What with digital watches and other such electronic seconds-counters, wind-up timepieces have gradually faded into antickuity.
by QuacksO November 06, 2024
Being an old hand at producing questionable-at-best accounts of reaching famous hard-to-access locales.
Traveling to da North or South Poles is very difficult and requires an extensive knowledge of many factors if you want to actually be successful, but you still hafta be quite expearyenced if you wanna even convincingly fake having reached one of said snowy destinations.
by QuacksO April 07, 2024
A hay-farmer's assistant who wraps securing-twine around bricks/rolls of dried alfalfa as they are made.
Now that machinery gathers and processes hay in one single operation, the job of the bale bondsman is largely a thing of the past.
by QuacksO August 31, 2018
James Bond's "alphabetical-letter coded" secret-agent partner from Moscow who often assists Thang Q --- another of 007's courtesy-and-manners-steeped fellow agents --- with diplomacy and other politeness-related matters.
James Bond: This martini is perfect and just the way I like it --- shaken, but not stirred.
Agent #1: Thang Q.
Agent #2 (covering for 007, who did not hear Agent #1's appreciative reply because he has already wandered off to mingle with other dignitaries in the party-throng): Yuri Welk M.
Agent #1: Thang Q.
Agent #2 (covering for 007, who did not hear Agent #1's appreciative reply because he has already wandered off to mingle with other dignitaries in the party-throng): Yuri Welk M.
by QuacksO April 24, 2020
What an ex-squatter blubberingly claims to be after getting thrown out of a residence dat he has no legal right to occupy.
Tronald Dump squallingly claims to be an evictim of shoddy and/or dishonest voting-processes; whether or not it's true, however, he has no room to talk, since events leading up to his OWN election were highly questionable.
by QuacksO March 09, 2021
Da vital purpose dat da "lowly deck-swabs" provide on da ship's voyage, and dat they would appreciate their superiors' acknowledging.
Compared to many other merely-money-hungry ship-leaders of his time, Captain James Cook had a much higher regard for da health and safety of all of his subordinates, especially respecting da crewcial role of da "common sailor" members.
by QuacksO November 17, 2023
A "fellony" can also refer to someone's illegally/unethically cutting/breaking down (i.e., "felling") a tree or other vertical object. Ordinarily, a classic example of this act might be the famous (or infamous!) tale about the tomahawk-wielding young George Washington, but it turns out that this narrative was just a myth (well, I must admit that I HAD always kinda wondered how "da great G.W." could have done all the awful things he was known for --- such as wrongfully jailing farmers, and keeping and disgracefully mistreating slaves --- if he was such an "honest" and "truthful" soul as a child!)) perpetrated by an overzealous newspaper-journalist, so I guess we would need to look elsewhere for a true and valid example... maybe the funny Echo-brand chain-saw ad, where the super-excited dude was so eager to try out his new Echo chain saw that he mindlessly cut down a neighbor's tree, and then when said neighbor confronted him about it ("That's **my tree** that you just cut down!"), the imperturbable miscreant sunnily replies, "Oh, no problem --- glad to do it for ya!"
by QuacksO September 12, 2019