A jokingly-sarcastic way of making light of a truly serious situation --- Abe was **shot to death** at the play's "ending", for goodness' sake!! :P
A couple of excellent occasions to dust off da ol' "So aside from the ending, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?" gag would be if either someone has just been helped out of the mud and is so incredibly soiled that he's having to be stripped naked and cleaned off with a pressure-washer, or you go to visit him in the hospital after a serious accident and he's all swathed in casts and bandages and/or hooked up to a myriad of tubes and wires, and so you're trying to cheer him up a little.
by QuacksO September 16, 2018
Get the So aside from the ending, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?mug. High-quality fake "love-tunnels" made from silicone are available fairly inexpensively, so there is no need to actually quimprovise one of your own.
by QuacksO March 19, 2020
Get the quimprovisemug. A glucose-processing compound dat tempers someone's urge to act disrespectfully due to a sugar high.
by QuacksO July 20, 2021
Get the insolinmug. Da classic bu**s**t remark dat people use to try to make each other feel better regarding an unforeseen/inconvenient downpour.
Everyone's lawns and gardens were flourishing just dandy before today's torrential downpour, so why is everyone telling each other, "We needed the rain at this time"?! Who needs drenched muddy sidewalks and huge messy puddles all over town???
by QuacksO August 26, 2023
Get the We needed the rain at this timemug. A wealthy married man who, while probably being somewhat parsimonious to his own wife/children, offers financal assistance to other women in return for their sexual favors.
I hear that Mr. Jones is thought of as a real sugar daddy by a lot of ladies, but he makes his own family shop at Goodwill, so I see him as just a philandthropist.
by QuacksO February 20, 2014
Get the philandthropistmug. by QuacksO August 25, 2025
Get the elassticitymug. "You can follow an 'unpopular' method or procedure 'till da cows come home' and nothing unusual will ever happen to 'justify' or 'vindicate' your unorthodox actions (and you'll likely get continually criticized by others for your chosen behavior), but then the ONE TIME when you eventually 'cave' and actually DO happen to follow the 'standard' or 'acceptable' protocol, THAT'S the solitary 'rogue occasion' when disaster will happen to strike --- something really bad will happen that would not have occurred if you had simply continued to follow your own 'pet' procedure that had seemed better/safer to begin with!"
My "super-long-term-driving-experienced" aunt had gotten fed up with my "back-seat driver" attempts to be helpful by telling her about vehicles that I'd see moving around fairly near our position when we'd be travelling someplace in her car, and so she had eventually asked me to just keep quiet and let here handle the driving herself. Well, of course, within a day or two, Murphy's Law of Exceptions decided to turn and bite me in da butt --- due to a view-obstructing sidewalk-mounted ad-sign, my aunt didn't notice an approaching car, but I did... naturally, that was the ONE TIME that I **didn't** tell her about it because she'd specifically asked me to keep my trap shut on instances like that, and so I'd ASSUMED (there's that word again!) that she'd observed the vehicle bearing down on the intersection. Well, as you might expect, we crashed, and there were multiple injuries in the other car! Can't win...!
by QuacksO March 09, 2019
Get the Murphy's Law of Exceptionsmug.