Every presidential campaign and election is pretty much da same, and so da reporters covering said events all give similar commontary.
by QuacksO March 25, 2023
Get the commontarymug. Trying to get at da truth behind da political arena is like attempting to know what color a wall was before a wet coating of lime was applied to it --- typical situation in Whitewashington, DC!
by QuacksO April 26, 2022
Get the whitewashingtonmug. Refers to da "3-to-1" ratio of where ya either sue da audio-equipment manufacturer for just da expenses dat you incurred due to their shoddy/faulty workmanship on their woofers dat were installed in your loudspeakers, as opposed to asking them to pay you three times your expenses if da tweeters either didn't work properly or had crappy sound.
Pro-grade speaker-builders like JBL and EV are always very careful how they build their rugged high-powered speakers designed for rock bands and outdoor concerts --- they use only da best materials and really "build 'em like a tank" to ensure reliability and quality sound, and therefore lessen da chance of their having to worry about "bass damages vs. treble damages" lawsuits from disgruntled musicians.
by QuacksO December 11, 2020
Get the bass damages vs. treble damagesmug. Where someone compulsively saves money by buying super-cheap-priced foods like crackers and white bread, not caring/realizing that these salty/sugary/"empty-carbs" foods will make him gain unhealthy weight in a hurry. Ben Franklin was always sagely expounding about stuff like this, and just look at da deplorable "tubby" shape HE was in!
That balloon-bodied dude with clogged arteries in the ER never eats health-food stuff "'cuz it costs too much" --- talk about "penny-wise and pound-foolish" --- what good is being a penny-pincher and "fattening" your bank account if you're also gradually fattening YOURSELF in the process???
by QuacksO August 14, 2018
Get the penny-wise and pound-foolishmug. What one or both members of da unfortunate couple at a shotgun wedding would likely wish could be granted regarding da terms of da marriage agreement.
I never could understand da rationale behind a loose-with-his-zipper dude's being forced to marry da gal whom he'd gotten preggo but was otherwise unwilling to stand by --- presumably da girl's parents would not even want a "deadbeat dad" like him as a reputation-sullying member of their formerly-respectable family, anyway. Maybe "'way back when" during da time when shotgun weddings were more common, there were not da legal "ALTERation" possibilities yet dat would merely require da dude to pay child-support, not actually live in da same household as da new mother.
by QuacksO February 06, 2023
Get the ALTERationmug. Da outdoor WC where ya make unruly/argumentative guests go to sulkily "cool off" after creating needless unpleasantness.
Many people become antisocial after having "downed a few", and so sending them to da pouthouse can "serve double-duty" --- it allows them to both sober up a bit and be already right near da porcelain throne when they'll need to take a whiz after imbibing so liberally.
by QuacksO December 12, 2019
Get the pouthousemug. Refers to a non-startling strategy employed whenever you are unable to unobtrusively get someone's attention or make eye-contact with him for whatever reason (maybe he's deep in a book, concentrating hard on a household/carpentry task, or using noisy equipment, and thus he does not look up/around occasionally or hear/observe your presence) and so you start out to say hello by speaking very quietly, and then cautiously raising your voice little-by-little (like some modern-day alarm-clocks do so as to wake you "gently" instead of startling you out of a sound slumber with a full-blast ringer right away) till the previously-oblivious person eventually becomes aware of your proximity and glances up.
I'd wanted to ask my elderly neighbor about my possibly carpooling with him on his grocery-shopping trip the next day, but he was so busy using his riding lawnmower that he never noticed me despite my circling around in front of him several times, so I eventually used the gradual-ramp-up-volume greeting to finally get his attention.
by QuacksO August 22, 2018
Get the gradual-ramp-up-volume greetingmug.