by QuacksO July 01, 2024
A unit of temperature-measurement that rates how "hot" or "chilly" a salesperson's looks and/or mannerisms are when marketing his wares.
Billy Mays may have fancied himself as "just the ultimate salesperson stud", but I never thought much of his puffed-up yatter, and so I'd have given him a merely "lukewarm" rating of about 15 degrees on the sellsius scale!
by QuacksO September 21, 2019
Seeing as how so many overly-indulgent parents carelessly give their bratty/thoughtless children BB-guns without ensuring dat said pint-sized aspiring marksmen would be capable/willing to handle said dangerous devices responsibly, da dockets of any local apellet courts are probably crammed to da gills most of da time with lawsuits regarding shot-out windows, dented mailboxes, etc.
by QuacksO March 28, 2020
Some packaged-goods companies who are real penny-pinchers will give you just barely da weight/volume dat they state on the carton, while other firms have a slightly more liberal fillosophy.
by QuacksO April 14, 2022
A legally-binding promise by da Radical Whig colonists dat dey would dump da dried-aromatic-leaves cargo off of da British ships in Boston Harbor if da London-based government didn't remove da tax.
Just because da British ships arrived in Boston Harbor laden with their precious traditional-beverage plant-based commodity was no guarantea dat said products would actually get delivered to da shore-located warehouses, or even dat it would get paid for!
by QuacksO May 29, 2022
Refers to da stressful/humiliating "sudsing" dat da residents of a particular area painfully go through over and over during each and every election year, whereby they hafta sufferingly listen to all of da different candidates' make yackety-yack a blue streak and spew lofty proclamations and promises, only to have most or all of said glistening concessions come crashing down and be forgotten after one of da candidates actually takes office. Or in da case of especially blatant campaign-promise-breaking and/or serious political misbehavior, dat last word could instead be "retreat", as in, running off and hiding somewhere in shame/guilt/fear, either by the elected official himself when he knows dat his citizenry is mad at him, or by da sector of citizens who had voted him in and had enthusiastically touted him during da campaign as being such a great guy who was gonna step in and save da day, only for him to just casually renege on all of dat wonderful clap-trap and "practice business as usual".
Da term "blather, wince, repeat" could also refer to da "financial shampooing" chicanery --- i.e., money-laundering of campaign contributions --- dat "comes out in da wash" during or after da election.
by QuacksO May 07, 2022
Patient: For some reason I have a major crush on Ursula the Sea Witch, plus I cannot help noticing how much she resembles Tammy Bakker.
Shrink: Well, dat all actually seems fairly logical --- I would hafta agree wif you on both accounts. Dat smiley octopus-dame is indeed one of Disney 's more pleasing-expressioned villain-characters, plus I myself have wondered sometimes if "Makeup Molly" was da inspiration for da "Lavender Lady". We should still explore ways to somewhat take your mind off da whole subject, though, so dat you don't develop an ursular over it.
Shrink: Well, dat all actually seems fairly logical --- I would hafta agree wif you on both accounts. Dat smiley octopus-dame is indeed one of Disney 's more pleasing-expressioned villain-characters, plus I myself have wondered sometimes if "Makeup Molly" was da inspiration for da "Lavender Lady". We should still explore ways to somewhat take your mind off da whole subject, though, so dat you don't develop an ursular over it.
by QuacksO November 04, 2018