Subject: SHSBC glossary tapes 1 - 12
Date: 3 Apr 2000 14:49:23 -0000
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aeroglopis: a made-up name for an anatomical part. And it might be his
aeroglop is. And you say, "His what?" - Points in Assessing (7 June 61)

Akhenaton: a pharaoh in Egypt (ruled 1372 - 1354 B.c.). He was a religious
innovator who abolished polytheism (belief in more than one god or in many
gods), holding that the sun alone was God and he was the sun's physical
son. Let's take a one-Akhenaton proposition. - Flows, Prehav Scale, Primary
Scale (2 June 61)

Alaska: the least populated state of the United States in the northwest
extremity of the North American continent. They're trying to pass laws out
in Chicago these days that everybody who is pronounced crazy by anybody
that happens to know his name are instantly shipped to Siberia - I mean
Alaska. - Security Checks (6 June 61)

Algiers: the capital city of Algeria and the chief seaport of northwest
Africa. It doesn't depend on the freakish political pronunciamento of the
Duke of Algiers. - On Auditing (26 May 61)

alumno: (Spanish) student. Now it's getting so that I actually can
differentiate the difference between the alumno and the professor. -
E-Meter (19 May 61)

AMA:    abbreviation for American Medical Association, a professional
physicians' organization, established in 1847, with the stated purpose to
promote public health, protect the welfare of doctors and support medical
science. And you may believe that it'd be wonderful if the head of the BMA
or the AMA or the QBCs or the Ku Klux Klan or some other fascist
organization, would announce that he was in favor of Scientology. - On
Auditing (26 May 61)

Aristotelian: belonging to or having some relation to Aristotle (384 - 322
B.C.), Greek philosopher noted for his works on logic, ethics, politics,
etc. It's an Aristotelian proposition: it's black or white. - E-Meter Talk
and Demo (7 May 61)

ASDIC: abbreviation for Anti-Submarine Detection Investigation Committee, a
committee which British sonar was named after. Now, after I'd taken a
course on ASDIC from a British instructor I was after that certified as a
total, total expert, don't you see? - E-Meter Talk and Demo (7 May 61)

Associated Allied Admirals Union: a made-up name for an organization of
Allied naval forces during World War II. So, there was a little Dutch
corvette, and it had escaped from Java when it was abandoned by the
Associated Allied Admirals Union - and they had to work overtime, so they
abandoned it. Anyway, this little corvette escaped. - Reading E-Meter
Reactions (9 June 61)

ASW: abbreviation for anti submarine warfare. I studied ASW under a British
instructor. - E-Meter Talk and Demo (7 May 61)

Atlantic: of, pertaining to or situated on the eastern coast of the United
States. And the corvette was provided with air cover all the way up the
Atlantic seaboard, clear to New York, to warn off torpedo bombers and
things that might make runs on it. - Reading E-Meter Reactions (9 June 61)

atomic physics: the branch of physics that deals with the behavior,
structure and component parts of atoms. You know, the constant they use in
atomic physics is not a constant. - On Auditing (26 May 61)

baptism of fire: experiencing the fire of battle for the first time. Well,
at least part of the Air Force had a baptism of fire. - Reading Meter
Reactions (9 June 61)

bloomer: (slang) a blunder; a goof. "I won't assess any further," and have
you just pulled a bloomer. - Points in Assessing (7 June 61)

blue sky: something that has no sound factual basis; something recklessly
imaginative. It was his opinion there was nobody in the organization that
was any good, the organization was no good and that everything it was
selling was blue sky. - On Auditing (26 May 61)

BMA: abbreviation for British Medical Association: the British counterpart
of the American Medical Association. See also AMA in this glossary. And you
may believe that it'd be wonderful if the head of the BMA or the AMA or the
QBCs or the Ku Klux Klan or some other fascist organization, would announce
that he was in favor of Scientology. - On Auditing (26 May 61)

boards, across the: including everyone or all; so that all are included.
Originally a phrase from horse racing wherein equal amounts of money are
bet on the same horse to win a race, to place second or third. Unless you
have cleared up his games conditions clear across the boards, he will
continue to restore himself into an aberrated condition. - Assessment (12
May 61)

Brothers of the Snake: a group on Earth around 1216 B.C. which was involved
in an effort towards total religious conquest of the Near East, India and
some of Europe. The conflict between them and those fighting against them
was extremely violent. Because it means no screwball outfit - but imagine
some outfit like the Grand Temple of Ishtar or the Brothers of the Snake,
or something, suddenly being able to pick up our technology, if it were
terribly, terribly simple and use it to plow everybody in on Earth. -
E-Meter Talk and Demo (7 May 61)

bugger factor: an arbitrary number entered into a mathematical equation to
handle a defect in that calculation - such as a second factor added in to
account for another incorrectly included factor. A bugger is an annoying or
troublesome thing, situation, etc. So in other words, zero is a fabulous
variable and accounts actually for what they call, inelegantly, "the bugger
factor" in physics. - On Auditing (26 May 61)

Bureau of Naval Intelligence: a section of the United States Navy.
Intelligence has to do with the gathering, distribution and evaluation of
information, especially secret information about an enemy or potential
enemy. I'm not supposed to say anything about the Bureau of Naval
Intelligence. - On Auditing (26 May 61)

bust-up: (colloquial) a great quarrel, row or excitement. Pc has had a
tremendous bust-up of some kind or another between sessions and you don't
detect it and you audit him in spite of it. - On Auditing (26 May 61)

C: (physics) the velocity of light in a vacuum, approximately 186,000 miles
per second. "C is not a constant" is one of them. You know, the constant
they use in atomic physics is not a constant. - On Auditing (26 May 61)

California: a state in the southwestern United States. Well actually, this
is the old whizzeroo on the California response. There's a thing called the
California maturity test, and the California this and California that. -
E-Meter Actions, Errors in Auditing (12 June 61)

Cape Town: a seaport in and the legislative capital of the Republic of
South Africa, in the southwest part. Also the capital of the Cape of Good
Hope province. It doesn't depend on it whether the "Race Hate Society" of
north Manchester or the "Race Hate Society" of south Cape Town have
anything whatsoever to say. - On Auditing (26 May 61)

catatonic ambiguousa: a made-up name for a mental disease. A humorous
variation of catatonic, a psychiatric term which refers to a seizure in
which a person becomes rigid and unconscious and ambiguous, not clear;
indefinite; vague. You don't even have to go psychiatric and say he's a
catatonic ambiguousa. - E-Meter Talk and Demo (7 May 61)

catatonic schiz: short for catatonic schizophrenia: a very fancy word which
means somebody that lies still, stiff and never moves. Schizophrenia
(psychiatry) means "a severe mental disorder in which a person becomes
unable to act or reason in a rational way." Catatonic (psychiatry) refers
to a seizure in which a person becomes rigid and unconscious. Now, there's,
oddly enough, the lowest zone of tension, which is, there is so much
tension in the world that there is no sense in doing anything about
anything anyplace, and you've got an ambulant, catatonic schiz. - E-Meter
Talk and Demo (7 May 61)

Chaldeosis: a made-up name for a subject that deals with telling the
future. Chaldea was a region in the southern part of Babylonia, the ancient
empire in southwest Asia which flourished from 2100 - 538 B.C. The
Chaldeans were famous for studying the stars to foretell the future. Many
present forms of fortunetelling were practiced by the priests and scholars
of ancient Chaldea. The suffix -osis means a state, condition or action.
Now, it's the body movement that makes the erratic moves, and which the
phrenologist - that is taught in most universities - or is it Chaldeosis,
or they read stars - horoscopy or something like that. - E-Meter Talk and
Demo (7 May 61)

Chancellor of the Exchequer: the minister of finance in the British
government, a member of the Cabinet. Similarly, we look down here in the
Treasury Department or we look down here at the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, and we find him all the time trying to figure out something new,
extraordinary and strange and different. - E-Meter Actions, Errors in
Auditing (12 June 61)

Chaucer: Geoffrey Chaucer (1340? - 1400), an English poet of the fourteenth
century, called the father of English poetry; he was the first great poet
to write in the English language. Oh, yeah, I think there's some character
by the name of Chaucer, wrote one about it. - E-Meter Actions, Errors in
Auditing (12 June 61)

chemical recorder: a type of recorder, such as those used in telegraph
equipment, consisting of a metallic wire resting upon a moving, chemically
treated tape. Electric current passes through the wire onto the tape
causing discoloration of the tape with the message being recorded as long
and short lines. They have chemical recorders and pings and bops and dials
and Lord knows what. - E-Meter Talk and Demo (7 May 61)

Chicago: one of the largest cities in the United States, located in
northeastern Illinois on the shore of Lake Michigan. I was speaking, by the
way, as though I were in Chicago. - Security Checks (6 June 61)

chute, down the: (informal) into a ruined, wasted or abandoned state or
condition. A chute is an inclined channel, as a trough, tube or shaft, for
conveying water, grain, coal, etc., to a lower level. If you see this in
its proper perspective you will stop trying to fit yourself into the
framework of the environment of a society which is already going down the
chute. - On Auditing (26 May 61)

Cincinnati:     a city in southwestern Ohio, USA, on the Ohio River. "And they
sent me to the pen in Cincinnati for doing that." - On Auditing (26 May 61)

citizens out of, make: convince, especially by forceful or harsh means. And
man does it make citizens out of them. - E-Meter (19 May 61)

coo: (British slang) an interjection used to express surprise or amazement.
They say, "Coo!" you see, it's some terrific cognition, you know? -
Assessment (12 May 61)

corvette: a small-sized, lightly armed, fast ship used mostly for convoy
escort. I was running British corvettes during the war, and I was studying
ASW, and they have to do with meters too, you know? - E-Meter Talk and Demo
(7 May 61)

cotton-picking: (slang) damned; confounded. But the usual cotton-picking
ARC breaks that don't amount to anything - ah, they don't really, terribly
disturb them. - E-Meter (19 May 61)

crank up: (informal) increase. So when you get that withhold, reach over
here, crank up your sensitivity, ask for the withhold and strip it good,
you see? - E-Meter (19 May 61)

Criminal, John Q.: a made-up name for a criminal. And the Security Check is
not designed to do a check on the life story of John Q. Criminal, see; it
is designed to get off what he considers withholds. - On Auditing (26 May
61)

crocs: (informal) short for crocodiles. He runs cows, crocs and alligators
with great happiness. - Flattening a Process and the E-Meter (1 June 61)

curiosa: a curiosity; something curious, strange, rare or novel. Now,
curiosa - that it occasionally rock slams on you is just curiosa. - E-Meter
Talk and Demo (7 May 61)

Dartmoor Scrubs: a prison located on a bleak plateau in southwestern
England. It was opened in 1809 as a station for receiving French prisoners
of war. The person just got out of Dartmoor Scrubs, you know - just that
day! - Question and Answer Period: Ending an Intensive (8 June 61)

dead-on: (informal) exactly right, accurate or pertinent. But if you're
answering dead-on you'll have this interesting experience: You are running
a Joburg Security Check, and you ask the level - you ask the precise level
"Have you ever raped anyone?" - E-Meter (19 May 61)

Deutschland: German name of Germany. They kept it spotted, much more
carefully than they were looking for the Deutschland. - Reading E-Meter
Reactions (9 June 61)

Devonshire: a county of southwest England, on the English Channel. And it
went off the edge of a cliff down in Devonshire. - E-Meter (19 May 61)

Dick: a student on the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course at the time of
the lecture. Now, I'll show you how far we've gone: Dick was commenting the
other day on the old tapes of the Philadelphia lectures. - Assessment (12
May 61)

di Diego: a student on the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course at the time
of the lecture. Was it di Diego? - E-Meter (19 May 61)

dies out: fades, subsides. Of course, such a thing dies out in the course
of about three days, but they don't go back to the office and write that
story that the editor told them to write to clobber Scientology, mostly
because they can't now sit down comfortably; it restimulates them. -
E-Meter (19 May 61)

"Dixie": a lively song about the Southern states of the United States,
written in 1859 by Daniel D. Emmett (1815 - 1904). It was used to build
enthusiasm for the South during the Civil War. And they'd say, "Well, this
is the scale, and we're going to have saucepans at this level, and we're
going to have chimney pots at that level, and we're going to have singing
"Dixie" at this level, and that's our scale." - Flows, Prehav Scale,
Primary Scale (2 June 61)

Dormaphone: a record player device which played data to an individual while
he slept, the idea being that he would retain the data when he awoke. Dorma
means "sleep," phone means "sound." And actually there are people around
who've gotten so used to being trained that way that we have today a thing
called Dormaphone - which, by the way, doesn't work on anybody who didn't
ever teach anybody this way. - E-Meter (19 May 61)

drum, beating the: (informal) giving vigorous support; promoting or
advocating (something). And he's beating the drum. - On Auditing (26 May
61)

Edgar: Edgar Watson, a Saint Hill staff member at the time of these
lectures who had earlier been a barber. Actually, as I explained to Edgar,
it isn't, actually, that I like to wear my hair long; it's just that there
aren't any barbers. - Security Checks (6 June 61)

E-flat: (music) a musical scale having E-flat (the note a half step below
E) as the keynote (the lowest, basic note or tone of a musical scale).
"Well, do you sneeze in E-flat minor?" - Assessment (12 May 61)

electric-shocking: engaging in the psychiatric practice of delivering an
electric shock to the head of a patient in a supposed effort to treat
mental illness. There is no therapeutic reason for shocking anyone and
there are no authentic cases on record of anyone having been cured of
anything by shock. The reverse is true. Electric shock causes often
irreparable damage to the person in the form of brain damage and impaired
mental ability. So you've thrown him this formula and control to him is
electric-shocking people, and communicating with people is
electric-shocking people, and havingness to him is electric shock or
psychosis. - Points in Assessing (7 June 61)

Elizabeth: a city in northeastern New Jersey. Residential suburb of New
York City and location of the first Dianetics Research Foundation, 1950 -
1951. There hasn't been a lecture, by the way, on attention and dispersed
attention, attention units and so forth since, I think, something
ridiculous like the end of June 1950 at the Elks Hall in - it was - must
have been someplace in New Jersey - Elizabeth! - Points in Assessing (7
June 61)

Elks Hall: a building containing the local headquarters of the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks, a fraternal organization founded in 1868.
Such halls are often rented out for public events. There hasn't been a
lecture, by the way, on attention and dispersed attention, attention units
and so forth since, I think, something ridiculous like the end of June 1950
at the Elks Hall in - it was - must have been someplace in New Jersey -
Elizabeth! Mmmm! The Elks Hall in Elizabeth, New Jersey. - Points in
Assessing (7 June 61)

Emerson: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), one of America's most
influential authors and thinkers, also a minister and noted lecturer. He is
credited with the statement: "If a man can write a better book, preach a
better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he
builds his house in the woods the world will make a beaten path to his
door." If you make a better mousetrap - a fellow by the name of Emerson who
is very much over quoted - the whole world will beat a trap to your door. -
On Auditing (26 May 61)

en pa88aflt.~ (French) in passing, by the way. When you're security
checking as a Security Check - just en passant here - you must know what a
meter's talking about. - Question and Answer Period: Ending an Intensive (8
June 61)

epicenters: subbrains in various parts of the body, probably picked up on
the evolutionary line, which have a monitoring effect on the body and the
individual. These would be such parts of the body as the "funny bones" or
any "judo sensitive" spots: the sides of the neck, the inside of the wrist,
the places the doctors tap to find out if there is a reflex. For more
information on epicenters, see the book Scientology: A History of Man. So
the - you remember the old epicenters? - Flows, Prehav Scale, Primary Scale
(2 June 61)

esoteria: facts or things that are intended for or understood by only a
chosen few. So as a result, we have techniques and technologies, and we
have taken it all down out of the beautiful esoterics of esoteria and have
got it well situated now into the ponderous clank of something that can be
totally understood and duplicated. - Points in Assessing (7 June 61)

fine-toothed Ron, going over (something) with a: a humorous variation of
the phrase going over (something) with a fine-toothed comb, examining
(something) very thoroughly. In this particular course I'm going over
individual cases with a fine-toothed Ron. - Assessment (12 May 61)

flumdumptious: a coined word meaning nonsensical, foolish. This keeps you
from making these flumdumptious errors, don't you see? - Flattening a
Process and the E-Meter (1 June 61)

French Foreign Legion: a corps of foreign volunteers and mercenaries, which
forms an integral part of the French Army. Recruits between the ages of
eighteen and forty are accepted, regardless of nationality, background or
occupation, and without being required to show any proof of identity.
Individuals have enlisted in this service for a variety of reasons,
including to escape from political or personal situations, and to satisfy a
desire for adventure. I think I will go off and join the French Foreign
Legion. - Flows, Prehav Scale, Primary Scale (2 June 61)

Freudian analysis: a system of mental therapy developed in 1894 by Sigmund
Freud. It depended upon the following practices for its effects: The
patient was made to talk about and recall his childhood for years
while the practitioner brought about a transfer of the patient's
personality to his own and searched for hidden sexual incidents believed by
Freud to be the only cause of aberration. The practitioner read sexual
significances into all statements and evaluated them for the patient along
sexual lines. Each of these points later proved to be based upon false
premises and incomplete research, accounting for their lack of result and
the subsequent failure of the subject and its offshoots. Also called
psychoanalysis. "What is the Homey offshoot of Freudian analysis, and so
on." - Points in Assessing (7 June 61)

Freudian psychoanalysis: another name for Freudian analysis. See also
Freudian analysis in this glossary. Look, Freudian psychoanalysis is
exactly reverse to the Auditor's Code the whole way. - E-Meter Talk and
Demo (7 May 61)

from A to izzard: completely, thoroughly, all the way. Izzard is a
dialectic form of the letter Z. Listen, if you've figured out a case from A
to izzard, knowing Scientology, and you ask somebody to run this on the
case, I'll sw - I'll promise you something is going to happen. - E-Meter
Actions, Errors in Auditing (12 June 61)

garblize: a coined word meaning to confuse or mix up (a story, etc.). But
if you kept a form surviving, what you would have is a perpetuation of
existing state - which would, of course, take out all the time, all the
matter, all the energy and all the space in a sensible arrangement and
garblize them. - Reading E-Meter Reactions (9 June 61)

Gee Whizzes: a made-up name for a galaxy. Gee whiz is an informal phrase
for an exclamation of surprise, objection, etc. It's gone, man, it's gone!
The body you had back there on the galaxy of Gee Whizzes - tha - that -
man, that hadn't been a - that form hasn't been around for a long time. -
Reading E-Meter Reactions (9 June 61)

General MacArthur: (1880 - 1964) US general; supreme commander of allied
forces in the southwest Pacific during World War II and of United Nations
forces in Korea (1950 - 1951). You can't say, "to pick gooseberries,"
"General MacArthur," and "failed withhold," and compare them one against
the other. - Question and Answer Period: Ending an Intensive (8 June 61)

Gestalt therapy: (psychology) a type of therapy, originally German, based
on the idea that the response of an individual in a given situation is a
response to the whole situation, not to its parts. Gestalt is German for
"shape, form." What did they eventually call that - Gestalt therapy or
something? - E-Meter Talk and Demo (7 May 61)

glove, hand in: very intimately associated; closely together. You see how
that goes hand in glove? - E-Meter Actions, Errors in Auditing (12 June 61)

gobbledygook: (slang) wordy and unclear talk or writing, especially by
public officials. And yet it sounded like the gobbledygook I just gave you,
see? It doesn't make any sense to him. - Security Checks (6 June 61)

"God Save the Queen": the national anthem of Great Britain. Says something
to the effect, I think sarcastic, snide, asking you if you're waiting for
the E-Meter to play 'Dixie' and I expect almost anybody at any minute to
say, "No, we're waiting it to play 'God Save the Queen."' - Reading E-Meter
Reactions (9 June 61)

Grand Temple of Ishtar: the followers and worshipers of Ishtar, the chief
goddess of Assyria and Babylon. She was also considered as a powerful
goddess in the Roman Empire and maintained this position until the advent
of Christianity. Because it means no screwball outfit - but imagine some
outfit like the Grand Temple of Ishtar or the Brothers of the Snake, or
something, suddenly being able to pick up our technology, if it were
terribly, terribly simple, and use it to plow everybody in on Earth. -
E-Meter Talk and Demo (7 May 61)

grapes: short for grapeshot: a cluster of small iron balls formerly fired
from a cannon. Named for its resemblance to a cluster of grapes. "Have you
ever shot grapes?" - E-Meter Talk and Demo (7 May 61)

Green, Roddy: a made-up name for a preclear. You could take Roddy Green and
find his goal, and find his terminal, and assess it on the Prehav Scale and
run him. - Routine 1, 2 and 3 (5 June 61)

Greenwich Village: a section of New York City, in lower Manhattan,
inhabited and frequented by artists, writers and students. Formerly a
village. You'll find artists down in Greenwich Village - they've got
canvases around that are two inches thick with paint, because they're
trying to paint the perfect picture. - E-Meter Actions, Errors in Auditing
(12 June 61)

grinds to a brake-smoking halt: (informal) slows down and comes to a
complete stop. Just run it down to a point of where it just grinds to a
brake-smoking halt. - Points in Assessing (7 June 61)

grooved (oneself) in: settled (oneself) into a routine of work, habit, etc.
You know, I grooved myself in - like you're learning Model Session now, you
know. - Security Checks (6 June 61)

Halifax, from hell to: a coined expression meaning all over or everywhere.
Historically, Halifax was (and is) a town in north central England whose
name came to be a euphemism for hell in such phrases as "go to Halifax."
Also, the name appears in an old beggars' and vagabonds' "prayer" that goes
"From Hull, Hell and Halifax, Good Lord, deliver us." It is said that Hull
(a seaport in England) was to be avoided because the beggars had little
chance of getting anything there without doing hard labor for it, and
Halifax because anyone caught stealing cloth there was beheaded without
further ado. This is the commonest mistake which is being made in HGCs,
Academies, co-audits, from hell to Halifax: They don't run the levels
right. - Flattening a Process and the E-Meter (1 June 61)

Halpern, Dick: a student on the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course at the
time of these lectures. Was it di Diego? Was it Dick Halpern? - E-Meter (19
May 61)

hangs fire: delays firing. After the trigger is pulled, a gun sometimes
doesn't go off. This is called a "hang-fire" or delayed fire if it then
goes off late. Used figuratively in the lecture. So that a case that hangs
fire, falls into just these categories: A present time problem is there
consistently and forever. - E-Meter (19 May 61)

happy as a clam: in a very happy manner. From the phrase happy as a clam at
high tide, which comes from the fact that clams, considered a delicacy in
America, are gathered only at low tide. In other words, a clam would be
happy at high tide because it was not being gathered for food. You put him
out there in the society or he's functioning in the society and he's happy
as a clam about what you've done for him and he's happy as a clam about
what he's doing. - On Auditing (26 May 61)

HASI:   abbreviation for Hubbard Association of Scientologists International:
the company which operated all Scientology organizations over the world and
was the general membership group of the Church from mid-1950s to mid-1960s.
The Church of Scientology International has replaced HASI in the operation
of orgs, and the International Association of Scientologists (lAS) is the
current membership group. And they can't imagine what dreadful thing this
is, and they find out the pc didn't say good morning to the HASI Registrar.
- Security Checks (6 June 61)

heaven's sakes, for: (colloquial) an expression of impatient annoyance or
surprise. Well, for heaven's sakes, it's not flat so you carry it on. -
Routine 1, 2 and 3 (5 June 1961)

hellfire-and-brimstone: promising damnation and punishment; raising visions
of fire and brimstone, as the fire of hell. And yet the world at large is
so in disagreement with this principle that I wrote a story one time about
a fellow who went ashore trying to sin, under a hellfire-and-brimstone
captain. - E-Meter Actions, Errors in Auditing (12 June 61)

hell    you are: see like hell in this glossary. You'll say, "Boy! Hey, I'm
really getting somewhere with this case!" Aw, the hell you are. - On
Auditing (26 May 61)

Hemery, Peter: a staff member at Saint Hill at the time of the lecture. Was
it di Diego? Was it Dick Halpern? Peter Hemery do it? - E-Meter (19 May 61)

Hobson-Jobson: a term which comes from "0 Hasan, 0 Husain!" (ritual cry of
mourning for Hasan and Husain, grandsons of Mohammed who were killed in
battle). British troops in India heard these words and called it
Hobson-Jobson. The word has come to mean a corruption of a foreign
expression translated into English, or any corruption of a word or
expression. Used loosely in the lecture in reference to rephrasing a
Security Check to fit a different situation. So ask - just Hobson-Jobson
the whole Security Check into a second dynamic proposition: "Do you know of
anyone being burgled?" "Do you know of anyone burgling anybody ?" in other
words. - On Auditing (26 May 61)

holy cats: an interjection showing astonishment, emphasis, etc. And when
you can take and blow this up in the course of, ah, at the outside, a
couple of hundred hours of auditing; holy cats, how many engrams is that
per minute of auditing - of actual effective auditing? It's some fantastic
number. - E-Meter (19 May 61)

Homo sap: short for Homo sapiens: a human being. Ladies and gentlemen,
fellow students of Homo sap: Takes seven hours on some people to do a
Joburg, and you've asked it in one lump question. - Routine 1, 2 and 3 (5
June 61)

hooble-goobles second differential of the integral zim: a made-up name for
a process. Auditor can run CCHs, and yet you say run the hooble-goobles
second differential of the integral zim. - Security Checks (6 June 61)

horn, come out at the other end of the: come out fine on the other end of a
difficult situation. Coined from Cape Horn, the most southerly tip of the
South American continent, known for its contrary winds and heavy seas
making travel around it very hard. But we've come out the other end of the
horn, and we get an actual look at what it really is, and it's simply this:
perfect adherence to the Auditor's Code. - E-Meter Talk and Demo (7 May 61)

Homey: a person following the philosophy of Karen Homey (1885 - 1952), a
German-born American psychiatrist who founded the American Institute of
Psychoanalysis. And he says, "I'm a Homey." - Points in Assessing (7 June
61)

House of Commons: the lower house of the parliament of Britain. It includes
representatives from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, all
elected by the people. The leader of the House of Commons is the Prime
Minister of Britain. What it would mean for the destiny of England if you
in this room were suddenly turned loose as a crew to find the immediate
four last lives on every member of the House of Commons. - On Auditing (26
May 61)

IBM: abbreviation for International Business Machines Corporation, a
leading US business machine and computer manufacturer. So it doesn't, you
see, read a catalog of crime like an IBM machine. - E-Meter Actions, Errors
in Auditing (12 June 61)

Interpol: abbreviation for International Criminal Police Organization; a
private, quasi-police organization that is not subject to direction, review
or authority of any government. Located in Lyon, France, it has over 150
member countries (with Interpol offices within the governments of each
member country). And you know that they've done practically every question
in the Security Check, they have a major crime on for which they're being
looked for by Interpol, see? And you sit there in fascinated amazement! -
E-Meter Actions, Errors in Auditing (12 June 61)

jim-dandy: (informal) of superior quality; excellent. And I even thought
one time of, gee, you know, we could whip together a handy, jim-dandy
little religion here in the society for the resurrection of God, see, on
the basis that the poor fellow plowed himself in helping us all out, and
that we should give him a hand now. - Flows, Prehav Scale, Primary Scale (2
June 61)

Johnny-come-lately: a late arrival or participant; newcomer. And English is
a Johnny-come-lately language. - Points in Assessing (7 June 61)

Jones, Farmer: a farmer who lived next door to Saint Hill on an adjacent
property at the time of these lectures. I did get to bed for a couple hours
sleep this morning, and I no more than closed my eyes, than Farmer Jones
opened up on a buzz saw. - Points in Assessing (7 June 61)

Junio:  (Spanish) the month of June. Well, what is this? This is Junio the
12th? Sesenta y uno. - E-Meter Actions, Errors in Auditing (12 June 61)

Ken:    a student on the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course at the time of the
lecture. Now, does that answer your question, Ken? - Flows, Prehav Scale,
Primary Scale (2 June 61)

kerbango: an interjection used to represent a sudden sound, as of an
explosion. However, as you're going through with a third-of a-dial drop
setting, the needle does a twitch, kerbango. - Routine 1, 2 and 3 (5 June
61)

Khrushchev:     Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev (1894 - 1971), Soviet leader;
first secretary of the Communist Party (1953 - 1964); premier of Soviet
Union (1958 - 1964). I think Khrushchev himself could be put into session
with this one. - Assessment (12 May 61)

last hung dog, your: the last opportunity to achieve your objective. Taken
from the expression "There are more ways of killing a dog than by hanging,"
meaning there is more than one way of achieving your object. And that
happens to be just about your last hung dog. - Question and Answer Period:
Ending an Intensive (8 June 61)

launching pad: a platform from which a rocket, guided missile, etc., is
launched. Used figuratively in this lecture. Now, a person just gets off
the launching pad, and he's just going over the end of the runway lights,
and the control tower says it's time to whipstall. - Question and Answer
Period: Ending an Intensive (8 June 61)

lead-pipe cinch: (slang) a doubly sure or doubly easy thing. Lead pipe
refers to a mid-western and western US form of galvanized iron pipe (which
looks as if it were lead). For saddling and cinching (fixing a saddle
securely) the sort of horse that expands its belly, a short length of this
so-called lead pipe was slipped under the saddle strap and turned like a
tourniquet, the work assisted by a few knee jabs in the belly. Thus the
horse was forced to deflate and the saddle was cinched tight, that horse
now being double (lead-pipe) cinched. Boy, I tell you, there seems to be an
awful lot to know about assessment that I considered was a lead-pipe cinch.
- Assessment (12 May 61)

les resultats: (French) the results. Les resultats! You are in the clear,
so what you say counts. - E-Meter Actions, Errors in Auditing (12 June 61)

Lewis gun: a light machine gun used in World Wars I and II, named after its
developer, US Colonel Isaac N. Lewis. And I don't know what they could have
done, but it was very interesting anyway and kept the morale up and we had
a couple of Lewis guns that I'd put in action. - Reading E-Meter Reactions
(9 June 61)

like hell: (interjection) not so, untrue; indicates the speaker's lack of
belief in what he heard. Like hell you could. - Points in Assessing (7 June
61)

Linguaphone:    a system for teaching foreign languages using phonograph
records and a phonograph machine. The system started in 1904 in London,
England. It happens right now - because there's a ship down at Las Palmas
I'll have to repair using the Spanish language - that I picked up some
Linguaphone records, and I happened to be listening to them wide awake. -
E-Meter (19 May 61)

Little Eva: a character in the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher
Stowe. In the lecture LRH refers to the differences between Little Eva, the
young white daughter of Uncle Tom's slave owner, and an impish Negro child
named Topsy. See also Uncle Tom's Cabin in this glossary. And now that we
need it, I've turned around and reviewed it, and I find out what is now
called the CCHs bears no resemblance - any more than Little Eva did to
Topsy in Uncle Tom's Cabin. - Security Checks (6 June 61)

living daylights out of, the: completely or thoroughly. From the common
phrase beat the living daylights out of meaning "to defeat or thrash
thoroughly," this portion of the phrase is often used in similar
constructions when referring to handling or doing something completely.
Well, we've refined the living daylights out of the meter and we've made it
read, and we've found out what these various components that can vary the
meter mean, and we're not teaching you a new electronic instrument. -
E-Meter Talk and Demo (7 May 61)

London: capital of the United Kingdom. Located in southeast England on the
Thames River. This is a talk on an E-Meter, 7 May, 1961, to HASI London
technical staff - E-Meter Talk and Demo (7 May 61)

loopy: crazy. I know this all sounds very loopy and very ridiculous, but
that is why that level is there. - Flows, Prehav Scale, Primary Scale (2
June 61)

Ml:     the main motorway from London to the north of England. It's still lying
out on Ml. - Routine 1, 2 and 3 (5 June 61)

mackerel, dead as a: (slang) absolutely lifeless. Now you come back over
the list again, and it says "Fighting," and it is just as dead as a
mackerel. - Points in Assessing (7 June 61)

mad, like: (colloquial) very much, hard, fast, etc. But another terminal
falls like mad and then that's gone. - E-Meter Talk and Demo (7 May 61)

Manchester:     an industrial city in northwest England. It doesn't depend on
it whether the "Race Hate Society" of north Manchester or the "Race Hate
Society" of south Cape Town have anything whatsoever to say. - On Auditing
(26 May 61)

Marcabian:      of the Marcab Confederacy, various planets united into a very
vast civilization which has come forward up through the last 200,000 years,
formed out of the fragments of earlier civilizations. In the last 10,000
years they have gone on with a sort of decadent kicked-in-the-head
civilization that contains automobiles, business suits, fedora hats,
telephones, spaceships - a civilization which looks almost an exact
duplicate but is worse off than the current US civilization. Marcabian
intelligence report date - something or other. - Points in Assessing (7
June 61)

Mary Sue: Mary Sue Hubbard, wife of L. Ron Hubbard. You don't know what
"PHD" is? Well, now let's see, who was here when Mary Sue gave the very
adequate demonstration of that. - E-Meter Actions, Errors in Auditing (12
June 61)

medulla oblongata: the lowest part of the brain, at the top end of the
spinal cord. He'd been sitting back there in Lord knows what corner of his
medulla oblongata he was living in - if he was living in that, it was
probably the back of the tip of his right - his grandmother's right ear. -
On Auditing (26 May 61)

Menninger: Karl Menninger (1893 - 1983), American psychiatrist, who with
his father founded the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas in 1920. Well, of
course, we've been through the ropes and we know what the CCHs are, but
that wouldn't mean anything to - oh, I don't know - Menninger, presuming
he's still alive. - Points in Assessing (7 June 61)

Mercedes-Benz: an engine manufactured by the German firm Mercedes-Benz,
which is well known for its production of high-quality sedans and racing
cars. Instead of doing that now, we have a ten-thousand horse Mercedes-Benz
pushing a rowboat. - E-Meter (19 May 61)

Miami: city on the southeastern coast of Florida, US. Well, anyway, this
little Dutch corvette comes steaming up the line in Miami and a whole
squadron of American torpedo bombers say, "Well, that's what we're supposed
to do." - Reading E-Meter Reactions (9 June 61)

minor: (music) a minor scale. A musical scale having half steps between the
second and third, fifth and sixth, and seventh and eighth steps, with whole
steps for the other intervals. "Well, do you sneeze in E-flat minor?" -
Assessment (12 May 61)

Monkey Room: a room in Saint Hill Manor, the walls of which are decorated
with a mural depicting monkeys dressed like people and enjoying themselves
at a pleasure resort. The mural was painted by John Spencer Churchill,
nephew of former British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. You know,
there's one up in the Monkey Room, by the way. - E-Meter Actions, Errors in
Auditing (12 June 61)

Morse code: a system by which letters, numbers, punctuation and other signs
are expressed by dots, dashes and spaces or by flag signals, long and short
sounds or flashes of light. Morse code is now used mainly in signaling and
in some telegraphy. But always make sure that it isn't somebody going -
playing Morse code on the - on the electrodes. - Flows, Prehav Scale,
Primary Scale (2 June 61)

mousetrap, make a better: See Emerson in this glossary. If you make a
better mousetrap - a fellow by the name of Emerson who is very much
overquoted - the whole world will beat a trap to your door. - On Auditing
(26 May 61)

name, rank and serial number: precise identity. Informal usage from a
familiar clause of a US code of conduct for American men taken prisoner
which states that a prisoner is "bound to give only name, rank, service
number and date of birth." That's interesting, and those of us that are
fooling around with meters will eventually get this thing read down to a
point of where you could put any man or beast on the face of Earth on an
E-Meter and we can probably tell what his name, rank and serial number is
for each life back - you know? - E-Meter Talk and Demo (7 May 61)

nauticalese: the language of sailors and seamanship. A coined word from
"nautical" of sailors or seamanship and "-ese" the language or dialect of.
We have less actual terms. Nauticalese. - On Auditing (26 May 61)

Nembutal: (trademark) a brand of pentobarbital (sedative). Well now, if I
know all about this, why don't I sock some sodium pentathol in my arm, or
something of the sort, or take a couple of Nembutal sleeping tablets, and
put a pair of earphones on, and turn on a record that repeats how to speak
the Spanish language when I do this. - E-Meter (19 May 61)

New Siberia: a made-up name for a place, after a part of the Soviet Union
named Siberia, in northern Asia extending from the Ural Mountains to the
Pacific Ocean. "I've got to phone New Siberia." - Routine 1, 2 and 3 (5
June 61)

Newton's law of interaction: the third of the three laws of motion and
interaction formulated by Sir Isaac Newton. These laws are intended to
describe how all moving bodies on the Earth react: (1) a body at rest
remains at rest and a body in motion remains in motion unless acted on by
an external force; (2) the motion of a body changes in proportion to the
size of the force applied to it; (3) every action produces an equal but
opposite reaction. There's a little bit of Newton's law of interaction
mixed up in all mental activities by people who have gravity effective on
them. - Flows, Prehav Scale, Primary Scale (2 June 61)

Niagara Falls: a large waterfall on the Niagara River between the state of
New York in the United States and Ontario in Canada. See also Niagara River
in this glossary. They've got to - they've got to shoot the rapids, sort of
up the Niagara River, you know? They've got to go up Niagara Falls
backwards, and it's a rather battering experience. - Routine 1, 2 and 3 (5
June 61)

Niagara River: a large river flowing from Canada into the United States in
New York state, famous for its towering waterfalls and possessing stretches
of turbulent rapids. See also Niagara Falls in this glossary. They've got
to - they've got to shoot the rapids, sort of up the Niagara River, you
know? - Routine 1, 2 and 3 (5 June 61)

nickel on the drum, with a: soliciting contributions to a church or other
religious organization, a nickel being five cents American, a small amount
of money. Everybody has been rushing up and down the streets with a nickel
on the drum selling "Faith! Faith! Faith! Faith! You've got to have faith!
You've got to have faith!" - Flows, Prehav Scale, Primary Scale (2 June 61)

North Wallaby: a made-up location. But in some HGC someplace, or out in the
bush back at North Wallaby, why, you'll see - meet somebody back at North
Wallaby, and he'd say, "Oh, we're having so much luck on SOP Goals." -
Routine 1, 2 and 3 (5 June 61)

patch-up: an act or instance of patching or repairing. And in patch-up of
cases on general run of Prehav and on patch-up of cases in general - of a
general run of the terminal of the goal, if a case isn't making much
progress, you had better go back - that's why you must keep your auditor's
reports. - Points in Assessing (7 June 61)

Pennsylvania: a state in the eastern United States. Take him up to
Pennsylvania, take him up to Wyoming, and we've gone down south. - Points
in Assessing (7 June 61)

Pennsylvania Avenue: a well-known street in Washington, DC, the capital
city of the United States. The White House, official residence of the
president of the United States, is also located on this street. They just -
I can see them up now, at 10 Downing Street, and State Department,
seventeen hundred-and-something Pennsylvania Avenue. - E-Meter Actions,
Errors in Auditing (12 June 61)

pistol, hotter than a: short for "hotter than a two-dollar pistol," which
means very hot; red-hot. A two-dollar pistol is "hot" because it is so
cheaply made that it usually blows up and blows off a hand. The expression
is used in the lecture in reference to a question which gave significant or
"hot" reactions on the E-Meter. That is hotter than a pistol. - E-Meter
Talk and Demo (7 May 61)

plebeians: the common people. Used figuratively in this lecture. It -
there's nobody trying now to compartment up things so that there's the
nobility and the plebeians amongst auditors, you understand? - On Auditing
(26 May 61)

plowed in: embedded or buried in the soil by plowing. Used figuratively in
this lecture. More goals, more beingness, doingnesses and havingnesses that
are plowed in. - Assessment (12 May 61)

Potomac: the Potomac River, which flows through Washington, DC, (a city and
the capital of the United States). If they just sat back and relaxed or
they all went home or all went and played golf or drowned themselves in the
Potomac, or something like that, you'd be surprised. - E-Meter Actions,
Errors in Auditing (12 June 61)

pounds: the basic unit of money in the United Kingdom; also called pounds
sterling. And - it takes some doing because I can't afford one of these
big, beautiful, streamlined yachts, like you write somebody a check for a
hundred thousand pounds and say, "Deliver to the front door with a pink bow
round its funnel." - On Auditing (26 May 61)

pouter pigeon: a breed of domestic pigeons that puff out their chests. I
don't hang around on - on the backs of auditors' chairs ready to stick out
my chest like a pouter pigeon and pat myself on the back saying I was
right. - Flows, Prehav Scale, Primary Scale (2 June 61)

pronunciamento: a public declaration; proclamation. It doesn't depend on
the freakish political pronunciamento of the Duke of Algiers. - On Auditing
(26 May 61)

proof of the pudding: a shortened version of the old proverb the proof of
the pudding is in the eating, meaning that performance is the true test,
not appearances, promises, etc.; just as the best test of a pudding is to
eat it, not just look at it. The proof of the pudding, now, is the fact
that we can go ahead and do things with cases that have never been done
before, with an accuracy... - Assessment (12 May 61)

psychiatrist: a physician engaged in the supposed practice or science of
diagnosing and treating mental disorders. Nothing can happen to you in one
lifetime - not even a PDH of - not even an electric shock from a
psychiatrist and so forth - that you can't handle now. - E-Meter (19 May
61)

psycho: of or having to do with an individual who is psychotic. See
psychotics in this glossary. The psycho band will go out and do some of the
most incredible things and not consider them overts at all. - E-Meter (19
May 61)

psychoanalysis: a system of mental therapy developed in 1894 by Sigmund
Freud. It depended upon the following practices for its effects: The
patient was made to talk about and recall his childhood for years while the
practitioner brought about a transfer of the patient's personality to his
own and searched for hidden sexual incidents believed by Freud to be the
only cause of aberration. The practitioner read sexual significances into
all statements and evaluated them for the patient along sexual lines. Each
of these points later proved to be based upon false premises and incomplete
research, accounting for their lack of result and the subsequent failure of
the subject and its offshoots. Everything we say in the Auditor's Code
"plus," psychoanalysis says "minus." - E-Meter Talk and Demo (7 May 61)

psychosis: any severe form of mental disorder; insanity. But you're not
going to handle the situation as a neurosis or a psychosis or something of
the sort in the rudiments, you understand? - Routine 1, 2 and 3 (5 June 61)

psychotics: persons who are physically or mentally harmful to those about
them out of proportion to the amount of use they are to them. "You realize
this process is only reserved for psychotics?" Actually, it used to be; it
isn't now. - Routine 1, 2 and 3 (5 June 61)

Puss in Boots: the cat in a famous nursery tale by this name. The story has
many sources, but it is best known from French writer Charles Perrault's
tale Le Chat BottÊ (1697). The cat is marvelously accomplished, and by
ready wit or ingenious tricks secures a fortune and royal wife for his
master, a penniless young miller, who passes under the name of the marquis
de Carabas. You get this picture of Puss in Boots, you know, with a
shotgun. - Assessment (12 May 61)

QBC: abbreviation for Queen's Bench Counsel or Queen's Barrister Court. At
one time, the English sovereign (queen or king) presided in this court and
the court followed the sovereign when he/she moved from one place to
another. The purpose originally was to keep the queen or king's peace. The
Queen's Bench is now a division of the judicial system. The head of the
judiciary system nominates the members of the Queen's Counsel (barristers)
and they are appointed by the crown and are the only ones who have the
power to plea at the bar and engage in conducting the trial or argument of
causes. And you may believe that it'd be wonderful if the head of the BMA
or the AMA or the QBCs or the Ku Klux Klan or some other fascist
organization, would announce that he was in favor of Scientology. - On
Auditing (26 May 61)

quarterdeck: (nautical) the part of the upper deck between the mainmast and
the stern, used especially by the officers of a ship. Here he is stomping
up and down his quarterdeck saying, "Flog 'em!" - Assessment (12 May 61)

Queen Mary: a large, famous British luxury liner, built in the 1930s,
weighing 81,237 tons and carrying a crew of 1,000 with a capacity for 2,000
passengers. And what you're doing is, instead of getting these little tiny,
two and a half horsepower outboard motors and attaching them to the Queen
Mary... - E-Meter (19 May 61)

Race Hate Society: a made-up name for a society. It doesn't depend on it
whether the "Race Hate Society" of North Manchester or the "Race Hate
Society" of south Cape Town have anything whatsoever to say. - On Auditing
(26 May 61)

rails, off the: in a disorganized or confused state. And when I get cases
running off the rails, far off on administrative lines, trying to prove
conclusively that the organization cannot possibly survive, it seems an
awful long way to have to audit, and that's just about what it amounts to.
- E-Meter Actions, Errors in Auditing (12 June 61)

Rand: of The Rand, short for Witwatersrand, a rocky ridge in South Africa
near Johannesburg which is a major gold-mining area. But I'm afraid the
opinion of twenty-eight people - very aberrated people; probably down there
in one of those deep Rand mines eight thousand feet below the surface - I'm
afraid their opinion is not going to alter the course or destiny of
Scientology. - On Auditing (26 May 61)

rat race: (informal) an endless scramble and confusion; tiring but
inescapable routine. So it's a way out of the rat race. - Flows, Prehav
Scale, Primary Scale (2 June 61)

red herring: something intended to divert attention from the real problem
or matter at hand; a misleading clue. Red herring is herring that has been
cured by smoke, a process that changes the color of the flesh to a reddish
hue. Its persistent odor is very useful, if trailed over the ground, for
training a dog to follow a scent. But a dog which gets a good whiff of red
herring will lose any other scent that it has been following. Criminals who
have been chased by bloodhounds have used this knowledge to advantage. Thus
the expression to drag a red herring over the trail and similar expressions
are used to refer to anything which misleads one or causes one to lose the
trail. So, he'll always throw you red herring. - Reading E-Meter Reactions
(9 June 61)

reductio ad absurdum: (Latin) proof of the falsity of a principle by
demonstrating that its logical consequence involves an absurdity.
Literally, "reduction to absurdity." It is used loosely of taking an
argument or principle to impractical lengths. Example: "The more sleep one
has the longer one lives. To sleep all the time ensures the longest
possible life." The reductio ad absurdum is you stamp against Earth, Earth
stamps against you. - Flows, Prehav Scale, Primary Scale (2 June 61)

rocket jockey: (slang) an astronaut. It just - this fellow has never
thought of himself as having been even remotely connected with being a
rocket jockey. - Points in Assessing (7 June 61)

Rolls-Royce: a brand of car, noted as being of the highest quality. Yes, as
a matter of fact, it was an old Rolls-Royce. - E-Meter (19 May 61)

roodlepuffs: a made-up name. It decays much more rapidly, doesn't it? "Ah
yes," you say, "but this is the decomposition of the bacteria which is
operating against the roodlepuffs." - On Auditing (26 May 61)

ropes, been through the: (informal) experienced and been through all the
details, rules and organization of a business, method, etc. A variation of
learn the ropes, which comes from sailing and means to be familiar with the
ropes that control the sails of a ship. Well, of course, we've been through
the ropes and we know what the CCHs are, but that wouldn't mean anything to
- oh, I don't know - Menninger, presuming he's still alive. - Points in
Assessing (7 June 61)

rub     (one) out: (US slang) murder (one). "Oh, I can't tell ya that. Day'd
rub me out!" - On Auditing (26 May 61)

saved (one's) bacon: (informal) saved (oneself) from injury; escaped from a
danger; spared (oneself) from loss or harm. And the only way he finally
saved his bacon was fly out of the organization and take up a job that
didn't bring him into very much contact with Scientology. - On Auditing (26
May 61)

Scandihoovian: joking reference to Scandinavian. It's made out of Egyptian
and Phoenician and Greek and Latin and "Scandihoovian," Anglo-Saxon. - On
Auditing (26 May 61)

sesenta y uno: (Spanish) sixty and one, meaning the year 1961. This is
Junio the 12th? Sesenta y uno. - E-Meter Actions, Errors in Auditing (12
June 61)

shilling: a former British monetary unit equal to 1/20 pound. When I say
like this - this fellow is busily suing us for 16 pounds 10 and obviously…
- On Auditing (26 May 61)

short-circuited: having a short circuit, a usually accidental
low-resistance connection between two points in an electric circuit that
causes too much current flow and often results in damage. Used figuratively
in the lecture. You see, you're baffled because you don't realize that
you're dealing with short-circuited thinking. - Points in Assessing (7 June
61)

show on the road, get the: get (an organization, plan, etc.) into active
operation; put (a plan, idea, etc.) into effect. ... the whole thing was
devoted to getting the show on the road in that particular area, and the
various problems they were dealing with and how they were settling them,
and how we could help out settling these various problems and straightening
up the particular area. - Assessment (12 May 61)

Simmons: the brand name of a line of beds and mattresses. By the way,
that's becoming such a stable datum that somebody told me the other day
that they were going to start making Simmons beds for horses. - Flows,
Prehav Scale, Primary Scale (2 June 61)

16 pounds 10: 16 pounds and 10 shillings. See also pounds and shilling in
this glossary. When I say like this - this fellow is busily suing us for 16
pounds 10 and obviously... - On Auditing (26 May 61)

slippy: (British) quick; alert; sharp. You can be very slippy doing an
assessment. - Assessment (12 May 61)

sounding brass and the tinkle of the temple bell: an allusion to a verse in
I Corinthians in the Bible: "Though I speak with the tongues of men and
angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling
cymbal." They are as sounding brass and the tinkle of the temple bell. - On
Auditing (6 May 61)

Southern Rhodesia: a former name of Zimbabwe: a republic in southern
Africa. As a matter of fact, Southern Rhodesia probably has yet to recover
from the shock of a Clear appearing in its midst. - On Auditing (26 May 61)

South Pacific: short for South Pacific Ocean: the body of water of the
Pacific Ocean from the equator to the Antarctic. And I used to object to
this rather considerably, because I'd been over in - in the South Pacific,
early in the war and it made me nervous. - Reading E-Meter Reactions (9
June 61)

spark (something) off: kindle, animate or stimulate (interest, activity,
spirit, etc.). So you of course get no needle reaction of any kind
whatsoever, because the individual must to some degree connect with the
reactive mind to spark it off you see? - E-Meter Actions, Errors in
Auditing (12 June 61)

spinny: (slang) in a state of mental confusion. I bet you right now he's
tagging around in a schoolroom someplace or another, wondering what is
wrong with him and why he feels so spin ny. - E-Meter (19 May 61)

spout, up the: gone, lost, ruined. A spout was a lift (elevator) formerly
in use in pawnbroker's shops, up which the articles pawned were taken for
storage. Referring to the spout up which brokers sent the articles and when
redeemed they returned them down the spout, i.e., from the storeroom to the
shop. And of course, seventy-five hours went up the spout.
 - On Auditing (26 May 61)

squared around: made straight or right; satisfied. And as soon as we've got
that game straight and that one's all squared around - well, that's our
game. - On Auditing (26 May 61)

State Department: the department of the executive branch of the US
government in charge of relations with foreign countries. They just - I can
see them up now, at 10 Downing Street, and State Department, seventeen
hundred-and-something Pennsylvania Avenue. - E-Meter Actions, Errors in
Auditing (12 June 61)

stink cabbages: (slang) honors; trophies; pats on the back - perhaps
referring to roses, which resemble certain cabbages in form, have a
distinctive aroma and are often given in honor of some special occasion or
achievement. Now, I'm not trying to hand out any stink cabbages to myself
about this having been a hot piece of mental prestidigitation to get this
job done. - Assessment (12 May 61)

Stokes mortar: a portable English mortar used during World War I (1914 -
1918) resembling a piece of stovepipe on a two-legged mount and firing a
winged projectile similar in appearance to an airplane bomb. And what is
the exact muzzle velocity of a Stokes mortar and ..... - E-Meter Talk and
Demo (7 May 61)

Sullivan, Frank: a squirrel, who in the early 60s mailed literature and
otherwise attempted to spread the false idea that virtually everyone had
been subjected to pain-drug-hypnosis. All of a sudden they say, "Frank
Sullivan do it?" - get a big fall! - E-Meter (19 May 61)

Sussex: a county in southeast England. Why not send a telegram to the prime
minister concerning the fact that farms in Sussex are covered with dirt? -
E-Meter Actions, Errors in Auditing (12 June 61)

Suzie: Mary Sue Hubbard, wife of L. Ron Hubbard. Of course, there is this -
there is this: I would say that it wasn't totally, probably, the overt -
withhold mechanism, I think Suzie's postulates had something to do with it.
- E-Meter (19 May 61)

tartar: (slang) a person hard to beat or surpass in skill; champion. After
members of any of various tribes who, originally under the leadership of
Genghis Khan, overran Asia and much of eastern Europe in the Middle Ages.
He has met a tartar and the reactive mind after that is no longer as
powerful. - Reading E-Meter Reactions (9 June 61)

telepathic: of or having to do with communication from one mind to another
without the use of speech or writing or gestures, etc. And although I can
tell you innumerable ways to punch buttons on cases, innumerable ways to
become aesthetically telepathic about cases, read their facsimiles and all
kinds of weird things like this, it doesn't happen that over the last
eleven years people have uniformly been able to duplicate this. - Points in
Assessing (7 June 61)

10 Downing Street: the address of the official residence of the prime
minister of Great Britain, where cabinet meetings are often held. The
street is located in the West End of London, England. They just - I can see
them up now, at 10 Downing Street, and State Department, seventeen
hundred-and-something Pennsylvania Avenue. - E-Meter Actions, Errors in
Auditing (12 June 61)

thedeans: (Biblical) the nations (the people of Earth). Did you hear about
the Marcabians who had to PDH the thedeans who had to - in order to make
Frank Sullivan safe for democracy. - Points in Assessing (7 June 61)

3rd     South African: short for 3rd South African Advanced Clinical Course,
given by Ron in Johannesburg, South Africa from 23 January through 17
February 1961. And the plight of this poor girl in the 3rd South African
who made the first Clear down there was terrible toward the end. -
Assessment (12 May 61)

toes, stepped on any: offended or annoyed anyone. If I've stepped on any
toes while I've been saying this, I am very sorry. - E-Meter (19 May 61)

took their finger totally off their number: stopped watching something
closely, resulting in a blunder. A variation of lose one's number, with
reference to a lottery number or some other number by or with which one may
be identified, as an army number. And somebody just actually took their
finger totally off their number, and even though this has been part and
parcel, occasionally on remarks, they had not caught it as it went by. -
Flattening a Process and the E-Meter (1 June 61)

Topsy: a character in the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
See also Little Eva and Uncle Tom's Cabin in this glossary. And now that we
need it, I've turned around and reviewed it, and I find out what is now
called the CCHs bears no resemblance - any more than Little Eva did to
Topsy in Uncle Tom's Cabin. - Security Checks (6 June 61)

track with: (slang) agree with other information; chime. Now you track with
me. - Question and Answer Period: Ending an Intensive (8 June 61)

Treasury Department: a department of the US federal government having
general responsibility for setting federal fiscal policy (the policy of a
government in controlling its own expenditures and taxation). It controls
the printing of money and includes within it the Internal Revenue Service
(a division of the Treasury Department responsible for assessment and
collection of federal taxes). Similarly, we look down here in the Treasury
Department or we look down here at the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and we
find him all the time trying to figure out something new, extraordinary and
strange and different. - E-Meter Actions, Errors in Auditing (12 June 61)

Twentieth Century Limited: a famous American passenger train which ran
between New York and Chicago and other northern cities in the United
States. Because you're asking the same silly question as "How can you put a
matchstick in front of the Twentieth Century Limited and stop the train?" -
E-Meter Actions, Errors in Auditing (12 June 61)

twisteroo: a coined word from twist (an irregular bend; a crook; a kink)
and -eroo (a humorous slang suffix added to nouns). And, of course, he will
get into a double twisteroo. - On Auditing (26 May 61)

Uncle Tom's Cabin: a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896) which
relates the trials, suffering and human dignity of Uncle Tom, an old Negro
slave who is cruelly treated and dies as the result of a beating. See also
Little Eva and Topsy in this glossary. And now that we need it, I've turned
around and reviewed it, and I find out what is now called the CCHs bears no
resemblance - any more than Little Eva did to Topsy in Uncle Tom's Cabin. -
Security Checks (6 June 61)

United Nations: an international organization with headquarters in New York
City, formed to promote international peace, security and cooperation under
the terms of the charter signed by fifty-one founding countries in San
Francisco in 1945. They're the United Nations officials now. - Reading
E-Meter Reactions (9 June 61)

Venus: the sixth largest planet and most brilliant in the solar system,
second in distance from the sun. The only difficulty was, in the tropics,
Venus is totally visible in daylight. - Reading E-Meter Reactions (9 June
61)

wbipstall: (aeronautics) undergo a stall during a vertical climb in which
the nose of the airplane falls forward and downward in a whiplike movement.
Now, a person just gets off the launching pad, and he's just going over the
end of the runway lights, and the control tower says it's time to
whipstall.
 - Question and Answer Period: Ending an Intensive (8 June 61)

whizzeroo: a coined word from whiz (a remarkable specimen of anything) and
-eroo (a humorous slang suffix added to nouns). Well actually, this ts the
old whizzeroo on the California response. - E-Meter Actions, Errors in
Auditing (12 June 61)

Witwatersrand University: the university located in Johannesburg, South
Africa. . . . "Well, this is the president of Witwatersrand University and
I've just called up to tell you that the tests given at the Johannesburg
Test Center are perfectly valid." - On Auditing (26 May 61)

wolf's tooth, clean as a: (slang) perfectly clean. A variation of clean as
a hound's tooth. When you've got all his withholds off and he's totally
responsible, and he's clean as a wolf's tooth, he's going to be floating,
almost floating here on the needle anyhow, when you finish this up, you
understand? - Routine 1, 2 and 3 (5 June 61)

World's Betterment Association for Emaciated Cats: a made-up name for an
organization. The advance of this world does not depend on a bunch of wogs
who happen to be heading the BMA, the AMA, the Ku Klux Klan, or the World's
Betterment Association for Emaciated Cats; it depends exclusively on better
people. - On Auditing (26 May 61)

Wormwood Scrubs: a prison for first offenders only in West London. And then
I came over and I was in Wormwood Scrubs. - On Auditing (26 May 61)

WW II: short for World War II: the war (1939 - 1945) between the Allies
(Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, the US, etc.) and the Axis
(Germany, Italy, Japan, etc.). I think I was the first one across the
Pacific after the declaration of war in WW II, in an unarmed merchantman
and we were running like a hare before the wolves. - Reading E-Meter
Reactions (9 June 61)

Wyoming: a western state in the United States. Take him up to Pennsylvania,
take him up to Wyoming, and we've gone down south. - Points in Assessing (7
June 61)