Jacked up buildings: A notable example is Galveston, TX. The 1900 hurricane surge literally washed over the entire island. The few surviving buildings were jacked up 20 feet and dredge spoil was poured under them to raise the island.
Another form of stove up is "stoved in" such as an object puncturing the hull of a vessel.
Stomach Steinway: also slush pump (slide trombone), licorice stick (clarinet), and kettle drum (timpani).
Gullywasher: Virtually all English Bibles are based on the King James version, which waters down (pun optional) the famous ending of Amos 5 with the use of "waters". The word is usually translated as "torrent" and the meaning is "Let justice sweep down like a flash flood" - the image of the wall of water coming down the wadi, cleaning out all the accumulated trash. The only wall of water the KJV translators could have seen is the tidal surge on the Severn which, at a foot high, can rarely be surfed.
Favorite demonyms: Burkinabe, Monegasque, Macanese.
Well done with the Beastie Boys interludes.
Grant Barrett said:
Everyone knows New Yorkers and Angelenos, but what do you call someone from Sheboygan, Wisconsin? Demonyms, or the names for people from a given place, can get pretty complicated, but there are seven rules as drawn by George Stewart, and Paul Dickson's book Labels for Locals has lots of other answers.
I grew up a few miles from Sheboygan, and can faithfully report they called themselves Sheboyganites. That seems to follow Stewart's rules. But the town I grew up in was named Two Rivers. And we never called ourselves "Two Riverites." I don't recall we even had a demonym.
[Edit: My wife says she also heard people use the term Sheboyganer.]
Grant Barrett said:
Get out your umbrellas — it's raining pitchforks and ... bullfrogs? This week, it's odd expressions that mean "a heavy downpour."
My mother (and her mother, as I recall) would sometimes say the rain was "coming down in sheets" or, for greater emphasis, "coming down in sheets and pillowcases".