Jiggery Pokery

[FakeFitz]

That's my new term to describe the nonsense that is spewed around here. Jiggery Pokery.

 

[wildcat229]

What's the language of origin?

 

[wildcat229]

Are there any alternate pronunciations?

 

[wildcat229]

Can you use it in a sentence?

 

[wildcat229]

Can you repeat the definition?

 

[Evanstonian]

Are you guys drinking?

 

[zanycat]

I think interpretive jiggery pokery is more appropriate.

 

[Hungry Jack]

Jiggery pokering sounds like something that happens when two drunk overweight specimens decide to mate.

 

[phatcat]

More like advanced douchebaggery or extreme nincompoopery

 

[villox]

I like my jiggery-pokery with a side of pure applesauce.

 

[beetlemania74]

It's what grumpy old men say when they don't get their way.

 

[GlideCat]

It's what grumpy old men say when they don't get their way.

Given that I am a grumpy old man, I guess I need to adopt the phrase.

 

[beetlemania74]

Given that I am a grumpy old man, I guess I need to adopt the phrase.

Please don't. I'd think less of you if you did.

 

[PHazer]

Media reference: Lord Peter Wimsey(sp) of British TV circa 1970's. Wimsey, an English Lord and younger brother to a 1920's Duke of Denver, when talking to his older brother referred to the House of Lords, of which his brother belongs, as a place "full of men up to all that jiggery pokery and other such nonsense with all their ermine furs, wigs and suchnot." A paraphrase to be sure but indicates a body of men full of themselves, their own rules and traditions, and in general up to no good for the rest of us. Take it from there. How about the NCAA executives?

 

[FakeFitz]

Media reference: Lord Peter Wimsey(sp) of British TV circa 1970's. Wimsey, an English Lord and younger brother to a 1920's Duke of Denver, when talking to his older brother referred to the House of Lords, of which his brother belongs, as a place "full of men up to all that jiggery pokery and other such nonsense with all their ermine furs, wigs and suchnot." A paraphrase to be sure but indicates a body of men full of themselves, their own rules and traditions, and in general up to no good for the rest of us. Take it from there. How about the NCAA executives?

Sounds like a great description of several posters on this board. EvanstonCat, Turk, ...

 

[saran]

I remember the Will Smith song "Gettin Jiggery Pokery Wit It"