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  • Furthermore, if you are at the income line between the two, when you gain full eligibility for Medicaid, you get cancelled on the KidCare and have to go through the whole rigamorole again, since there is no application sharing.

    Balkinization 2007

  • So for the price of a high school transcript (subsidized by the state) an illegal can get a pricey, high quality college education without all the rigamorole of a citizen (including I might add registering for selective service if they are men).

    In State Tuition for Illegal Immigrants in Maryland Likely Matt Johnston 2007

  • We are taking some time off from the whole rigamorole, but will toss our hats back into the ring for another baby soon enough.

    Photos of the Big Day Zombie Mom 2007

  • No. Kudos to Pixar for making such great films that we have to go through this rigamorole every year, but it always ends the same, and with good reason.

    Oscar's Burning Questions 2007

  • I had to do the whole rigamorole - seeing my doctor and getting him to sign a form stating that I was too disabled to do jury duty.

    Jury duty Kay Olson 2006

  • The Gentleman had flown his private jet into LaGuardia about three weeks earlier, enduring the usual customs rigamorole in an effort to render his entry into this corrupt barbarian nation as legitimate as possible.

    The Sinister Six Combo Castro, Adam Troy 2001

  • Here I am in the middle of European fashion for the rigamorole of spring 2000 ready-to-wear shows, which I am meant to regard from a calm yet enthusiastic vantage point essential to my newly employed state – mais oui, I finally got a job, to be described anon – and I find I am all over the newspapers.

    Phyllis Stine Gets a Job! 1999

  • Here I am in the middle of European fashion for the rigamorole of spring 2000 ready-to-wear shows, which I am meant to regard from a calm yet enthusiastic vantage point essential to my newly employed state – mais oui, I finally got a job, to be described anon – and I find I am all over the newspapers.

    Phyllis Stine Gets a Job! 1999

  • Next, I saw an advertisement for something called the Turbo Snake where you simply shove this velcro-covered wire down the drain, without the rigamorole of removing the stopper, and it pulls out all the gunk.

    Epinions Recent Content for Home 2010

  • What we saw Monday was just more rhetoric and rigamorole - a necessary but unenlightening step toward Tiger's return to golf.

    SplicedFeed 2010

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  • common misspelling for Rigmarole

    February 27, 2012