Joe Iron's definitions

Good Neighbor

A neighbor who does things that are very bad for the neighborhood. Such as living in the city and have farm animals or cutting down a tree in a way as to have the tree fall into someone else yard and then having the person whose yard it fell into responsible for removal of the tree.

Good Neighbor just got some chickens to go along with the goats.

The sherriff went to talk to Good Neighbor about his tree in my yard. He said he isn't going to do a thing about it and the sherriff can't do a thing.

by Joe Iron March 28, 2008

The Big W

The Big W, is a nickname for Whiting, IN. used by the refinery construction workforce that relocated from Texas to work on the expansion of the oil refinery. The construction workers started referring to Whiting as the Big W. The nickname is derived from the nickname of Dallas which is known as the Big D

Let's celebrate the fourth of July in the Big W.

I need some money bad, so I'm going to The Big W to for a few months.

by Joe Iron August 22, 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

Friends

Friends are for people who don't like being loney.

I like reading and listening to music, I don't need any friends.

by Joe Iron April 1, 2008

Heaven

A nickname for Whiting, Indiana predominently used by the rest of Lake County and Chicago. The nickname orginated in the 1960s when the counterculture youth of the area were expressing their feelings of displeasure to the amount of religous zealotry in the town. This was evident to the counterculure by the number of churches that dotted the skyline.

Hey, let's go to Heaven and celebrate the 4th of July there.

by Joe Iron July 1, 2007

Establishment

A term used by establishment baby boomers to convince naive people that they are outsiders.

Hillary : Barack's the establishment candidate.

by Joe Iron January 11, 2009

Delta

Meaning a car that is big and fast. This term is a reference to the discontinued Oldsmobile Delta 88. The Delta was the last of the family-size musclecars like the Impala SS 409 and the Pontiac Catalina Super Duty 421 of the early sixties. The legendary Delta was known for its rocket engine. The most powerful was the Rocket 455 4 barrel.

I just put a blower on my Lincoln Town Car, its a Delta now.

That Bentley is a Delta.

I got a Delta, let's go carting.

by Joe Iron May 17, 2007