Definitions by QuacksO
Uncle Arctic
Long ago, Uncle Arctic and Aunt Arctica were married, and the world was warm all over. They eventually had irreconcilable disagreements, however, and therefore had to go their separate ways and be great distances from each other --- so far apart, in fact, that they actually retreated to opposite sides of the Earth, and so that's why it's now so cold in those areas.
Uncle Arctic by QuacksO February 18, 2019
, etc.
A wonderful "catch-all" notation that basically "lets you off the hook" and allows you to do whatever you please if all other parties involved agree to it.
One should be very wary about signing/agreeing to something that includes ", etc." at the end of a line, since this basically gives the agreement's profferer "carte blanche" or "the sky's the limit" permission to have/do whatever he/she pleases --- if someone squawks, he can always run back to that wonderful little "etc." word in da agreement and say, "Hey, you guys implied that I could do anything I saw fit, this is just one of those!"
her block
The parking-area for female employees of a multi-national tax preparation company. (Madea would go crazy trying to locate a "parkin' spot" here.)
I always see parking-spots marked "her block" outside of our local branch of a well-known tax preparation company, yet there are never any spots marked "his block"...?? I know that the company has been embroiled in multiple legal issues in recent years, so I wonder if they also practice illegal gender-discrimination in their hiring-policies?
Arkaeology
The "race to discover the Ultimate Golden artifact" endeavors that Indy and Belloq were simultaneously engaged in.
If Belloq had possessed a bit less ego and relied less heavily on his unreliable-in-their-honesty/loyalty mercenary cohorts, he might have had better success in his Arkaeology ventures.
Arkaeology by QuacksO February 17, 2019
C.O.A.L.
Stands for "coming-of-age letdown", and refers to the "deflated" feeling you get (similar to one's disappointment if Santa Claus's leaves lumps of da hard sooty black stuff in his stocking) when --- after having waited many years for your parents or other grownups to tell you things that you'd been super-curious about during your younger days --- you eventually learn that said greatly-desired information-nuggets were really nothing special or "momentous" after all; you realize right away that your having known that info "'way back when" would in fact **not** have troubled your "young mind" much if any (and certainly MUCH less than the agonies you'd suffered all those years while frettingly having to wait for your overly-protective seniors to finally "open up"! ), and so these matters could indeed have "safely" been discussed with you at the age you'd originally asked about them, or at least much sooner that whenever your tight-lipped elders chose to divulge said information to you.
An excellent example of a "C.O.A.L." moment would be learning that a "homosexual" is simply someone who prefers the same gender more than the opposite gender --- having been told that during your middle-school years would definitely not have troubled you to any significant degree, nor would you have thought/behaved/acted any differently during those "naive years" as a result of your having possessed that knowledge. And if anything, it might have even HELPED you to feel less confused and better understand a few fellow-pre-teens and adults who seemed "different", and whom you now realize were probably just gay, and so they simply didn't think or feel the same way about you as a "straight" person would have.