This weeks Spin Cycle is about catch phrases. This is a post that I made back in August of 2008, but felt that I should re-post this since it shows the actual birth of a catch phrase.
I have found that a lot of terms that describe being inebriated are quite graphic:
- Let's get plowed…
- —getting so drunk that you feel like you have been plowed under the ground.
- Let's get pissed…
- —getting so drunk it is as if your blood has turned to urine (probably due to the large amount of alcohol you have consumed).
- Let's get trashed…
- —getting so drunk it is as if your body has been thrown in a garbage can.
- Let's get chalked…
When I was attending Illinois State University I noticed what appeared to be an outline of a person on a wall. It struck my friend and I as particularly funny because it looked a lot like a police outline. This got us to thinking… what if this is "real"? Then it got us to wondering… what if you are so drunk that you pass out and everybody thinks your dead, will the police draw an outline around your body?
So…
Let's get chalked!!!
14 comments:
No offense, but I think alcohol is stupid. And deadly. And I am not just talking alcohol poisoning.
Oh, I haven't been chalked ... or hammered ... or schnockered in a long time.
Ahh, to be young enough and have enough expendable cash to be able to get "chalked". The best I can hope for these days is an hour after the kids go to bed to have a glass of $2 chuck with PB.
But don't forget "hammered" or "bombed". I wonder what the college kids call it these days?
In my college area, we had the term "let's get tipped", although I've always liked fershnickered. Chalked is a completely new one! You're linked!
You are right - these phrases are very descriptive. Let's get chalked is a good one!
We loved the chalked one in college and even did in one the dorm floor in front of the elevators after we discovered some police line tape somewhere. We created our own crime scene. The janitors were not as pleased. It may, also, be a KS thing - Rock, Chalk, Jayhawk is a common phrase.
I look at google map pics a ton since I've been house and apartment hunting. You see some crazy stuff.
I'd like to get chalked. Don't know why. I guess I really do crave attention. And here I thought being a wallflower was the end all.
Hmm.
I haven't been hammered since before Bruiser was born. Getting chalked sounds painful now--at least the morning after.
Hahaha. Chalked. I like it. I haven't been wrecked like that in ages, and I'm okay with that. The last thing I need in the a.m. when the kids are demanding to be fed, is a wicked hangover. That picture at the top is hilarious. Although I think maybe the Google Map photographer should've come back later. Time is moeny I guess.
That's definitely easier to say than Let's get schnockered!
I find I've become a wimp when it comes to getting hammered. Dealing with a 3 year old while hung over seems like hell.
But I have been known to get hammered, schonckered, plastered and wasted. But never chalked.
Love it! Now I have a new catch phrase!
That picture is too painful! I had some days in college where but for the grace of good girlfriends (and a lack of CCTV), that could have been me. I feel like I need some aspirin just looking at it ...
Fun spin!
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