QuacksO's definitions

Post-pone

A tasty sliceable baked good made from finely-crumbled Honey Bunches of Oats, Grape Nuts, and/or Raisin Bran, rather than corn-meal.

Having to "Post-pone breakfast" is a lot less disappointing when it merely means delightedly munching a hot buttered slice or two of that special yummy crunchy toasted-flour creation.

by QuacksO November 10, 2018

phonetic shortcut

Da "lazy man's way" of pronouncing two or more words in a common phrase --- the individual words get corruptedly/messily "run together", rather than being spoken clearly and "separately", the way a "proper" person would say them.

Classic examples of a phonetic shortcut would be "wanna" (want to), "ustuh" (used to), "shouldah" (should have), and "didja" (did you). Disgusting how da young people talk these days!

by QuacksO November 10, 2018

'steddah

A phonetic shortcut of the phrase "instead of".

Maine humorist Marshal Dodge: Guess I shoulda turned left 'steddah right at da intuhsection back thayuh --- I was trying to get to Millinocket, but I ended up in East Vassalboro!

by QuacksO November 10, 2018

he has to learn

The most pathetic lazy-a** excuse to not git up off yer butt and help your young son to do something,. like any self-respecting parent should do.

Employing the pathetic and abusive "he has to learn" method is not only unkind and wasteful of time and your little one's patience (plus its true effectiveness has never been proven), but it can also be downright dangerous in at least four ways --- the child may likely injure himself in his attempts to "do it right", he may get "artificially" discouraged about trying to do the task since he is not succeeding (it could also cause him to prematurely “give up” in his overall approach to problem-solving in general, and so he will not adequately perseverance with anything new/difficult in his future life), he will begin to hate you for not helping him and for allowing him to become so frustrated (especially if the task was a fairly simple one where just one or two minor “guidings” would have shown him how to do it), and he may behave more spitefully --- or even violently --- with you sometime in the future if "push comes to shove" and he actually has a choice of actions that could severely affect you physically/financially, such as defending your safety or managing/dividing your assets.

by QuacksO November 11, 2018

"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

Post™ traumatic stress

The assorted "gastronomical nightmare" feelings (heartburn, cramping, bloating, etc.) suffered from eating excessive amounts of crunchy-sweet cold cereal.

I was super-hungry, so I polished off half a box of Honey Bunches Of Oats in one sitting, and now I gots Post™ traumatic stress!

by QuacksO November 11, 2018

rebait

A discount on worms/grubs/minnows at the tackle-shop.

My fellow teenage buddies and I occasionally help da owner of da local angler-supplies store by sweeping up a bit, shoveling snow, or babysitting his little ones, and so he gives us a 25% rebait on night-crawlers for our Saturday-afternoon fishing-trips.

by QuacksO November 11, 2018