QuacksO's definitions

taconite

The special multi-grain recipe used for making taco-shells; this unique "formula of flours" is a closely-guarded secret, just like the "how we mix it" proportions of ingredients for other famous highly-desirable (and therefore highly-profitable for their inventors who hold the patents on said delectables) concoctions like Coca Cola, Colonel Saunders' chicken-sauce, Damascus steel, etc. have always been "totally hush-hush" ever since said recipes were perfected.

Ground-up grain is hardly very far up on the atomic weights & measures scale, so I am at a loss to understand why the Edmund Fitzgerald sank just from having her hold filled with "taconite", even if they did indeed "heap her to da brim" with it.

by QuacksO November 18, 2018

cryptonite

Can refer to either of two similarly-"weighty" definitions:
(1) Any complicated/intricate strategy --- such as using disappearing ink, light-sensitive/chemically-treated "disintegrating" paper that quickly becomes illegible, the addition/insertion of one or more confusing/misleading codes, etc --- that heavily "drags down" anyone's attempts to read/decipher an encryption.
(2) The amalgam of minerals used to make a special stone vault for human-burial purposes.

Our founding fathers surely doled out huge healthy doses of cryptonite in their efforts to prevent thieves from locating/accessing their "national treasure"; fortunately Benjamin Gates and his intrepid colleagues managed to de-code everything in time to prevent said treasure from falling into the wrong hands.

by QuacksO November 18, 2018

kryptonite

A special formula of various metals used to powder-coat the tungsten filaments of super-bright incandescent bulbs; when the substance gets super-hot, it releases krypton gas inside the bulb, causing the filament to safely burn brighter and last longer.

I love da super-bright "upgrade" bulbs with kryptonite-coated filaments that are offered for some flashlights, but the problem with these "specialty" bulbs is that they both "cost all outdoors" and draw a lot more juice than just regular plain-tungsten bulbs do.

by QuacksO November 18, 2018

cryptonight

What your undertaker-beau sorrowfully tells you when he is obliged to decline your request for a "moonlight stroll" because he has an urgent job in the burial-cellar of the monastery that will likely keep him busy till well past midnight. A really "heavy" statement that totally "weighs you down" emotionally, but what are ya gonna do?

My main squeeze unexpectedly hadda assist da local priest in giving last rights to a recently-deceased fellow member of the clergy in the church basement this evening, and so he was obliged to sadly shake his head and tearfully tell me, "cryptonight". He did manage to get done with said job a bit earlier than he'd expected, though, and so he was eventually able to race home and change and then come and pick me up, after all; due to the late hour, we couldn't have a full-length date like we normally would, of course, but at least we still got to stretch out on the quiet wharf for half an hour, savoring the soft lapping of the waves on the pilings, and gazing up at all da friendly twinkling stars.

by QuacksO November 18, 2018

Angus Klingon

Maine's former head-up-his-a** governor who surely must indeed be "from another galaxy", as absurdly unaware as he seems to be about the reality --- and the basic needs --- of THIS one!

Angus Klingon may indeed be kin of a "race from out-space", but with those hideous bristly eyebrows and sneaky-looking up-swept creases around those shifty squinty eyes of his, he looks a lot more like a Romulan to me!

by QuacksO November 18, 2018

job-skeels

The extremely-limited (and not very good at even those few sectors of knowledge, according to his former boss, Hassan --- "Achmed...! You have worked for us for T'REE YEAHS, and you STILL haven't keeled INFIDEL ONE!") number of "employment-marketable" experiences/capabilities that Achmed originally possessed before he met the Wilson family. After he became acquainted with them and their "totally-peaceable" lifestyle and beliefs, however, the now-cheerfully-toned-down Achmed began learning to "redirect" or "channel" his use-of-explosives expertise to create lovely stone statues that he could then sell to other folks.

I never know when Achmed is gonna decide to hot-headedly make use of his assorted "job-skeels", so I always meekly ask his permission before I say anything to him, so that hopefully he won't feel so much like offing me just because I spoke to him.

by QuacksO November 18, 2018

xenophobia

An irrationally-biased/prejudiced/hateful attitude regarding "foreign" incandescent bulbs which contain any of those "fancy gases" like xenon; said closed-minded person prefers instead to simply stick with "regular 'n' domestic" plain-tungsten-filamented lamps.

I haven't really got anything to say against modern technology, and I certainly don't possess xenophobia, but I do still prefer just the "bargain-basement" tungsten-halogen lamps as opposed to the much-more-expensive --- and often far more power-thirsty --- gas-filled bulbs; besides, I don't like blazingly-brilliant headlights overpoweringly boring holes clear through my skull when I'm merely trying to peaceably tootle my way home, and so I wouldn't wanna use those beastly-bright "second sun" lamps, anyway, since then I myself would be making it harder for other drivers to see, as well.

by QuacksO November 18, 2018