Nerd Word(s) of the Day: Tighten Someone’s Wig
In honor of today being 420 and the fact that I’ve already done a video on the origin of 420, today’s Nerd Word(s) of the Day are:
Tighten Someone’s Wig: to give someone marijuana. 1940s, from the fact that the scalp has a tightening feeling sometimes when smoking pot.*
Can you think of other funny expressions related to smoking pot?*
*HotForWords does not condone smoking pot nor does she condone putting wigs on small dogs!!!
Click here for more nerd words.
The pic of the puppy and wig are awesome! I guess that having a dog bowl puts a whole new spin on “packin’ a bowl.” That’s a whole lot of puff-puff-pass.
[Pack-a-bowl]…How many eyes does a bowling ball have?
[SHEPherd]. 
. 
.[shawl] like when I’m cold!
“Bowling ball” has one “i” and no “eyes”.
I’m not sure I understand the question. What do you mean by “behaviors”? It’s a rather nebulous term. By the way, there’s more to Semitic languages than Hebrew, so I have to wonder if you truly refer to all of the Semitic languages… even the dead ones.
…I guess related to the Hamitic, including Akkadian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic and Amharic.
*****[culture] is food and shelter…nebulous…{clouds of know reign}(not loins)reins
Oh My God!!!
About a month ago, I watched this animation of a hippie explaining the history of marijuana and how it became illegal. I think he said that hemp was used back from ancient China to make clothing, paper, and I guess other uses for its seeds. And that hemp was cheap, fast growing, and could easily be planted in almost any terrain. But then a few oil business tycoons, back in the 1920s, tried using lies and scare tactics for profit when hemp could possibly become a cheaper, cleaner source of fuel. So they convinced the government to make it illegal.
I probably got a little bit of the info wrong, but I tried looking everywhere for that cartoon. I guess YouTube had it removed.
OK—animalntaz:A Peaceful Solution: The Peace Pipe Hemp – Hemp For Victory
…0r…was that it?..crazy…things are getting “snafu”…..hotFORwords ruLes
ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzz…..
Get your head right, bro. Puff, puff, pass. Blaze one for the nation! What was I talking about? This sh*t’s expensive, cuzz; at least hold it to the count of ten. I got $5 on it, you know what I mean! “It’s Friday, you ain’t got shit to do, fuck it –let’s get hhiiiiiggghh!” Man up, dude, man up!You ain’t no Iron Lung, fool!
Stop babysitting the herb, dog. Down to the last roach. Fire it up! Let’s go have a smoke session. huh? 
“Got any weed?” “No, man,” “It’d be a lot cooler if you did.” 
I got the THC marinating in my chest-plate. Sprinkle me, man! Lost in a cloud of smoke, you’ve been led by a ghost, take a toke and your ass got to choke! 
i’m faded like an old pair of jeans. Let’s get zooted & polluted, folks!
NERD is the WORD…TRASHMEN. Surfi n Bird (1963)…why “bird is the word”?
whats a ['spanish curl'?]…[pizza]…dren-nerd… 
Did you know that 4/20 is Hitler’s Birthday?
And I think it is V.I. Lenin’s,
today…
leonard says:
84.1January 4, 2009 at 8:10 pm
When Lenin spoke of two cultures, he proceeded precisely from the thesis that the existence of two cultures cannot lend to the negation of a single language and to the formation of two languages, that there must be a single language. When the Bundists [6] accused Lenin of denying the necessity of a national language and of regarding culture as “non-national,” Lenin, as we know, vigorously protested and declared that he was fighting against bourgeois culture, and not against national languages, the necessity of which he regarded as indisputable. It is strange that some of our comrades should be trailing in the footsteps of the Bundists.
As to a single language, the necessity of which Lenin is alleged to deny, it would be well to pay heed to the following words of Lenin:
“Language is the most important means of human intercourse. Unity of language and its unimpeded development form one of the most important conditions for genuinely free and extensive commercial intercourse appropriate to modern capitalism, for a free and broad grouping of the population in all its separate classes.” [7]
[6] Bund, General Jewish workers’ Union of Lithuania, Poland and Russia, was a Jewish petty-bourgeois opportunist organization founded at a congress held in Vilna in October, 1897, which worked mainly among Jewish handicraftsmen. At the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party’s First Congress in 1898, Bund joined the R.S.D.L.P. as “an independent autonomous organization concerned only with the special problems of the Jewish proletariat.” Once it joined the Party, however, it propagated nationalism and separatism in the Russian working-class movement. The Bundist bourgeois-nationalist standpoint was sternly repudiated by Iskra newspaper founded by Lenin. p. 18
[7] V. I. Lenin, “The Right of Nations to Self-Determination ” Selected Works in Two Volumes, Eng. ed., M
(from above) of comment at HOTFORWORDS
With all due respect . . . WTF have you been smoking???
Read This…nerd words of due respect, birth or burp Day?….Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Russian: Владимир Ильич Ленин) (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov ….thanks and be good…An American-native of
Lenin? That enabler of mass-murdering psychopaths and Socialist Bullies? I fart loudly in his general direction. I hope he reincarnated as a slime-mould in a cold climate.
Alexandra Kollontai and fellow feminist revolutionary Inessa Armand in 1919 together established the Zhenotdel (Женотдел), the first government department for women in the world. Soviet Russia under Lenin was also the first country to decriminalize homosexuality in 1922. The Russian Communist Party effectively legalized no-fault divorce, abortion and homosexuality, when they abolished all the old Tsarist laws and the initial Soviet criminal code kept these liberal sexual policies in place.[42] However, Lenin’s emancipation of homosexuals was reversed a decade later by Stalin and homosexuality remained illegal under Article 121 until the Yeltsin era.
Lenin and the Red Terror
421 is after 420 
Inhaling deeply, holding breath, cough, cough. Groovy man, did you dig that dude’s toupee, man? Nice fit, eh? But, what about the dudes eyes, man? They’re kind of wide-spaced, don’t you think?
Oh yeah, man, really spaced out. Heh, heh. I’ll bet his old lady drank too much. I heard that was a defect from drinking mothers.
Drinking mothers, man? Heh, heh. That’s sick, you mean mothers who drank too much alcohol. She should have tightened her own wig. Hey, where’s my joint, man? Oh yeah, I forgot to pass it around. Inhaling deeply, holding breath, cough, cough.
Now for some serious thinking . . .
About what, man?
Words . . .
Oh, that’s way hot, man.
I like it
LMAO 
B.B. 
If it goes out while you’re holding it, you’ve had enough.
BUT dont Bogart it, lol
morning prayer time!
Golly, how I (we) love to learn the origins of words and phrases
I had to let yesterday slide (girl’s got to sleep, I guess)
Today, it would be a wonderful thing to see a new lesson.
Amen
(don’t do it for me – think about the ratings! – LOL!)
Let’s skip parts one and two…
*****at.tention…Hot Pussy Cats; prey and prayer“…release that inner snake” she said. pay know a.tent.tion****** carry your [own] spirit
Wow! I’ve never seen a dog wear a wig before but I did see E.T. wear one.
Long ago, some guys I knew used comic book terms to discuss pot over the phone. Green Arrow, and Green Lantern where always popular titles. It seems that pot slang is very cliquish. What works for one group will not work for another at all.
Speaking of ’40’s slang:
I’ve always liked the word copacetic.
Anyone see this on Family Guy??
No, but I’ve seen it now! TFM!
Pink’s dog?
and
more dog abuse?
pink bitches.
Come on and kick me
I’ve got my hash pipe
Dear Marina,
I’d never heard that expression (tighten your wig) before. In fact, the only epression I’ve heard that involves wigs, is the phrase, to “flip your wig.” “Flip your wig” means to become overly excited about something, or to throw a tantrum. e.g., “When I said she looked like a peach, she flipped her wig.” [Flip your wig] might make an interesting video.
Seesixcm6
his mother, Mae Boren Axton — the co-author of Elvis Presley’s landmark 1956 chart-topper “Heartbreak Hotel” — he initially pursued a…Axton’s performing career failed to catch fire, and after 1965’s Sings Bessie Smith he was without a recording contract for several years before signing to Columbia in 1969 to issue My Griffin Is Gone. While opening for Three Dog Night in support of the album, the band heard his composition “Joy to the World” — *BCB Band sings Della and The Dealer by Hoyt Axton. A song about a dog, a cat, a dealer, Della, and a Guitar Picker that wins Della from the Dealer
The first time I heard this expression, I thought it was in reference to the emerging 60s hippie culture, where men with long hair were seen as “more hip,” and “cool” than some others (at least in some social settings, like big universities). Long-haired men were constantly harrassed by many of the other men around them due to perceptions relating to sexual orientation (they were often seen as gay when they weren’t necessarily so, and sometimes would suffer extreme physical abuse due to this misperception).
Wigs (not toupees, but long-haired ladies’ wigs worn by men trying to appear cool) were viewed by longhairs as the ultimate in fakery, because that meant you didn’t really go through the long-term committment of having to grow your hair out and being hassled every day during the process under the establishment uberculture. In other words, one had to EARN the distinction of wearing long hair by surviving the daily taunts and torment of mainstream society.
The band Steppenwolf put out a song that talked about corrupt or unscrupulous politicians vying for the youth vote by acting more progressive than they really were, and advised them that they had “better tighten up your wig,” hinting that these politicians were just putting on a show in order to get votes, and they really were no different than the other politicians they were competing against.
That was my take on it, anyway. I could be wrong, though. Maybe they meant that in order to join with the growing hippie subculture, they simply needed to smoke weed. I’ll have to revisit the lyrics, if I can find them.
Okay, I can see that our pal leonard has included a couple verses of these lyrics on post #1.1. I should have read his post before writing my post. Oh, well. Disregard the above connection.
I’m like a man wearing a back-brace (I “stand” corrected)!
Thanks, leonard!
I think I’ve mixed some thematic references from Steppenwolf songs “Monster” and “Power Play” in with the relatively straightforward “Tighten Up Your Wig” somewhere in my memory. Perhaps a few brain cells have been donated to science since that long-lost era, but I forget where and how. Maybe they got lost during one of those Magic Carpet Rides!
Peace, bro.
Olga Arefieva: “I Don’t Like to Do Anything in Simplicity”
Question: – Are you a homebody? …this goes with video above
Are neurogasm drinks the modern way to tighten one’s wig?
I love pot (not what you amricans call weed) the block stuff. It’s full of crap but is still so tasty!
What is ‘block stuff’. I mean, we compress are weed into bricks, too. (By we, I mean americans, at least thats what I heard
) 
I have only seen it packed in glass or wrapped in paper.
1) Pull plant out ground, roots and all
2) hang upside down with garbage bag tied around
3) pour heavy sugar water concentration liberally over roots(maple syrup is better)
4) dry
5) clean
6) enjoy OR
after 5) you:6) find a good steel container(Husmans potato chip can or battery box/holder from old VW bug are ideal.depends on shape you want)
cut piece of wood slightly smaller than battery box or cut lid of can slightly smaller. put ventilation holes
7) fill can up
9) have somebody hold ubside down under car frame and jack’er on up
10) let sit about a week and you are gonna have a brick. Round or square its gonna be a brick.
11) place back into bag
12) vacuum down
13) heat slowly to shrink rest down and no moisture (hence,no weight) loss. At least, thats what I saw on the tv
Husman’s Potato Chips….[drool]
Frisch’s Tartar Sauce…
Skyline Chili…
White Castles…
Kahn’s Big Red Smokies…
Barq’s Creme Soda…
Vernors Ginger Ale…
Schoenling’s Little Kings Creme Ale…
United Dairy Farmers Ice Cream….
Can’t get that good stuff from stores in Florida…
No Krogers, no Thriftway – no variety
crap! now I feel homesick!
Florida is so-o-o-o third world!
Its all here waitin. Hell, the Reds finally got 5 horses, they’re just in a tough division. I still predicted 85-77.
How about Marty: “And this one belongs to the Reds!” Heard that quite a bit in the 70’s
Don’t Bogart That Joint
In the cold and rain yesterday, 4/20 was celebrated in Toronto. When one smoker was asked the origin of 4/20, he said “who cares, don’t harsh my buzz, dude”. ‘Wacky Tobacky’ was used a lot in the 70s and 80s, sometimes quite openly. Not sure if it’s as common today. President Clinton said he did grass, but “I did’nt inhale”! The biggest lie of all time.
if he didnt, hes wastin weed. A very serious crime in some parts of the country
I’ve never smoked, but I don’t really have a problem with it either, so I don’t know that much about it. Basically I’m saying, uhh… i got nothing to say.
Last ones the most relevant
RELIGION
(Apologies to the religiously inclined)
Scientology – this shit is cosmic!
Taoism: Shit happens.
Confucianism: Confucius say, “Shit happens.”
Buddhism: If shit happens, it isn’t really shit.
Zen Buddhism: Shit is, and is not.
Zen Buddhism #2: What is the sound of shit happening?
Hinduism: This shit has happened before.
Islam: If shit happens, it is the will of Allah.
Islam #2: If shit happens, kill the person responsible.
Islam #3: If shit happens, blame Israel.
Catholicism: If shit happens, you deserve it.
Protestantism: Let shit happen to someone else.
Presbyterian: This shit was bound to happen.
Episcopalian: It’s not so bad if shit happens, as long as you serve the right wine with it.
Methodist: It’s not so bad if shit happens, as long as you serve grape juice with it.
Congregationalist: Shit that happens to one person is just as good as shit that happens to another.
Unitarian: Shit that happens to one person is just as bad as shit that happens to another.
Lutheran: If shit happens, don’t talk about it.
Fundamentalism: If shit happens, you will go to hell, unless you are born again. (Amen!)
Fundamentalism #2: If shit happens to a televangelist, it’s okay.
Fundamentalism #3: Shit must be born again.
Judaism: Why does this shit always happen to us?
Calvinism: Shit happens because you don’t work.
Seventh Day Adventism: No shit shall happen on Saturday.
Creationism: God made all shit.
Secular Humanism: Shit evolves.
Christian Science: When shit happens, don’t call a doctor – pray!
Christian Science #2: Shit happening is all in your mind.
Unitarianism: Come let us reason together about this shit.
Quakers: Let us not fight over this shit.
Utopianism: This shit does not stink.
Darwinism: This shit was once food.
Capitalism: That’s MY shit.
Communism: It’s everybody’s shit.
Feminism: Men are shit.
Chauvinism: We may be shit, but you can’t live without us…
Commercialism: Let’s package this shit.
Impressionism: From a distance, shit looks like a garden.
Idolism: Let’s bronze this shit.
Existentialism: Shit doesn’t happen; shit IS.
Existentialism #2: What is shit, anyway?
Stoicism: This shit is good for me.
Hedonism: There is nothing like a good shit happening!
Mormonism: God sent us this shit.
Mormonism #2: This shit is going to happen again.
Wiccan: An it harm none, let shit happen.
Scientology: If shit happens, see “Dianetics”, p.157.
Jehovah’s Witnesses: >KnockKnock< Shit happens.
Jehovah’s Witnesses #2: May we have a moment of your time to show you some of our shit?
Jehovah’s Witnesses #3: Shit has been prophesied and is imminent; only the righteous shall survive its happening.
Moonies: Only really happy shit happens.
Hare Krishna: Shit happens, rama rama.
Rastafarianism: Let’s smoke this shit!
Zoroastrianism: Shit happens half on the time.
Church of SubGenius: BoB shits.
Practical: Deal with shit one day at a time.
Agnostic: Shit might have happened; then again, maybe not.
Agnostic #2: Did someone shit?
Agnostic #3: What is this shit?
Satanism: SNEPPAH TIHS.
Atheism: What shit?
Atheism #2: I can’t believe this shit!
Nihilism: No shit.
Holy shit… there’s a lot to this shit!!!
Print it off and smoke this shit
My Stars!!!! Where did this come from? Good Shit…
You know alot about SHIT and RELIGION, this comment was shitfire sure to happen.
Best thing I’ve read in awhile.
Now I,’m going to practice Hedonism 
I wonder who authored this?
Who cares? Just plagiarize it.
AUTHOR
For your information and entertainment, here’s a few…
http://www.veryimportantpotheads.com/
I remember hearing people
who smoked hash saying
“Feels like I’m wearing a hat”.
Sean Penn, as Spiccoli,
from Ridgemont High saying
“That was my skull!“
Ha ha! Cool. This may relate to the expression “blow your mind” also.
A Day in the Life …
By who authored that Shit List I was thinking, “Did only one person know all this or was it a collaboration.”
Thanks, Bob. Excellent reference!
This song is actually on my ‘campfire sing-along’ set list. It’s fun to attempt to play it solo on the acoustic guitar because one must severely improvise in order to imitate the orchestral parts. This never fails to get a good belly-laugh from the participants (especially when I bust a string on the fortissimo “E” chord in the finale).
I concur with Marina and don’t condone pot smoking, here’s why…
I tried smoking pot once, but I couldn’t get the ceramic to burn, baffled I tried hemp instead, but smoking old rope was not much fun.
Then I was accused of “bum sucking”* a joint, but I never did this…
EDIT: I can’t get the picture to show
[url=http://img293.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cigs2expensive.jpg][img=http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/1949/cigs2expensive.th.jpg][/url]
* think it means to soak the end of a joint or cigarette with saliva
http://img293.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cigs2expensive.jpg
Pure Hollywood
Go to the learn/practice here page.
Ther you will see how to [bolster] your posts with links to videos and pictures. Follow the examples and you can pick it up pretty easy.
Re: smoke a zombie
EEwwwww!
Isn’t there a IMG tag? Couldn’t see any image specific code – I;m rusty on D HTML. Other posters have a neat javascript effect that encapsulates the image. Oh well, ‘ere goes:
Hope Javascript works
In the forums BBCodes work; here in the comments section, it’s [just a tad] bit different.
Your link is to a homepage.
Practice some and test your links to learn how to be sure you’re getting the right result.
I think its to do with how imageshacks works. You have to go to their site to see the image. Bit of a bummer really.
Maybe theres a more direct address.
Last attempt – or I’ll ditch imageshack
[IMG]http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/1949/cigs2expensive.jpg[/IMG]
Another neat effect works for links from YouTube videos (only).
Appending “#t=3m18s” (less the paratheses) to the end of the link string
will start the video at (in this example) time index 3 mins, 18 secs.
This is what I did to get “That was my skull”
If you want to link from one of Marina’s lessons, be sure to go to YouTube for the video URL.
Cool
It’s similar to typing 3:18 in the videos comments.
What you may need to do is this:
First, find the image you want to show.
Right click on it and “view the image”, either in a new window or tab.
Once you see the image, solitary on the page – copy that URL from the address bar.
That should do it!
Note: Test it out, in case there is a copyright issue. Sometimes, you can end up with a blanked out URL.
Smoke a Zombie
Got it! I did something similar using Google images (DUCK ASS below).
I’ll look for a new hosting site too. Image shack has lost the plot.
AKA Duck’s Ass excessive wetting of saliva on the end.
You reminded me of another one I heard!
“Zactly”, as in “my mouth is so dry it tastes zactly like my a$$ smells”
You may have heard that from me, I may have posted something like this:
Lady goes to a doctors office, Dr. says “You got a bad case of the Zactlies.
Lady asked, “Oh no doctor wot’s that?”
Doctor replies, “That when your breath smells zactly like you a** hole.”
In the UK a Duck’s Ass (DA) is a Teddy boy or Rocker haircut.
DUCKs ARSE
☞Quack Quack!
My file at the FBI has a questionaire I filled out that states that I smoked approx. 17,000 joints between 1968 and 1991. During the interview, I was asked to tell them about every one of my psychedelic trips, too. The agent that did the interview, and the follow up interview, said she knew what it was like to take acid because she took a college course about drugs. I was amazed but didn’t reply. I was denied a low level security clearance. She told me it was because they felt that I was subject to blackmail because they thought I was ashamed of my drug past. I told her I wasn’t ashamed. She countered, “Oh, then you’re proud of it?” No. It’s just something interesting that I used to do, and that there was risk involved and I’m happy I didn’t lose my mind. That probably wasn’t in her college course. Nowadays, the only drug I recommend is coffee and green tea and an occasional fine cigar.
I only had a brief excursion into the world of pot in my teens. It used to just make me fall asleep or go very quiet – When friends played space music like Ashra – Blackouts, I’d have no chance. When people teased me about falling asleep, I’d just reply blearily, “-thats because it affects the brain……zonk zzzzzzzzzz”.
It affects people differently. Some people get paranoid, some fall asleep. I’m naturally an impatient type of guy, and the pot slowed me down enough to relax.
Is this also where the expression: being ‘wigged out’ comes from?
funny cigarette
good one!
fun band. seen em’ live, good show.
♫ ♫ Straight people don’t know, what you’re about, they pull you down, and put you out…♫ ♫
True dat. Thanx, Ozzy
Here’s the funniest: “You’re under arrest.”
But do you condone smoking wigs for big dogs
or smoking dogs while wearing a tight wig!?
or wearing a tight dog smoking the weed
oh no no no, i’ve done that. don’t do that, no.
I’m confused. Should I wear the wig while I smoke the dog, or should the dog wear the wig while I smoke the dog.
Family Guy Bag of Weed Stewie & Bryan song & dance.
Marina you are fantastic. The hotforwords phenomena is what the Republic of LEXICON is about. My Grandpa … in Heaven salutes you and more…herbs need more freedoms!!!!hemp
Steppenwolf – 02 – Tighten Up Your Wig…this is what came to mind first…..J.Kay, born in E.Prussia
Steppenwolf is a Canadian rock band that helped establish heavy metal music in the late 1960s along with bands like Blue Cheer and Iron Butterfly. The band was formed in 1967 in Los Angeles by vocalist John Kay (a German Canadian singer), guitarist Michael Monarch, bassist Rushton Moreve, keyboardist Goldy McJohn and drummer Jerry Edmonton.
Steppenwolf – The Pusher – Easy Rider
Show off!
I notice you don’t leave an arcane reference left undefined – anywhere here…
I admire that. Good work Freebird!
Thank you.
there is more needed , into your research…Track 3. ‘Tighten Up Your Wig’. From the album ‘ Steppenwolf – Live – ‘
Written by John Kay
Larry Byrom – Guitar
Jerry Edmonton – Drums
John Kay – Vocals, Guitar
Goldy McJohn – Keyboards
Nick St. Nicholas – Bass….John Kay escaped from Europe’s mess after the F*cking NAZI’s…EAST Prussia, is no more a NATION….live..bless you..
Only users lose drugs!
A certain sign of drug abuse… dropping your bag of pot on the floor.
“Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can’t remember what they are.” Matt Lauer – Journalist
“I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast.” Ronald Reagan – President
Reagan was right, but only if you’re talking about being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast that takes place in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
Scooby Snacks
Attitude Adjustment
Fire up a Fatty
You want to go outside and spark one up
Let’s do a bowl.
I don’t smoke anything so I had never even heard of this expression and don’t know any other expressions.
Marina, thank you for that disclaimer, about not condoning smoking and wigs. So, funny.
My favorite disclaimer is at the end of this video.
Tightening one’s wig helps one fall asleep — forever!
*disclaimer may cause you to giggle uncontrollably
Lol! “I feel more like I do now than I did awhile ago.” – Bill Monroe
Man, Kobe looks PISSED!
Errrrrrr no not really, I can think of some but I don’t necessarly consider them funny.
Loossen up yer wig
phobik2000, Tighten Up Your Wig – Steppenwolf