Drag-reduction technology for archers, or streamlining designed to make a vehicle "sail as fast as an arrow".
Chuck Yeager flew an experimental airplane dat employed such awesome "arrowdynamics" dat it "shot" across da sky and "pierced" da sound-barrier for da first time in history.
by QuacksO May 25, 2022
Da drag-coefficient properties of feather-tailed projectiles.
Boss Hogg's henchmen would dismissively scoff at da Duke Boys' using merely traditional Native-American weapons over their own seemingly-superior powder-and-lead firearms during wild car-chases, but they were not counting on da exceptional arrowdynamics of da Duo Cousins' projectiles, not to mention da fact dat said wooden/aluminum staffs were fitted with dynamite-sticks on their tips.
by QuacksO November 02, 2020
If Marie Skłodowska had harbored less curieosity about radium, she might not have lived such a miserable --- and tragically shortened --- life.
by QuacksO March 25, 2021
The term "pulpiteer" can also refer to one or more of the elders in a church who use their preacher as merely a "figurehead" or "mouthpiece on strings" to deceive their parishioners for their own greedy benefit and/or nefarious goals.
by QuacksO January 15, 2020
The urge to camp out in the woods for a comparatively short period of time ("TEMPorarily live in a TENT"); this feeling usually develops when your presence at home would be undesirable/inconvenient, such as when you're wanted by the cops, or your over-the-age-of-legal-adulthood status interferes with your family's receiving state/federal assistance. This craving to "rough it" is usually fairly easy to fulfill if the weather is reasonably mild, since all you'll need to adequately survive is a small tent and a few clothes and blankets and other basic accessories. Plus in most cases your house is not going to be watched 24/7, and so usually you can sneak back home for midnight visits a couple times a week to shower and replenish your food/toiletries before slinking back to your remote campsite, while still allowing your family members to truthfully tell the authorities, "Oh, he doesn't live here anymore" if they come asking about you during the daytime. And then, once the heat is off (such as when "they" eventually give up looking for you, or after the desired government-assistance is supplied), you can quietly return to your home, and then keep a fairly low profile till the community gradually becomes re-accustomed to your presence.
The regulations for low-income-family assistance are not written with human reality in mind, and so there's a lot of temptention for assistance-seekers to "remotely conceal" various family members while the eligibility-evaluation proceedings are being carried out.
by QuacksO February 15, 2017
Da "flat as da FLOOR" most-south-eastern U.S. state where everyone cluelessly "FLOORS it" like it's da Utah salt-flats!
Seeing as how da Daytona 500 is held in Floor-it-duh, it's little wonder dat said "peninsula state" has so many highballin' motorists who love to use said pancake-terrained principality as a huge racetrack!
by QuacksO February 01, 2023
"Seat type" objects like chairs, couches, sofas, etc. with slick-surfaced non-absorbent upholstery that wipes clean easily. Favored by girls and younger women during "that time of the month".
While highly desirable, period furniture is often quite expensive, so washable slipcovers can be a more-economical alternative.
by QuacksO October 26, 2018