Definitions by QuacksO
galvalanting
I always love shiny tin objects, so my employment as a metal-finisher is such a blast --- I actually get paid to go galvalanting around doing what I most enjoy.
galvalanting by QuacksO February 1, 2023
Floor-it-duh
Da "flat as da FLOOR" most-south-eastern U.S. state where everyone cluelessly "FLOORS it" like it's da Utah salt-flats!
Seeing as how da Daytona 500 is held in Floor-it-duh, it's little wonder dat said "peninsula state" has so many highballin' motorists who love to use said pancake-terrained principality as a huge racetrack!
Floor-it-duh by QuacksO February 1, 2023
elevening
A baked-goods ingredient dat makes da end-product so wonderfully light and fluffy dat it totally busts da roof off of a "perfect ten" rating.
make-and-break engine
An old-style "one-lunger" power-plant dat guys love working on and fussing over, but which takes up so much of their time and energy dat dey tend to make their significant other feel ignored or left out, and thus said female main squeeze may decide to "break it off" with said motor-head, forcing him to rush back to her and "make up".
Bert Dow was not married; his sister Lela lived with him to cook and keep house. So while she may have been irritated at da noise of --- and da time dat Bert spent servicing --- da make-and-break engine on his "Tidely Idley" boat, she was probably not gonna go so far as to bail on him because of it.
make-and-break engine by QuacksO February 1, 2023
Murphy's Law of Getting Comfortable
"You can struggle for hours to get bearably comfortable --- i.e., warm enough, free of aches, etc. --- but then just as soon as you actually DO succeed in getting comfortably 'settled in' at long last, something unavoidable will come up dat will force you to relinquish said comfy position to go and tackle some disagreeable physical activity which will cause you to get chilly again, experience more bodily pain, etc."
Two "sister" examples of Murphy's Law of Getting Comfortable would be "Murphy's Law of Falling Asleep" (i.e., you can struggle for half the night or more to fall asleep, but then immediately after you finally drift off, someone or something comes along to wake you up again) and "Murphy's Law of Personal Comfort" (i.e., however comfortable you become will be in direct inverse proportion to da comfort of others in your vicinity; for example, da nearer you sit to a heater/air-conditioning duct, da more you will block da flow of said "moderated" air, and so while YOU YOURSELF may indeed feel more-tolerably warmer/cooler, EVERYONE ELSE in da room will feel even more uncomfortable than you would have if you'd sat a more-reasonable distance from said climate-control orifice. Or if you recline your seat on a public-transportation vehicle, said tilted-backwards back-rest will encroach on da extremely-limited "personal space" in front of da passenger seated behind you).
Murphy's Law of Getting Comfortable by QuacksO February 1, 2023