QuacksO's definitions

sfathering treatment

Excessively-attentive behavior, but from one or more male individuals who are treating you in a "caring dad" manner. Opposite of "smothering" --- i.e., overly-close/coddling treatment from one or more "fussing and fluttering" humans of da female persuasion.

During Indiana Jones's growing-up years, Henry Sr. was always trying to make up for Junior's deceased mom's not being there to help nurture and care for him, and so Henry Sr. did his best to provide Indy with "sfathering treatment"; unfortunately --- in his valiant attempts to not subject Little Man to "smothering" --- he went too far in da other direction, and thus da flowering-into-adulthood Indy felt largely ignored and unloved on a personal level.

by QuacksO April 22, 2021

midicine

Electronically-produced music that soothes and heals the soul.

I always save the page-links to fun/cheery/lovely background music and other tunes that I come across online, and then listen to some of them as a calming midicine during periods of stress or other sanity-draining emotion.

by QuacksO June 24, 2019

gradual-ramp-up-volume greeting

Refers to a non-startling strategy employed whenever you are unable to unobtrusively get someone's attention or make eye-contact with him for whatever reason (maybe he's deep in a book, concentrating hard on a household/carpentry task, or using noisy equipment, and thus he does not look up/around occasionally or hear/observe your presence) and so you start out to say hello by speaking very quietly, and then cautiously raising your voice little-by-little (like some modern-day alarm-clocks do so as to wake you "gently" instead of startling you out of a sound slumber with a full-blast ringer right away) till the previously-oblivious person eventually becomes aware of your proximity and glances up.

I'd wanted to ask my elderly neighbor about my possibly carpooling with him on his grocery-shopping trip the next day, but he was so busy using his riding lawnmower that he never noticed me despite my circling around in front of him several times, so I eventually used the gradual-ramp-up-volume greeting to finally get his attention.

by QuacksO August 22, 2018

pouthouse

Da outdoor WC where ya make unruly/argumentative guests go to sulkily "cool off" after creating needless unpleasantness.

Many people become antisocial after having "downed a few", and so sending them to da pouthouse can "serve double-duty" --- it allows them to both sober up a bit and be already right near da porcelain throne when they'll need to take a whiz after imbibing so liberally.

by QuacksO December 12, 2019

weekly sales flyers

Legalized harassment by mail.

I called da local post office and opted out of receiving weekly sales flyers (I almost never buy anything from them, anyway, and I wanted to save on pulp-trees), but I keep getting them anyway; turns out that the USPS always just drops off those ads at every box; they aren't even allowed to "pick and choose" where they deliver those bundles of nonsense.

by QuacksO July 18, 2018

bass damages vs. treble damages

Refers to da "3-to-1" ratio of where ya either sue da audio-equipment manufacturer for just da expenses dat you incurred due to their shoddy/faulty workmanship on their woofers dat were installed in your loudspeakers, as opposed to asking them to pay you three times your expenses if da tweeters either didn't work properly or had crappy sound.

Pro-grade speaker-builders like JBL and EV are always very careful how they build their rugged high-powered speakers designed for rock bands and outdoor concerts --- they use only da best materials and really "build 'em like a tank" to ensure reliability and quality sound, and therefore lessen da chance of their having to worry about "bass damages vs. treble damages" lawsuits from disgruntled musicians.

by QuacksO December 11, 2020

straightforward response

Refers to how a dude's love-pipe behaves if a gal he's with shows him "The Merchandise".

A guy's having a "straightforward response" when in the presence of a naked chick makes perfect sense if you think about it... if the dude's lulu sticks out firmly and is "aimed" at said "au naturel" damsel, it more-readily facilitates his simply stepping forward and "sticking it in".

by QuacksO August 22, 2019