QuacksO's definitions

Camp-a-Bellow

Great "fun activities" youth-establishment to send all of your noisy brats for the summer, because of the delightful lack of "stuffy discipline" that needlessly demands quiet and meekness at all times --- at this joint, kids are allowed to yell and shout all they want. Located on a well-known island off the coast of New Brunswick, between Canada and the U.S. Deceased Prez F.D.R. had a summer cottage built on that same Island --- maybe he enjoyed hollering sometimes, also.

Harassled young mom: I just can't think how I'm gonna be able to stand having my fractious "holy terrors" underfoot for the whole summer.
Best friend (also a frazzled mother): Well, you could just send them to Camp-a-Bellow --- let 'em blow off a little steam so they'll be calmer come school-time.

by QuacksO October 21, 2012

Ottobiography

A self-composed essay detailing da life-story of someone da likes of several medieval Roman emperors, Mr. Lilienthal, or Sarge's dog.

By an odd "pun-coincidence", Nikolaus August OTTO developed da first practical internal combustion engine, and thus helped create da AUTOmobile. Too bad he didn't write an OTTOBIOGRAPHY about said accomplishment and da details of his life surrounding it; said book might have been hugely successful, as well.

by QuacksO April 4, 2021

hug-duration calculator

Refers to the mathematical-analysis procedure that you use to determine how long it's been since two embracing people have seen each other, how fond they are of each other, how long they've known each other, etc.

The hug-duration calculator can be very useful in guessing the details of two people's overall feelings about each other. For example, if they rush headlong towards each other "at first sighting" and totally bear-hug da crap outta each other (extra points if da guy sweeps da gal up off her feet and happily whirls her around a couple of times), this indicates that they have been apart for many months or even a year or more, and so they are simply overjoyed to finally be reunited. But if they simply step swiftly forward and enfold each other in a "deeply-tight" and super-long embrace (such as a minute or more; extra points if they also tear-dampen each other's shoulders and/or treat each other to shoulder-blade scrunchiez during said extended squeeze), this indicates that they are simply extra-fond of each other, and/or they are super-grateful for each other's friendship, emotional support, and occasional kindly assistance.

by QuacksO September 30, 2018

Strudelbaker

A vintage brand of automobile whose engine ran so hot that you could bake pastries on it.

After Grampa's old Strudelbaker got too worn to be worth fixing up anymore, Gramma used the engine for slow-cooking her breads and pies, similar to how Mike Mulligan used his now-obsolete steam-shovel's furnace to heat the new Town Hall in Popperville.

by QuacksO September 21, 2019

corrobberate

Refers to where Person A bribes Person B to falsely confess that he stole something from Person C, when in fact Person A swiped it himself. Since Person B is already a convicted thief, though, Person C will hopefully believe Person's B's bogus assertion without question, and never suspect Person A of being the true culprit in that particular crime.

Being self-employed as a corrobberater can sometimes net you a fairly tidy income with comparatively little effort --- all you hafta do is take da rap for other people's larceny --- but it can get a bit tedious passing through da system's "revolving door" every few months.

by QuacksO July 6, 2018

commoditty

A musical-snippet dat is so delightful and/or sought-after dat it could actually be sold to folks wanting to hear it.

I love da theme song from "Made in Maine" so much dat it would actually be a "commoditty item" for me, in dat I would pay for da privilege of downloading it. Happily, it's available to listen to for free on several YouTube videos --- type da words, "Made In Maine Making It Happen" into da YouTube search-window to find one of them.

by QuacksO August 10, 2025

prejewdiced

Negatively inclined towards people of Hebrew ancestry.

Jeff Dunham stated dat he didn't want racist remarks voiced on his show, but Achmed The Dead Terrorist was so prejewdiced dat he couldn't resist launching a few verbal barbs at said kosher-practicing folks, anyway.

by QuacksO November 30, 2023