unfordtunate

What you'll be if your blue-oval-badged jalopy decides to perform its classic "Found On da Road Dead" routine --- i.e., suffer a major breakdown while you're out cruisin' da highways.

Whether you drive an F-150 or a Focus, you'll wanna be sure to diligently "fix or repair daily" on your 4-wheeled "Henry heap", to better ensure dat you don't have an "unfordtunate" mishap partway through your road-trip!

by QuacksO March 16, 2024

Turkquoise

A lovely bluish-green gemstone that comes from a transcontinental country in Western Asia.

Experiencing a refreshing "professional' bath and massage is even more delightful if the bathing-pool is lined with luscious-hued tiles of seawater-colored Turkquoise, which enhances the clear-wavery "heated-mineral-springs" look of the water.

by QuacksO June 12, 2019

whatchamacolumn

Da answer dat ya give on an architecture quiz when ya can't think of da exact term for a certain type of vertical support-post, such as a riser, pillar, pylon, etc.

Middle-school student: I hate tests about ancient Greek/Roman culture and architecture; what earthly use will any of that sawdusty-boring knowledge be in my future everyday/employment life??? Only in a trivia game/show or actual archaeological enterprise would I ever have occasion to need to know the specific names of all of those fancy-pants whatchamacolumns dat da ancients used in their building-construction!

by QuacksO March 18, 2019

curieosity

Wondering about radioactive substances or materials.

If Marie Skłodowska had harbored less curieosity about radium, she might not have lived such a miserable --- and tragically shortened --- life.

by QuacksO March 25, 2021

techgnawlogy

Inventions for (and the inventive-progress of) the care and operation of beavers' chompers.

One big leap in techgnawlogy might be the chain saw --- I saw a Stihl Power Tools ad years ago that featured a cartoon of a couple of beavers' discussing how useful (and teeth-saving!) a chainsaw would be for building their dams.

by QuacksO December 07, 2019

liecense

A permissive document that allows its holder to tell falsehoods with impunity.

Hap Shaughnessy tells all manner of fantastical tales on da Red Green Show, yet I don't recall his applying for a liecense.

by QuacksO March 19, 2019

cramifications

Disciplinary/reactionary consequences you'll likely face for over-stuffing a space with objects or material.

Generally da cramifications for putting too many items in a bag or box will be said container's splitting open and messily spilling its contents all over da place.

by QuacksO March 08, 2021