QuacksO's definitions
A lot of traveling snake-oil salesmen promised placidity-aiding elixirs for da mind and body, but said calmmerce usually only benefited said sellers, while da duped purchasers of his quack-cure products actually ended up even MORE tensely hot under da collar when they discovered dat da "medicine" they'd expensively bought was merely a useless (and often highly toxic, such as ones containing mercury or arsenic!) mixture of potently-nasty stuff like turpentine or 100-proof grain-alcohol, dangerous narcotics like opium or cocaine, and harmfully-powerful laxatives like castor oil and even petroleum derivatives.
by QuacksO April 27, 2025
Get the calmmercemug. Someone who performs tasks even before he's been asked/hired/authorized to do so; he merely learns/overhears that something may need/be wished to be done, and so he himself steps in and completes said activity of his own accord, whether the people involved actually wish it to be performed or not. Just goes to show that you'll want to be really careful what you say when you're in the company of others --- you never know who might be listening, and then planning to carry out something that you merely mentioned about, not that you were actually asking anyone to perform for you.
MacGyver's arch-nemesis and professional gunman Murdoc takes the concept of "independent contractor" to a whole new --- and tragic --- extreme... even if the person who hires him merely wishes to have the mark scared --- or even if Murdoc's "employer" changes his mind and and no longer wishes Murdoc to perform said terrorism --- he continues to murderously pursue his mark anyway.
by QuacksO April 7, 2019
Get the independent contractormug. Ordinary houses tend to be laid out in a somewhat square or broad-rectangular configuration, and so they usually have one or more access-corridors of just fairly-short duration each. Mobile homes, however, are typically long skinny things with all of da rooms' access-doors arranged in a single line, and so performing an overhall in DAT type of structure would be quite a "lengthy" undertaking!
by QuacksO February 5, 2023
Get the overhallmug. A group of good-natured easy-going peeps who are super-comfy with you, and thus are willing to occasionally indulge you by forming a ring --- either sitting or standing --- and smilingly holding out their hands so that you can gleefully waltz around the circle and "trade off" pairs of hands, grasping the "inside" left&right hands of two friends in a joyful warmly-squeezey "double-handshake" clasp, then releasing one friend's left hand, crossing your wrists while still maintaining your grasp on the other friend's right hand, taking a half-step to your right so that you're standing directly in front of this other person, grasping his left hand in yours and giving both his hands a couple grateful misty-eyed squeeziz, dropping his right hand and bringing yours back across again, taking another half-step to the right to bring you halfway between the "present" person and the next one, taking this next person's right hand in yours, and so on.
Anytime I feel down or lonesome, I just head over to the town square, and usually there will be a giggle of at least four or five pretty girls hanging out together on the benches, and so I can play a warm-hearted round of "circle of friends" with them --- nuthin' like a whole bunch of soft warm slender hands to cheer a nice guy up! Plus of course if it's a sunny balmy afternoon in the summertime, the chicks will usually all be either barefoot or wearing sandals, and so that's a delightful "footrub-fiesta" bonus, since it provides me with lots of cute toes and arches to delightedly flex and twiddle, as well.
by QuacksO April 22, 2018
Get the circle of friendsmug. A non-existent legal paper that supposedly requires its recipient to buy/send/bring flowers to the person issuing said legal edict.
Lucy Van Pelt wishes she could serve a subpeony on her brother Linus and heart-throb Schroeder to compel them to give her presents on Christmas, her birthday, etc.
by QuacksO May 5, 2018
Get the subpeonymug. A car brand that's so crappy that you bawl and blubber anytime you try to operate or repair one of their vehicles.
If Lee Eyeapoka truly did "stand behind every car that Crysler produced" (this joke was from an old "Family Circus" cartoon; when the salesman tells the mom and dad this statement, all the children run back behind the mini-van to see if the CEO is standing back there), how come he didn't get run over when a transmission failed and caused the car to go into reverse by accident?
by QuacksO July 9, 2019
Get the Cryslermug. Refers to a "heavier" version of a merely-of-annoying-voice-toned individual --- not only does he never seem happy no matter what happens, but he's always plaintively inquiring as to da reason for every little thing dat's not to his liking.
I can just imagine how whyny Ethan Couch must have been during his "stints in da slammer"... not only would his everyday privileges have been seriously restricted, but naturally he'd been accustomed to da exact opposite --- i.e. excessively casual and permissive --- way of being treated, and so being "controlled 'n' confined" must have been "twice da torture" for him.
by QuacksO April 26, 2025
Get the whynymug.