An assets-enrichment-seeking court case brought by someone claiming to have suffered a financial setback.
If you get gypped by someone for a lot of money, it usually will be because said shyster had no funds of his own to begin with, so there would probably be little use in filing a lossuit over it --- "you can't get blood out of a stone", so it would likely be just a waste of time and court-costs.
by QuacksO November 15, 2019
How yer automobile's hood and front fenders end up after an unfortunate head-on encounter wif a stone wall.
Back in da "good ol' days" when auto-bodies were real solid metal, if you clunked into something at fairly low speed, da bumper would just bounce off with little damage, and you could just back up and keep on a-truckin'. Nowadays, though, wif all da fancy-schamncy DOT-mandated "crumple zones" on vehicles, your whole front end gets totally carrugated even after just a minor collision, and then you gotta either buy a whole 'nother vehicle or spend thousands of dollars to get everything straightened out again!
by QuacksO September 19, 2019
Little Joe Cartright's lumbering big brother led a herd of saddle-nags onto a NEIGHboring parcel of grassland owned by da sheep-ranch next door, and let said large maned critters graze and poop all over it --- talk about a HOSStile takeover!
by QuacksO March 14, 2023
"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
Or "killerwatts". Refers to da voluminous "angry pixies" dat Debbie Jellinsky utilized to try to eliminate da Addams family; thanks to Pubert's "nick of time" re-wiring actions, however, said spendthrift black widow ended up merely frying herself.
Perhaps Debbie Jellinsky should have initially used a milder dose of killowatts to make sure that the electric-chair wires were hooked up correctly before she applied the "mega-zap" that totally reduced her to a pile of ashes.
by QuacksO September 19, 2019
Where you bring an older lady along with you on a potentially-problematic endeavor, so that any observers will feel less concerned/suspicious.distrustful of you and what you are wanting to accomplish. P.S.: This strategy **always** works --- no exceptions.
I first discovered the grandmother approach --- and how wonderfully effective it is for "opening doors" --- merely by accident at age 15, when Mother and I went to meet one of my favorite radio-announcers "after hours" ; the announcer had kindly agreed to come down the elevator and meet me outside during her break, and so my mother and I had gone to wait outside the front doors of the building. A burly security-guard or maintenance-man subsequently happened by and pleasantly asked if he could help us; we explained that we were waiting for my announcer-friend to come and say hello to us. Without hesitation, he said, "Well, there's no need for you to have to wait outdoors here; I can let you in and you can go up to the studio to wait." I am sure, however, that if I had just been there by myself, the employee would not have felt nearly so confident or trusting of me that he would have actually just allowed me to effortlessly "waltz right in" like that; I realized that it was my super-respectable-looking mother's presence that had caused the man to "automatically" figure that "we were okay". I have employed this "bringing an older lady along" strategy several times in subsequent years whenever I have been concerned about possible negativity/suspicion from others regading something I'd wanted to do, and it has ALWAYS succeeded --- people everywhere feel an automatic compulsion to respect an older lady, plus of course they would not want to behave disagreeably in front of her.
by QuacksO February 21, 2019
Da infamous "nine old men" group of judges in Washington who supposedly are manly enough to properly decide any legal question, but in reality don't have da ba**s to truly make a difference.
If you leaf back through the pages of old West Key Number System booklets from the '70's and '80's, you will see over and over that Justices Brennan and Marshall were often the only ones who ruled fairly, and repeatedly dissented with their seven other fellow SCROTUS judges.
by QuacksO September 07, 2020