Where'd you go to high school?

A question posed by one lifelong St. Louis area native to another upon first meeting or after having recently met. The purpose is to learn if you and the other person have any mutual acquaintances.

Shelly: "Oh, you've lived in St. Louis all your life? Where'd you go to high school?"

Steve: "Pattonville"

Shelly: "Pattonville? Uh, let's see, do you know a guy named Mark Henderson?"

by Woody Thomas November 27, 2009

golden sombrero

The feat of going 0-for-4 in a ballgame, striking out each time. Could also be known as 'a day at the office for Jim Edmonds.'

...and that makes the count one ball and two strikes to Edmonds, who is now one strike away from wearing the golden sombrero

by Woody Thomas April 08, 2006

drunk as a thousand Apaches

Extremely drunk and disorderly

I saw Mike at the bar last night and he was drunk as a thousand Apaches

by Woody Thomas July 29, 2008

waiter's nightmare

A bad dream experienced by persons who wait tables for a living. The details in the dream may vary, but the one constant of all waiters nightmares is a full station (assigned tables) of unhappy customers (or members if the establishment is a private club). A common WN is arriving late at work and finding your station already full to capacity. Another common one is not being able to get organized, and realizing you have forgotten to turn in an order to the kitchen for a table that has been waiting a long time. Coming out of the kitchen with a tray of entrees and dropping it on the floor is a favorite. One of the more disturbing waiters nightmares is having a large table of people, or maybe even more than one table in the party, and after waiting for what seems like hours for their food to come up, and it's like midnight and all other customers and wait staff are long gone, and you go into the kitchen to check on your food, and all the cooks have cleaned up the kitchen and left, and didn't make your table's food.

Anybody who has worked as a server is familiar with the waiter's nightmare

by Woody Thomas December 11, 2009

prostitution ring

a prostitution business, usually in a large city, where hookers are brought in from other cities to work for a few weeks or maybe months, then they leave town and are replaced by other women, and so on and so on

There is a new Asian prostitution ring in town, with high quality and reasonable prices

by Woody Thomas December 25, 2008

yang

any substance, usually kind of disgusting and unidentifiable, that gets on something. Often times the yang is dried on whatever it is on, like snot for example.

I got out a glass to drink out of, but it had some kind of yang on it, so I put it in the dishwasher.

by Woody Thomas September 13, 2009

Nab Jones

An officer of the law, policeman.

Better slow down man, Nab Jones is parked on that side street.

by Woody Thomas July 24, 2008