Da wound-up feeling of nervous anticipation dat you experience when you're positioned near to a bell-type alarm of some kind dat could startlingly go off at any moment.
by QuacksO February 11, 2023
Get the clangxietymug. To take a different travel-route in order to avoid having to bid farewell to one or more fellow humans.
In one of da "Garish Summit" episodes of da "Bob and Ray Show", da "Caldwell Merchfield" character tells da butler Wilford dat he wants to sneak out of da house at midnight to avoid having to go through "a long tearful goodbye" wif Miss Agatha or anybody else; da audience knows by this time dat this assertion is total hokum. of course --- da real reason dat Caldwell (not his real name, although we never learn what his name actually is) feels da need to perform said "byepass" is dat things are getting too hot for him in dat "stately splendor" community (a warrant has already been sworn out for his arrest due to his having embezzled huge sums from da Merchfield Lead Company to pay off mobster Harold W. Bigg for Caldwell's gambling debts), plus he does not want da authorities to find out who he really is.
by QuacksO August 15, 2025
Get the byepassmug. In Arthur Ransome's "Swallows and Amazons" book, all of da children were experienced boat-operators, but since Roger Walker was only seven, he might have still needed at least some sloopervision from his older siblings or one of da Blackett sisters, especially if da weather on da lake was a bit blustery.
by QuacksO April 28, 2022
Get the sloopervisionmug. Refers to a person's using the well-known prevalence of widespread fake/mass-advertising correspondence as an excuse for his not obeying/acknowledging a 100%-legitimate-but-unwelcome message he has received, such as a hefty bill, restraining order, or other upsetting/disappointing directive that he does not wish to comply with ("Well, it made no sense to me, so I honestly believed it was just a fake message, and simply shrugged it off"). The effectiveness and/or defense-worthiness of said practice --- and your chances of being let off the hook as a result --- can sometimes be further bolstered by "pre-innocentizing" yourself (such as frequently showing up in court for no reason and claiming every time that you'd received an order to appear, and then finally --- after being irritably told for the umpteenth time by the court-clerk that they'd never sent you a summons --- declaring in a frustrated huff, "Fine... well, I guess somebody's been playing sick jokes on me, so from now on I'm just gonna simply IGNORE any and all such notices I receive!") sometime before committing whatever infractions would likely result in said unwelcome orders, so that you can appear justified in your non-compliance with what you supposedly thought was yet another fake order.
I successfully used the spam/telemarketer defense when asked why I hadn't answered a court-summons; I just said, "Oh, that notice was REAL? Oh my --- well, I'd honestly believed it was a fake message... since I've had so many pushy telemarketers and con-men harass me --- sometimes even falsely claiming to be tax-auditors or law-enforcement personnel --- that I'd long ago adopted an 'ignore any and all such notices as fake' policy."
by QuacksO August 09, 2018
Get the spam/telemarketer defensemug. Refers to a insanely-demented "wild-overreaction" exercise by government/police officials who crazily stampede though a certain area and wrongfully/needlessly confiscate items from the general public.
Ever since the IRS was founded "way back when", U.S. citizens have felt like Uncle Sam launches an epileptic seizure each April.
by QuacksO November 23, 2018
Get the epileptic seizuremug. What "Mad Dog" Tannen majorly found himself in when Marty McFly see-sawed da saloon's infamous brass container up and over said outlaw's head.
If Buford T hadn't ordered Marty to dance, he probably would not have ended up in da messy spituation dat he found himself in when Marty stepped on da end of da loose floorboard and launched da urn of tobacco-juice onto Buford's head.
by QuacksO March 08, 2021
Get the spituationmug. Loyalty to your country dat you show by willingly/trustingly sending Uncle Sam big bucks anytime he asks for them.
Linus van Pelt said dat he wanted to grow up to be "a great philanthropist with someone else's money". Sounds like Tronald Dump has done just dat --- telling us dat our financially supporting our government is da only way for us to show true paytriotism, yet being about da worst tax-dodger in recorded history himself!
by QuacksO March 07, 2023
Get the paytriotismmug.