QuacksO's definitions

cellobate

Refers to either:
(1) Not purchasing or consuming any products dat are packaged in crinkly clear shrink-wrap plastic.
(2) Abstaining from crumpling said crispy flex-film to make an annoying racket for anyone else within earshot.

Remaining cellobate may indeed be doubly difficult in dat you are sorrowfully giving up both packaging-convenience and da uproarious fun of irritating everyone else wif your "loudly crackling fire" sound effects; however, there is da somewhat-helpful "out of sight, out of mind" situation there, in dat if you don't permit yourself access to any items dat are wrapped in "snappy and poppy" protective sleeving, this will also mean dat you probably won't have much if any of said "noisy" material lying around after unsealing store-bought wares, either, and so you will be less able to conveniently access it for selfish auditory pleasures, as well.

by QuacksO April 22, 2022

definance

Rebellious flouting of da norm regarding money.

I make it a strict policy to never gamble in any form, so if not playing da lottery is frowned upon socially, I'll just have to resign myself to definance.

by QuacksO January 13, 2025

strategic 'Stamps-spending

Where you cleverly dodge the state "snack tax" by mostly using just cash-funds from your SSI check to purchase "basic staple" items like milk, cereal, produce, meat, etc, and reserve the allotment on your Food Stamps card for buying soft drinks, seltzer water, dry-roasted nuts, and other equally-simple stuff that's really just an ordinary everyday comestible, also, but the greedy government classifies it as a "snack food" so that they can charge you sales-tax if you use regular cash to pay for it, but the tax is "forgiven" if you buy it with Food Stamps.

I bought some bulk-bottles of unsalted dry-roasted peanuts so I'd have several months' worth of healthy snacks to munch on throughout the day, and by using strategic 'Stamps-spending, I saved several dollars in sales-tax.

by QuacksO May 14, 2019

donkey-orifice

What Bob Ebeling's superior told him not to be when he reported that the Space Shuttle Challenger had unsafe rocket-boosters.

I'd rather be called a donkey-orifice a million times than not speak out against a design-flaw that would likely cost the lives of seven astronauts.

by QuacksO March 5, 2019

triple buypass

Refers to a medical procedure of "rerouting da circuitry" within da body of an individual who has a compulsive-shopping problem so dat he is able to ignore his inherent urges and proceed on ahead wif his life on three occasions where he might otherwise be tempted to spend money unwisely.

If a person truly and strongly desires to live a prudent and frugal existence, actual bodily-rearrangements might not be necessary to achieve said healthy state --- simple hypnosis has been a proven way to accomplish a "triple buypass", and in every possible sense of da term, too: i.e., after said non-invasive mindset-improving treatment, da formerly-spendthrift individual may thrice be able to either "buypass" (i.e., take a different travel-route and thus go sailing on "by" da money-spending opportunity without ever coming very near it) said unwise-purchasing occasion, "pass" on "buying" (i.e., "just say no" to an unwise expenditure, just like with drugs or alcohol), and/or "pass by" (i.e., approach da locale of said foolhardy-investment temptation but just keep on a-truckin') said cash-wasting possibility without even slowing down or turning his head to look.

by QuacksO August 15, 2025

Leaf Erikson

A famous early-11th-century Norseman who went around da world to observe and document da brightly-colored foliage in different lands during da early autumn.

Since camera-film wasn't invented till many centuries later, Leaf Erikson would have had to rely on just paintings and drawings to illustrate all of da lovely tree-decor dat he discovered on his travels.

by QuacksO November 27, 2023

wheelbarrow walk

Refers to the slightly loopy child's game whereby the youngster stretches out on his tummy and raises himself up on his hands, whereupon an adult or somewhat bigger child grasps and lifts the kid's ankles and then slowly "trundles" him forward while the child walks along on his hands. An ideal activity to keep a child "occupied for a few" when there's nothing else to do at the time, or to painlessly compel a hyper/rambunctious child to quit horsing around, since he cannot do anything else while partaking of the game.

Senior-high student: My little brother and I got tired of waiting for the school bus, so we did the wheelbarrow walk around the lawn till the bus finally showed up fifteen minutes late.

by QuacksO November 4, 2016