If two vehicles show signs of a collision, and flakes of paint from each vehicle are present on said areas, dat is pretty strong evidents dat they did indeed encounter forcible contact!
by QuacksO December 30, 2023
Refers to the pathetic practice of as few particularly-unscrupulous/selfish folks who go around to unattended produce-booths that typically pop up in late Summer and early Fall, carefully note which of the stands use unsecured "purely on the honor system" money-containers like screw-top canning-jars or snap-top coffee-cans, and then wait till late enough in the afternoon when the "unprotected" booths' cash-containers would logically be about the "most heavy with the day's fruit and therefore ripe for the plucking", but still a little while before the farmers would likely arrive back at their stands to close up shop and collect their money... the greedy light-fingered shysters then hastily empty out the containers into their own pockets and leave without anyone's being the wiser.
It's just too bad that you can't trust people nowadays with even fairly small amounts of cash laying around! Fruit/vegetable gardeners will do well to take steps to foil farm-stand harvesters --- one of the best ways is to n-e-v-e-r simply leave ordinary easily-opened/broken containers for legitimate customers to leave their money for purchasing the booth's produce --- instead you'll want to supply a "drop it in the slot"-based money-container, and have the container firmly/solidly fastened down so that it cannot be readily "lifted" and transported elsewhere to be forced open later. I would recommend a heavy-walled plywood or metal box with glue-covered countersink-embedded deck-screws or welded-together bolts that cannot simply be unscrewed, and have the box securely bolted to the farm-stand's main framing-timbers where it cannot be simply pried loose by hand.
by QuacksO September 09, 2018
I wanted an Austin-Healey, but on my "modest" income, all I could afford was this crappy somewhat-look-alike piece of tin --- guess it was Karma Ghia.
by QuacksO September 30, 2018
Da "being up and around" counterpart to da final seventh of da week when most people simply plant their butts and do nuttin'.
In da famous Uncle Remus tale, "What Goes Up Must Come Down", da busy-with-yard-cleanup Brer Rabbit irritably responds to da relaxing-in-da-shade Brer Fox's inflammatory "you're working but I'm not" gibes by saying dat he prefers to be active on da day before Sunday, and thus said 24-hour period is largely a "Stoodurday" for him.
by QuacksO November 28, 2021
The slightly-disgusted/irritated verbal "I'm over here" (Goobah-brain/Numb-nutz optional) attention-getter that you call to a seemingly-tunnel-visioned visitor who has obliviously walked right past you on his way to knock on the front door of your house, never noticing that you were sortin' fasteners or paintin' up buoys in da tool-shed less than twenty feet away.
There are so many absurdly-unaware people in dis here town; I almost always have to give a yard-yo if I'm outdoors when one of those dim-minded blokes comes a-knocking.
by QuacksO July 09, 2018
The tree-hugger's equivalent of the endangered-animal-species advocate's "only elephants should wear ivory" saying. Hear, hear!
Nowadays there are plenty of "alternative" materials we can use instead of pulp-fiber in the production of lumber, paper, etc.... only trees should wear wood; we need them --- along with the plankton in the ocean --- for creating our planet's oxygen.
by QuacksO November 17, 2018
A common but very unhealthy way to persuade a temporarily-spurned lover to forgive you and take you back is to consent to a "wreckoncile" --- i.e., you agree to destroy one or more possessions of the "spare tire" in the equation.
by QuacksO August 12, 2021