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  • April 16th, 2010 7: 29 pm ET what a toad this crook is. the jigg is up republican speaker, america now knows you are simply spouting talking points from a polster that wrote this little speech before the bill was even written. we also know you met with the wal-street group asking for donations that has greased your nasty pockets with cash to make sure you stop any bill that will regulate and put a stop to the crooked wal-street gang ripping off the american people. don't make more of a fool out of your greedy selves than you already have because the lies won't work on this bill. this bill is for the american people and you know it. god are you republicans so stupid that you now let paid polsters write your speeches for you. can you not even say NO on your own merit??

    GOP Senators united in opposition to current financial reform bill 2010

  • As reports in New Zealand are flying that Brit’s jigg is up at Jive Records, thanks to her wild partying, Britney’s nap/passing out at Vegas’ club Pure will cost the pop diva $400,000.

    Britney Spears Enslaved Records Launch: Britney Spears Launching Label Enslaved Records 2007

  • A Girl A Market Girl whom he overtook upon the Neck, and asked to let him jigg her? answered by asking what is that?

    John Adams diary 5, 26 May - 25 November 1760 1961

  • At last came in the dancers on the rope, and a gorbelly'd blockhead standing out with a ladder, commanded his boy to hopp every round singing, and dance a jigg on the top of it, and then tumble through burning hoops of iron, with a glass in his mouth.

    The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • Titius, who was indeed a voluble Speaker, and possessed a ready comprehension, but he was so loose and effeminate in his gesture, as to furnish room for the invention of a dance, which was called the _Titian jigg_: so careful should we be to avoid every oddity in our manner of speaking, which may afterwards be exposed to ridicule by a ludicrous imitation.

    Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • But, Lord! to see the dissembling of this widow, how upon the singing of a certain jigg by Doll, Mrs. Martin's sister, she seemed to be sick and fainted and God knows what, because the jigg, which her husband (who died this last sickness) loved.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • But, Lord! to see the dissembling of this widow, how upon the singing of a certain jigg by Doll, Mrs. Martin's sister, she seemed to be sick and fainted and

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 45: August/September 1666 Samuel Pepys 1668

  • God knows what, because the jigg, which her husband (who died this last sickness) loved.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 45: August/September 1666 Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Carteret and daughters, and Ladies Batten, Pen, and my wife, &c., and very good cheer we had and merry; musique at and after dinner, and a fellow danced a jigg; but when the company begun to dance, I came away lest I should be taken out; and God knows how my wife carried herself, but I left her to try her fortune.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Mercer danced a jigg; and Nan Wright and my wife and Pegg Pen put on perriwigs.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

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