The moment immediately prior to putting the mack down where one attempts to perfect ones appearance in a subtle manner. Such as pressing ones clothing flat to remove the wrinkles, or adjusting ones hair.
ELAINE: Oh.. I got denim vest checking me out.Fake phone number's coming out tonight.
When you act like an idiot and somebody gets irrationally angry about it. The more irrationally angry, the smoother the shark.
For instance:
Man 1: "2+2 = 5"
Man 2: "You are such a fucking moron, you absolute buffoon. How can you be such an idiotic dumbass? What a fool you must be. I feel ashamed even reading this absolute failure of "math" you've disgraced this planet with. Go to hell"
Dude, shark smoothing is so fun! I shark smoothed a guy yesterday so hard his eyes were red from the frustration, and he was drenched in sweat.
When you go into a bar or club, apply superglue to where the jukebox is plugged into the wall, wait 5 mins, then max out the jukebox on continuous plays of the Rob Thomas + Santana classic collab 'Smooth' and then wait or scram depending on bravery.
Can also apply to playing the song repeatedly or DJing the song in such a way as one copy of the song is scratched in / beatmatched with another copy of the same song. The more inappropriate the social setting, the more successful the smoothing.
When EC2 Spot, Amazon's spare capacity compute at a discount, switched from bidding to max price. Cost-per-hour and instance interruptions both got smoother. Spot users were, and still are, as smooth as possible. Coined by an appreciative (and marginally hilarious) customer.
After The Smoothening, EC2 Spot customers saved even more on their cloud computing without even trying.