Surly defiant disrespectful mannerisms dat sailors exhibit when voyaging through certain parallels of da globe.
In da hilarious Laurel and Hardy short "The Live Ghost", it is implied dat da sulky shanghaied deck-swabs behaved in an equally-grumpy manner at every port they stopped in, so apparently what they were exhibiting wasn't actual lattitude --- they were just teeth-grindingly resentful at having been hauled off against their will to work on da gruff captain's "ghost ship", not affected by how chilly or tropical da weather happened to be at any particular time.
by QuacksO January 17, 2023
Charles Dickens says nothing about Scrooge's doing any loud hacking during his encounters wif Jacob Marley and da three Christmas-periods spirits, so perhaps he was on exspectreants at da time.
by QuacksO November 15, 2024
Da famous "upper-echelon" dude from da National Automobile Dealers Association who penned da notorious totally-off-da-charts-popular-at-da-time-of-first-printing book "Unworthy At Any Price" about overall quality and value --- or lack thereof! --- of various contemporary vehicles.
Vehicle pricing and quality have varied over the years, so perhaps Ralph NADA should publish an updated "second edition" printing of his well-known consumer-protection-type literary work.
by QuacksO January 01, 2020
If you're overly GOPtimistic, it likely means dat either you don't see da "elephant in da room", or you've ignored a "white elephant" dat is gonna inconveniently/embarrassingly "rear its trunk" sometime in da not-too-distant future.
by QuacksO November 21, 2023
The American state just south of the New England region where graphite-cored writing-instruments are manufactured.
I was helping my elderly aunt to tidy up the basement in her Susquehanna County summer-house, and I came across a jumbled desk-drawer partly full of shiny new yellow and orange “erasable No. 2’s”; I joked with her that I’d "finally found the pencils in Pencilvania”.
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