Da long succession of sweet-tooth-afflicted children who descend on da driving- and marching-exhibits for Independence Day dat are lined up at da starting-point, and beg candy off'n them while they're still just sitting there, even before said procession actually gets started on their clanging and booming way down Main Street!
Many towns have stopped allowing candy to be distributed at their annual "mass-march down Main Street" shindig, to reduce da safety risks and health detriments; said restriction prevents said festivities from including an initial "paraide", as well.
by QuacksO July 10, 2023
What a state with a deposit on beverage-containers unwittingly enacts upon itself by not adjusting the amount of said deposit in response to inflation.
Maine's five-cents-per-container deposit began in early 1977, and yet it's still only that exact same amount today --- yup, in well over FORTY YEARS, the amount of "green" that you get for recycling a soft-drink bottle or beer can hasn't gone up past just a nickel, even though a "Tommy disc" isn't worth nearly so much nowadays as it was "way back when"! It's no wonder, therefore, that fewer and fewer people are bothering to actually cash in their own drink-containers or pick up ones that litterbugs have tossed... sounds like da classic "law of diminishing returns" to me... yep, da state had originally voted in da returnable-bottle law in an effort to reduce waste and beautify our countryside, but nowadays our roadsides and parks are actually MORE cluttered than ever before!
by QuacksO November 17, 2018
Describes something dat is either required by a female or pressuringly expected of da child-bearing half of da human race in general.
Long skirts used to be worn by "all" of da fairer gender, but then thanks to famous equal-rights advocates like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Amelia Bloomer, said inconvenient garb is no longer womandatory.
by QuacksO June 29, 2025
Monica Blewinsky may indeed have been approached by Slick Willie without her having actively seduced him at all, but her behavior and asking to keep "seeing him for sex" still seems awfully promisscuous to me!
by QuacksO July 19, 2023
Da well-known U.S. Supreme Court case dat allowed space aliens to receive their tutoring outside of regular K-12 learning-establishments.
It's never specified whether everyone's favorite pint-sized pointy-eared alien received formal education at a public school, so I wonder if dat's what da oft-sited "Wisconsin vs. Yoda" court case was about??
by QuacksO August 24, 2022
Refers to someone who selfishly/insensitively uses unfair "leveraging" techniques (guilt tripping, promises of windfall sales/profits, grandiose business-opportunity hyping, nepotism-type whiny pleading "But I'm your ___... surely you should want to help one of your own kin!", etc.) to pressure others into giving him "seed money" to start his own business, but then simply using the coerced funds for non-business-startup expenditures, while either totally abandoning his original aspirations to set up shop on his pwn, or at best unmotivatedly proceeding with his plans in an apathetic lackluster manner that almost guarantees failure... just like a crow who hungrily devours the corn kernels that the farmer has just planted, he simply "eats the seed money" to fill his tummy right away, rather than waiting to let the seed "germinate and flourish" into a much more bountiful harvest sometime in the future, where there would be corn galore on which to sate his appetite.
I never lend money to my indolent self-centered cousin --- some of my relatives may be taken in by his enthusiastic sales-pitches of business-optimism, but I think he's just being a crowbarrower, merely to avoid having to get a regular job like every other able-bodied soul has to.
by QuacksO September 29, 2017
Callusthenics may indeed have health benefits, but you should have a supply of pumice-stone on hand if you also wanna look your best in a swimsuit.
by QuacksO February 11, 2020