QuacksO's definitions
Lazy people may love ToleDON'T, but I'm a totally frenetic and impatient go-getter, so everyone's lacklusterily lazin' around would drive me nuts; I'd prefer to live in ToleDO!
by QuacksO August 8, 2025

A monthly bribe dat you hafta pay a shamelessly-opportunistic techno-geek for him to let you use his special universal-playback VCR to watch your UK-formatted VHS videotapes.
I always make standard NTSC-formatted DVD copies of foreign-encoded videotapes so that I can keep my PALimony payments to a minimum.
by QuacksO April 20, 2019

A recreational activity where you get to pretend dat you're launching shoulder-fired rockets at assorted targets.
Anytime I get so mad dat I wanna go knock someone's block off, I indulge in a fantasy RPG game for half an hour, and secretly visualize da game's enemy targets dat go up in huge fireballs as being da people I'm mad at; this helps me calm down like nobody's business.
by QuacksO August 20, 2023

A Khan artist would do well not to let da subject of his forgeries know about said watercolor-impersonations, or he would likely face said subject's "wrath".
by QuacksO April 18, 2020

(1) One specific aspect regarding a mechanical timepiece.
(2) Being moderately micro-managing regarding a mechanical timepiece.
(2) Being moderately micro-managing regarding a mechanical timepiece.
In order for Big Ben to keep perfect time, da Keeper of Da Great Clock has to be very partickular about adding or removing pennies on said huge seconds-counter's pendulum.
by QuacksO July 22, 2025

Refers to the astonished stare that you assume when taste-testing two or more brands of a particular supermarket-offering and unexpectedly discover that you actually **prefer** the lower-priced store-brand (which traditionally would be expected to have a "weaker 'n' thinner" flavor/texture), rather than a costlier "big name" product.
Being on SSI and Food Stamps and thus having a very-limited budget, I am used to just buying the "el-cheapo" store-brand of groceries whenever I can stand their usually-milder-tasting flavors. Occasionally I do "splurge" and buy the pricier "fancy-pants" foods, though, when the taste is dramatically better, such as Nutella hazelnut spread or Armour Vienna sausage. One startling exception to this latter condition, though, was in the case of Dinty-Moore beef stew as opposed to just the Great Value brand... I bought a can of DM just to try it out in comparison to the WalMart brand, and I had a total case of generic-grocery gawk --- the Dinty-Moore brand was absolutely a-w-f-u-l, whereas the richly-tasty Great Value stew won hands-down! Boy, ya never know till ya try it, do ya???
by QuacksO February 25, 2019

What a savvy vintage-merchandise dealer/buyer has to be in order not to get scammed with fake modern-day reproductions of classic items.
Rene Belloq claimed to be "antiquwitty" in that he could sell a cheap $10 trinket for a huge profit if he merely "buried it in the sand for a thousand years". The hitch, however, was that he would not likely be around long enough after burying said object to reap his rewards.
by QuacksO August 8, 2025
