Lexicon

This is a lexicon of CTY terms. Please keep it alphabetical; entries that are not properly alphabetized will be removed, as poor attention to formatting will be considered an indicator that the entry is not very important.

Discussion: Lexicon Project

  I personally feel that the Lexicon has been overloaded with information.  I would recommend
  removing the entries for the shorter pages, and just leave the links.  Although this does
  sorta defy the essence of a dictionary, I think it would be a more efficient use of this
  space, especially since some entries are near carbon-copies of their pages.  If anybody is
  okay with or has objections to this, please say so here; otherwise, I will be deleting text
  for entries that direct to short pages.  This does, however, mean that most of the entries
  under "General" stay, as well as entries w/ long pages.  --Max W. 19:48, 24 August 2006 (MST)

If nobody has any response to the above, I may be exacting the change in a couple of days.

General

• Activities: Scheduled social events and such that CTYers are required to attend after classes and on weekends. Popular ones include Discussion Group and Acting Improv.
• American Pie: A song by Don McLean that is played at every CTY/CAA site as the last song at every dance.
• Baby CTY: CTY Young Students Program.
• Canon: The songs which must be played at all CTY dances. The Canon varies by site (and sometimes even by session).
• CTY: See also: CTY expansions
• CTYer: A CTY student or alumnus; also, in some cases, anyone who is associated with CTY and understands the CTY spirit. "My college roommate was a CTYer too, but I didn't know her when I was there."
• CTY-I/CTY-A: Short for CTY inappropriate, used by students and staff alike. The antonym is CTYA (appropriate). Another term, CTYS was created at LAN.06.2 during Passionfruit when serveral people misheard the term "CTY-esque".
• CTY-L: The main CTY e-mailing list.
• CTY Withdrawal/Post-CTY Depression: The feeling of sadness CTYers, especially nomores, experience after leaving CTY. Can last for days, weeks, or until the day before CTY of the next year.
• Double sessioner: Someone who goes to two sessions in one year, regardless of site.
• ERS: Egyptian RatScrew, a very popular card game at CTY.
• Five-year Freak: Lucky fobber who through some combination of birthdate, grade-skippage, and pure luck is eligible to attend CTY for five years as opposed to the usual four.
• Flying Squirrel: Someone who changes sites. For example, Suzie went to Lancaster in 2004 and in 2005, she went to Carlisle. At Carlisle, Suzie was refered to as a flying squirrel.
• Grass orgy: In a grass orgy, one CTYer lies down on the grass, a second CTYer lays down with his or her head on the first CTYer's stomach, a third CTYer lays down on top of the second CTYer and so on, until many CTYers are all lying on top of one another on the grass. Also known as "Tummy Chains". Abbreviated "Grorgy."
• Hall bondage: A Sunday activity in which a CTYer is required to hang out with other students living on their hall. May occasionally be after Study Hall for a weird hall. The RAs refer to this time period as "Hall bonding," but then again, RAs are strange.
• Hall hopping: Either legal or illegal practice of having sleepovers in other halls. Usually illegal.
• Hall meeting: A meeting of one's hall. It is conducted by the RA, and is used to announce news and sign up for activities. Also good chance to annoy your RA.
• Illegal sleepovers: Sneaking into others' rooms overnight on weekdays. A common practice in these sleepovers is 'practicing' on each other.
• Mafia: A popular activity game involving God/mediator, a doctor/angel, a detective/cop, mafia, and townspeople.
• Mandatory Fun: Activities, especially weekend activities. It is one of the oldest terms in the CTY lexicon, dating back at least to the mid-80s. Mandatory Fun activities have a very notorious reputation for being extremely boring and/or stupid. (referred to as non-mandatory fun at LMU site)
• Mao: A very popular CTY card game, played at a variety of different sites. Also popular with math teams such as ARML. Everybody has a slightly dfferent way to play. Occasionally they are same. Chicago math team Mao is the same as Massachusetts math team Mao, but is quite different from CTY Mao.
• Meet Market: The evening social time at CTY. Called Quad Time at some sites.
• Nevermore: At most sites, a Nevermore is a CTYer who can no longer return due to reaching the age limit of 16. At Lancaster and Carlisle, a Nevermore is a CTYer who cannot return for other reasons and is not yet 16. Some tradition-unaware CTYers use this term interchangably with "Nomore," or do not know what either are.
• Nomore: At most sites, a Nomore is a CTYer who cannot return due to reasons other than age. At Lancaster and Carlisle, a Nomore is a CTYer who can no longer return because they have reached the age limit of 16. Some tradition-unaware CTYers use this term interchangably with "Nevermore," or do not know what either are.
• Sleepover: A sleepover is...a sleepover. Sleepovers may occur on Friday and Saturday nights, although sometimes only one due to RAs' patrol duties. Any number of people may be in one room, although RAs may cancel sleepovers if they become too loud.
• One Hit Wonder: Someone who is both a first year and a nomore. Sometimes called "One Shot."
• Onemore: A CTYer whose next year will be their nomore year. Similarly, there are twomores (tumors), threemores, minus-onemores, etc.
• Passionfruit: A morning ritual involving toasting friends and drinking juice. After the Canon, one of the most important and universal CTY traditions. Some sites have Passionfruit every week (Carlisle), others only on the last day.
• Quad: The large, grassy area in between all of the residential buildings where CTYers spend their free time. At some sites, "Quad" also refers to the buildings around the Quad, as in, "I live in Quad 10."
• Quad Time: Evening social time from 9:00-9:40. Has a reputation of seeming unbearably short. Called "Meet Market" at some sites.
• RA: Residential Advisor. Like camp counselors, RAs are in charge of watching students while they aren't in class, organizing activities, and conducting Hall Meetings. Can be pronounced as "R.A." or as "Ra".
• Raving: Alternative and more common term for glowsticking.
• Rinas/Rinos: Through some strange coincidence, several CTY sites have, in their histories, been shared with ballet camps. Males are called "rinos" (pronounced "rhino") whereas females are "rinas." CTYers have had a quarrelsome history with all other camps, whose numbers are usually far outmatched by CTY.
• Scum: A popular card game at Lancaster; there are several variations, including Scum: The Masquerade and Scum: The Ascension.
• Seven-year Satan: Someone who has been at every single possible year of Baby CTY and CTY and has an optimal birthday, age, and grade level in school. Not to be confused with the position of Satan at Lancaster.
• Shorthand Dates: The format of expressing CTY sessions, sites, and courses.
• Silent Football: A complex game involving an invisible football, hallucinations, and tattling. This game is most popular at Lancaster, especially second session.
• Six-year Satan Spawn: Someone who has, through some combination of Baby CTY and CTY, been at CTY for six years.
• Squirrel/Sperm: 1. A first year CTYer. Squirrel is the more prevalent term at Lancaster, while Sperm is used at Carlisle despite administrative attempts to squash it. "Even though Katie is a squirrel, she understands the essence of CTY." 2. at Carlisle, a sperm is a first year who has never been to Passionfruit
• TA/LA/PA: Teaching Assistant, Lab Assistant, Program Assistant; these terms are synonymous, but each site only uses one. Usually, college/grad students who assist with instructing classes.
• The Game: (LAN/CAR) A game that is very popular at Lancaster and came to Carlisle 06.2. You just lost the game.
• Thursday: A day of the week marked by bathrobe and towel-wearing.
• Two-year Tragedy: A second year who is 16 and thus cannot return to CTY.
• Uber-CTY/Uber-CTYer: Person or thing that embodies the spirit of CTY, that is very involved in the life of CTY. Example: "Sarah is such an uber-ctyer."
• Veil law: Rules instituted in the '80s that boys cannot be in girls' rooms, and girls cannot be in boys' rooms. Rarely referred to by name.
• Weiness: the loose skin on your elbow. a common discussion topic at lunch is who has the largest weiness.
• WOGE: Course abbreviation for the now-defunct World Geopolitics class. Pronounced 'woogie' - used to refer to those who take or have taken the class.

Lancaster

• Acting Improv: Best. Activity. Ever.
• Agreedball: A sport invented for CTY Lancaster by two RAs whose catch phrase was "agreed." The whole purpose of the game is to be agreeable.
• Arches: A popular place for activities at Lancaster, outside of North/South Ben. Different Arches are also meeting places, places for activites and places to sign up for things. Arches split into North Arches, Central Arches, and South Arches.
• ASFC: The field house at Lancaster, which contains a pool, small basketball courts and an indoor track. During 2004, this space was used for meals while the dining hall was reconstructed. Also used for indoor dances when outdoor dances are rained out.
• Alcove: The great-great-grandspawn of Digiclan at LAN. Originiated in 2001. Was in exile during 2002 - 2004 (due to the lack of an actual alcove), but was revived in 2005. Rumored to have killed/been killed by Game Corner.
• Big Top: A very painful memory from 04.2.
• Blammo: A popular game involving plastic spoons, God, and stalking.
• Boobtag: Tag. With the prefix "boob."
• Chris Tian: The one and only heretic every to rise up against the dominating religion of Dharunism. He refused to take part in many rituals including Dharun Cocktails and screaming Dharun at the top of lungs. He even attempted to start a heretic form of lanyard swingin, horizontal around neck rather than vertical as the supreme deity Dharun does it. Further heretics will be refered to as Tianers.
• Couch orgy: Basically a bunch of people piled (that's the orgy part) on a couch (that's the couch part). May be uncomfortable, and may involve Boobtag.
• Dharun:An exclaimation provoked by the sight of Scott, any person who knows Dharun, or Dharun himself. Caused the outbreak of Dharunism as a religion, in which multiple members of Schnader Hall and their friends worshipped Dharun as the supreme deity. Dharun had the ability to fling his lanyard like a hoolahoop around his neck. This proves to be very difficult, and has caused multiple head injuries, proving that the repression of lanyard swinging indeed has a cause. Except for Dharun.
• Dharuning: Originating from Dharun and Dharunism, this verb is similar to the all-purpose verb, fobing, but is commonly associated w/ owning/pwning.
• Digiclan: A group of Lancaster CTYers; started as a group of students who took Digital Logic in the early 90's. They are known for their weirdness and their (currently defunct) webpage.
• Electric Tree: A tree on Hartman Green that has an electrical outlet installed at the base of its trunk; used to play music by They Might Be Giants after the Passionfruit.
• Purpling: A term used by some residents of Schnader 06.01 to describe a boy (blue) walking into a girls' hall (pink) or vice versa.
• FNORD: Kinda weird that there's no title for this entry, huh? Just a blank spot, no visible word.
• Fob: Little plasticy things first issued in 2003 at Lancaster that magically opened doors with a simple wave. Stands for "For Opening Buildings." Universal curse-word substitute.
• Fobmasters/Fobsters/FoBoys: a sort-of clan originating in CTY Lancaster '05 Session 1, mostly boys from Atlee 3 and their friends. Jokes like Motherfobber and the Fob Dance, and the Switchfob. See Switchfob.
• Hammertime: The time zone in which Lancaster Session 2 is in. Inseperably associated with silent football.
• LLRT: The Land of The Large Round Tables. A group of Lancaster CTYers, and a shoot off of the DigiClan. LLRT originally referred to a group of CTYers in 1993; the name has passed down through several generations and is still used today. Also, Dining Hall 4 at Lancaster, where LLRTs ate.
• Nerdgasm: Referring to any event of such nerdish proportions it can/does produce orgasm. A particularly appropriate example was when, for the LAN.06.2 talent show, one CTYer solved a rubik's cube onstage while reciting the first 200 digits of pi.
• PoserMofo/PoserMobo: An inside joke stemming from the PoserMobile commercial from Lancaster Session 1 '05, usually the Logic A kids.
• Second Saturday: Lancaster's version of "Drag Day," which, at Lancaster, is referred to as "Cross-dress Day." This occurs on the second Saturday of each session and is marked by gratuitous references from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
• Squeagle
• Switchfob: A trick where a Lancaster CTYer would squeeze the fob between his or her room key and his or her meal card. The fob would fly out. Awesome way to open up buildings. This trick became quite popular, to the point that some people would fob Stager Hall, which was usually unlocked.
• Thormanism: A religion started in 05.1 by a group of MIND students based on a god, Rachel Thorman. Overthrown by Scott and the followers of Dharunism. The last know follower of Thormanism was Chris Tian who later converted to Tianism, a religion based soley on the destruction of the Dharunist society.
• Turkey Hill: A convenience store right outside of F