QuacksO's definitions

without further adieu

Right away, and not waiting to perform any more "goodbyes".

Neighborhood grandma: In order to minimize children's sorrow at having you leave them after Saturday afternoon playtime, it's often best to just briefly say, "Bye, kids!" and then quickly shut the door without further adieu

by QuacksO January 28, 2020

Poiseiden

Da Greek god who was "toxically" severe 'n' savage when administering punishment/revenge on anyone who displeased him.

If Odysseus had just kept his big mouth shut while he and his men were escaping da cyclops, said humans might not have suffered at da hands of da furious Poiseiden!

by QuacksO January 30, 2023

insulince

Surly/abrasive/disrespectful behavior that the actor (or family/friends/associates thereof) tries to excuse/justify due to his having diabetes or hypoglycemia.

I'm all for tolerating minor-to-moderate irregularities in someone's behavior if he has a medical condition that truly prevents his being able to perform significantly better, but I tend to draw the line at insulince, especially if said misbehaver seems perfectly capable of being pleasant and agreeable when he feels like it.

by QuacksO April 10, 2019

go all Indiana Jones on me

How someone refers to another person's forcefully admonishing him to donate one or more of his prized possessions to a historical-society collection ("That beLONGS in a muSEUM!"), rather than his selfishly either hoarding it in his own private collection or (even more horrifying) selling it for personal profit.

Antiques collector: I knew that the head of the local heritage-preservation lodge was a bit fanatical about collecting and displaying vintage images and artifacts from the area, but I never expected him to go all Indiana Jones on me when I showed him my collection of old coins and arrowheads that I'd found in the area here over the years.

by QuacksO July 21, 2024

SCROTUS

Da "organ of origin" of Monica Blewinsky's infamous dress-stain --- i.e., Slick Willie's man-milk sack dat produced da messy white stuff dat Miss Luscious-Smoochy-Lips sucked out of him.

Da POTUS SCROTUS scandal was so complicated and sensational dat it took a ruling by da SCOTUS to finally quiet things down.

by QuacksO January 27, 2023

There was a long line ahead of me

Da "ultimate" in acceptable excuses for why it took you so long to finish shopping, processing'delivering bureaucratic paperwork, or otherwise conducting routine business.

Telling your having-impatiently-waited family or car-pool buddies, "There was a long line ahead of me" may indeed get you off da hook as far as their venting their seething wrath at you, but you yourself will likely find it very stressful (not to mention tiring on your achy legs and feet!) to have to cool your heels in line for so long, and so in the end you may feel similarly weakened and emotionally exhausted as you would have if you'd had to "face the music" because you **hadn't** had any plausible excuse for producing such a lengthy delay in finishing up.

by QuacksO January 18, 2020

Robbinhood

The Sherwood Forest area, where arrogant "rich bugs" who were foolhardy enough to pass through it had a very high probability of getting robbed of their valuables.

Robbinhood was a lovely, peaceful, and safe area for the average Joe to travel though, but if you were some "high-toned, high-society" dude who was loaded down with gold and jewels, you could pretty much be guaranteed that you'd leave the forest noticeably "lighter" than you were when you went in.

by QuacksO March 8, 2019