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brooklynite

(95,076 posts) Thu Jun 25, 2015, 11:14 AM Jun 2015

Please use the phrase "jiggery-pokery" in a sentence...

"The Court's next bit of interpretive jiggery-pokery involves other parts of the Act..."--Scalia

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Please use the phrase "jiggery-pokery" in a sentence... (Original Post) brooklynite Jun 2015 OP

I'm not taking anymore of this Jiggery-pokery? bravenak Jun 2015 #1

I am sick and tired of all the jiggery-pokery of the Republican party. Shrike47 Jun 2015 #2

Easy peasy HassleCat Jun 2015 #3

Being somewhat clumsy, Fred just could not learn the Hokey Pokey justhanginon Jun 2015 #4

Urban dictionary.. Sancho Jun 2015 #5

The Republicans consistently rely on jiggery-pokery. Historic NY Jun 2015 #6

Someone need to do a jiggery-pokery at Scalia's heart Bernie 2016 Jun 2015 #7

Double dactyl? Don't mind if I do! Brickbat Jun 2015 #8

Bravo! brooklynite Jun 2015 #10

I have to question whether 'jiggery' is a dactyl - the 1st syllable is short, not long muriel_volestrangler Jun 2015 #16

Thanks! Brickbat Jun 2015 #20

How much shorter can you get than -'igg'? muriel_volestrangler Jun 2015 #22

It's not the vowel sound that makes it a dactyl -- it's the stress of the syllable. Brickbat Jun 2015 #23

I'm going on the classical definition I learnt in Latin muriel_volestrangler Jun 2015 #24

New-fangled only because the English language is. Brickbat Jun 2015 #27

"'Jiggery-pokery' and 'pure applesauce' have found a way into American jurisprudence"? Rose Siding Jun 2015 #9

I had something of a pain in the gulliver so had to sleep. zappaman Jun 2015 #11

As Bernie gains popularity hootinholler Jun 2015 #12

Jiggery-pokery is a way of life inside the Beltway. hobbit709 Jun 2015 #13

I was there the night Scalia got hammered and did the jiggery-pokery KamaAina Jun 2015 #14

"I jiggered the pokery between Chruch and State. Hocus pocus! Pokery Doodly Doo!" Rex Jun 2015 #15

Yeah and leeches are good for draining $244,400 from the US budget each year too. bluesbassman Jun 2015 #29

You do the Jiggery-Pokery and you turn yourself around... Beaverhausen Jun 2015 #17

From the late, great Douglas Adams' credits for Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: muriel_volestrangler Jun 2015 #18

I believe that Will Smith was the first to get "Jiggery-pokery wit it." Orrex Jun 2015 #19

After the magician said Abracadabra he performed some jiggery-pokery and the tiger disappeared. Hekate Jun 2015 #21

i was too drunk for sex, so we had to settle for some jiggery-pokery 0rganism Jun 2015 #25

A little messy and not quite to form... Brickbat Jun 2015 #32

Bravo! 0rganism Jun 2015 #33

I tried to fix the door hinge, but it was all jiggery-pokery shenmue Jun 2015 #26

There was a bit of jiggery-pokery in the office and then Joe Scarborough had a dead intern Johonny Jun 2015 #28

It was jiggery pokery, trickery, jokery. How did he open me up? Donald Ian Rankin Jun 2015 #30

Jiggery pokery dock Spirochete Jun 2015 #31

Why is this post not on the Greatest Page yet? 7wo7rees Jun 2015 #34

Juanita Jean has fun with Scalia's dissent Gothmog Jun 2015 #35

The USSC used a shit load of 'jiggery-pockery' in their... Spazito Jun 2015 #36

The vice squad detective arrested Justice Scalia for attempting to solicit "jiggery-pokery". Fozzledick Jun 2015 #37

For extra credit: use "jiggery-pokery" and "santorum" in the same sentence. Fozzledick Jun 2015 #38

bravenak

(34,648 posts)

1. I'm not taking anymore of this Jiggery-pokery?

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 11:15 AM

Jun 2015

Shrike47

(6,913 posts)

2. I am sick and tired of all the jiggery-pokery of the Republican party.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 11:16 AM

Jun 2015

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)

3. Easy peasy

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 11:16 AM

Jun 2015

"I drank two ounces of vodka while playing cards, and it made me all jiggery-pokery."

justhanginon

(3,290 posts)

4. Being somewhat clumsy, Fred just could not learn the Hokey Pokey

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 11:22 AM

Jun 2015

and had to settle for doing the Jiggery Pokery at wedding receptions for the rest of his life.

Sancho

(9,072 posts)

5. Urban dictionary..

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 11:22 AM

Jun 2015

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jiggerypokery&utm_source=search-action

this describes that which is difficult to describe, a term meaning a piece of machinery which has no place in this world

Sentence: I tried to configure that SSL jiggerypokery and the fucker was buggered.

Historic NY

(37,463 posts)

6. The Republicans consistently rely on jiggery-pokery.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 11:23 AM

Jun 2015

Bernie 2016

(90 posts)

7. Someone need to do a jiggery-pokery at Scalia's heart

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 11:23 AM

Jun 2015

to see if it is still beating, and if it is, turn it off.

Brickbat

(19,339 posts)

8. Double dactyl? Don't mind if I do!

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 11:36 AM

Jun 2015

Jiggery pokery
Supremely a-jokery:
Let's all peruse
Scalia's dissent.

Upholding subsidies?
Supermajority!
The three on the wrong
side of his'try: Get bent!

brooklynite

(95,076 posts)

10. Bravo!

Reply to Brickbat (Reply #8)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 11:52 AM

Jun 2015

muriel_volestrangler

(101,426 posts)

16. I have to question whether 'jiggery' is a dactyl - the 1st syllable is short, not long

Reply to Brickbat (Reply #8)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 12:35 PM

Jun 2015

as you'd expect with a double 'g'. But a great verse, anyway.

Brickbat

(19,339 posts)

20. Thanks!

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #16)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 12:43 PM

Jun 2015

I don't see how the first syllable of "jiggery" is short at all.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,426 posts)

22. How much shorter can you get than -'igg'?

Reply to Brickbat (Reply #20)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 12:56 PM

Jun 2015

It rhymes with 'pig'. Or 'jig', for that matter.

Brickbat

(19,339 posts)

23. It's not the vowel sound that makes it a dactyl -- it's the stress of the syllable.

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #22)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 01:02 PM

Jun 2015

JIGG-er-y POKE-er-y.

HIGG-le-dy PIGG-le-dy.

HALF a league, HALF a league,
HALF a league ON-ward.

(Dactyl, dactyl, dactyl, trochee.)

muriel_volestrangler

(101,426 posts)

24. I'm going on the classical definition I learnt in Latin

Reply to Brickbat (Reply #23)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 01:10 PM

Jun 2015

I see that this new-fangled modern verse uses accented v. unaccented:

"A metrical foot consisting of a long syllable followed by two short (or, in modern verse, of an accented syllable and two unaccented)."

So I guess in English you do have a double dactyl there. My apologies.

It comes from the Greek for 'finger', because they have 1 long and 2 short bones.

Brickbat

(19,339 posts)

27. New-fangled only because the English language is.

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #24)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 01:17 PM

Jun 2015

Quantitative use of meter doesn't work well in English, because it's so strongly accented. Forcing it to follow quantitative meter rules often undermines the point of poetry in English.

ETA: No apologies necessary. I don't think we're at a point where quantitative vs. accented meter will split the boards. YET.

Rose Siding

(32,623 posts)

9. "'Jiggery-pokery' and 'pure applesauce' have found a way into American jurisprudence"?

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 11:44 AM

Jun 2015

Voila!

zappaman

(20,606 posts)

11. I had something of a pain in the gulliver so had to sleep.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 11:56 AM

Jun 2015

Later, I might viddy some jiggery-pokery with me droogs.

hootinholler

(26,449 posts)

12. As Bernie gains popularity

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 12:14 PM

Jun 2015

Hillary supporters are resorting to jiggery-pokery in an attempt to discredit him.

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)

13. Jiggery-pokery is a way of life inside the Beltway.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 12:17 PM

Jun 2015

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

14. I was there the night Scalia got hammered and did the jiggery-pokery

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 12:17 PM

Jun 2015

at a same-sex wedding reception.

Rex

(65,616 posts)

15. "I jiggered the pokery between Chruch and State. Hocus pocus! Pokery Doodly Doo!"

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 12:27 PM

Jun 2015

Leeches are good at draining out the bad blood.

bluesbassman

(19,387 posts)

29. Yeah and leeches are good for draining $244,400 from the US budget each year too.

Reply to Rex (Reply #15)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 01:27 PM

Jun 2015

Beaverhausen

(24,476 posts)

17. You do the Jiggery-Pokery and you turn yourself around...

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 12:38 PM

Jun 2015

...and that's what it's all about.

Hey!

muriel_volestrangler

(101,426 posts)

18. From the late, great Douglas Adams' credits for Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 12:39 PM

Jun 2015

Radiophonic sound and music by Paddy Kingsland, and further technical jiggery-pokery by John Hoytall and Alick Hale Munro...

http://www.clivebanks.co.uk/THHGTTG/THHGTTGradioxmas.htm

Orrex

(63,298 posts)

19. I believe that Will Smith was the first to get "Jiggery-pokery wit it."

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 12:41 PM

Jun 2015

Hekate

(91,057 posts)

21. After the magician said Abracadabra he performed some jiggery-pokery and the tiger disappeared.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 12:46 PM

Jun 2015

0rganism

(23,996 posts)

25. i was too drunk for sex, so we had to settle for some jiggery-pokery

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 01:11 PM

Jun 2015

hmm, what else can i come up with...

"i have had it with this motherfuckin jiggery-pokery on this motherfuckin court" - from the epic yet relatively unknown film Snakes in Black Robes

bonus points for any sentence combining "jiggery-pokery" with "santorum" and "proud confederate heritage"...

Brickbat

(19,339 posts)

32. A little messy and not quite to form...

Reply to 0rganism (Reply #25)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 01:39 PM

Jun 2015

Jiggery pokery,
Stars and bars jokery,
Santorum says states should
Decide if it flies.

Confederate heritage
(drop the word "proud" from it)
Characteristically
Surrenders the prize.

0rganism

(23,996 posts)

33. Bravo!

Reply to Brickbat (Reply #32)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 01:41 PM

Jun 2015

(and there's still room for someone to come in with a verse exploring the ... uh... alternate meaning of "santorum&quot

shenmue

(38,506 posts)

26. I tried to fix the door hinge, but it was all jiggery-pokery

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 01:12 PM

Jun 2015

and I had to go to the store.

Johonny

(20,985 posts)

28. There was a bit of jiggery-pokery in the office and then Joe Scarborough had a dead intern

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 01:19 PM

Jun 2015

Donald Ian Rankin

(13,598 posts)

30. It was jiggery pokery, trickery, jokery. How did he open me up?

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 01:29 PM

Jun 2015

Robbery, muggery, Aussie Skullduggery. Out for a buggering duck!

Spirochete

(5,264 posts)

31. Jiggery pokery dock

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 01:34 PM

Jun 2015

the mouse ran up the clock...

7wo7rees

(5,128 posts)

34. Why is this post not on the Greatest Page yet?

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 02:28 PM

Jun 2015

Only 3 recs???

I have not laughed this much in a long. time!

Gothmog

(146,035 posts)

35. Juanita Jean has fun with Scalia's dissent

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 06:25 PM

Jun 2015

I am not the only one enjoying Scalia's dissent http://juanitajean.com/yes-4/

UPDATE: The best part of all this is that Americans will get health care. The second best part of this is that makes Antonin Scalia seethe.

He literally lost his mind and said, “The Court’s next bit of interpretive jiggery-pokery…” That’s a word? jiggery-pokery? So, I looked it up.