QuacksO's definitions

fourtunate

Lucky in some way relating to two squared.

Mushy-hearted bachelor: I'd visited a cute chick to hold hands wif her; as it turned out, I got fourtunate in dat Miss Sweetie-Pie had her blinky-eyed equally-gorgeous best friend over for a visit at da time, as well, and SHE smilingly let me clasp HER soft warm palms, also!

by QuacksO May 9, 2022

at-tract-tive

How they try to make a religious leaflet look by disguising it as a piece of paper-money.

I got so mad about --- and fed up with --- those initially-"at-tract-tive" fake ten- and hundred-dollar bills that turned out to merely be "Disappointed? You won't be disappointed if you give your life to Jesus Christ!" message-slips that I finally decided to try beating the leaflets' printers --- and God --- at their own game... I mailed a "ten dollar" (hey, I even "went easy" on them; I wasn't even greedy enough to send a C-note one!) tract back to its organization of origin and included a note that read, "I'll make a bargain with you --- if you and God/Jesus are really so gung-ho all-fired up desirous that I convert to Christianity, you send me a real ten-dollar bill as a good-faith gesture and proof that God loves me, and then I'll become a Christian for life, no matter how bad things get for me!" But of course I never heard back from them... think of that, now... for just ten bucks --- TEN MEASLY BUCKS!! --- they could have had a staunch convert to Christianity there, yet they off-handedly chose to just ignore my offer! I guess that they actually DON'T genuinely care whether I follow their faith or not, then. What a bunch of phonies!!!

by QuacksO February 7, 2020

indijestion

An upset stomach caused by excessive humor.

Indijestion can be triggered by at least two different situations, either from laughing too hard --- or for too lengthy a period --- at other people's humor, or from telling/composing your own jokes for too long a time.

by QuacksO March 11, 2018

pencil-eraser etiquette

Refers to the (unfortunately very-seldom-practiced!) consideration of using a separate hand-held rubber eraser --- or at least to slip on one of those much-longer-lasting wedge-shaped "supplementary" eraser-caps if you know you'll be doing a lot or error-expunging --- to clean most of your mistakes instead of just mindlessly consuming your pencil's minuscule built-in eraser, so that you don't wear da entire 0%!$&#@ eraser clear down to the metal ferrule before the pencil's even been "sharpened away" much at all, causing any unfortunate person who subsequently attempts to use said pencil to not have any eraser left for "emergency" erasures (i.e., where he needs to make a quick correction in a tense/flurried situation, like trying to hastily jot down a phone number or address, or to quickly fill out a form where neatness is a must). It helps eliminate waste, as well --- think how many still-perfectly-usable pencils (i.e., they still have most of their "length" remaining) likely get discarded just because their erasers are worn down.

I always bring along a few pencil cap erasers in my purse, since I know how few people actually practice pencil-eraser etiquette, and so oftentimes the only pencils that will be lying around for people to use will not have any eraser left.

P.S. There's also such a thing as "pencil-POINT etiquette --- if ya wear down the lead in a "public" pencil, such as a string-tethered one for a "customer comments" notes-box, practice a little fellow-human consideration by scraping away a bit of the wood at the tip to expose a little of the graphite core again (here's where always carrying a small pen-knife --- or even better, one of those tiny two-finger-grip "dog-bone" or "hourglass" style sharpeners --- can come in handy), so that da next patron who wishes to fill out a store-satisfaction card can have enough of a point on da pencil to actually do so!

by QuacksO November 17, 2018

payrole

(1) A probationary status at your place of employment after having been convicted of either "padding" your work-hours or periodically snitching a few bucks from da cash register to supplement your take-home pay.
(2) A probation arrangement whereby you actually get paid a wage for behaving yourself.

Since ex-cons are often automatically suspected whenever a crime occurs in their vicinity, I was glad dat my work-release-program employer was able to definitively find out dat it was one of his regular employees who had been skimming da till, so dat my clean payrole-record didn't get undeservedly tarnished.

by QuacksO August 26, 2023

impaytience

The inability to unfrettingly wait for monetary rewards.

While it's completely true that it is indeed unhealthy for everyone involved if someone cannot display a reasonable degree of calmness when having to postpone financial gain/reimbursement, the opposite "extreme" can also be used abusively, as well --- in other words, the person(s) responsible for doling out said greatly-desired funds to the aggravated-with-the-delay individual can invalidly identify the person's tearful foot-tapping as "impaytience", when in reality it HAS INDEED been an unreasonably-long period of time that said person has been waiting for his promised cash-reward, and so he could NOT reasonably have been expected to just placidly wait that long.

by QuacksO January 29, 2019

survalance

Clandestine observation of da infamous outlaw who felt at "liberty" to commit any heinous felonies he pleased.

Maybe if there had been better survalance on da character played by Lee Marvin, less bloodshed and other horrendous crime might have occurred.

by QuacksO March 10, 2023