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What is a Quimby?

1-To make a fool of one’s self unintentionally.  May refer to an event, or a period of time during which one’s behavior is beset by frequent misfortune or humiliation. May be used as a verb or an adjective as well.  Occasions for which the term may be used include: Failing a test, getting obscenely drunk, falling over/tripping up, etc.

 

2 - Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (1802 – 1866), was an American spiritual teacher. Quimby was a philosopher, magnetizer, mesmerist, healer, and inventor, who resided in Belfast, Maine, and had an office in Portland, Maine. Quimby's work is widely recognized as leading to the New Thought movement.

 

3 - Commonly misunderstood to be the central player in an all male three-way, a "quimby" is actually the male in two-woman three-way. Selected by choice bi-curious trim for his long, never-flaccid penis, "quimbies" have been spotted whiffing the occasional bike seat and, upon request, tossing a nicely-groomed woman's salad.

 

4-Harriet Quimby (1875 – 1912) was an early American aviator and a movie screenwriter. In 1911 she was awarded a U.S. pilot's certificate by the Aero Club of America, becoming the first woman to gain a pilot's license in the United States. In 1912, she became the first woman to fly across the English Channel. Although Quimby lived only to the age of thirty-seven, she had a major influence upon the role of women in aviation. 

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