QuacksO's definitions
It is indeed wise to be appropriately cautious about initially trusting a stranger or newcomer in your life, but it's a mistake to be overly prejudased, either.
by QuacksO August 20, 2024
Get the prejudasedmug. A unit of temperature-measurement that rates how "hot" or "chilly" a salesperson's looks and/or mannerisms are when marketing his wares.
Billy Mays may have fancied himself as "just the ultimate salesperson stud", but I never thought much of his puffed-up yatter, and so I'd have given him a merely "lukewarm" rating of about 15 degrees on the sellsius scale!
by QuacksO September 20, 2019
Get the sellsiusmug. Refers to an appearance-altering device/substance dat's intended to make someone/something look/sound/act like an adult human male.
In da Sherlock Holmes story, "A Scandal In Bohemia", Irene Adler states dat she often dresses up as a man because said disguyse allows her to move about London more freely and inconspicuously than if observers realized dat she was actually a lady.
by QuacksO August 14, 2022
Get the disguysemug. Where everyone in a committee agrees on a decision, but da members do not wish their identities to be known.
Da Declaration of Independence was ratified anonimously by many of da Founding fathers, but many of them didn't like having their signatures revealingly penned to said momentous document due to how England would view their "disloyalty".
by QuacksO May 3, 2025
Get the anonimousmug. Da chance to either chow down on a scrumptious Burger King sandwich or tell an absurdly-inflated tale.
At da Possum Loge meeting, Hap Shaughnessy claimed to have won da Port Asbestos burger-eating contest for da past several years, but I suspect dat it was just his availing himself of a whoppertunity to try to ego-boostingly impress his fellow foolishly-macho buddies.
by QuacksO January 9, 2025
Get the whoppertunitymug. 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.
by QuacksO February 1, 2023
Get the make-and-break enginemug. Derisive term for a sizable number of acquaintances of someone with a dubious reputation who make praising statements about the individual's character/morals, offer to co-sign a loan he's requesting, etc., but who are of comparably-questionable integrity themselves, are also broke, etc., and so their own word and/or reliability is viewed as not being much more of a legitimate guarantee than the promises of the person they're vouching for. In other words, "quantito, but not qualito"... lots of impressive-looking "containers", but with no actual/tangible/legitimate "goods" inside of said containers.
Loan officer: I always feel really wary/suspicious whenever someone of unknown/questionable reputation asks for a loan and offers to bring in a number of other folks to vouch for his character, reliability, and financial responsibility --- "methinks he doth protest too much", plus usually his so-called "witnesses" appear to merely be an "empty-boxcars train of assurers"... they seem no more trustworthy than I would view the loan-requester himself as being, and so their voluminous praise/recommendations hold little significance and inspire little confidence in me regarding whether the loan-requester would actually possess adequate means/motivation/dedication to repay the money. I feel something like how the lady-attorney in "Losing Isaiah" did when she pointed out that the members of the "support group" whom ex-druggie/shoplifter Khaila had named as the people who were assisting her in her efforts to "go straight" and "live clean" had themselves all been former drug-users and/or criminals, and so she felt that they should not be considered to be viable/reliable helpers to prevent Khaila from relapsing.
by QuacksO September 21, 2018
Get the empty-boxcars train of assurersmug.