Gone With The Wind is chock-full of sordid drama and intrigue; many of the tale's characters behave very selfishly and irresponsibly, and are appallingly vengeful whenever things don't go their way. So to lessen my own chances of encountering "rhettaliation" from arrogant folks like this; I try my best to always behave myself and not offend anyone.
by QuacksO June 20, 2023
Get the rhettaliationmug. Rampant in "chain of command" situations --- especially the military and "mega-biz" establishments --- whereby everybody wants to push underlings around but then hastily "passes the buck" and claims ignorance/innocence when things go sour. Refers to the deplorable practice of an arrogant/dictatorial/irresponsible/ignorant a**h**e with way too much power ("authority") giving unwise/ineffective/counter-productive orders to one or more hapless underlings, brusquely refusing to listen to their urgently-beseeching appeals about the fallacy/unfairness/danger of proceeding as he told them, but then suddenly shedding all knowledge/responsibility (i.e., not admitting that he was indeed the "author" of those crazy stipulations) regarding said preposterous directives whenever s**t hits the fan afterwards as a result of his subordinates' having reluctantly-but-obediently carried out his unwisely-mandated actions.
I long ago decided to not just blindly/arbitrarily follow orders/rules/laws, no matter what position or experience or education/training that their "authors" happened to supposedly possess... I **always** use my own judgement/conscience in all my actions. Too many times in the past, I've gotten in knee-deep doo-doo MYSELF for someone else's screw-ups in reasoning/planning, only to have said "idiot in power" pull da ol' "ghost writer" AUTHORity trick on me, never admitting or even falsely denying ever having told me to proceed that way, just so that HE would not have to suffer any of the fallout from his own preposterous directives.
by QuacksO August 25, 2018
Get the "ghost writer" AUTHORitymug. Refers to where two or more individuals work together to properly ferment milk into a thickened state in preparation to creating yummy "curds 'n' whey"-type dairy-products like yogurt, cottage cheese, sour cream, etc.
I love to hang out with my Amish neighbors on Thursdays when they gather in one of their kitchens to make their creamy-milk delicacies to sell at our town's Saturday farmer's-market --- what a delightful clabberative effort it is!
by QuacksO July 07, 2018
Get the clabberative effortmug. Merely receiving a memo dat you've been picked to be town-manager is nothing to get a bleepin' mayorgasm about... there may be little or no actual prestige with said lofty position, plus it may be a difficult and thankless job, to boot --- "with great power comes great responsibility"!
by QuacksO January 24, 2022
Get the mayorgasmmug. What Bert and Marshall Dodge should have done instead of setting out in da "Bluebird" on dat fateful day, when said fishing boat --- due to da entire area's being totally cloaked in one of Coastal Maine's infamous atmosphere-at-maximum-humidity intervals --- had its unfortunate encounter with da the irresponsibly-speeding-in-zero-visibility steamer "Bangor Packet".
I don't mind sailing in light mist, but when it gets to "thick-as-pea-soup" conditions, fogeddaboudit!
by QuacksO January 03, 2024
Get the fogeddabouditmug. Someone who obsessively collects antique glass bottles in the hope that there may be a genie in one of them.
Guy #1: Zheesh, dude, look at all those colored glass bottles sitting in the windows of that old fart's mansion. Must be a thousand of them!
Guy #2: Yeah, bud; weird, huh? Must be a genieologist.
Guy #2: Yeah, bud; weird, huh? Must be a genieologist.
by QuacksO February 23, 2012
Get the genieologistmug. X-on is all in support of powering vehicles with oilternative energy sources; that doesn't leave many cost-effective options, though. Solar and electric are too cheap and long-lasting to allow for the windfall profits that Big Biz wants.
by QuacksO May 31, 2018
Get the oilternative energymug.