The VUCC Vocabulary Extender
Some of you have noticed that there are a number of common expressions
used to describe events that occur from time to time on canoeing trips.
Below is the first attempt to catalogue some of these expressions.
Further expressions will be added in the future. Credit
goes to Bolke for the idea of this catalogue, and to Bolke, Andrea
and Rohan for coming up with the definitions.
- To get ``Biggsed''
- To take a pounding, having been assured that you'll
``be loving it man''.
- Half Geldermans
- To uplift 3 cubic feet of water into the air with a single paddle stroke.
- Full Geldermans
- To hit someone in the face with the water from a Half Geldermans.
- Half McEwan
- To negotiate a difficult rapid backwards.
- Full McEwan
- To negotiate a difficult rapid upside down and backwards.
- To have a ``Murray of a Day''
- To have a day when everything goes wrong and the world seems to be
persecuting you for sins you haven't committed.
- To do a ``Lynch''
- To mysteriously lose contact with ones boat in flat water while no-one is
looking.
- To ``Half Ceri'' a paddle
- To wedge a paddle between rocks, underwater, and then let go of it.
- To ``Full Ceri'' a paddle
- To break a paddle in the process of retrieving it from a ``Half Ceri''.
- To ``Nick out'' of a trip
- To tell the organiser of a long
weekend trip, two hours before the planned departure time, that you can't
go anymore due to ``work pressure''
(Nicholas Smith might be able to explain the origin of this
definition!)
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