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from Casper the Friendly Ghost-
To make something easy to understand and comfortable(i.e., transparent and friendly) that would otherwise be difficult and scary.
Making General Relativity easy to understand by dressing up like Einstein and providing very simple and tangible examples. "I wish someone could Casperize calculus for me; I have some kind of mental block against understanding it".
the act of being sucked into a mission or endeavor wherein you are asked to go above and beyond any reasonable means of effort to carry out a random task for the purpose of assisting someone complete or finish his errand, job, duty, or chore in advancement of his personal gain. These missions/jobs/chores/errands/tasks generally involve several side missions, financial hardships, detours and more often than not take twice as long as proposed and include various parties.
I was capperized into helping move the sailboat up the river to be safe from the storm.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)