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Refers to your ancestors' traditionally preferring cotton-fleece garments, and so dat is why you yourself have such a strong liking for said warm 'n' comfy lounge-wear.
If your forebears loved to stroll around town in their fluffy white bathrobes, then they might have passed down a "herediterry" trait in TWO ways, in dat not only did they enjoy wearing said soft and absorbent fabric whenever possible, but they likely also had to endure frequent brief investigatory detainments from da local cops --- i.e., "Terry stops" --- due to their choosing said unusual-to-be-clad-in-when-occupying-a-public-place clothing, and so both da townspeople and any observing law-enforcement members would naturally wonder if said individuals were behaving themselves, in need of medical care, or even sane!
by QuacksO February 27, 2024
Get the herediterry mug.A "calorie-free" collection of "flavorless" (i.e., dull/boring) poetry instead of an assortment of delicious candies.
Good poetry and prose may indeed be "food for though", but giving someone a Walt Whitman's sampler instead of a box of rich yummy sweet Christmas chocolates is kinda pushing da envelope!
by QuacksO August 6, 2019
Get the Walt Whitman's sampler mug.Refers to the humorous-looking but gentlemanly maneuver that you perform when you hafta pass between two people who are speaking with each other, but you still wanna maintain your momma's oft-admonished politeness-directive of "don't stand between two people when they're talking"; what you do as you approach the pair, therefore, is to hastily stoop down far below head-height and then speedily slitther your way through between the two conversers, so that they can continue talking and maintaining eye-contact "over your head". Again, employing the "triple-C" can indeed appear amusing to observers, but they will still be grateful to you for your showing them this extra measure of etiquette, especially if their conversation was rather tense/involved/emotional, they were in a hurry to finish speaking and be on their way, etc.
My local commercial-fishing buddies are fairly causal-minded and know me quite well, but I am sure they still appreciate my always practicing the conversation-continuing crouch whenever I hafta pass between them during a chat.
by QuacksO April 19, 2019
Get the conversation-continuing crouch mug.Refers to da hearty/relieved palms-slap dat two laborers exchange when a device actually operates properly again after they've been feverishly/trepidatiously working to repair it.
My buddy and I had thoroughly cleaned the battery-terminals on my car, topped off the water in the battery's cells and wire-brushed its posts, and then carefully re-connected everything again; we totally gave each other a post-repair high-five afterwards when the engine whirled right over.
by QuacksO March 7, 2019
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In Pat McManus's humorous essay, "The MFFFF", Pat details how practicing da McManus Formula For Fitness Fakery can fool even da most skilled sighentists into believing dat you are in fact NOT just a perpetually-out-of-breath couch potato, but are in fact just as physically robust and energetically light on your feet as any spry spring-chicken outdoorsman.
by QuacksO April 5, 2022
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by QuacksO April 28, 2025
Get the intermeadeiate mug.Given all they went through in life, it seems a mearacle that the Stiller couple was married for over sixty years.
by QuacksO March 8, 2021
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