8-Track - An outdated tape cassette that used 8 tracks rather than 2... forget it, if you don't know, your too young... I mean... it was a rumour to us as well. Er...uh... we've never seen one before! Really...

ABBA - Oh come on! S.O.S. here! Mama mia, just take a chance on me dancing queen!

Aurally - Taken into the ears, not the mouth!

Apple Bag - Testicles.

Bag of Lime - No... this is not the fruit, but a powdered mineral that helps dissolve dead bodies.

Beastie - One hot mamma that will make it hurt so good.

Becherovka - A Czech liquor created in 1807, used for mainly an aphrodisiac. Became very popular with the townspeople. Hmmmm.... I wonder. Then it became very popular with the Truckee's.

Big Foot - Not the mysterious hairy one, but a great chief of the Sioux who was slaughtered during a "Ghost Dance" ritual along with many other men, women and children.

Billy Club - A police man's night stick, or as were enlightened by an un-named female, a sexual enhancement device used in films of that ilk or in the private use of your own home.

Black Elk - A holy man of the Oglala Sioux Indians.

Blue Coats - U.S. Union Army

Bon Voyeurage - Truckee speak for melding bon voyage and voyeur together to mean; Someone watching others say goodbye.

Bourbon Bunnies - Certain female folk with a penchant for the sour mash.

Buszi, Buszi - Polish for "A kiss? A kiss?"

Captain Kangaroo - A children's show in the 70's, and G.T.O. Truckee's favorite. It gives him a warm feeling.

Cardboard Election - Election where all the candidates are well.made of cardboard.

Compassionate Fiends - The RIAA. "We're here for the artists.whether it's good for them or not!"

Creosote - Oil distilled from tar. Good for preserving wood or healing cuts.

Da, Da - Russian for "Yes, Yes".

Death Vulcan Grip - Actually it is a "Vulcan Death Grip", but it sounds better the other way around. Spock in Star Trek would use this to incapacitate his foes or in rare circumstances, kill them.

Double Dutch - Double Dutch is a rope skipping exercise played when two ropes are turned in eggbeater fashion. Yes.really.

Double Happiness - A Chinese dish, #69 on the menu.

Durango - Town in Colorado, Dodge truck, or boots.

Econline - Mike Watt's (Minutemen) van of choice for touring.

El Camino - A Chevy truck/car or "the road" in Spanish.

f/stop - The f/stop regulates how much light is allowed through the lens by varying the area of the hole the comes through. Yea! Those old things!

Fondue-ing You - Swedish sex or rather what we'd like to think is Swedish sex.

Formula O - "It's not about the bag, Jacker! It's about the peanuts inside the bag!"

Four-Leggeds - Horses and people without a sense of humor.

Gin and Catatonic - Our usual, too many Bombay Blue Sapphire's.

G.I. Joe - Male testosterone moment.

Gritty Pretty - A type of talk using guttural-slang poetically. The sound us Truckee's make.

Hookah - An Asian tobacco pipe using a long tube passing through water to cool the smoke before it enters the lungs. So we've heard...

Hyacinth - A flower or a Greek Divine Hero who was killed accidentally by Apollo showing off.

Incan - A native Indian coming from the extinct civilization of Inca. Peat thinks of this when singing Double Happiness.

Inken - Tattooed. Cady thinks of this when singing Double Happiness. Though none us in the band have one. We're "inken" virgins!

Katmandu - The capital of Nepal and a good place for high altitude sickness and sheep dip.

Komodo - Komodo Dragon actually. A large reptilian meat-eater that is poisonous.or deluded musicians naming their privates.

Keif - Keith Richards of course! One of Peat's Holy Trinity. For some reason, Londoners like to pronounce "th" like an "f". Hence...Keif!

Lada - The Russian version of the Yugo.

Louie-Lou-I - We gotta go! Also denotes confusion and mis-interpretation. At least that's what Peat thinks when he's making choices.

Mayday - A radio distress call. It is illegal say it on the radio unless you really mean it. So.we had to take a good song and make sure no one would play it on the radio. Doh! And no.we're not using it as a communist code word for strike. We'd just say "strike"!

Milkmen - Do your homework! *Hint "Bitchin' Camero".

Milk-Toast - A boring sort, or a bad breakfast idea.

Mofo - Cool dude. If he wasn't, you would use the non-abbreviated version.

Mr. Chop-Socky - A martial art expert that lets every know he is a "martial art expert".

Mutha - Could be a cool dude, a son-of-a-bitch, or a hot mamma.

Night of the Hunter - A nice dark film with one of Cady's favorite actors. Robert Mitchum.

On-tre-manure! - Truckee speak for Bush's entrepreneur skills. President Bush said "the French need a for word entrepreneur." Hmmmm...

Oohlong - Kinda like Oolong tea, but singing it with the tea in your mouth.

Ooh-Wee - Truckee filler when we can't think of anything to say.

Profitized - Preaching profits.

Sailor's Knot - A complex knot, or the bourbon just went down the wrong way.

Silicone Tweeters - Implanted Man-Snatchers!

Sack-Old-Whores - Barflies of the vulva-ed variety. If you're offended, you might be one.

Soul Sucka - Anyone carrying a large sign telling you about your ticket to hell and how you're gonna be flying coach.

Spectre - A ghost. Not to be confused with Phil.he's friggin' crazy! Though we'd still let him produce an EP or something. Ha!

Swindle Mind - A mind that can't be trusted!

Sycophant - A golden-tongued kiss-ass.

Switchblade Sister - A great film, actually "Switchblade Sisters". An exploitation film in the 70's about tough gang girls.

Sza, Sza - Der Kommissar's in town!

The Pass - One who is able to get into any show, bar, or club.

Trike - The U.K. version of "tricycle".at least that is what Peat says!

Two-Leggeds - People with a sense of humor.

Untrustables - Well... us!

"Viko ma vein! Riko ma vasch!" - This is what you sound like after a bottle of Becherovka.

X - Ecstasy. Also the 24th letter in the alphabet, and a legendary punk band that featured...(gasp) two lead vocals and twisted harmonies.

Your Mr. - Johnson, The Bishop, Fireman #69, uh.... yea.

Yugo - An automobile (perhaps "automobile" is an optimistic word) originally built in Yugoslavia. What do you call the shock absorbers inside a Yugo? Passengers.