Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for August 06, 2015
August 05, 2015
August 07, 2015
Transcript:
Man: Get your homework done, son. No more jiggery-pokery. Boy: What does that even mean? Man: No idea. But if it's good enough for the supreme court, it's good enough for us.
From Time.com: “If you’re not familiar with the term, Jiggery-pokery dates back to at least the late 1800s, a rhythmic English phrase describing dishonest manipulation or nonsense, akin to hocus pocus, humbug, bambosh, baloney, berley (among the Australians), bunkum, hogwash (also known as eyewash), flapdoodle, flim-flam, flumadiddle, rubbish, galbanum (coming from a French word for empty representations), hooey, hot air, motormouthing, poppycock or malarkey…”
The current minority is the best since Warren, Douglas, Black, ad Brennen. But then back in those days, we had real conservatives like Frankfurter instead of Taney wannabes.
sounds like something Scalia did say..http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/25/politics/supreme-court-scalia-obamacare-robertsscalia..""The Court’s next bit of interpretive jiggery-pokery involves other parts of the Act that purportedly presuppose the availability of tax credits on both federal and state Exchanges.""
Jeff0811 almost 9 years ago
Applesauce, I say. Pure Applesauce!
Slang Nonsense; foolishness. American Heritage® Dictionary
Charlie Fogwhistle almost 9 years ago
From Time.com: “If you’re not familiar with the term, Jiggery-pokery dates back to at least the late 1800s, a rhythmic English phrase describing dishonest manipulation or nonsense, akin to hocus pocus, humbug, bambosh, baloney, berley (among the Australians), bunkum, hogwash (also known as eyewash), flapdoodle, flim-flam, flumadiddle, rubbish, galbanum (coming from a French word for empty representations), hooey, hot air, motormouthing, poppycock or malarkey…”
Ubintold almost 9 years ago
Sounds like something politicians do.
swfan1963 almost 9 years ago
Also means a bit of hanky-panky on the side for married Brits.
grossvatter almost 9 years ago
Or BOGUS RAP………… And the supreme court pull out a lot of it of late.Thank You FDR!!
neverenoughgold almost 9 years ago
Swell…
sarahbowl1 Premium Member almost 9 years ago
Don’t you think Supreme Court justices should join us in the 21st century?
hippogriff almost 9 years ago
The current minority is the best since Warren, Douglas, Black, ad Brennen. But then back in those days, we had real conservatives like Frankfurter instead of Taney wannabes.
cupertino jay almost 9 years ago
sounds like something Scalia did say..http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/25/politics/supreme-court-scalia-obamacare-robertsscalia..""The Court’s next bit of interpretive jiggery-pokery involves other parts of the Act that purportedly presuppose the availability of tax credits on both federal and state Exchanges.""
verticallychallenged Premium Member almost 9 years ago
@sandflea, you’re absolutely correct – Scalia did say “jiggery-pokery!”