digital detox

Avoiding digital activities such as checking your phone and logging into facebook for a meaningful period of time, usually the length of a vacation.

To improve creative thinking and concentration my doctor ordered a digital detox.

by quesondriac August 28, 2013

Keep Close to the Willows

An Ozark verb meaning to be cautious. Conservative. Modest. Taken from a phrase used while skinny dipping in a willow bordered creek.

Keep close to the willows when you deal with a backstabbing gossip.

by quesondriac June 25, 2010

quiet room

A room where one can talk freely without being recorded

or held accountable for what he says.

Mitt Romney talks about wealth disparity in quiet rooms.

by quesondriac July 21, 2012

Pente

A strategy board game that is a variation of Gomoku. Pente was invented in 1977 on checkerboard table cloths at a Pizza parlor in Stillwater, Oklahoma called the Hideaway. The object is to place 5 stones in a row or capture 5 pairs of your opponents stones.

While waiting for my pizza I learned how to play Pente. Thirty years later I still have not mastered it.

by quesondriac August 12, 2010

Neustadt International Prize for Literature

The Neustadt International Prize for Literature is a biennial award for literature sponsored by the University of Oklahoma and its international literary publication, World Literature Today. It is widely considered to be the most prestigious international literary prize after the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Harvard was so pissed off that OU produced the Neustadt International Prize for Literature and they didn't.

Plus, OU still has a better football team.

by quesondriac March 24, 2010

Political Calculus

What Republicans call political cost/benefit analysis. If a politician avoids political calculus on a policy or prospective bill or movement,

it means that it is unpopular. If a politician embraces political calculus, it means that it is popular.

Marco Rubio said he avoided political calculus on immigration reform because he knew his party was against it but thought the country
was for it. Double think!

by quesondriac April 15, 2013

Rick and Morty

Rick and Morty is a crazed animated Adult Swim show that features an alcoholic mad scientist (Rick)
who drags his hapless grandson (Morty) into outrageous sci fi adventures.

Rick and Morty bear some resemblance to Dr. Emmett Brown and Marty McFly from Back To The Future.

by quesondriac December 14, 2013