power system to recharge during brief generator runs. | |
| "One time, I could understand... ...three times I cannot understand." From Jud's famous parting note and one of the more famous lines from it aside from "Good Bless You Jud". Jud's woman had mercilessly dogged him by being unfaithful with Matt, Jud's roommate thrice over. | |
| oral highway A Henryism for the act of receiving oral pleasure while driving down the road. This term is fairly unusual: a search of Altavista at the time of submission only turned up one hit, and you know what kind of place the Internet is. | |
| The Original Cabin Trip A trip to Brendan's cabin in 1990 where Charlie Bill, Grampa Roy, Dark Lung and Shavor joined in a three-day brew-fest. A keg was brought and killed. Many, many "isms" began that weekend, the foremost being "doghouse" term which while tired, has continued as a mainstay of the Wolfeboro, Sacto and Chico lexicon. During this trip Charlie Bill's propensity for drinking was established, albeit aided by Shavor. Subsequent trips to the cabin were many, but never quite as euphoric and meaningful as "the Original." (Ct'sy Chris Shavor) | |
| Orland Every Chico roadtripper's favorite spot on I-5: it's the point at which one departs the monotonous hell that is I-5 and turns onto Highway 32 which rolls through a number of small farming communities. Due to one of those odd perception things, it always seems that the twenty minutes or so spent on this stretch of road are always the longest. | |
| The Oxwood Place 4375 Oxwood Drive, the House's first true house. The house's owner Burt was the best of the House's landlords to date. |
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