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THE ROCKTOWN TO ENGLISH DICTIONARY
Rock Town Radio-isms
(A user’s guide to understanding what the hell we’re talking about.)
1. Fertable: When something is certain. Example: “Are we going to get pizza?”, “Yes…it’s fertable.”
2. Frunk: So drunk you cannot type properly. Example: VVolf Aster Hours.
3. Tuna: A great song!
4. Bingo: A game some DJ’s play to lure cougars/older women.
5. Carlton: A dance used by Carlton in the Fresh Prince of Bell-air, often to a great song!
6. Snazzy: When something is totally awesome!
7. Don’t eat the pizza/nachos: These items are made with a special “meat” or “sauce”.
8. Rupaul: A transvestite who resembles a lunatic chatter.
9. Damn, Shanequia: Often used in response to a smartass or shocking remark. Example: “You have a really small penis!” “Damn, Shanequia!”.
10. Twofer/Twin Spin: Playing two songs back-to-back by the same artist.
11. Shit alley: The space between your left and right bum cheeks.
12. Fuddle: A fart puddle.
13. Brock Obonga: Rocktown’s first black bong!!!
14. HMRL: Holding My Ribs Laughing.
15. Muppet: An unattractive older woman who is so old she looks like a Muppet character.
16. GILF: An older version of a MILF. Someone’s hot grandma!
17. Hello Clitty: A line of sex toys created by McHottie.
18. Johnson’s Undies: A place where you hide your weed! Originally referenced by the movie, The Breakfast Club. Example: ‘What if your home, what if your dope was on fire?” “Impossible sir, it’s in Johnson’s underwear”.
19. ZJ: If you have to ask, you don’t deserve it.
20. Taking the dog for a walk/going to the bank: Having some special time with your significant other or by yourself!
21. Sweets, you couldn’t ignore me if you tried: A comeback line when someone threatens to ignore you. Example: “If you don’t shut up, I’m ignoring you.” “Sweets, you couldn’t ignore me if you tried.”
22. Manties: Man panties.
23. The Christmas Debate of 2004: A room debate on whether Brenda Lee sings, “later we’ll have some fuckin pie and we’ll do some caroling”, as opposed to “later we’ll have some pumpkin pie and we’ll do some caroling”, in the classic holiday song, Rocking Around the Christmas Tree.
24. A Lou Computer: A computer used from the 1980’s.
25. Pbrbrbrbrbrbr: To motorboat, to stick your head in between boobs and make this noise!
26. Sock cooker: A cock sucker.
27. Pillow Pants: A pussy troll, referenced in Clerks 2.
28. Uncle Perv/Uncle Giggity: Rocktown’s resident pervert.
29. Newbie Pervin: When a new user enters the room and private messages you instantly.
30. Lick Hitler: A crazy Nazi/Pee-wee Herman/Mr. Potato Head looking person who licks the air for no apparent reason.
31. Drive-by: A person who enters the room, says hi (or nothing at all) and then leaves.
32. Mental (mentally) vomit: When someone says something completely disgusting, you feel like your brain just puked. Example: “Scott made me mentally vomit when he told me he wasn’t wearing underwear.”
33. Doing the smurf: A sexual act in which someone chokes their partner until they turn blue.
34. I must be going camping cuz I’m pitching a tent: Wolf’s poetic way of saying he has a boner.
35. Elbow/boobs: To raise your elbows on cam so they look like boobs.
36. Penis Butter: Self explanatory.
37. Rocktown Trivia: A game played on Sunday nights where you earn points for guessing the song name/artist. One point for each correct guess, or three points if you guess both on the same line. Double Boner Round: Double the points for song name and artist, 5 points if you get them all on the same line in this round. Six players with the most points go to showdown. Showdown: Same as the first two rounds, except these points count for winning the game.
38. Panic typing: Typing so fast during RTR trivia that you completely misspell what you were trying to guess. Example: Montilley Cue, instead of Motley Crue.
39. Ignog: A dyslexic ex-chatter’s way of saying he was leaving the room. Example: “I have to get ignog in a few.” Also can be used to ignore someone. Example: “Is he bothering you? Just ignog him.” Often makes people crave eggnog.
40. Duts: The same chatter’s way of calling someone a stud or nuts.
41. Request whore: Someone who is constantly requesting songs, never allowing any other person to get in a request.
42. Going upstairs: Private messaging someone with something naughty, not to be shared with everyone else in the room.
43. Reverse Surprise Birthday Party: To argue with another chatter about your age and realize they’re right. Example: “I’m 48 not 47!” “No, you’re 47!” “Omg! You’re right!”
44. Banana Hammock: A male bathing suit in which the potato goes in the front.
45. Rocktown Prom: A great night hosted by DJ VVolf and Spudmaster (in tuxedo shirts) in which everyone had a “date” and hung out to enjoy totally kick ass tunes!
46. 10-100: To leave your computer to go pee.
47. 10-200: To leave your computer to poop.
48. H2P: Have to pee!
49. Sausage Fest/Testicle Festival: To realize you are the only female chatter in a room full of males.
50. The Devil’s Brew: Beer or another alcoholic drink
51: Playtime: Having some fun alone time with yourself.
52. Sham-wow: In reference to cleaning up a puddle after getting very excited.
53. ET: An extra testicle.
54. Can I be blunt/Can I be spliff: To be extremely honest with someone.
55. You have a shit on?: Are you wearing a shirt?
56. Same shit, different baday: Same shit happens but on another day.
57. Redhead’s don’t get gray and gray beards don’t get head: In reference to Wolf’s anti-aging appearance and Scott’s inability to get a BJ.
58. Digging for gold/gummi bears: Blatantly picking your nose on cam in front of several people, and proudly displaying your treasure.
59. Mr. Pinky: A particular DJ’s penis.
60. I had White Castle/Taco Bell: To tell everyone that your stomach hurts, or that you have to poop.
61. Fun happens when it’s late: Really wild conversations that usually take place after midnight! Example: ‘”Is he playing a song about fucking sheep?” , “Fun always happens when it’s late!”.
62. Batshit crazy: When someone is completely off their rocker. A Licking Hitler would be batshit crazy!
63. Skippam: When the Stickam server makes the music skip, or other technical difficulties in the room. Example: “I can’t hear the audio, it’s choppy.” “God damn, Skippam!”
64. That’s what she said: A line used by Michael Scott from the Office in response to something that’s usually sexual. Example: “Are we going out tonight?” “No. Not tonight, I have a headache.” “That’s what she said!”
65. Lumpy Counch: Casey’s lumpy couch.
LEO FENDER WOULD BE 100
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Leo Fender’s birth (August 10, 1909 - March 21, 1991), Fender is proud to share the story of the man behind the most creative surge in the history of electrical instrument manufacturing.
Remembering Leo Fender
By Tom Wheeler
There is a good chance that his office would have disappointed the lowest federal bureaucrat in Washington. It was a small room, sparsely furnished—no carpet, functional lighting, with a drafting table piled high with blueprints; the monotonic paint was vaguely institutional. A metal bookcase was crammed with speaker parts and catalogs from electronics suppliers. On the modest, metal-topped desk sat a Styrofoam coffee cup that, while disposable, was nevertheless being saved; it was labeled with a name carefully printed on masking tape in ballpoint pen: Leo. A side door opened into a large, concrete-floored room full of industrial drills and punch presses. There were no clues to the fact that the occupant of the office was a millionaire executive and a leader of his industry, though the absence of frills and the palpable air of utility and frugality befit the man who designed it, Clarence Leo Fender.
If historians can’t pinpoint the first solidbody electric Spanish guitar, it’s partly because of a lack of agreement on criteria that would define it. Was it a Hawaiian lap steel modified by some obscure soul who hammered frets into his guitar, tuned it to standard pitch and flipped it on its side? Was it Lloyd Loar’s short-lived, seldom seen Vivi-Tone of 1933, with its impractical pickup and oddball construction (sort of a full-length neck assembly with a guitar top attached to it)? Was it Rickenbacker’s Model B Spanish guitar of 1935, with an inconveniently small, chambered body of Bakelite, a short scale, and its frets and neck molded into a single unit? Or Slingerland’s late-’30s Songster Style 401, called by some the first "modern" solidbody with its full 25" scale, real frets, and wooden body?
Some point to Les Paul’s "Log," a makeshift contraption consisting of a neck, hardware and strings attached to a 4x4" pine board with body "wings" stuck on the sides. There were more than a few drops of bad blood among various parties concerning a guitar designed by Merle Travis and built in 1948 by Paul Bigsby; my own contender for the "first modern solidbody" title, it had neck-through construction, a headstock profile that foreshadowed the Stratocaster, and a somewhat Les Paul-like body silhouette.
The Vivi-Tone, Rickenbacker, and Slingerland were innovative, to be sure, but aside from suggesting to anyone who was aware of them that the solidbody concept might be worth pursuing, it would be hard to document their influence on the pioneers who designed practical solidbody guitars. Although the ingenious Paul Bigsby almost certainly influenced Leo Fender to some degree, he never wanted to be a major manufacturer, and according to former Gibson president Ted McCarty, the time-honored Les Paul of 1952 was not so much a fulfillment of Les Paul’s request for a solidbody but rather a response to the Telecaster. As much as we might revel in the romance of a tidy, straight-line evolution traceable to some hallowed First Guitar, the story of the solidbody’s development is rather a tale of sometimes simultaneous efforts by independent builders, each with his own influences and insights. A few of their ideas are still with us every time we play or hear an electric guitar, but most are long forgotten. As with many species, the solidbody’s story is marked with more than a few evolutionary dead ends.
Debates about who influenced whom, however fascinating, sometimes obscure an essential fact: it was Leo Fender who put the solidbody on the map. He possessed something beyond a knack for mechanics, or foresight, or a belief in a dream—he could make it happen, and therein lay the singular genius of Fender. He designed an electric Spanish guitar with no discernible connection to the Vivi-Tone or the Slingerland, one that looked nothing like the little Rickenbackers or Les Paul’s ungainly "Log," one that even Merle Travis admitted was superior to his own Bigsby, one that would later prove its practicality with continuous production over half a century (and counting). Mr. Fender’s next move was just as important but often overlooked. He developed a process by which the new instrument and its more glamorous sibling, the Stratocaster, could be profitably manufactured on a large scale. By any meaningful criteria, it was Clarence Leo Fender who was the father of the solidbody guitar.
But suppose he had never developed the Telecaster, the industry’s first commercially viable solidbody and also its longest running success story. What if he had never designed the Stratocaster, the world’s most exciting, popular, and influential electric guitar? Suppose he’d never invented the electric bass, which, as Quincy Jones said, "came along and gave music its real sound." Take away the Tele, take away the Strat, take away the Precision and Jazz Basses. Without these monumental achievements, what can we say then of the legacy of Leo Fender? In his own way, the farm-born, self-taught genius from Orange County would remain the preeminent figure in the history of electric instruments because of the amplifiers that sprang from his restless mind and from his first and perhaps deepest love, electronics. More than any other person, it was Leo Fender who gave electric guitarists our electricity.
"Leo was a deep, relentless thinker," his friend and colleague Bill Carson recalled, "and when you got an idea across to him he could put it into being. He could figure the size of the screws, the amount of threads per inch—in his mind—and write it down on an envelope and then go out there and make it. In my estimation, the working musician never had as good a friend as Leo Fender." If there was one other quality aside from mechanical genius that Leo Fender’s friends remembered him for, it was his legendary thrift. He was once asked by a co-worker why he ate canned spaghetti instead of buying a hot sandwich from the lunch truck like the rest of the factory crew. He replied, "Because for the difference in price between the spaghetti and the sandwich I can buy a handful of resistors."
Fender’s radical guitars and their profound, even subversive effects seem all the more impressive given Mr. Fender’s low-key personality and the distinctly conservative tenor of the Orange County, California, surroundings where he grew up. But his calm demeanor diminished neither his passion for things mechanical nor his relentless inquisitiveness. He routinely annoyed representatives who sold him parts and supplies by grilling them about their own products and then explaining the answers in detail. He was ever curious, known to suddenly slide under a parked car to check out its undercarriage. According to the late Don Randall, "Leo liked machinery. He had very expensive and high-powered machinery that probably didn’t run more than five days a month, but he liked it, the big presses and everything. Leo designed all the equipment, which was unique, and he was a genius for figuring out the manufacturing process. A very clever man." By his own estimate, Leo Fender owned up to 75 patents. Clever, indeed.
It’s difficult to overstate Mr. Fender’s impact on his industry. Almost like a glitzy trend-setter, he helped to alter the look, the sound, and the personality of American music, and yet it would be hard to imagine a man of plainer appearance or fewer affectations. The late Freddie Tavares said, "He never wore any kind of clothes that you’d expect a person in his position to wear. People didn’t have the slightest idea he was any kind of a wheel. I would have to point him out to someone who didn’t know him. ‘See that man over there? He owns everything.’ Leo never flew off the handle, never raised his voice. One time someone made a costly mistake, and Leo just said, ‘I wish they knew how often I made a mistake.’ With all of his stresses and strains, he still tried to keep everyone’s spirits up."
A similar account, told by the late Forrest White, concerned a new employee who, not recognizing Mr. Fender, responded to some casual advice from Leo by saying, "Look buddy, you take care of your job, and I’ll take care of mine." "Leo just sort of grinned and didn’t say anything," Forrest recalled with obvious affection. "But that gives you an idea of what kind of man he was. He was easy to get along with because he didn’t have to impress anyone. He was a living example of what a successful man should be."
Although Mr. Fender was not an outgoing individual, his offbeat sense of humor often entertained employees. One of his favorite techniques was the play on words; an example: "You know, everybody thinks we make custom instruments, but that’s because we make them so good that our competitors have always cussed ’em." He liked a good car, meaning one that was mechanically sound, but he shunned most trappings of the successful executive. He rarely wore a suit, and was almost never without his leather holster full of screwdrivers. In his shirt, he kept a plastic pocket protector stuffed with pens, pencils, and a little metal ruler.
When someone did a job for Leo Fender, no matter how good it was, it rarely met his standards. He split hairs, he looked over shoulders, and he could be meddlesome (he offered employees much advice, solicited or otherwise, on subjects such as which new car they should buy). Yet his employees liked him; some practically worshipped him. Forrest White’s opinion—"I wouldn’t trade the years I spent with Leo for anything."—was not uncommon.
Leo Fender neither drank nor smoked and had few close friends. He had no children. "His guitars and amps," one associate said, "those were his kids." He was described by more than one associate as something of a recluse. While he dabbled in photography, liked to play pinochle on a Saturday night, and owned an expensive boat, his only true hobby, perhaps his obsession, was his work. He was a man of few words. He did not play guitar.
Excerpted from The Stratocaster Chronicles and The Soul of Tone by Tom Wheeler (Hal Leonard Publishing)
Monday, June 15, 2009
LETS ALL HOPE FOR A HAPPIER TOMORROW
Momentum builds for broad debate on legalizing pot
NEW YORK (AP) — The savage drug war in Mexico. Crumbling state budgets. Weariness with current drug policy. The election of a president who said, "Yes — I inhaled."
These developments and others are kindling unprecedented optimism among the many Americans who want to see marijuana legalized.
Doing so, they contend to an ever-more-receptive audience, could weaken the Mexican cartels now profiting from U.S. pot sales, save billions in law enforcement costs, and generate billions more in tax revenue from one of the nation's biggest cash crops.
Said a veteran of the movement, Ethan Nadelmann of the Drug Policy Alliance: "This is the first time I feel like the wind is at my back and not in my face."
Foes of legalization argue that already-rampant pot use by adolescents would worsen if adults could smoke at will.
Even the most hopeful marijuana activists doubt nationwide decriminalization is imminent, but they see the debate evolving dramatically and anticipate fast-paced change on the state level.
"For the most part, what we've seen over the past 20 years has been incremental," said Norm Stamper, a former Seattle police chief now active with Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. "What we've seen in the past six months is an explosion of activity, fresh thinking, bold statements and penetrating questions."
Some examples:
_Numerous prominent political leaders, including California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Mexican presidents, have suggested it is time for open debate on legalization.
_Lawmakers in at least three states are considering joining the 13 states that have legalized pot for medical purposes. Massachusetts voters last fall decided to decriminalize possession of an ounce or less of pot; there are now a dozen states that have taken such steps.
_In Congress, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, and Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., are among several lawmakers contending that marijuana decriminalization should be studied in re-examining what they deem to be failed U.S. drug policy. "Nothing should be off the table," Webb said.
_National polls show close to half of American adults are now open to legalizing pot — a constituency encompassing today's college students and the 60-something baby boomers who popularized the drug in their own youth. In California last month, a statewide Field Poll for the first time found 56 percent of voters supporting legalization.
That poll pleased California Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, a San Francisco Democrat who introduced a bill in February to legalize marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol — taxing sales to adults while barring possession by anyone under 21. Ammiano hopes for a vote by early next year and contends the bill would generate up to $1.3 billion in revenue for his deficit-plagued state.
Ammiano, 67, said he has been heartened by cross-generational and bipartisan support.
"People who initially were very skeptical — as the polls come in, as the budget situation gets worse — are having a second look," he said. "Maybe these issues that have been treated as wedge issues aren't anymore. People know the drug war has failed."
A new tone on drug reform also has sounded more frequently in Congress.
At a House hearing last month, Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., challenged FBI Director Robert Mueller when Mueller spoke of parents losing their lives to drugs.
"Name me a couple of parents who have lost their lives to marijuana," Cohen said.
"Can't," Mueller replied.
"Exactly. You can't, because that hasn't happened," Cohen said. "Is there some time we're going to see that we ought to prioritize meth, crack, cocaine and heroin, and deal with the drugs that the American culture is really being affected by?"
In a telephone interview, Kucinich noted that both Obama and former President Bill Clinton acknowledged trying marijuana.
"Apparently that didn't stop them from achieving their goals in life," Kucinich said. "We need to come at this from a point of science and research and not from mythologies or fears."
Gil Kerlikowske, chief of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, has not endorsed the idea of an all-options review of drug policy, but he has suggested scrapping the "war on drugs" label and placing more emphasis on treatment and prevention. Attorney General Eric Holder has said federal authorities will no longer raid medical marijuana facilities in California.
Nonetheless, many opponents of pot legalization remain firm in their convictions.
"We're opposed to legalization or decriminalization of marijuana. We think it's the wrong message to send our youth," said Russell Laine, police chief in Algonquin, Ill., and president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
Marijuana — though considered one of the least harmful illegal drugs — consumes a vast amount of time and money on the part of law enforcement, accounting for more than 40 percent of drug arrests nationally even though relatively few pot-only offenders go to prison.
According to estimates by Harvard University economist Jeffrey Miron, legalization of marijuana could save the country at least $7.7 billion in law enforcement costs and generate more than $6 billion in revenue if it were taxed like cigarettes and alcohol.
Pot usage is pervasive. The latest federal survey indicates that more than 100 million Americans have tried it at some point and more than 14 million used it in the previous month.
Testifying recently before Congress, Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard said U.S. demand for pot is a key factor in the Mexican drug war.
"The violence that we see in Mexico is fueled 65 percent to 70 percent by the trade in one drug: marijuana," he said. "I've called for at least a rational discussion as to what our country can do to take the profit out of that."
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency remains on record against legalization and medical marijuana, which it contends has no scientific justification.
"Legalization of marijuana, no matter how it begins, will come at the expense of our children and public safety," says a DEA document. "It will create dependency and treatment issues, and open the door to use of other drugs, impaired health, delinquent behavior, and drugged drivers."
The DEA also says marijuana is now at its most potent, in part because of refinements in cultivation.
Even in liberal Vermont, with the nation's highest rates of marijuana usage, many substance-abuse specialists are wary of legalization.
Annie Ramniceanu, clinical director at Spectrum Youth and Family Services in Burlington, Vt., said her agency deals with scores of youths each year whose social development has been hurt by early and frequent pot smoking.
"They don't deal with anything," she said. "They never learned how to have fun without smoking pot, never learned how to deal with conflict."
Legalization proponents acknowledge that pot use by adolescents is a major problem, but contend that decriminalizing and regulating the drug would improve matters by shifting efforts away from criminal gangs.
"The notion that we have to keep something completely banned for adults to keep it away from kids doesn't hold up," said Bruce Mirken, communications director of the Marijuana Policy Project.
As for Obama, the activists don't expect him to embrace the cause at this point.
"Obama's got two wars, an economic disaster. We have to realize they're not going to put this on the front burner right now," said Allen St. Pierre, executive director of NORML, or the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. "But every measurable metric out there is swinging our way."
On the Net:
- Marijuana Policy Project: http://www.mpp.org
- Drug Enforcement Agency: http://www.usdoj.gov/dea
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