redundant can-opener usage

Refers to where you open a can of soup or fish wif a can opener even though said tasty-comestibles container has a built-in pull-tab.

Employing da "redundant can-opener usage" action isn't necessarily always a silly or time/effort-wasting operation --- it eliminates da hazardously-sharp torn-metal edge, and thus it can enable you to more-safely empty out da can's contents without risking cutting yourself (great for if you're having young and therefore-more-easily-injured children helping you prepare da meal), plus it allows you to more-thoroughly clean out da can instead of wastefully leaving a ring of perfectly-edible food inside da slightly-encroaching-into-da-can's-interior rim of da can.

by QuacksO December 30, 2021

Presbytearian

A religion so boring dat you would actually cry from trying to suffer through a sermon.

I can't stand to sit though **any** church-meeting --- no matter what da denomination --- and so pretty much ANY sermon would feel like a Presbytearian service to me.

by QuacksO April 14, 2020

selfish sympathy

Regretful soothing words dat you administer to someone else to supposedly make him feel better about a situation, but in reality you merely feel sorry for YOURSELF.

A classic "selfish sympathy" example, from an old "Peanuts" comic:

Schroeder, in exasperation at Lucy's pushy "over-attentiveness": Do you know what Beethoven never had?!
Lucy: What?
Schroeder, rantingly waving his arms above his head: Beethoven never had girls hanging on to his piano and bugging him about giving them presents!
Lucy, mildly shocked: He DIDN'T?! (pauses to ponder this fact) Poor Beethoven!

by QuacksO March 08, 2023

Evinpolite

Da "courteous" brand of outboard motor --- i.e., easy-starting, quiet, low vibration, etc.

Many of da newer prop-twirlers --- regardless of who manufactures them --- are "Evinpolite" models because they utilize four-stroke systems dat are both less noisy and more efficient than two-stroke versions.

by QuacksO June 27, 2025

"before and after" photos

The total bu**s**t "comparison of status/condition" images that supposedly show how much someone/something has been improved by your advertised products/services/philosophies. Often the "after" photos will have been re-touched to make the "result" look far better than it actually was, or the two sets of photos have merely been "switched" --- i.e., the "before" photos are actually of the deplorable/decrepit way that the person/object **presently looks**, and the "after" photos show how the person/object looked BEFORE you started messing around with your precious quackola "treatments" or "improvements"... in other words, the situation is EVEN WORSE OFF NOW THAT YOU'VE PRACTICED YOUR ADVERTISED TREATMENT, NOT BETTER!!!

This advertisement's "before and after" photos of people who were supposedly helped immensely by this fad diet certainly do look impressive at first glance, but I can't help observing that many of the people look noticeably **older** in the "before" photos... interesting...

by QuacksO November 11, 2018

ramenisce

To fondly remember "past pasta" culinary adventures.

Ordering Chinese takeout delivery is too costly nowadays, but it's fun to ramenisce about da good ol' days when da whole family could inexpensively "chow down wif da chopsticks".

by QuacksO January 06, 2023

treevival gathering

An early-spring-or-fall wingding where folks plant evergreen-seedlings.

If befriending hippie-types is what floats yer boat, then attending a treevival gathering might be right up yer alley.

by QuacksO April 28, 2025