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What wif all da recent news of shipping-container disasters in ports and on da high seas, it appears dat there is a widespread lack of deckonomics in da water-based cargo-transporting world today!
by QuacksO February 21, 2023
Get the deckonomics mug.According to the "T2" bonus material, Robert Patrick had never handled a firearm before training for the role of the T1000; he received his Baptysm shortly after signing on to be an actor in the film.
by QuacksO October 27, 2020
Get the Baptysm mug."Plain Jane" duds.
I wanted to wear a bold flashy costume to da prom, but my snooty ultra-conservative parents made me dress in just a boring wardrab of plain shirt, pants, and shoes.
by QuacksO October 16, 2023
Get the wardrab mug.The act of not requiring someone to bid one or more other humans farewell if doing so would be too emotionally distressing. Or the uncomfortable person himself decides to just "sneak out early" before others are awake to observe his departure, so that he doesn't have to endure the whole "long tearful parting" crap that would otherwise be "socially mandatory" if the other folks knew he was leaving.
A prime example of "waiving goodbye" is related in the classic "origin of the yodel" joke: the traveler heads out "at first cock's crow" from the farmer's barn where he'd been sleeping overnight, so that there wouldn't be any embarrassing --- and possibly dangerous! --- explaining to do if the farmer's wife and/or daughter decided to do any joyful "crowing" of their own about the wonderful things that the traveler had performed with his own "cock" on them the previous evening when they had separately gone out to the barn to bring him food and wine for his supper.
by QuacksO August 4, 2019
Get the waiving goodbye mug.Due to all of the muddy and cabinet-battering misadventures that he often goes through, R2D2's beeps and trills occasionally become a bit irregular. so his vocally-emotional copper-jacketted friend performs C3PR on him to "even things out" again.
by QuacksO October 10, 2018
Get the C3PR mug.Tevye and his fellow "Yiddishmen" were so "imparverished" largely due to their obsessively following da foolish and woefully-outdated "Old Testament" ways ("Tradition!") of their equally-closed-minded-and-clueless forebears.
by QuacksO March 14, 2023
Get the imparverished mug.Ah, words --- always confusing us with their oddly-opposite-sounding constructions. Take "chagrin", for example --- it means humiliated disappointment, from which you would hardly feel like "grinning". So what would "chafrown" mean, then?
by QuacksO July 11, 2023
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