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citation-spelling nightmare

What a member of da "area's finest" --- especially one who never did too well in grammar-school --- finds himself faced with when trying to scribble out a summons-to-appear slip involving people/objects/locales with less-than-common names.
News flash --- Flustered MPs at da local naval-base encountered a major citation-spelling nightmare this evening when trying to write up a PECCARY who had committed da PECCADILLO of illegally entering da ARMORY and engaging in a PECKADILLO with an ARMADILLO dat it met there.
by QuacksO January 8, 2020
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joevial

Describes da all-warm-and-fuzzy mood dat you attain AFTER you'd had your morning coffee.
I am allergic to caffeine and I am jittery enough as it is, so I generally avoid any an all stimulants; I just try to be cheerful and pleasant all the time, not merely "joevial".
by QuacksO October 17, 2023
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suboardinate

A "lower on da corporate ladder" employee at a sawmill or lumberyard.
If you want a bulk-quantity discount on 2X4s, you'll need to talk to my supervisor --- he's da "top plank" around here; I'm just a suboardinate!
by QuacksO March 4, 2023
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The Golden Rule

One of those classic "viable only in theory" philosophies that doesn't stand up in the real world.
Two huge problems with The Golden Rule are:

(1) You cannot know what someone else prefers, so if you try to do for him what you yourself like, this does not mean that said choice of actions will be at all pleasant/agreeable for him.
(2) Few folks are actually going "practice the Golden Rule back to you", so if you attempt to "do the right thing" and give someone what you would want if you were in his shoes, he will likely just view you as a foolish sucker and take shamelessly advantage of you --- he will simply "take, take, take" from you till he's totally drained you dry, then stomp off in a huff without even a single word of appreciation or acknowledgement, and feelinglessly look for his next naive soft-heart whom he can exploitingly victimize for his own selfsish personal gain.
by QuacksO April 5, 2019
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Bilbolous

An advanced state of literary intoxication from reading too much Tolkien.
I never cared much for Middle-Earth literature, so I dunno what others are getting so Bilbolous about.
by QuacksO June 16, 2018
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Acapolka

A southern-Mexican city on da Gulf Coast where they do lots of lively fast-paced dancing.
If you wanna really fit in during festival time in Acapolka, be sure to first drink plenty of coffee in Missizippy, so dat you'll have lots of frenzied energy and stamina for da infamously-fast-paced Spanish dances.
by QuacksO April 10, 2023
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deeceetful

Less-than-honest descriptions/assertions about an electrical power-supply that is supposed to produce "dee-cee" (i.e., direct current), but is in fact just a simple "ay-cee" (i.e., alternating current) transformer, with no costly diodes or capacitors included inside.
Some companies are deeceetful in their manufacturing of plug-in wall-power-packs for consumer electronics --- rather than using a "square-group" of four diodes to make a proper full-wave rectifier, they just stick a single diode in there to make a crude half-wave rectifier, which not only produces a lot more hum and much "choppier" DC voltage, but also utilizes less than half the current-output of the transformer.
by QuacksO November 17, 2019
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