Definitions by Joe Iron

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.

The Big W by Joe Iron August 22, 2007

Log Off the Internet Day 

Log Off the Internet Day was started by a group of activists and thinkers in 1999 to make the public aware of the impacting is making on real life communities. Log Off the Internet Day is celebrated on the first Saturday after the start of summer in your hemisphere on which you are supposed to stay off the internet. No email, chat, IMs, gameplaying or surfing. A time to go to a movie, see some friends, ride a bike, be with your family.

I totally celebrated Log Off the Internet Day and went for a bike ride.

My second life wife got mad because I spent some time with my first life wife on Log Off the Internet Day.

Log Off the Internet Day by Joe Iron August 22, 2007

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.

Exciting Whiting by Joe Iron August 13, 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.

ExplodingMan by Joe Iron August 13, 2007

King of Bacci Park 

A sarcastic term to describe a male youth who is a little tp arrogant.

Tell the King of Bacci Park turn his radio down.

King of Bacci Park by Joe Iron August 13, 2007

Travel Juice 

A nickname for beer that is drunk before you drive.

Give me some travel juice, I got a long drive home.

Travel Juice by Joe Iron August 2, 2007

Delta Force 

A nickname used by the adults in the late 1970s regarding groups of teenage males who prowled the streets of Whiting, Indiana and the East side of Chicago in Oldsmobile Delta 88s.

I ran off the Delta Force.

Delta Force by Joe Iron July 20, 2007