So yesterday my kid puked all over me. My wife was cracking up and said something like "she ralphed on you".
What? "Ralph?" I'd never heard this one before. What the hell is the origin of using Ralph for vomit?
I like it though, how did I manage to go all these years without hearing about it?

You must have led a sheltered and barf-free life.

Well now I think about it, I've never puked on American soil.

Between the ages of 16 and 19 I was a prolific puker. I could never keep my beer down and after a while discovered the benefits of tactical chundering once I started to get bloated.
After a few solid years of drinking I got the hang of it and would only have the occasional vom which would always be blamed on a dodgy curry or the shots at last orders.

Last time I drove the porcelain bus was in some hotel room in Boston the morning after Wales won the Grand Slam in 2008. Started drinking in this Irish bar (that was showing the match) at around 9am and finished in the same bar not much shy of 3am the following morning. Ouch.

You must have missed out on a lot of fun, never having ralphed or been ralphed on
We usually use barf or puke or errped. Theres so many, whats your favorite?

That's nothing, I think Australians call it blowing chowder

Chunder

Ralph is simply how it sounds. Remember that Cheech and Chong movie when...never mind. Also urk, chunder, technicolor yawn, laugh at the carpet, etc.

I was down by Bondi Pier
Drinking tubes of ice-cold beer
With a bucketfull of prawns
Upon me knee.

Well, I swallowed me last prawn,
Had a technicolour yawn,
And I chundered in the Old Pacific Sea!

Chorus
Drink it up! (Drink it up!)
Drink it up! (Drink it up!)
Have another dozen tubes and prawns with me
If youse wanna throw your voice
Mate, you won't have any choice
But to chunder in the Old Pacific Sea.

I was sittin' in the surf
When a mate of mine called Murph
Asked if he can crack a tube or two with me.
The bastard barely swallowed it
When he went for the big spit,
And he chundered in the Old Pacific Sea.

Chorus

I've had liquid laughs in bars
And I've hurled from moving cars
And I've chuckled when and where it suited me.
But if I could choose the spot
To regurgitate me lot
Then I'd chunder in the Old Pacific Sea.

Chorus

Good old Bazza McKenzie!!!

Edit: Aha! Someone has a YouTube clip up now:

Ah, that explains it I guess. Ta.

The story of chunder I heard (probably bollocks - but a good story) is that the passenger on the ships travelling to Australia would get sea sick and before throwing up over the side of the ship would shout out to the people on the lower decks "Watch under" - chunder.

Watch the YouTube clip I posted: Bazza explains it the same way...

Oh sorry mate. No speakers at work. If that's Bazza's story that's good enough for me.

He says that you would say "watch under!" otherwise someone could "cop a steaming eyeful", which I think is a marvelous phrase!

blowing chunks is another lovely expression I've heard.

Or praying to the porcelain god.....