QuacksO's definitions
Sarge should have known better than to task Zero with repairing the Camp Swampy soldier's worn uniforms; the end-result of said buck-toothed farmer-boy's zealous-but-clueless tailoring efforts was a totally chaotic stitchuation with said duds --- a tangled mess of lumpy/crooked seams, sewn-shut cuffs and collars, errantly-placed buttons, puckered/wrinkled/gapping sleeves, etc.
by QuacksO October 4, 2019
Get the stitchuationmug. Refers to any pause or temporary postponement of a minor action (speaking, standing up or shifting your position while seated or in bed, switching on/off a light or music device, performing a "noisy" task like moving furniture or operating a motorized household device, etc.) that a thoughtful considerate individual performs (often with a moderate taxing of his own patience/bodily comfort) so as to avoid/minimize the startling/distressing impact of said action on one or more other nearby humans, such as a slumbering partner who is super-exhausted and/or is in a lot of pain or other acute bodily discomfort that he feels whenever he's awake, and thus the only time he has relief is when he's actually asleep.
Cool dude #1: Geez, buddy --- why da awkward limp and droopy shoulders?!?!???
Cool dude #2: (groaning in pain as he hobbles over to sit beside his friend to watch the ball game with him): Oh, just da classic "courtesy delay" woes, pal... I was sitting cross-legged on the grass with my girlfriend, and she had fallen asleep with her head in my lap... I knew she'd been up since 3 a.m. to help her mom care for her colicky baby brother, and so naturally, Mr. Soft-Hearted here couldn't bear to wake her up by changing position, and so I just hadda sit motionless on the cold hard ground with my muscles going numb and cramping up for half an hour till she finally came awake to turn over herself.
Cool dude #2: (groaning in pain as he hobbles over to sit beside his friend to watch the ball game with him): Oh, just da classic "courtesy delay" woes, pal... I was sitting cross-legged on the grass with my girlfriend, and she had fallen asleep with her head in my lap... I knew she'd been up since 3 a.m. to help her mom care for her colicky baby brother, and so naturally, Mr. Soft-Hearted here couldn't bear to wake her up by changing position, and so I just hadda sit motionless on the cold hard ground with my muscles going numb and cramping up for half an hour till she finally came awake to turn over herself.
by QuacksO August 23, 2017
Get the courtesy delaymug. Refers to your wearing a personal music-device that uses a headset of some sort, and then "blaming it on that" whenever someone complains that you appear to be ignoring him, when of course in reality you actually heard what he said just fine because **the headphones weren't even playing at the time**, but you were merely practicing "selective deafness" because you didn't happen to like what he had to say, and so you did not wish to respond to and/or be affected by whatever he was telling you.
The headphones excuse can also be "used in reverse" in instances where you are being compelled to be present during a speech, lecture, tirade, etc., and you cannot bear to listen to said boring/controversial/voluminous b**ls**t for even a few seconds... what you do, therefore, is clip on your headphone-based music-device that's hidden inside an outer plastic cabinet that you have boldly labelled, "personal amplified listening device", so that the speaker and anyone else present will think that you are just wanting to ensure that you'll be clearly hearing every single word that the self-important gabber is saying, when in reality you are using the headphones to DROWN HIM OUT so that you won't either need a straitjacket or commit mass-homicide halfway through said extended monologue. It's a vital accessory if you're being "drugged as a child" because your parents "drug you to church".
by QuacksO September 10, 2018
Get the headphones excusemug. I love eBay 'cuz they offer lots of largely-forgotten vintage objects, "nerd" videos, and other "commoddity" items.
by QuacksO August 10, 2025
Get the commodditymug. Da degree of either:
(1) how good someone is at pawning off lousy-quality merchandise, or
(2) how skilled someone is at "beating da house".
(1) how good someone is at pawning off lousy-quality merchandise, or
(2) how skilled someone is at "beating da house".
In da 1924 Will Rogers classic, "A Truthful Liar", ambassador Doolittle claims to have had excellent "craptsmanship" by scoring an impressive windfall when playing cards with the King, but his fellow townspeople dismissively wave off his tale as hogwash, and so perhaps said questionable story lacked "craptsmanship" in dat it failed to convince its audience.
by QuacksO August 5, 2024
Get the craptsmanshipmug. Safely traversing a rotary is no laughing matter! One should not be "joking aroundabout it" when navigating said dangerous asphalt loop --- total seriousness and concentration are in order there!
by QuacksO May 8, 2023
Get the joking aroundaboutmug. Ms. Abdul has done all right for herself in da music world, so whatever first-and-foremost Paulacy she lives by must be a smart and effective one!
by QuacksO April 27, 2024
Get the Paulacymug.