QuacksO's definitions

cost 'n' puffer

Da super-economizing version of "cough 'n' sputter"; da term is formed by simply swapping a few letter-sounds around --- i.e., "coST 'n' PuFFer" instead of "coFF 'n' SPuTTer" --- and describes how you can save gas on a car-trip during fairly good weather when you wouldn't be excessively discomforted by "hoofing it" part of the way. So, rather than expensively travelling to each and every place on your errands-list by noisily chugging all around town in your ancient fuel-swigging auto-bubble with its clunky worn engine that misses and backfires a lot, you instead park at various spots along your travel-route and then wheezingly galumph around to your different "side-destinations" if they're not too far away and you won't have anything bulky/heavy to carry to/from said locales.

A large simple-design day-pack and a comfy pair of jogging-shoes are wise choices if you plan to make a "cost 'n' puffer" road-trip. One or more pullover hoodie-jackets and/or a sun-hat would be wise accessories, as well, if it's gonna be blazingly-bright, chilly, or windy that day.

by QuacksO April 17, 2020

whirlwind romance

What Bill and Jo shared while chasing tornadoes in "Twister".

Let's hope dat Bill and Jo truly had strong enough feelings for each other to still wanna stay married even after da excitement of their whirlwind romance had subsided.

by QuacksO February 18, 2021

endorcrine

A bodily hormone-producing system in Ewoks.

The Ewoks were super-effective allies for the Rebel forces, so perhaps da endorcrine does wonders for da physical and cognitive abilities of said pint-sized furballs.

by QuacksO January 11, 2025

c-weed

Not to be confused with "ocean vegetation", this is a code-word for marijuana --- i.e., "c" weed, with "c" standing for "cannabis".

It's widely known that many commercial fishermen bring in "something other than fish" during many of their offshore hauls; to both avoid arousing suspicion among the authorities AND secretly convey to their cohorts that they "have the goods", they claim to be hauling "c-weed" as a side-business to their regular Pisces/crustacean-based harvesting.

by QuacksO February 18, 2022

limplications

Hinted assertions conveyed by a guy due to da fact dat he cannot "get it up" in a particular situation.

Unattractive chicks may have to deal with frequent limplications of a lack of interest when seeking intimacy from a lot of their male associates.

by QuacksO November 3, 2022

Peter, Peter, popcorn-eater

A modern-day descendant of the famous Cinderella's-carriage-recycler, this shameless freeloader-dude scuttles around to all da local banks --- even the ones that he doesn't have an account with --- on Fridays, when they offer free bags of salt-buttered popcorn.

Peter, Peter, popcorn-eater
Skips a meal; no tummy-cheater
He takes two popcorn-bags (don't tell)
Then fills his stomach very well.

by QuacksO July 6, 2018

retina fatigue

Where just **looking** at a task makes you tired, before you even attempt to actually exert any physical effort to perform said task.

During an after-school visit with my teenage "horse girl" chum, she had unwisely played afternoon-volleyball with her fellow high-school-girl students at the gym, even though she had a whole trailer-load of hay-bales parked in her family's driveway to unload and put away in the barn. So when we got back to her house and her weary brown eyes first caught sight of said heaped flatbed, she just kinda stood there and stared glumly at the cart with a helpless feeling of major retina fatigue... after all that strenuous sports-exertion that she'd just put out, she rrrreeeeeaaaallllyyyyy didn't feel up to lugging dozens of ponderous weighty hay-bales twenty yards from the wagon to the barn-loft! So we compromised --- I carried the bales from the cart to the barn, and she put them away. She "paid" me for my labors with a warm grateful hug each time I brought a bale to her, and then afterwards she sat wif me on the couch and let me give her a nice long foot-rub.

by QuacksO April 15, 2019