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hynesight

What Lassie's Cockney caretaker should have had more of, so as not to get "sacked" by da Duke for being such an "utter nincompoop".
In hynesight, da Duke of Rudling should never have hired said "utter nincompoop" in da first place, given his inherent lack of learning from his past mistakes.
by QuacksO June 15, 2024
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patential

How virtuous/valuable an invention is with regards to whether you could/should officially file it so dat others cannot produce "copycat" devices.
Da term "patential" could also refer to how appealing/adorable a particular animal or fellow human would likely be to da average person, and thus how motivated da typical citizenry would be to administer gentle hand-lovies to said individual.
by QuacksO July 12, 2025
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Excaliber

A famous side-arm carried by great leaders, and which can only be removed from its holster by those worthy of its ownership.
In "The Outlaw", Pat Garrett tries to trick Billy the Kid into giving him his famous Excalibers, but ends up with just a pair of useless revolvers from which he himself had removed the firing-pins.
by QuacksO March 4, 2019
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spinach

A disgusting slimy-soggy acridly-bitter green produced by cruel-hearted farmers who smirkingly collude with equally-sadistic parents in an effort to torture our nation's youth. Same goes for broccoli, Brussels sprouts, asparagus, fiddleheads, beet leaves/stalks, and any other horridly-unappealing chlorophyll-rich garden-crap that causes otherwise-normal youngsters who are unfortunate enough to be presented with said revolting unpalatables to prematurely contemplate suicide.
There are so many alternative foods and dietary-products --- especially with modern-day knowledge/technology --- that children could be fed instead of spinach and other horrendously-yucky leafy-greens! And in any case, of course, contrary to what kiddie-health-obsessed parents try to convince their tearful little ones, it has NOT ever actually been indisputably proven that these disgusting comestibles truly "add color to your cheeks" (Who wants green cheeks?!) or otherwise create a significant improvement in every growing child's development, especially if --- again --- said youngster eats an otherwise healthful diet which avoids “junk food” and includes also-nutritious-and-much-more-palatable veggies like lettuce, peas, beans, carrots, corn, etc.. Plus his being forced to choke down such fear-of-mealtimes-producing distastefuls can also have a seriously-negative --- and completely opposite from the desired --- effect, as well... just like da proverbial child who “was drugged as a child --- my parents ‘drug’ me to church", the agonized youth may in fact NOT “learn to like it”, but will instead become so agonizingly sickened and “turned off” from "healthy eats" that he will secretly decide to totally shun any and all consumption of green vegetables just as soon as he is no longer under someone's authority, and so he therefore may eventually become a complete "meat 'n' potatoes man" with clogged arteries and a "built-in writing-desk", if ya know what I mean!
by QuacksO November 20, 2018
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frankensense

An aromatic herb dat helps "mad-scientist" doctors to behave more rationally, and to create "back from the dead" humanoids who are fairly socially-responsible and therefore don't go around terrorizing the countryside.
If Mary Shelley's "good doctor" had burned frankensense-steeped incense-sticks in his lab while creating his creature, said pieced-together primate might have turned out to be more of a "gentle beast" rather than a "monster".
by QuacksO December 13, 2019
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hypothetical generosity

The age-old "easy for you to say" confirmation that you would indeed be kind/liberal with extra resources **if you had them**.
A "classic" tongue-in-cheek reference to hypothetical generosity is related in the humorous short story "Downeast Socialism", by Maine humorist Marshall Dodge: Ethan Robay was tellin' Enoch Turner 'bout the lectshuh he'd heard Norman Thomas give about Socialism. "It's all 'bout SHARIN', Enoch --- with socialism, a fella SHAYUHS ever'thin' with his neighbuh."
"Does dat mean, Ethan, dat if you had two fahms, you'd give me one of dem?" Enoch asked.
"Ayuh --- if I had two fahms, Enoch, I'd give you one of them," Ethan replied.
"And does dat also mean, if you had two hay-rakes, you'd give me one of dem, too?" Enoch puhsisted.
"Yuh --- if I had two hay-rakes, I'd give you one of them," Ethan confirmed.
Enoch cocked his nose a might and flashed Ethan a crafty smirk. "And if you had two **hogs**, Ethan --- would you give me one of DEM??"
"DANG you, Enoch --- you KNOW that I **got** two HOGS!"
by QuacksO November 2, 2018
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CLEPtomania

A "sticky fingers" mental condition caused by excessive participation in the College Level Examination Program.
In the Red Green Show, the perpetually-on-parole petty-larceny-criminal Mike Hamar claims to have been well-educated in certain subjects; I wonder if this is why he has a serious case of CLEPtomania???
by QuacksO September 6, 2020
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