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in the United States, we live... -T- T&A acronym for "Tits and Ass", the most apparent features of many media products, ranging from rock album covers to organic shampoo labels. See JIGGLE SHOW Tar See HASH OIL, RESIN, SCREEN. Teenybopper a '60s term meaning pubescent female enamored of social thrills, used with irony in the '70s by young women who imagined themselves to be decadent in a sophisticated sense. See GROUPIE. Tank top brief upper garment for women. Sensible, comfortable summer clothing. Usually worn without a bra. Similar to a TUBE TOP but were not elastic and had cloth straps that depended on the shoulders and ostensibly were the support for the garment. Tapers a compromise between straight-legged and bell-bottomed pants. See HIPHUGGERS. Taste a small sample of a desired substance (e.g. sex, drugs). Tasty superlative meaning positive, pleasant (e.g. "That's a really tasty set of wheels.") See BOMB, BAD, BAD ASS, BODACIOUS, COSMIC, HEAVY, HOT, KILLER, MEGA-, MINDBLOWER, PRIMO, RIGHT ON, RIGHTEOUS, SERIOUS. That's cool expression of disinterest. Thai stick extremely potent, high quality, expensive reefer from Thailand, inexplicably tied onto bamboo splinters. One toke either gave you visual hallucinations or the munchies, paranoia, and exhaustion (all at once.) See POT, etc. THC 1. acronym for "tetrahydracannibinal", the psycho-active isomers of cannabis sativa or cannabis indica (the more powerful Asian variety), known colloquially as marijuana. THC had many psychoactive isomers (chemical variations on the same compound). According to the street rap, THC 9 was the single most powerful isomer but a complement of other isomers, like fusel oils in wine, were reputed to cause additional effects beyond the basic buzz. Cannibis sativa, the breed native to the Americas, primarily (in those days) Mexico, contained isomers that make you sleepy, hungry, and paranoid. Cannibis indica, the Asian breed, contained isomers that energized you and brought true insight. If you smoked the best of Thai stick, for instance, in sufficient amounts, it was supposed to be like a mild acid trip-without the edgy speedy side effects! Modern pot growers in California basements and Northwest Pacific rain forests have cultivated powerful varieties of both sativa and indica and make the same utopian claims for both. However, personal research indicates that if pot made you sleepy, hungry, and paranoid in the '70s, it will continue to do so in your middle age, no matter how many hundreds of dollars it costs per ounce. See DOPE, GRASS, POT, etc. See also CONSCIOUSNESS RAISING, HEADTRIP, RAP. 2. the street drug called by the name of THC had no chemical relation to marijuana but rather was phencyclidine or PCP, an animal tranquilizer that was marketed on the streets. Also known as "TH" or "T". See DOPE, GRASS, POT, etc. See also DEAL, DEATH DRUGS, HUSTLE, JIVE, STREET. Tie dye a method of dying color patterns in fabric by tying parts of a fabric so they are protected from the dye. Popular with college students and retail sales groups although the later group did not actually tie the fabric but reproduced tie dyed designs with printed patterns. See BATIK, COOPT. TM acronym for Transcendental Meditation. A meditation exercise reputed to create a variety of desirable mental states but most often only results in boredom. Toast 1. physically and mentally debilitated. See TRASHED. 2. finished, done, doomed. (e.g. "You scratched my Hendrix album, dude! You're toast!"). Toke 1. an inhalation of marijuana or tobacco smoke. 2. to smoke marijuana. Toke throat a condition of dryness of the throat due to excessive inhalation of marijuana. This condition cannot easily be relieved by drinking water. Sometimes the only cure is more tokes. Toke-up a request, offer, or directive to inhale marijuana smoke. It was theorized that this phrase was used more than any other (such as "please, won't have you partake of this bomb homegrown, man") because it contained three plosive consonants ("T," "K," and "P") that could be identifiably uttered without exhaling too much smoke. Toot See COKE, BLOW. Tomato one of the signature colors of the era, popular in kitchenware, clothing, appliances. A variation was known as "burnt orange." See AVOCADO, MUSTARD. Total 1. to destroy (e.g. "I drove my old man's car when I was wasted and now it's totaled."). 2. modifier meaning extremely or completely (e.g. a total BUMMER, a total BRING DOWN, a total RUSH, a total BUZZ, etc.). See TOTALLY. Totally 1. modifier meaning extremely or completely (e.g. totally AWESOME, totally BAD, totally BOMB, totally BOGUS, etc.). 2. an expression of agreement (e.g. Freeky Fred: "Nixon is bogus, dude." Bernie Burnout: "Totally.") Tracking following the logic of an event, idea, or conversation. Derived from the mechanical action of a phonograph needle. (e.g. "No, dude. I said the CIA is CAUSING drug traffic, not killing it. You're not tracking.") See FREAK, CONSPIRACY-, JIVE, RAP, SPACE CADET. Trails vivid afterimages of moving objects such as one's hands. Tranked slothful, apathetic. Derived from the diminutive of "tranquilizer," a popular class of drugs technically termed "soporifics." See BUMMED-OUT, DOWNED OUT, LOW ENERGY, MELLOW, SOPORS. Trashed 1. to be mentally and physically debilitated from an excess of an activity (e.g. work, sex, drink, even drugs.) 2. to destroy anything, including a person's reputation. Tribal earthy, primeval, sometimes crude, but authentic. Applied as easily to music as to collective gastronomical efforts. See PEOPLE, THE. Trip, -death, -ego, -head, -power various obsessive patterns of behavior. Examples shown below: Death-trip--getting off on being cynical, depressed, and self-destructive, even using death drugs. Guilt-trip--getting off on loading bogus blame on everyone. Not everyone can be a perfect vegetarian all the time, dude. Ego-trip--getting off on self-aggrandizement. Often confused with power-trip. Head-trip--getting off on any intellectual discussion, e.g. conspiracy theory, Roman history, or coming in out of the rain to avoid getting wet. Power-trip--getting off on having power over others, e.g. getting a position in management, becoming a parent, or trying to apply Robert's Rules of Order to a political meeting. Also known as "control freak." See LIFESTYLE. See -DOWN, -OFF, -ON, -OUT. Tripping, -out, on you to go off on a behavioral or conversational tangent either obsessively or tongue-in-cheek (e.g. "She doesn't really believe she can read your mind. She was just tripping out on you. Besides, you were staring at her tank top for the entire concert."). See JIVE, MIND GAMES, TANK TOP. Trippy unusual and exciting. See FREAKY. Trucking walking or traveling in a determined but relaxed manner. Tube top brief, elastic upper garment for women. Sensible, comfortable summer clothing. Usually worn without a bra. Turkey an unpleasant person, usually hostile, duplicitous, and stupid, not to mention JIVE. See (THE) PEOPLE, STRAIGHT. Turn-on 1. an object or activity that excites either sexually or otherwise. More jazz-era heroin slang adapted to ironic '70s use. 2. to experience the aforementioned (e.g. "She/he turns me on." or "Japanese monster movies turn me on.") 3. to introduce someone to an experience for the first time (e.g. "Let me turn you on to this Hendrix bootleg."). See COME, CREAM, G-SPOT, MAINLINE, RUSH, TRIP, TURN ON. Link Yaco has written comic books for several publishers. He is currently working on a couple comics-related paperbacks. He has been a copywriter, technical writer, newspaper journalist, and magazine entertainment writer. He has a Masters' degree in Telecommunications and was a technical manager at MIT for five years. Link lives in West Greenwich Village with his wife, Susannah, a Senior Vice President at an independent film company. Check out his web page here Read last week's column Visit Link Yaco Home Page COPYRIGHT 1999 LINK YACO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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