QuacksO's definitions

call on Line 1

A "diplomatic" way of saying that you need to drain the radiator.

I'd thought I needed to answer just a call on Line 1 from Mother Nature, but it turned out that both of my "lines" were "ringing"... I hadda take a call on Line 2, as well.

by QuacksO October 12, 2018

anti-sway bar

A stick of candy dat you bribe someone with in order to keep him from being "convinced otherwise" by one or more fellow humans who might try to get him to change his presently-in-agreement-with-you viewpoint.

Anti-sway bars can indeed sometimes be an effective way to keep someone "on your team", but it can also prevent said person from honestly pondering a particular topic or issue and then forming his own unbiased opinion about said subject, similar to how main-stream religion often does.

by QuacksO January 19, 2020

auntics

Assorted other-than-usual shenanigans displayed by your parent's sister.

My mom's sister Deborah was always amusing me as a small child with her assorted hilarious auntics.

by QuacksO February 9, 2023

cameraflage

Refers to either (1) steps dat you take to conceal your shutter-box from being observed by da subject of yer photos, or (2) steps dat da would-be subject of yer photo-snapping endeavors takes to conceal himself from da prying-probing "eye" of yer lens.

Celebrities, politicians, suspected/convicted felons, etc. are often da subject of assorted stealthy high-tech attempts by reporters at getting candid snapshots, and so they hafta employ pretty advanced cameraflage techniques of their own in order to be left alone.

by QuacksO July 23, 2021

attétude

A short musical composition that denotes the cranky demeanor that one or more people were in at the time when the work was written.

I guess that the musical pieces by Chopin and Liszt are palatable to some people, but I find a lot of them to just be crash-bash attétudes with little melodious appeal.

by QuacksO April 9, 2019

quizine

Refers to da eclectic "variety" of fill-in-da-blank exams dat a particular culture or area foists upon its test-takers.

People rave enthusiastically about how wonderful French and Italian quizine is, but that worries me, 'cuz if said exams are indeed so great and all, they probably are also more thorough and deeply-probing of how well you have studied and/or how much you know, and so they would likely be a lot more difficult to pass.

by QuacksO March 1, 2020

literachore

What folks who hate reading find having to wade through printed text to be.

Audio books can make broadening your knowledge-horizons less of a literachore.

by QuacksO October 16, 2023