Da science of studying da uniqueness of certain aspects of a large metal clanging-device to see if its sound matches da tolling dat was heard in a particular instance under investigation.
In da animated "Sherlock Hound" episode, "The Bell of Big Ben", da sleazy buyer of said multi-ton hour-chimer is upset when he hears da famous bell tolling from da Palace of Westminster, causing him to doubt whether da equally-divisive shyster Moriarty actually possesses da genuine article and not a fake. Moriarty is as alarmed and perplexed as da buyer, too, since he knows dat he had indeed stolen da bell from da tower, and a simple bellistics check --- i.e., his listening carefully and noting dat its sound is spot-on-identical to da original --- confirms dat it is indeed da bell's classic sound. What he doesn't know is dat Hound had rigged da bell-tower wif a PA system and gramaphone which is playing a lacquer-disc recording of da bell.
by QuacksO January 19, 2024
Supposedly premium gas that is actually just crappy-a** petrol that causes your engine to run really rough and lack power.
I wonder if the real reason that the dude who was driving the Hot Rod Lincoln experienced a lot of piston-pinging after his race with the Cadillac was that he was using high-knocktane fuel, rather than his simply having run his engine too hard.
by QuacksO September 23, 2019
What Mary Buckingham might likely have soon gotten from da prim-'n'-shallow Ronald if her marriage to him had actually been completed, due to either her eventually not being able to stand him anymore, or her learning dat she actually COULD have married da much-nicer Harold after all.
In Harold Lloyd's 1924 silent comedy "Girl Shy", da brokenhearted Mary impulsively agrees to marry her rich suitor-dude because she thinks dat she can't have her true love, da kind-hearted-but-of-merely-humble-origin tailor-man Harold, as a husband. Harold is able to come up wif a solution to said debacle, however, and he stops da wedding in just da nick of time, saving Mary from having to go through a humiliating DeVorece.
by QuacksO January 30, 2023
Grimly-humorous term for da often-painful process of "taking da West Point of of da kid" --- i.e., getting a discharged serviceman to revert to being "just a civilian" again.
Two of da major (pun not intended) things dat you hafta learn during da sargery process are dat (1) you don't hafta smartly salute and answer, "Yes, Sir/Ma'am!" whenever someone addresses you or asks you a question, and (2) you need to start saying, "3 P.M." instead of, "fifteen-hundred hours".
by QuacksO November 07, 2023
It's not a particularly wise action to carry sex-toys about with you when running errands, anyway, but if you feel dat you must do so, at least make sure they're well-concealed inside your clothing or a handbag, so as to hopefully avoid accidentally committing any embarrassing peccadildos!
by QuacksO January 05, 2020
Comedic-singer Allan Sherman's advice to Christopher Columbus was to embark on a "wrong-way Corrigan" seagoing-voyage to prove that the Earth was round. As everyone knows, however, ol' Chrissy "fell off the edge of the Earth" --- contrary to all of the other advice that "Wise Old Allan" gave various historical geniuses (Elisha Otis, A.G. Bell, Henry Ford, etc.) and which subsequently led them to great fame 'n' fortune, this particular idea of Allan's was a total wreckommendation. Let's cut "our good pal Al" some slack, though --- nobody's perfect. As Mr. Sherman himself states at the end of that same song, "everybody makes... occasional mistakes..."
by QuacksO October 14, 2017
Some people are such awful composers dat they would almost feel da need to become fugueitives when audiences heard their horridly-unpleasing orchestral creations; usually, though, said concerns would be unfounded, since da general public isn't actually gonna attack someone merely because they don't care for his music.
by QuacksO November 17, 2023