semifacetious

I seem to recall a story that another Haight scene band had a song called Potato Caboose and the Dead named their "all graceful instruments" song after it as a semifacetious act of homage or one-upmanship, somewhat analogous to all new minglewood blues and new, new minglewood blues.

The Annotated "New Potato Caboose" Robert Petersen 2005

If we have such a practice in the United States, it occurs either in nonce forms, like Albanians (heard once in the sense of people from Albany) or in semifacetious formations: Michiganders, Trojans (from Troy, New York), Sicilians (Messina, New York), Bozemaniacs

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 1 1981

As his own semifacetious chronology tracks it: "1937 - Marches on all-night picket-lines.

Every Picture Tells 2008