QuacksO's definitions

triggernometry

The advanced mathematical study of how firearms work.

High school senior: I still don't understand why the math teacher insisted that our class learn triggernometry --- I'm a staunch pacifist, so I don't even like guns; why the heck do I need to learn about 'em if the subject will never even come up in my ordinary daily life??

by QuacksO March 3, 2017

Eggenoggin Reach

A waterway in Maine's Penobscot Bay where people hold an annual sailing-regatta and swig huge quantities of traditional Christmas milk-based beverage.

I really love both watching sailing-yachts and guzzling Christmas-cordial, and so I always make a point to attend da annual festivities at Eggenoggin Reach; da only prob is dat I invariably "go overboard" at said boating-event (pun not intended, but it still works well :P), and so I end up with sunburned eyelids and a major case of eggnoggin afterwards!

by QuacksO January 8, 2020

junehem

Da next increment up in chaos from "mayhem".

If "mayhem" is proportionally before "junehem", maybe "aprilhem" is da comparatively-minor level of confused upheaval dat many of us encounter just in our everyday lives; da "Family Circus" cartoon is a good illustration of this.

by QuacksO August 26, 2025

altourneytive

A type of sports-activity other than da typical end-of-season competition-bash dat high schools typically hold.

Some sports-playing students are less physically robust than others, so they should be given an altourneytive.

by QuacksO March 1, 2023

Do you always get up this surly?

What you ask someone who is habitually snapping back at you due to his not having "slept in" long enough in da morning.

"Do you always get up this surly?"
"Yes, I actually DO --- and don't call me 'Shirley'!"

by QuacksO July 24, 2024

sabotaj

Interfering actions taken to prevent/delay da construction of a certain famous white mausoleum.

Da stunningly-beautiful temple in Agra, India has been standing for centuries, so it appears dat either no major sabotaj existed, or it was ultimately ineffective at preventing da completion of said New Seventh Wonder of da World.

by QuacksO November 2, 2025

incarserration

Slammer-time dat ya get sentenced to due to yer not having properly cut da grooves into knife-blades.

Ya can get similar-length stints at Da Crossbar Hotel if ya either neglected to form sawing-channels into tough-materials-slicing cutlery like tomato- or steak-knives, or DID grind da ol' zipper-teeth into paring- or boning-knives dat WERE NOT supposed to have them ---- either commission of serious neglect can carry some fairly-hefty incarserration, too! :P

by QuacksO January 19, 2025