- Arabs got good hat game
The Lebanese barrack was dappled with sheets and them nightgown-like things they wore. It smelled of obscure spices, like some sorta stank potpourri, like grandma’s kitchen if yo’ grandmama was a hairy sailor.
- Damn, there’s lotta kinds of whiteboys out there!
He done inquisit regarding Mucker’s so-called friends, who was parta the “skater scene”. Also, Steel learned about the skater scene.
It sounded like a buncha drinky-dinky whiteboys to Steel, most likely druggie-do-’ems too, but Mucker assured him that that was not a necessary parta “the scene”.
- Drink when it floods, nigga!
In prison, Steel saw a documentary, and it turned out lizards drink mad water, like desert lizards when it floods, they be guzzling that! Lizards is wise motherfuckers. Drink when it floods, nigga!
- Fallen soldiers
Well, that metaphor was outta control — outta control like a drunk! Or a war!
- I sees it wit’ my ever-belovin’ eyeballs
“Bottles all ovuh, hallelujah! Only Jaysus can pick up aftuh me! Oh Lord hallelujah! Lord gimme strength to see! With eyes of knowin’!”
- If it ain’t Christ, it ain’t right!
They was something, and whatever they was, it wasn’t right.
- Like a fish denying water is real
He flapped his hands at his ears — presumably his impression of a fish’s gills — Avery suspected Steel did not know what gills were.
- Occupational conventions are the devil’s pot roast
Steel said he had to come along because “occupational conventions are the devil’s pot roast”. Avery had never thought about pot roast like that.
- Portugal’s a fucked-up place
Lem got theories on why Italians was so awful, and he explainified them to Steel till Steel told him to get on with it.
- Straight-up drunk as a trunk!
Steel be making good comparisons, you’re impressed by them.
- Temptations all over like tits on a trampoline
Concerts is for drink-a-linking and druggie-do-dos, every concert got temptations all over like tits on a trampoline!
- That do make a nigga think!
Ain’t it crazy how all locker rooms smell like honky feet? Even the ones white people don’t use.
- The fence-post of your brain-yard
“That metaphor got away from me, Avery, sorry ’bout that. But I can help you wit’ any of them succumbations.”
- The fourdained road
That’s yo’ addiction layin’ its toll on yo’ mind, like a toll road on yo’ mind, chargin’ a toll… in yo’ mind. Yo’ mind is both the road and the destination. And the toll.
- The skate park of sobriety
On the skateboard of sobriety, I’mma be yo’, uh… wheels, I guess — I dunno how skateboards work.
- The whiteboy shorts situation is out of control
Whiteboys wear long shorts these days! They’s practically pants! What’s up with that?
- Water water everywhere but not a drop to drink
He hid that notion under his domey-doodle though.
- Whine like wine
Drunkie-doorights stay complaining! The only cure for that is more sobriety!
- Whiteboys don’t notice nothing
That’s prolly why they’s white, they ain’t notice the line to get in to be borned a nigga.
- Wine is how the devil corrupts the grape
“You as dis’ppointing as that movie — that dumb one, wit’ the wine — got that Asian chick who look like a horse — you ever see that one? — Nevermind, I can’t remember — you done dis’ppoint me, son.”
- You know Steel stays listening to Some Nigga
Some nigga said the whole rig was counted as a boat under the law, so any alcohol was tantamount to boating under the influence, and you know Steel stays listening to Some Nigga.
