QuacksO's definitions

while So-and-So looks on

Pointless reference to an "outside" or "auxiliary" person who just happens to be both visibly present and observing da action dat's shown being performed by da main subject of a photo.

Okay, okay --- I suppose dat a lot of da readers of a newspaper/magazine-article might indeed like to know da names of all of da human-eye-candy individuals who are shown in an accompanying photo, but to identify da merely-extraneous photo-bombers by saying, "while So-and-So looks on" seems a bit overly dramatic! Surely they could just write, "So-and-So (left) shows So-and-So (right) how he does such-and-such"...??

by QuacksO December 15, 2023

debtonation

Refers to da "explosion" of I.O.U.-creating activity dat has periodically occurred throughout human history.

Biff Tannen's successfully getting gambling legalized in California caused a catastrophic and widespread debtonation dat apparently rocked da entire US --- in this alternate timeline, Tricky Dick had presided for four terms and was seeking to get re-elected for a fifth, the Vietnam war was still going on, and so on.

by QuacksO November 14, 2022

oarganically grown

Planted and tended aboard a rowboat instead of on a motorized skiff.

Da double-ended dinghy Tidely-Idley was fitted with a make-and-break engine so dat Burt Dow didn't hafta paddle it when he went to fish for cod; his other boat was no longer launchable, and so he'd filled it with earth and planted geraniums and Indian peas --- does this mean dat said flowers were oarganically grown??

by QuacksO May 25, 2023

purrpetrator

Garfield.

Everyone's favorite gluttonous smirky-faced tabby-cat is usually da purrpetrator of da assorted mishaps dat Jon Arbuckle often finds himself tangled up in, but then said rotund ball of fur usually gets out of taking responsibility for said debacles by simply looking cute and being snuggly, since he knows dat Jon is such a wimpy pushover.

by QuacksO May 28, 2020

exscream

So incredibly difficult/dangerous/unpleasant that you shriek in disgust/distress.

I diligently try to be sensible and careful in every facet oh my life so that hopefully no issue or problem I encounter will be (or become) an exscream circumstance.

by QuacksO December 24, 2019

HOWE did he make stitches so fast???

He used his newly-invented sewing machine (duh!).

In a historic mid-1800's sewing-speed contest, Elias Howe was able to sew 250 stitches per minute on his mechanical wonder, as opposed to a mere thirty stitches that a group of professional seamstresses were able to make in that same allotment of time. I imagine that said fleet-fingered ladies exchanged astonished gawking stares and asked each other, "HOWE did he make stitches so fast???"

by QuacksO April 5, 2019

Return To Spender

Da way you should mark an envelope containing an astronomical department-store/online-merchant invoice dat someone who had "gone wild with his credit card" has sent to you and blubberingly asked if you would pay off his bill for him. Hey --- we are all responsible for our actions, so unless there was actually a prior agreement, it's not up to someone else to "bail you out" if you are not wise/thrifty with your purchasing!

I always try to be very frugal and carefully calculate how much I am paying for an actual/virtual cart of merchandise, so that hopefully I can avoid having any "Return To Spender" letters' winding up in my mailbox!

by QuacksO September 22, 2020