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explanation is joke murder 

If you have to explain it; it's not that funny.
I'm not going to tell you why Sam is like a broken stoplight. Explanation is joke murder.

Fish-Explaining 

Fish-Explaining
(Verb)

1.
Speaking quickly and without articulation and with great enthusiasm.
2.
Speaking to someone in a language they do not understand- with great enthusiasm.
3.
Enthusiastically speaking without truly communicating anything, oftentimes in reference to a political speech.
1.

After Mitt Romney’s televised speech I couldn’t help but feel that the whole thing had been little more than Fish-Explaining. There had been a lot of enthusiastic buzz-words but little had been actually communicated.

2.
My mother-in-law forgot for the moment that I did not speak any Turkish. After she finished excitedly saying whatever it was she was saying I could only ask her what all her fish-explaining had been about.

3.
The baby was incapable of speaking English but that didn’t stop him from enthusiastically telling anyone who would listen about the fish he was pointing at when visiting the New England Aquarium. I smiled at his gibbering antics- this was true fish-explaining.
Fish-Explaining by turtle poison September 15, 2012

monkey explanation

Person 1: why can’t we just print more money?
Person 2: Monkey explanation: Monkey 1 have 10 banana and monkey 2 have 2 banana monkey 1 rich monkey 2 poor, if tribe give monkey 2 10 banana, no rich monkey, no poor monkey, banana no value :(

explanation mark 

something coming out of the mouth of someone not familiar with the word exclamation mark or not knowing how to pronounce it properly
Guy A: Oh, this food is horrible! I hate our school meals, exclamation mark!

Guy B: Yeah, and it is getting worse...

Guy C (stupid): Haha, yeah! Explanation mark!
explanation mark by NattiW December 22, 2010

explanational 

1. often mistaked for explainable
2. used by people in essays for some strange reason
this word is not explanational
explanational by Marn474 December 15, 2008

explamation

"The oven is beeping because the cookies are done!", was her explamation.