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And if it takes this kind of show to make the money so that the festival can undertake the plays that draw a smaller crowd but advance the art form, then so be it; let the gaffers and gammers nibble on the sweets while those of us with more adventurous tastes check out the boys in leather in Christopher Marlowe's Edward II in the Studio Theatre.

Dramatis Personae 2007

And if it takes this kind of show to make the money so that the festival can undertake the plays that draw a smaller crowd but advance the art form, then so be it; let the gaffers and gammers nibble on the sweets while those of us with more adventurous tastes check out the boys in leather in Christopher Marlowe's Edward II in the Studio Theatre.

Dramatis Personae 2007

Here the gaffers and gammers, whose dancing days were over, told stories of great impressiveness, and at intervals surveyed the advancing and retiring couples from the same retreat, as people on shore might be supposed to survey a naval engagement in the bay beyond; returning again to their tales when the pause was over.

Under the Greenwood Tree 2006

Much like how companies like Craigslist, Ebay, and Facebook have evolved when dealing with spammers, gammers, etc – open government will evolve and learn and be adaptive.

Can Open Government Be Gamed? Erick Schonfeld 2005

These were plying hand and tongue in a little field by the three cross-roads, where gaffers and gammers of by-gone time had set up troughs of proven wood, and the bilge of a long storm-beaten boat, near a pool of softish water.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

Now there were thousands of willing hands of all ages, from the small but nimble ones of the hobbit lads and lasses to the well-worn and horny ones of the gaffers and gammers.

The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

Other folk were far away; and some of the younger people in the town openly doubted the existence of any dragon in the mountain, and laughed at the greybeards and gammers who said that they had seen him flying in the sky in their young days.

The Hobbit Tolkien, J. R. R. 1938

Here the gaffers and gammers, whose dancing days were over, told stories of great impressiveness, and at intervals surveyed the advancing and retiring couples from the same retreat, as people on shore might be supposed to survey a naval engagement in the bay beyond; returning again to their tales when the pause was over.

Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school Thomas Hardy 1884

It was also ascertained that Mr. Loveday's great-grandparents had been eight in number, and his great-great-grandparents sixteen, every one of whom reached to years of discretion: at every stage backwards his sires and gammers thus doubled and doubled till they became a vast body of

The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884

'Well -- why can't 'em hire a travelling chap to touch up the picters into her own gaffers and gammers?

A Laodicean : a Story of To-day Thomas Hardy 1884