# Polling: Popular terms for vomiting **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 20, 2006, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polling-popular-terms-for-vomiting/381217 "2006-11-20T23:31:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nothing\_Special](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9f8e36/32.png) [@Nothing\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nothing_Special)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polling-popular-terms-for-vomiting/381217/1 "2006-11-20T23:31:07Z")
Having covered masturbation let’s take this on, staying away from the obvious ones like “technicolor yawn” etc. My absolute favorite of all time is “Calling Ralph and Huey on the big porcelain phone.” ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polling-popular-terms-for-vomiting/381217/2 "2006-11-20T23:50:56Z")
Chunder. Hurl. Ruth. ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polling-popular-terms-for-vomiting/381217/3 "2006-11-21T00:15:02Z")
[QUOTE=Nothing Special] My absolute favorite of all time is “Calling Ralph and Huey on the big porcelain phone.” [/QUOTE] Along those lines, I once heard a woman refer to it as ‘praying to the porcelain god’. Whenever she needed to take a break she’d say that she felt ‘another prayer session coming on’. Another one I liked was ‘letting up the cargo’. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polling-popular-terms-for-vomiting/381217/4 "2006-11-21T00:22:00Z")
Go see Uncle Ralph/Earl Lorch Upchuck Blow groceries _ **HEAVE!** _ ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polling-popular-terms-for-vomiting/381217/5 "2006-11-21T00:26:45Z")
One summer, my parents, aunt, siblings, and I took a car trip from Ohio to Florida and back. Grandma (aunt’s and dad’s mother) suggested we take along a container similar to [this one](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bucket), just in case any “accidents” should occur. The traveling party held a jocular debate concerning whether the official name of the receptacle should be the “puke pail”, the “upchuck urn”, or the “vomit vase” (with _vase_ pronounced as VAHZ, since that’s the “hoity-toity” way to say the word). ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polling-popular-terms-for-vomiting/381217/6 "2006-11-21T00:42:01Z")
Hork. Hurl. Blow chunks. [QUOTE=Sternvogel] One summer, my parents, aunt, siblings, and I took a car trip from Ohio to Florida and back. Grandma (aunt’s and dad’s mother) suggested we take along a container similar to [this one](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bucket), just in case any “accidents” should occur. The traveling party held a jocular debate concerning whether the official name of the receptacle should be the “puke pail”, the “upchuck urn”, or the “vomit vase” (with _vase_ pronounced as VAHZ, since that’s the “hoity-toity” way to say the word). [/QUOTE] 😃 I think, next time I need something like that, I’m going to call it the “upchuck urn”. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polling-popular-terms-for-vomiting/381217/7 "2006-11-21T00:52:31Z")
Yack. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polling-popular-terms-for-vomiting/381217/8 "2006-11-21T01:15:26Z")
Shout at your shoes Technicolor yawn Launch lunch ---
**Author:** ![Grey\_area](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Grey\_area](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey_area)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polling-popular-terms-for-vomiting/381217/9 "2006-11-21T01:24:37Z")
Though I doubt it’s in popular use now, during the age of sail, an “Admiral of the Narrow Seas” was someone who puked on the lap of the person infront of him/her. ---
**Author:** ![St\_Ides](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@St\_Ides](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St_Ides)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polling-popular-terms-for-vomiting/381217/10 "2006-11-21T01:41:26Z")
Driving the porcelain bus. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polling-popular-terms-for-vomiting/381217/11 "2006-11-21T01:53:52Z")
[QUOTE=St\_Ides] Driving the porcelain bus. [/QUOTE] HEY! I was supposed to say that!!! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polling-popular-terms-for-vomiting/381217/12 "2006-11-21T01:58:10Z")
I’ll be the third to mention “technicolor yawn”. 🙂 My most common expressions are “throw up” and “ralph”, but I did find myself using the expression “chunder” last week, which was rather unusual. Must be the Brit influence in my history. I also use the expression “toss one’s cookies”. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polling-popular-terms-for-vomiting/381217/13 "2006-11-21T02:09:35Z")
Spew. Sick up. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polling-popular-terms-for-vomiting/381217/14 "2006-11-21T03:03:27Z")
Lose your cookies? ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polling-popular-terms-for-vomiting/381217/15 "2006-11-21T05:09:11Z")
[QUOTE=Anne Neville] Hork. 😃 I think, next time I need something like that, I’m going to call it the “upchuck urn”. [/QUOTE] Not me. I’m classier than that. I’m gonna call it the “vomit vahze.” 😛 My family spent a lot of time on boats. We called it “looking for Ralph,” because you’d lean over the side of the boat and call out “Ralph! Ralph! Ralph!” And on an international note: I understand that in the land down under, women blow and men chunder. ---
**Author:** ![Nothing\_Special](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9f8e36/32.png) [@Nothing\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nothing_Special)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polling-popular-terms-for-vomiting/381217/16 "2006-11-21T05:16:38Z")
> [@](#): > > My absolute favorite of all time is “Calling Ralph and Huey on the big porcelain phone.” Nothing better than this as yet. ---
**Author:** ![Spidey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Spidey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spidey)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polling-popular-terms-for-vomiting/381217/17 "2006-11-21T05:37:48Z")
I can’t believe I’m the first one to say barf, im guessing because its so common. I love it though, its a classic. “My dog barfed all over my shoes” ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polling-popular-terms-for-vomiting/381217/18 "2006-11-21T05:50:24Z")
[QUOTE=Spidey] I can’t believe I’m the first one to say barf, im guessing because its so common. I love it though, its a classic. “My dog barfed all over my shoes” [/QUOTE] Two buddies were talking in a bar. “Man, I got so drunk last night, I _blew chunks_!” “It’s cool, dude, happens to the best of us.” “Naw, bro, you don’t understand! Chunks is my dog!” ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polling-popular-terms-for-vomiting/381217/19 "2006-11-21T05:57:09Z")
emesis ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polling-popular-terms-for-vomiting/381217/20 "2006-11-21T15:11:34Z")
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