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  • The time for games is over if they want to pull the country apart they're going to have to answer to the people - and I think this time round with the financial meltdown still hovering on the horizon this ain't no time for the American far right jiggery pokery.

    Martin Rowson on Fox News and Rupert Murdoch 2011

  • Mining inflation became generalized inflation and the solution from on high was denial with some jiggery - pokery of the statistics with a distinct Argentine flavour to the manoeuvre.

    Maul Scale | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • I'm quite good at jiggery-pokery and we had one teacher retire and another land a university job, so here are Kelly and Rachael.

    Outstanding new teacher: dazzling performer Martin Wainwright 2010

  • I logged out of Google in case it was doing some personalising jiggery pokery.

    Archive 2010-02-01 Hal Duncan 2010

  • As you can imagine, it even distracted me from the business of Opossum penises, belly, nipple and pouch area jiggery pokery!

    Neighborhood Opossum | clusterflock 2009

  • I would have Donna burning and some sort of Torchwood headband jiggery-pokery delaying mechanism on her so she can think but grows more incoherant as the episode progresses.

    Humperdinck: "Now, if we only had a wheelbarrow..." rabid1st 2009

  • And I liked seeing the original Avengers used due to some time jiggery-pokery.

    Agents of Atlas » Comics Worth Reading 2010

  • I logged out of Google in case it was doing some personalising jiggery pokery.

    Whatever the Fuck You Want Hal Duncan 2010

  • Monsieur Ritz would leave in a cloud of financial jiggery-pokery and scandal in 1897, but nothing would tarnish the triumph of the new Savoy, not least because its provision of a bathroom for every bedroom (an almost other-worldly luxury in late 19th-century London) brought more or less every rich American bent on European travel to its wide and welcoming doors.

    The Smartest Hotel in the World Julian Fellowes 2010

  • Odd, come to think, as gypsies are generally associated with all manner of jiggery-pokery.

    conversation at metro diner | clusterflock 2009

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