Refers to the (unfortunately very-seldom-practiced!) consideration of using a separate hand-held rubber eraser --- or at least to slip on one of those much-longer-lasting wedge-shaped "supplementary" eraser-caps if you know you'll be doing a lot or error-expunging --- to clean most of your mistakes instead of just mindlessly consuming your pencil's minuscule built-in eraser, so that you don't wear da entire 0%!$&#@ eraser clear down to the metal ferrule before the pencil's even been "sharpened away" much at all, causing any unfortunate person who subsequently attempts to use said pencil to not have any eraser left for "emergency" erasures (i.e., where he needs to make a quick correction in a tense/flurried situation, like trying to hastily jot down a phone number or address, or to quickly fill out a form where neatness is a must). It helps eliminate waste, as well --- think how many still-perfectly-usable pencils (i.e., they still have most of their "length" remaining) likely get discarded just because their erasers are worn down.
I always bring along a few pencil cap erasers in my purse, since I know how few people actually practice pencil-eraser etiquette, and so oftentimes the only pencils that will be lying around for people to use will not have any eraser left.
P.S. There's also such a thing as "pencil-POINT etiquette --- if ya wear down the lead in a "public" pencil, such as a string-tethered one for a "customer comments" notes-box, practice a little fellow-human consideration by scraping away a bit of the wood at the tip to expose a little of the graphite core again (here's where always carrying a small pen-knife --- or even better, one of those tiny two-finger-grip "dog-bone" or "hourglass" style sharpeners --- can come in handy), so that da next patron who wishes to fill out a store-satisfaction card can have enough of a point on da pencil to actually do so!
P.S. There's also such a thing as "pencil-POINT etiquette --- if ya wear down the lead in a "public" pencil, such as a string-tethered one for a "customer comments" notes-box, practice a little fellow-human consideration by scraping away a bit of the wood at the tip to expose a little of the graphite core again (here's where always carrying a small pen-knife --- or even better, one of those tiny two-finger-grip "dog-bone" or "hourglass" style sharpeners --- can come in handy), so that da next patron who wishes to fill out a store-satisfaction card can have enough of a point on da pencil to actually do so!
by QuacksO November 17, 2018
Get the pencil-eraser etiquettemug. Da "medical treatment" dat Jill received atop da hill from her weed-bleary male companion dat involved da insertion of his "probing device" into her "nerve center".
Due to Silly Jill's having "forgotten her pill", da gleeful "jackupuncture" dat said "high" female received from her pot-gathering colleague turned out to be "childish behavior".
by QuacksO February 08, 2023
Get the jackupuncturemug. Refers to a "totally hands-on" method of getting acquainted where a beamingly-sociable person immediately arms-wraps and majorly "retains" da person whom he's meeting for da first time, prompting said immersively-embraced individual to eventually address da third person who had presumably been gonna introduce da two of them "normally", and meekly inquire, "Who's hugging me?"
Note to all of you eagerly-forward glad-handers out there: while it's often true dat employing da w.h.m. introduction method may indeed be delightful and jovial, please bear in mind dat not everyone has da self-confidence or relaxed personal-boundary perimeters dat you yourself may possess. So to avoid anyone's feeling bashful or "smothered", ya might wanna either (1) initially just extend yer arms tentatively towards da other person to see if he seems comfy wif it, or (2) include da third individual --- i.e., da one who was gonna introduce you to said huggee --- in said stupendous-squeezy, so dat it's more of a "group hug" thing where da not-yet-introduced person won't feel "vulnerable" or "singled out".
by QuacksO February 28, 2025
Get the w.h.m. introductionmug. Preposterous male-related status.
by QuacksO April 05, 2025
Get the absirredmug. Refers to where two people lie on their sides and snuggle up to a third person, either to help said "monkey in the middle" feel warm and/or reassured, or because they both like the person a lot.
A cute gal can save a bundle on heating-oil if she just invites a couple of warm-hearted guys over to sandwich-spoon with her on any night when it's a bit chilly.
by QuacksO November 16, 2018
Get the sandwich-spoonmug. That may be so, but is said window actually **open** for you to "acceptably" pass through it, or do you hafta BREAK THE GLASS to get in? Figurative speech, of course --- what it means, obviously, is that not every opportunity you may encounter was meant to be taken, ya know --- just because you CAN do something self-enriching doesn't mean that you SHOULD... for example, if someone has accidentally revealed a "privileged" tidbit of information, that is **not** implied or actual permission for you to utilize said info for your own benefit! Or maybe someone did indeed unknowingly leave something of value just lying around, but that doesn't give you the right to simply take it! Before you just "go grabbing" in cases like this, pause a moment to run the idea though your "Golden Rule analyzer" --- in other words, consider if this would really be fair to everyone involved, especially if you have no quarrel or resentment against said careless person, and therefore you would not be inclined to perform vengeful actions against him! And ask yourself what YOU would want done in an instance like this if YOU had been the one who had inadvertently exposed himself to possible loss or humiliation like this... would you want someone else to just gleefully avail himself of said "blood-opportunity", or would you strongly prefer an observer to just promptly inform you of your error so that you could hastily correct it???
Some repairmen had unwittingly neglected to observe a loose door-latch on a side-entrance to a public-assembly building that I had always enjoyed visiting, and so my initial knee-jerk reaction was to think, "I see a window of opportunity!" in that this unsecured door meant that I could secretly access said meeting-house whenever I wished, even when it was locked up. But then I remembered how kind and generous and accommodating the officials of said establishment had always been to me, and so I forlornly forfeited said "wonderful option" and "did the right thing" instead --- I immediately speed-waked downtown and informed one of the community's seniors about the defective lock. He was extremely grateful to me, warmly praised me for my conscientiousness, and even graciously gave me one-time permission to utilize said unsecured door to slip back inside the now-closed building and finish making a movie ("You may even turn some lights back on to brighten up the room enough for your camera!") of the hall's delightful interior furnishings, even though it was technically "after hours" and so nobody else was there.
by QuacksO September 12, 2019
Get the I see a window of opportunitymug. A better name for what playing Powerball or Megabucks actually ends up being 99% of the time... if you ever win at all, it's generally just a LITTLE money, not a LOT. :P
If they'd call it a LITTLEry instead of a LOTtery, that would be more honest advertising for the vast majority of the players; it's said that your more likely to get struck by lightning that win the big jackpot.
by QuacksO October 22, 2020
Get the littlerymug.