It was discussed in a few threads about making a guide to aide new users when they join us here at the world's best web site. I joined the site about 3 years ago and started posting probably about 2 years ago, I have by no means been here since the beginning, though I consider myself one of the more recognizable regulars on the site and think I have a pretty firm grasp on the communities quirks and memes. I'll try to give a little back story about it's origins and where it came from, at least where I THINK it came from.

By all means please add your own or feel free to correct me, most of these things start randomly in the comments section and in all honesty I'm not digging through all the comments to find the first use of a particular phrase.

Original CC FAQ - This is the original FAQ that was posted in 2011 by CardsFan922. You will see some duplicates because I didn't have the link when I originally posted my guide.

Well I think that's a pretty good start. Those are all the ones I could think of off the top of my head (not sure to be proud about that or not...) and I know there are some I have missed. Feel free to post the ones I missed or if I have represented one incorrectly let me know as well and I will try to get everything edited in. I have to admit I had a good time doing this, it was like a trip down CC memory lane. Hope everyone enjoys, especially any newbies or lurkers we've got!

Also sorry for the formatting eye sore. I'm still bad at this fan post stuff...



First round of additions.... also there are some minor edits and revisions from the original post. Also added the original CC FAQ at the top of the post. If you don't see something that wasn't on my original post and requested it in the comments and still don't see it, chances are it was probably already in the original CC FAQ and that's why I didn't add it again here. Also if I'm giving credit to someone it is just the FIRST person who mentioned something I left out. I'm not giving them credit for starting what I'm talking about or anything.

• Password? DRINK! - There was a user on site (justin.tv) that would stream Louisville games locally, sadly I believe this was shut down. But when it was up and running we had many out of town users who couldn't get the games coming into game threads asking if they could view the game online. Someone would give them the site, they would ask for a password and the response was always DRINK!. I honestly have no idea if that was ever the actual password. So if you ever ask for a site to view games on, expect this exchange. Credit goes to Cards78 and regis villebin for reminding me.
  
  
• Darius Washington - He was a player for Memphis in 2005, his freshman year. He is most famously known for a Conference USA tournament game that same year. I could explain it to you, but it's really better if you just watch it: Darius Washington goes down in flames. I'll wait.... That moment forever became immortalized in UofL history and the Louisville/Memphis rivalry. There was a time on this site when you couldn't click on a link without it going to that clip, which coined the phrase 'Brick Rolled'. It was a common occurrence to not clear out your history or cookies as a CC user as to not be Brick Rolled. Phish also made a song about it, you can see it here. I have never actually heard the song because it's by Phish and probably not that good. Credit to Raina.
  
  
• Ruthdick - This term of 'endearment' wasn't even coined on this site. This comes from a twitter (at least I'm pretty sure it was twitter) response from someone on Mike's twitter account. I believe the sentence was something to the degree of "Hum on these balls Ruthdick". So that became a thing because really how couldn't it? Credit to CardsMS6531.
  
  
• Nice pass Russ! - This originated from Russ Smith's sophomore year I believe, when Russdiculous was in it's infancy. Russ actually came up with this himself (thanks for the help Bruce in Louisville and cardsfan0013). It came when Pitino was really getting after Russ for taking shots and not passing the ball and as the story goes Russ passed the ball in practice one day and then patted himself on the back with a 'Nice pass Russ!' . This bled over to the game threads and when ever Russ passed the ball the comments of 'Nice pass Russ!' (originally used in the same sarcastic tone) would pop up. Well as Russ matured so did his game and he learned to share the ball and improved on his assist numbers. It became so that anything Russ did would be nice. Good interview? Nice interview Russ! Hard workout? Nice workout Russ! Got a contract? Nice contract Russ! You get the idea. Credit to CardinalSig.
  
  
• DePaul Day - Let us all take a moment of silence for DePaul Day...... We will always miss you. This came about when we were in the old Big East. If you don't know DePaul is bad, like real bad in basketball. They were consistently at or near last place in the conference rankings every year. Playing DePaul wasn't like playing any other team, because there was never any stress or worry playing DePaul because you knew you would win. It was kind of like a basketball vacation. Game threads were always positive and upbeat, it was good times. Sadly this may be a tradition that is laid to rest because I don't see us playing them anytime soon. Credit to carrschilling.
  
  
• Where's DePaul? - In continuing with DePaul being bad, there is the comment 'Where's DePaul?'. This will usually pop up when Mike post a thread involving a list of colleges, like top 25 lists of really whatever. What you won't ever find on these lists is DePaul. Everyone knows they won't be the list, unless it's something like 'Top Division I Schools With Consecutive Losing Seasons'. So us, being the slight jackasses that we are will ask 'Where's Depaul?'. The common answer is 'Chicago' or 'It doesn't matter'.
  
  
• Making fun of Mike for having an AOL email - We do. Because he does. And he isn't anyone's grandmother. Credit condrab.
  
  
• LBA - Stands for Lexington Basketball Academy. Also known as that other school down 64. If you still aren't getting it they wear blue, are our most hated rivals and their fans are totally obnotches. There are a lot of people that simply refuse to type the letters U and K together, so this has become a stand in. It also represents the fact that they only care about basketball no matter what other sport is currently going on. Credit Lankysteve.
  
  
• Memphis State - This was what the University of Memphis was called before they changed their name to sound all fancy and smart. We still call them Memphis State because we really know what's up. Plus any jab at them is kinda funny.
  
  
• stoo -Mostly used during football games when we are on defense. But also sometimes in basketball when there’s a timeout. Common typo of stop. But we just ran with it, and it works. Creditted cardsrgood for mentioning it and GoCardinals for the explanation.
  
  
• @TNCard gif me - On some SB sites you can type '@Oralce gif me' and then you put in what type of gif you want and this bot is supposed to reply with an appropriate gif. Well that doesn't work here and really doesn't work that great anywhere. One of our regulars, TNCard, apparently has saved every CC gif and when other users would comment that this would be an excellent situation for a certain gif, he was usually the man to respond. This became so common that many users just started posting '@TNCard gif me' and he would respond in kind. Keep in mind, TNCard is not an actual bot and it may take him sometime to fulfill your request. Credit GoCardinals.
  
  
• Beat Purdue! - Our cheerleaders would hold up signs facing half the crowd which read "Go Cards" and the crowd would holler it. Then the other half of the cheerleaders would hold up signs to the other side saying "Beat whoever we were playing." The game after we played Purdue they screwed up and instead of having the signs with the name of that game’s opponent they had the last game Purdue signs. So the crowd hollered "Beat Purdue." I was watching the opponents bench during the timeout and several of their players looked really confused. Wonder if they thought they had transferred without knowing it. For the rest of the season it didn’t matter what the signs said, everyone cheered "Beat Purdue." That may have lasted into the next season or longer but I’m not sure. But it confused a lot of teams. Credit and the explanation by cbcard
  
  
• HWMNBN - He Who Must Not Be Named. Referring to a certain head football coach we had between 2007-2009. His name is forbidden on this site. If you don't know who I'm talking about you are better for it. Credit fla_cardinal
  
  
• Pitino Speak - A lot of us think we can understand it, but we really can't. Pitino Speak refers to Rick Pitino's way of speaking when giving interviews. Generally on this site it means that whatever Pitino says the exact opposite is true. If he refers to a player that really needs to work on something and isn't ready to play yet.... he's probably going to start. Pitino Speak! If he over compliments an opponent and talks about how good of a program they are.... we're going to blow them out. So on and so forth. Credit GoCardinals
  
  
• "Well that’s Typical" - Comes from this gif of a Denny Crum interview when he's discussing why Kentucky wouldn't play us before the Dream Game happened. Generally this is used whenever Kentucky does something very Kentucky, for instance an LBA fan freaking out on a recruit over twitter because they committed to a different school. Credit bluelou01... which is interesting since you have blue in your name.
  
  
• #BringChickenToTheBucket - Ahh yes the #BringChickenToTheBucket movement. This was a really fun time when the fan base almost recruited a player. If you would like to read the entire time line go here. The short version is there was a player named Chicken Knowles in the 2012 recruiting class so naturally he should come play for the team who plays in the KFC Yum! Center. We blew up is twitter and made #BringChickenToTheBucket a thing. At one point he listed us on his choices of colleges despite having zero interaction with our coaching staff. Sadly he went with Houston... though he did get to come to The Bucket last year as an opponent and that was pretty cool. Credit tmjoel01
  
  
• Hookers and blow - Now I may not be remembering this a 100% accurately (probably because of all the hookers and blow) but I think this started when Chane and I think Kevin Ware had got into a bit of trouble. Not much was released about it and the uproar from the school down 64 came out about how our players were doing blow and getting hookers in the locker room but no one had heard about it because Tom Jurich controls the media etc etc. and it just turned into something absurd. So we ran with it. Every minor transgression was met with an addition of hookers and blow. Such and such was late for practice... because of hookers and blow. Why isn't such and such on the bench.... because of hookers and blow and so on and so forth. Credit to Slopppy Joe.
  
  
• FW - Also known as Fat Wayne, referring to current UofL basketball player Wayne Blackshear. When Wayne got here he was overweight.... but he was overweight by Pitino standards which means he had less body fat than most of us reading this. But we rolled with it and pretty much exclusively referred to him as FW. People made gifs of his face on Fat Albert's body, any joke revolving around food or obesity was thrown FW's direction, all the while he is no where near fat and is a better athlete and in better shape than all of us. Credit Capt_Chuckles
  
  
• Jumbo Jones - This is along the same line as FW. Pitino said Chris Jones has put on some weight and ta-da! Jumbo Jones is born! Pretty much everything I said about FW above can be applied here as well. Credit blamkin86.
  
  
• Advantage Russ! - This came from Russ' habit of driving to the rim and taking a shot no matter how many players were there, if he had a good look at the basket whatever. Russ was taking that shot. Though more often than not it actually seemed to work, thus, Advantage Russ! There is a gif where we are playing Syracuse and Russ drives and makes basket, you can see all five Syracuse players, Russ is the only one of our guys in the picture. Credit jjj
  
  
• Steves - This is a basketball stat that only appears on CC. This comes from The Janitor, SVT. Stephen Van Treese. Steve was a always a hustle player. But Steves weren't rebounds or assists they were just hustle plays that resulted in another player getting a rebound or an assist. Basically it's play where you just keep the ball alive long enough for a teammate to get it or where you tip the ball back out to a teammate. Credit Cardnation12