QuacksO's definitions

pangxiety

Being afraid of da dentist or syringe-wielding doctor.

Thanks to modern anesthetics and ultra-sharp hypodermic needles, many routine medical procedures involve little or no pain anymore, and so there is often little need to feel much if any pangxiety.

by QuacksO April 29, 2022

grassroots organization

A groups of ordinary citizens responsible for producing marijuana seedlings.

Disgusted teenager: I was invited by a local youth-counselor to join a "grassroots organization" for the "betterment of mankind", and so naturally I'd assumed that I would be helping people to cultivate a little weed for fun and recreational use. But of course it turned out to just be volunteering for boring tasks like performing community-service, scheduling and attending town-meetings, printing up and distributing petition-flyers, etc... what a letdown!

by QuacksO February 8, 2020

texcessive

What da 72-ounce steak challenge may be for some people.

Just a regular cowboy hat is plenty big enough --- a twenty-gallon model is definitely texcessive.

by QuacksO November 13, 2024

Wanna come along on some howling adventures wif me?

What you eye-twinklingly ask a buddy, infirm/elderly neighbor, cute chick, etc. when you both know dat you're merely asking said other person if he/she wants to ride along wif you on a simple shopping and/or errands-running trip into town.

Asking someone, "Wanna come along on some howling adventures wif me?" can yield benefits not just for you, but for da other person, too --- not only will he be providing you wif pleasant/entertaining companionship on your otherwise-boring-and-ordinary sojourn, but it may also allow HIM to accomplish one or more desired activities of his own while he's in said business district, such as stocking up on groceries/housewares, doing laundry, etc. Plus of course, he will be able to perform said tasks more easily, economically, safely, etc, than if he'd had to either make said "trip to da big city" all by himself, or get someone else to do it for him.

by QuacksO August 17, 2023

Murphy's Law of Gambling

"You can patronize the slots till Doomsday or buy any number of scratch-off tickets and never gain any significant winnings, but then just as soon as you stop playing, the very next player will win big."

Many an addicted gamer believes in Murphy's Law of Gambling, even though it is indeed :"all chance" and thus seldom actually works out that way.

by QuacksO September 12, 2019

roadside untwisting-stroll

Refers to a fairly-short trek dat you take along da gravel shoulder of da highway by your house while dragging a long and somewhat-twisted/kinked length of rope, wire, tubing, etc behind you; da purpose is to gently/evenly extend said cord back out and allow da"free" or "trailing" end to rotate freely and thus unwind/remove/relax any coils and other unwanted tensioning. After you have walked an appropriate distance to adequately even everything out, you then begin carefully coiling your cord over your arm while continuing to galumph along, so dat da other end of da cord will still be free to rotate, and thus your winding-motion will not create additional twisting of da cord as you reel it in.

I occasionally get an odd look or two from passing motorists while performing a roadside untwisting-stroll after using a garden-hose or extension-cord, but I have yet to have anyone actually ask me about it... I guess most folks understand dat "you gotta do what you gotta do" in a case like this, and dey figger dat "if it gets da job done, more power to ya".

by QuacksO April 29, 2019

VHS-preview

Refers to where you wish to view a certain motion-picture creation for the first time, but DVDs or BluRay disks of that title are rather pricey, and so you are hesitant to shell out that much when you can't be sure that you would even like the movie all that much, anyway. So what you do is to initially purchase a used VHS tape of said film for just two or three bucks... sure, the tape may be an old worn scratchy thing that doesn't give all that pristine a picture, but at least you will be able to view the movie and see what it's about and how good it is, and then decide if you wanna "upgrade" to a more-costly digital disc of this title.

Now that so many older movie-titles are available on YouTube and other online video-viewing sites, there is often less of a need to perform a VHS-preview of a particular movie, since you may be able to just watch it online, and thus be able to "determine for free" if you want to buy a copy of it on DVD or BluRay.

by QuacksO June 8, 2019