chugalug

As Dan O’Sullivan wrote in his definitive essay on the wrestling industry, performers’ lives are defined by “lingering physical ailments, screwjob employment contracts, and chugalug drug abuse”, mainly steroids.

These days teenagers buy into keg parties at homes where parents have left town for the weekend, where dangerous chugalug games are played to get booze and beer flowing into their system faster.

The Fabulous Thunderbirds, who made their first album in 1979 and have opened concerts for the Rolling Stones, still have the true chugalug spirit of a bar band--you can almost hear the beer bottles whistling past their heads during some of the tunes on this rambunctious album--but they also have the musical chops of a top session group and the considerable singing and songwriting talents of Kim Wilson, who also blows a mean blues harp.

The more extreme initiation rites range from paddling and "chugalug" contests to sticking fingers up rectums or inserting penises in light sockets.

Best scene: one in which Marjorie Rambeau, as Joan's mother, a merry old frump, hands around some free advice to her lovelorn daughter, and then amalgamates a ten-oz. glass of beer in one unforgettable chugalug.