QuacksO's definitions

fishing tackle

What you hafta do if da finned creature you hook is so big dat you cannot simply reel it in normally, and so you are obliged to "get physical" in subduing it once you land it onto the shore.

Catching a tuna or marlin may involve a major fishing tackle, but if you snag a large flying fish, you may hafta resort to a "flying tackle" to get it into your larder.

by QuacksO January 4, 2020

sobrioty

Remaining a teetotaler due to da prospect of a huge noisy public outcry if you don't.

Role-models for children know to practice sobrioty due to potential widespread parental outrage, accusations of hypocrisy and contributing to juvenile delinquency, etc.

by QuacksO June 21, 2024

house of warship

A "holy ground" locale where navy-servicemen come to pray for protection prior to going to battle on the high seas.

I prefer to avoid armed conflict of any kind, so I see no need to attend a house of warship every Sunday.

by QuacksO October 8, 2019

nurseumentary

An essential addendum-episode to a documentary.

If yer new chick-sidekick bawls about "movie madness" (urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=movie%20madness) due to your having just male-interest flicks in your home-video collection, offer to show her any nurseumentary extras featured on a boxed DVD-set's "bonus material" discs.

by QuacksO July 8, 2023

ad-verse possession

A legal term for when a self-proclaimed "servant of The Great One" mails out Good-Book-passage-laced flyers touting his beliefs, then uses said Bible-blabbing junk-mail to lawfully take possession of one or more dwellings or other valuable objects, particularly those owned by "blindly faithful" people who never interfere with anything that they naively view as being "of divine origin".

I always just write "REFUSED --- RETURN TO SENDER" on any ecclesiastical ephemera I receive, to hopefully avoid any future problems with attempts at ad-verse possession.

by QuacksO January 8, 2020

Murphy's Law of "Junk"

"You can hold onto something for decades, and neither you nor anyone else will ever have a use for it, but then just as soon as you throw it out, either you will suddenly need it for something, or --- even more 'painful' --- **someone else** will come to you and humbly ask, 'Do you happen to have an extra ___?'" Rrrrrggggghhhhh----!!!

I'd had a couple of old 55-gallon oil-drums stashed in da garage for da past thirty years --- my grampa had given 'em to me when he and Gram were downsizing to move into an assisted-living apartment --- and they'd just sat there and gathered dust in da corner all that time. But then just two days --- TWO STINKIN' DAYS!! --- after I'd sent 'em to da crusher for recycling, a low-income neighbor dropped by and asked me if he could have them to use as burn-barrels --- guess dat was a classic case of Murphy's Law of "Junk" at work!!

by QuacksO July 24, 2018

sackrifice

Refers to what you hafta give up if you either:
(1) become an employee instead of an employer in Merry Ol' England, or

(2) you get married, become a nun/monk, or otherwise ''assume a position" dat precludes you from being able to "assume da position" wif just anyone of da opposite gender.

Tying da knot wif da gal of your dreams will bless you wif a life dat's so happy and fulfilling dat your no longer being free to get in on with just any random chick will seem like a comparatively small sackrifice.

by QuacksO December 14, 2022