Excusion

The act of using confusion as an excuse to not perform work.

Often used on backshift in Naval shipyards

"Hey, did Bob get that job done last night?"
"No, he was confused by step 1.0 in the procedure so he didn't get started."
"Bob always using the excusion technique to sit on his ass all night" *shaking head

by Dizzzy2020 September 06, 2020

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Excusions

An excuse disguised as a solution

It seems today all we get is deception, lies, lip service and excusions from our elected officials.

by MixedUp January 24, 2022

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Bucket Excuse

An excuse that has been used so many times that nobody believes it anymore. It's no good, so you throw it in the bucket with all the other worn-out excuses.

Parent: Have you done your homework yet?
Kid: I can't find it. It must have fallen out of my backpack.
Parent: That's the third time you've used that excuse! Throw that bucket excuse in the bucket and get your homework out!

by BlahBlehBloop February 25, 2023

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Maine state-capital excuse

"Augusta". Used to absolve someone of blame for assorted objects' being messily scattered about.

Da classic "Maine state-capital excuse", in knock-knock-joke form:
Knock, knock.
Who's there?
Augusta!!!
Augusta, who?
Augusta wind musta blown all those things around --- I never touched 'em.

by QuacksO February 15, 2023

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