Joe Iron's definitions

Exciting Whiting

A sarcastic nickname for Whiting, Indiana. It has to do with the non-stop cruising on 119th Street that was commonplace in the 1970s.

Let's go to Exciting Whiting.

by Joe Iron August 13, 2007

Boulevard House

This definition dating from the jazz age is a house on the major street where all the action is. People living there would near fine restaurants, live music and nightclubs. Out your window you would see people wearing their sunday best as they walked down the boulevard.

Life was never better than when we lived at the boulevard house.

One thing I miss about the boulevard house is looking out the window and seeing all those people dressed to the nines.

by Joe Iron February 23, 2008

Imam

A prophet or mentor to young males. Typically a male a few years older than the youth he mentors. Usually, he has his own place, a "real job" and a live-in girlfreind.

Kids today have MTV to show them how to be men, all we had was Imam and Buddy.

by Joe Iron June 8, 2007

ExplodingMan

A nickname used by the youth of Whiting, IN for the wild celebrations of Independence Day. It's similar toBurningMan's tribal and primitive feel. Northwest Indiana's fourth of July celebrations were documented in the movie The Fourth of July and Other Disasters.

Yeah, let's go to ExplodingMan.

I went to ExplodingMan last year but I got to work this year.

by Joe Iron August 13, 2007

The Boulevard

This definition dating from the jazz age is a major street where all the action is. People would wear their sunday best when going out on the boulevard. Usually, the boulevard had fine restaurants and nightclubs on it.

Let's go out and out on the boulevard.

Life is never as good as it is on the boulevard.

by Joe Iron December 9, 2008

Five Points

This nickname from at least the 1960's for the intersection of Calumet Ave, Indianapolis Blvd and 114th St in Whiting, Indiana. The reason for the nickname is there are five intersections meeting at that point.

There was another shooting down at the bar by Five Points.

I wrecked the Delta when I spun out and hit the fence down at Five Points.

by Joe Iron March 16, 2008

Automagical

An old mainframe phrase from at least the 80s, meaning when things appear automatically like magic. Typically used with netview and JES2 automatic commands.

I put the start of that batch cobol job in JES2 start commands, that job will start automagically every morning at 2:30.

by Joe Iron May 17, 2007