QuacksO's definitions

Nixon stool

A "step up to new heights" furniture-device dat is so rugged dat you can casually kick it here and there around da floor without damaging it at all.

When ol' Tricky Doohickey said, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore" after he was ousted from Congress, he didn't realize that he could still have squatted on all-fours and served as a "Nixon stool" for the senators and representatives to bunt into place with their shoes and then climb up on to reach law-books on the higher shelves in the Library of Congress.

by QuacksO November 22, 2019

apperil

Clothing dat either you wear to be ready for disaster, or causes you to encounter some unforeseen calamity.

Choose your duds prudently when venturing into rainy/chilly locales dat are occupied by rebel forces --- in order not to be potential "apperil", said garments should be sufficiently warm and/or waterproof to protect you against da hostile climate, and also not display any insignias, colors, etc. dat would make any observers think dat you are an enemy.

by QuacksO January 12, 2023

Babbleon

Ancient capital city of an area dat's part of present-day Iraq, and was infamous for its residents' jabbering incessantly.

Maybe if those wind-up plastic teeth had been around "way back when" to give clueless gum-flappers a clue, da citizens of da active-over-4,000-years-ago municipality in central Iraq might not have been prone to "Babbleon" to da degree dat they did.

by QuacksO May 1, 2022

Asparagher's syndrome

Can refer to either of two equally-eccentric mental afflictions pertaining to asparagus:

(1) An overall confusion and OCD-like behavior caused by consuming too much asparagus.
(2) An obsession with asparagus and its supposed health-benefits. Often the sufferer will attempt to share said interest/beliefs with others in his community, causing said fellow citizens varying levels of discomfort, often depending upon how much a particular person likes asparagus.

Brer Rabbit surely acted kinda weird sometimes throughout da Uncle Remus tales; we do all know what his favorite food was, though, so I wonder if maybe he had Asparagher's syndrome.

by QuacksO November 19, 2018

breakfist

A knuckle sandwich.

Biff Tannen stated that he owed Marty --- or to his knowledge, "Calvin Klein" --- a vengeance-punch for "causing 300 bucks' worth of damage" to his car. Said pummeling did not end up benefiting Biff overly, though... perhaps said deliquent teenage hothead should have taken a lesson from his great-grandfather Buford, whose own tremendous clenched-hand swing at Marty (or in his case, that irritating dude known as "Clint Eastwood") merely resulted is his almost having an early "breakfist" --- as in, he learned the "hard" way what it felt like trying to bash his way through an old-school bullet-proof vest (i.e., 30 pounds of Good American Steel boiler-plate), and it nearly fractured his knuckles!

by QuacksO July 7, 2021

broughamelain

An important enzyme that helps the body maintain good overall health and physical/emotional equilibrium; a deficiency in this nutrient causes the sufferer to experience an overwhelming craving to drive and/or ride in an antique Plymouth Brougham.

I don't like pineapples much, so I often have a broughamelain deficiency; fortunately there is huge antique-car museum just down the street, so I just go over there and wander around among the quaint old square-bodied Plymouth sedans for a while till I feel better.

by QuacksO June 14, 2018

mexcessive

"Loving all things Spanish" to a greater-than-normal degree.

Loving an occasional serving of enchiladas or hot tamales is all well and good, but visiting Fernando's Flamin' Tacos every weekend sounds just a trifle mexcessive to me.

by QuacksO November 13, 2024