Mr. Rogers' friendly peaceable neighborhood is comprised of kind helpful interesting humans; I'd be more than happy to be his neighbor. Mr. Ed, on the other hand --- or rather, on the other HOOF --- has his own "neigh"-borhood which I'm sure is equally pleasant and cheerful, but it's entirely made up of "equine" citizens, and as mayor, "The Big E" is obliged to haul the ponderous creaky ol' hay-'n'-oats cart around to each and every house three times a day to deliver his four-legged friends' breakfast, lunch, and supper rations. A real **drag** (pun intended), but somebody's gotta do it.
by QuacksO July 30, 2017
Get the neighborhoodmug. An inky webbed-foot print made by the young Louie Trumpeter or The Ugly Duckling when rubber-stamping his "John Hancock" onto an important document. Can also loosely refer to the line of cute little footprints left by a baby swan as he waddles along the shore.
In "Corny Concerto", The Ugly Duckling encounters two separate "unique codes/representations of oneself" situations --- first, the rough raucous "QUAACCKKK, QUAACCKKK!" sound of his "audible signature" gratingly and obviously differentiates him from Mama Swan's "truly biological" trio's melodically-trilling cygnetures, and then the furiously-outraged Mama Swan leaves her own "signature" on The Ugly Duckling's behind when she tempestuously bunts him away off back up the stream.
by QuacksO April 28, 2019
Get the cygneturemug. Refers to when you make friendly eye-contact with one or more occupants of a neighboring dwelling, and thus you do not have to actually knock on their door to make it acceptable for you to go on in.
My neighbors down the street have known me for decades and have always welcomed me in to "shoot da breeze for a few"; they often hang out around the dinner-table in their large-glass-windowed kitchen, anyway, and so they can easily notice me as I amble up the front walk. So I always just watch for them to glance up and give me affable nods as I near their glass storm-door; this is my implied door-knock, and so I know that I can just stroll right on in and sit down with them.
by QuacksO July 06, 2018
Get the implied door-knockmug. A brainy researcher who studies da assorted wheezes and huffs dat humans emit under different circumstances.
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 05, 2022
Get the sighentistmug. 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 07, 2019
Get the post-repair high-fivemug. 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 06, 2019
Get the Walt Whitman's samplermug. I don't believe in establishment religion as a whole, so I don't ponder or worry about it in any way; I merely practice the Golden Rule and leave it at that --- no bouts of anxzionty for me, thank you very much!
by QuacksO November 25, 2021
Get the anxziontymug.