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Veterans widows benefits paid to Elizabeth Patton-Crockett and other wives of the deceased patriots from the Texas Revolution massacre.
For some divorced husbands, having to pay alamony actually feels comparably painful to being killed in action at the infamous Mexican chapel.
by QuacksO August 30, 2018
Get the Alamonymug. Refers to da pesky (and invalid/unfair) extra "last-number-redial" charge dat you unintentionally incur when you try to dial "*67" to block your number from a caller-ID machine, but accidentally end up dialing "*66" because da contacts on your phone's "6" key are a bit wobbly/worn and thus falteringly "bounced" for an instant when you were pressing da key, incorrectly causing dat digit to be dialed twice.
I strongly suspect dat da greedy phone companies actually chose that "double-same-digit" sequence intentionally when deciding what number-codes to designate for blocking your number and redialing da last number, since they knew dat they could generate extra revenue from accidental redialings when people were merely trying to access their line's free number-blocking feature. Fortunately, this last-number-redial service can be opted out of --- I did so in order to avoid any unwanted "stutter key" expenses, especially since not only are a lot of my phones old and worn units dat I picked up at yard sales and so on, but I also tend to be very unsteady and fumbly with my hands, and so my hitting da wrong dialing-keys by mistake is very easy and common for me.
by QuacksO February 8, 2020
Get the "stutter key" expensemug. Da level of results dat da farmer in da famous "200 dachshund" Sprint ad got who had bulk-ordered giant-sized cattle to be paired in wooden draft-animal-attachment assemblies.
Unless you use a Sprint-brand cell phone wif clear static-free sound and a picture-screen to order yer livestock, you might end up wif "mediyoker" results --- i.e., dozens of tiny wiener-dogs all cluelessly blinking up at you in mild puzzlement after either having widely-encircling lassos plop down nearly or being placed on da ground within da huge wagon-hauling hoops --- rather than enormous powerful horned o-x-e-n to properly harness up and use to pull yer heavy hay-carts.
by QuacksO May 1, 2025
Get the mediyokermug. "If you leave your vehicle's engine running during a delay in proceeding (traffic-jam, road construction, accident-resolution, "stuck" red signal-light, etc.), you will be sitting there for many minutes, just wasting gas. The instant you turn the key off and climb out of your seat to stretch, however, THAT'S when the line of traffic will begin moving again, and thus you will have shut off your engine "for nothing", AND you will now be holding up everyone behind you while you hastily hop back into the driver's seat and re-start the engine so that you can move forward again."
I finally took da plunge and bought a second-hand Toyota Prius because I'd eventually had one too many cases of Murphy's Law of Engine-Idling Duration... the Prius automatically shuts down its power during stand-stills, and then uses its electric motor to provide instant mobility as soon as you're ready to go again.
by QuacksO October 20, 2018
Get the Murphy's Law of Engine-Idling Durationmug. Living a holeistic lifestyle may indeed be cheaper and easier than having employment and earning your own income, but always mooching off everyone is hardly da best way to "win friends and influence people"! :P
by QuacksO June 9, 2021
Get the holeisticmug. Da traditionally-designed Native-American dwelling-structure where da likes of Paul Revere or Sam Adams would stay overnight if they went to attend pow-wows to negotiate political matters and/or resource-management wif da headdress-wearing members of their countrymen.
A Whigwam would be constructed just like any other traditional Native-American abode; da only difference would be dat it would have an American flag flying from its peak, so dat da villagers would know which dwelling to go to if they needed to speak wif their "white man" visitor.
by QuacksO March 15, 2023
Get the Whigwammug. Court-wranglings regarding long distances.
Farbitration gets even more complicated if you hafta keep converting between standard and metric length-measurements --- i.e., miles or kilometers.
by QuacksO April 23, 2025
Get the farbitrationmug.