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A sarcastic term for someone's making too big a deal out of something, either by verbosely crowing about it or by asking others to show excessive attention/respect to said trivial matter/object.
So you got an acceptance-letter from the local community-college --- like, wow! --- those enrollment-desperate academic honchos will take just about anyone, so it's really no significant praise or great honor directed your way. Whatcha gonna do with the letter --- frame it and hang it on the wall?!??
by QuacksO December 29, 2019
Get the frame it and hang it on the wall mug.Da Emerald-City-based medical-doctor genius whose primary prowess was helping all of da Gillikins, Munchkins, Winkies, and Quadlings with urinary issues. Dat's why da Wicked Witches of da East and West didn't like him, since his legitimate practice was cutting into their own quack-a-mamie business of selling magic spells and potions to supposedly cure illnesses.
Da Wonderful Whizzard of Oz
Retired from practice because
With modern medical science
To most of his clients
He wasn't da whiz dat he was.
Retired from practice because
With modern medical science
To most of his clients
He wasn't da whiz dat he was.
by QuacksO January 1, 2020
Get the Whizzard of Oz mug.If befriending hippie-types is what floats yer boat, then attending a treevival gathering might be right up yer alley.
by QuacksO April 28, 2025
Get the treevival gathering mug.The total bu**s**t "comparison of status/condition" images that supposedly show how much someone/something has been improved by your advertised products/services/philosophies. Often the "after" photos will have been re-touched to make the "result" look far better than it actually was, or the two sets of photos have merely been "switched" --- i.e., the "before" photos are actually of the deplorable/decrepit way that the person/object **presently looks**, and the "after" photos show how the person/object looked BEFORE you started messing around with your precious quackola "treatments" or "improvements"... in other words, the situation is EVEN WORSE OFF NOW THAT YOU'VE PRACTICED YOUR ADVERTISED TREATMENT, NOT BETTER!!!
This advertisement's "before and after" photos of people who were supposedly helped immensely by this fad diet certainly do look impressive at first glance, but I can't help observing that many of the people look noticeably **older** in the "before" photos... interesting...
by QuacksO November 11, 2018
Get the "before and after" photos mug.Ordering Chinese takeout delivery is too costly nowadays, but it's fun to ramenisce about da good ol' days when da whole family could inexpensively "chow down wif da chopsticks".
by QuacksO January 6, 2023
Get the ramenisce mug.Many of da newer prop-twirlers --- regardless of who manufactures them --- are "Evinpolite" models because they utilize four-stroke systems dat are both less noisy and more efficient than two-stroke versions.
by QuacksO June 27, 2025
Get the Evinpolite mug.Regretful soothing words dat you administer to someone else to supposedly make him feel better about a situation, but in reality you merely feel sorry for YOURSELF.
A classic "selfish sympathy" example, from an old "Peanuts" comic:
Schroeder, in exasperation at Lucy's pushy "over-attentiveness": Do you know what Beethoven never had?!
Lucy: What?
Schroeder, rantingly waving his arms above his head: Beethoven never had girls hanging on to his piano and bugging him about giving them presents!
Lucy, mildly shocked: He DIDN'T?! (pauses to ponder this fact) Poor Beethoven!
Schroeder, in exasperation at Lucy's pushy "over-attentiveness": Do you know what Beethoven never had?!
Lucy: What?
Schroeder, rantingly waving his arms above his head: Beethoven never had girls hanging on to his piano and bugging him about giving them presents!
Lucy, mildly shocked: He DIDN'T?! (pauses to ponder this fact) Poor Beethoven!
by QuacksO March 8, 2023
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