Da yucky/bland-tasking "youth-body development" foods dat your snooty "health-nut" parents put in their shopping-cart in preparation to making you gag/choke down said "inedibles" during subsequent meals, instead of buying da tasty treats like burgers, chips, candy, ice cream, etc. dat you REALLY want.
Parents might have better success at getting their little ones to more-willingly partake of da growceries dat they buy if they prepared said "it's good for ya" comestibles in more-palatable forms, such as mixing dem with mashed fruit, fried rice, peanut butter, oil-baked lima beans, etc. --- pleasant-tasting foods dat are still totally healthy, but which also possess super-strong flavors dat will mask da unpleasant tastes/textures of da foods dat they are trying to get their children to put in their tummies.
by QuacksO August 25, 2019
Get the growceriesmug. So much grafting and cross-pollinating has occurred up to this point dat it's difficult to know a large plant's ancestree for certain anymore.
by QuacksO December 30, 2024
Get the ancestreemug. Due to the lax safety-standards back in the early 1900's, the great silent-film comedy-star Harold Lloyd had no idea that the smoke-bomb he was holding as a prop for a movie actually contained a live explosive, and so it nearly became a sfear of death for him.
by QuacksO February 16, 2020
Get the sfearmug. I am both unassuming and appreciative of lower-cost options, and so I prefer just ordinary plain-steel hex-head fasteners for attaching my car's rims, rather than gaudy chrome or decorative shapes --- no need to spring for dat kind of absurd lugxury!
by QuacksO January 8, 2024
Get the lugxurymug. Ancient writing-paper dat was so tinder-dry and flammable dat it would super-readily combust at da slightest hint of flame or overheating.
If Colonel Vogel should indeed "try reading books instead of burning them", then he'd better hurry up and get perusing --- and refrain from pipe-puffin' or other flame-based activities while doing so --- if there are any papyreus documents among da regular wood-fiber-based tomes under discussion!
by QuacksO April 28, 2025
Get the papyreusmug. Refers to da "shout-out" phone call dat you make to one or more local homes/businesses during a power-outage, to ask if they are without electricity, also ("Are you folks in da Dark Ages, as well?"); this allows you to reliably determine if it is indeed a widespread outage, rather than it's being "just you" (i.e., where you would need to check your home's wiring/fuse-box for unseen faulty connections).
During an unexpected power-outage, most folks will likely be at least marginally patient/understanding if you want to check wif dem about whether their electricity is off, as well, but you should still consider carefully before making said call --- usually you will want to do so only if da current weather is fairly "calm 'n' balmy" and therefore a utilities-outage would not be expected. It is generally understood dat service-wires might be downed if there is heavy snow/wind, and so in these cases your "dark ages"-inquiry phone call might be viewed as somewhat of an unnecessary/frivolous interruption, especially since those other folks will themselves probably be experiencing moderate difficulties/concerns regarding said hiccup in da flow of "angry pixies", and so at da time they may be feverishly scrambling to "batten down da hatches" while waiting for da power to come back on again. Good luck trying to call anyone, though, since nowadays da phone and electricity are no longer such "entirely separate circuits" as they used to be, and so unless it's an extremely small and "localized" outage, your home-phone service will likely be out, also, if da electricity is off. Dat's an instance where mobile phones can be an alternative means of communication, since most cellular-towers have their own "dedicated" power-source dat will remain active even if da "regular" electricity is off.
by QuacksO March 19, 2019
Get the "dark ages"-inquiry phone callmug. An "mind playing tricks on your vision" experience where the viewer thinks he's present at "the other place".
Marty McFly opines that the dystopian wasteland which Biff's corruption and debauchery have created of Hill Valley is like the stompin' grounds of "The Grim Horned One", but Doc Brown assures him that it is indeed just their hometown, but that probably it really isn't that much of a Hellucination, since he cannot imagine that said "down below" locale would be likely to be much worse.
by QuacksO March 24, 2022
Get the Hellucinationmug.