Serta site: Old Salt Lake City mattress factory serving as a temporary overflow shelter for the city’s homeless
Mag-n-bag: To enter a venue, spectators have to walk through a magnetometer then pass their bags through an X-ray machine. “I would have been here sooner, but the line at the mag-n-bag took forever.”
Bucket hog: Person who uses more than one of the clear plastic buckets–made by Garrett, the metal-detector manufacturer–for items that might set off the magnetometer, like change, cell phones, watches, keys, Discmans, etc. “Dude, don’t be a bucket hog.”
Fry sauce: Equal amounts mayonnaise and ketchup with a hint of barbecue sauce for extra kick. “Double dipping allowed,” according to the “Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Winter Games Cook Book.”
Protest pens: Six small demonstration areas around the Olympic Square designated for activists to voice their concerns. Materials prohibited: Super-Soaker squirt guns, Tiki torches, marbles, ball bearings.
Jack Mormon: A Mormon who, on occasion, has a drink or makes an off-color remark.
Yard sale: When skiers wipe out and their equipment–poles, skis, etc.–goes flying and lands all over the mountain, spread out as if for sale. “Whoa! That was a total yard sale.”
Inversion: Occurs when a pocket of cold air gets trapped under warmer air. This makes for colder temperatures and a thick haze because pollutants can’t escape. The Salt Lake Valley was mired in one at the start of the Games.
Sidecar: At private clubs–i.e., bars that require a small membership fee–bartenders can’t serve “doubles.” They can sell you a single and an extra shot, which everyone mixes together. “You call this a drink? Gimme a sidecar.”
