Refers to a fairly-short trek dat you take along da gravel shoulder of da highway by your house while dragging a long and somewhat-twisted/kinked length of rope, wire, tubing, etc behind you; da purpose is to gently/evenly extend said cord back out and allow da"free" or "trailing" end to rotate freely and thus unwind/remove/relax any coils and other unwanted tensioning. After you have walked an appropriate distance to adequately even everything out, you then begin carefully coiling your cord over your arm while continuing to galumph along, so dat da other end of da cord will still be free to rotate, and thus your winding-motion will not create additional twisting of da cord as you reel it in.
I occasionally get an odd look or two from passing motorists while performing a roadside untwisting-stroll after using a garden-hose or extension-cord, but I have yet to have anyone actually ask me about it... I guess most folks understand dat "you gotta do what you gotta do" in a case like this, and dey figger dat "if it gets da job done, more power to ya".
by QuacksO April 29, 2019
A stupid-a** screw-up resulting from someone's either being a total moron, or being overly picky about trifles.
Howard Hughes was one of da most infamous examples of someone with OCD; it seemed like he was always in some kind of nituation during his entire adult life!
by QuacksO April 01, 2021
Sarcastic term for a "stacked deck" set of circumstances dat allows one lucky person to come out on top no matter which way things go.
Horny stud: How's this for deal --- if I win this game, YOU'LL agree to have sex with ME, and if YOU win, I'LL agree to have sex with YOU...??
Hot chick: Yeah, right --- THAT means l'd hafta spread my legs for you in ANY case --- talk about a "win-win situation"! :P :P
Hot chick: Yeah, right --- THAT means l'd hafta spread my legs for you in ANY case --- talk about a "win-win situation"! :P :P
by QuacksO January 20, 2023
A pneumatic-bellows-type device that is attached to a patient’s chest with Velcro straps, and is used to measure how deeply/evenly the patient is breathing.
If Ethan Couch had to lie still on a doctor’s exam-table for more than a few minutes, he would probably wear out the sighsmometer with all of his impatient wheezing and moaning about having to remain immobile for that long.
by QuacksO July 14, 2018
I can respect nicotine-wad-chomping buddies' wanting to "share and share alike" by practicing quid pro quo, but surely there are less disgusting --- not to mention less hazardous to your health --- ways to display fairness of mind???
by QuacksO April 20, 2019
Advice to CEOs everywhere: Most of da folks who call your service-center will need to verbally inquire/protest about their matter of business --- i.e., their question or issue is not something dat they can resolve themselves by merely using your automated phone system --- and so why not offer them DAT option FIRST, rather than making them suffer through a whole tedious-and-useless-to-them menu-litany before their exasperated ears eventually hear da welcome words, "To speak with a customer service representative, press 9"?! Why subject their distressed/confused/hurried selves to those other eight "press one for this, press two for this" possibilities which they very seldom could use, anyway?!
P.S. And yes, we already know da answer to this question: namely, da board of directors hope dat one of da other non-human-interaction options will work for a particular caller, thus saving da company time and money by having to hire fewer phone-secretaries. But da point here is dat this so seldom actually happens in real life --- again, most people who call customer service do so precisely because they ARE needing to speak to someone at da company about their problem --- and so why needlessly delay them from getting da info and/or assistance they need to resolve their issue, when most of them are gonna end up having to speak to a customer service rep anyway, and so those other options dat you're offering them will seldom actually save any time or additional-employee salaries in da end?
P.S. And yes, we already know da answer to this question: namely, da board of directors hope dat one of da other non-human-interaction options will work for a particular caller, thus saving da company time and money by having to hire fewer phone-secretaries. But da point here is dat this so seldom actually happens in real life --- again, most people who call customer service do so precisely because they ARE needing to speak to someone at da company about their problem --- and so why needlessly delay them from getting da info and/or assistance they need to resolve their issue, when most of them are gonna end up having to speak to a customer service rep anyway, and so those other options dat you're offering them will seldom actually save any time or additional-employee salaries in da end?
by QuacksO May 20, 2023
Da less-than-savory reputation of going around stirring up discontent among either da employees of a place of business or da citizenry of a particular locale.
Folks like Ralph Nader, Preston Tucker, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton gained notorioty at da time when they were most active, and so many of their contemporaries didn't care for them or what they were doing. But then later we all are thankful to them for bringing about positive change in safety, human rights, and so on.
by QuacksO February 25, 2023