Definitions by Solid Mantis
Compromise
People are conditioned to compromise, and they can be unconditioned.
Compromise by Solid Mantis March 24, 2021
Compromise
If you don't want to see housing costs skyrocket to line the pockets of developers and people involved in real estate, but you prepare to compromise instead of to fight it, what do you expect to happen. They're not on your side, they're on theirs.
Compromise is a good way to lose what you have to the one trying to get you to compromise, or negotiate, and it's not good for much else. Sometimes you have to fight something in order not to lose everything, otherwise people assume you took what you lost for granted, even if you didn't.
Compromise by Solid Mantis March 24, 2021
Mountains
Some people make it their life's mission to move them. Does Lindsay or Jasper riding in to town on a high horse cause most people to start looking over their shoulders, or do they say Oh, that's just Lindsay or Jasper riding in?
It turned out the one saying he/she could move mountains wasn't really someone of unlimited power and toughness, his name was Jasper, and her name was Lindsay. They lived next door to you as kids.
Mountains by Solid Mantis March 24, 2021
V shaped guy
V shaped guy by Solid Mantis March 24, 2021
Mayberry by the sea
People from Mayberry don't know they are from Mayberry. You never sea a beach in Mayberry, which is why there's no Mayberry by the sea anywhere.
Mayberry by the sea by Solid Mantis March 23, 2021
Mayberry by the sea
There's no such place, oceanfront property is too expensive to be anywhere near Mayberry. You also don't see the time and temperature displayed outside the bank in a coastal California coastal city like you would in Mayberry. San Diego isn't New York or Tokyo, but it isn't Mayberry either.
Mayberry by the sea wouldn't be in California if there was such a place. California is nothing like Mayberry. Back in the late 1930s it might have been more like Mayberry than it is now, but not today. Really though, nowhere west of Oklahoma is much like Mayberry, it's a different world.
Mayberry by the sea by Solid Mantis March 23, 2021
Mouse girl
A female that roots for the gangs when they triumph, and becomes a gangbuster if somebody defeats the gang, that way she gets credit either way for not being one of the losers like the boys.
The mouse girl was always looking to turn males into mice so she wouldn't end up a mouse by herself.
Mouse girl by Solid Mantis March 23, 2021