I read this list often, and although I'm not smart enough to contribute, I learn a lot every day.
But I read a post from this morning that contained this:
a fair amount of jiggery-pokery
Just wondering...is this a technical term? Where is it documented?
I won't offer any insight into what vision it gave me.
;-)
Thanks for all the work on the distribution and all the invaluable info posted here.
-Ben
I read this list often, and although I'm not smart enough to contribute,
I don't see why you should feel left out. This doesn't seem to stop others. (I kid, I kid!)
a fair amount of jiggery-pokery
Just wondering...is this a technical term? Where is it documented?
I was going to attempt to make something humorous up, but a quick google turned up something far more apt and unintentionally funny than anything I'm capable of.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/jiggery-pokery It appears to even be authored by someone who might in some way relate to the project....
/Wonder if it's time to begin starting rumors....
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You asked for it :)
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 05:43:51PM -0400, Ben Gore wrote:
a fair amount of jiggery-pokery
Just wondering...is this a technical term?
Actually no. It can be considered the British version for the American "hanky-panky" [1]
Where is it documented?
Actually, yes [2] [3] [4].
I won't offer any insight into what vision it gave me.
Please don't :)
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1 - http://cgi.peak.org/~jeremy/retort.cgi?British=jiggery-pokery 2 - http://www.wordreference.com/definition/jiggery-pokery 3 - http://www.answers.com/topic/jiggery-pokery 4 - http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=jiggery%2Dpokery
- -- Rodrigo Barbosa "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)
Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
Actually no. It can be considered the British version for the American "hanky-panky" [1]
Actually, I picked it up from the second installment of the new Doctor Who series (The End of the World). Chrisopher Eccleston used the term when modifying Billie Piper's mobile phone so that it could make calls 5 billion years back through time to her mother.
Never expected that to become a topic here, though. :-)
-Steve
Found this
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jiggery_pokery
I must say, jiggery-pokery has always meant technical giblets* cobbled together to create the desired effect, imho.
Didn't ever really associate jiggery-pokery with sex,
P. *giblets is a general British type computer term meaning internal computer parts, I believe it originated from the similarity between the bag of giblets and the hosting carcass from the butcher and the computer case and its little box/bag of nuts, bolts and blanking plates.
Often the phrase could be heard on the factory floor "'ere mate, I can't build this system 'cause the case is missing the giblets"
Steve wrote:
Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
Actually no. It can be considered the British version for the American "hanky-panky" [1]
Actually, I picked it up from the second installment of the new Doctor Who series (The End of the World). Chrisopher Eccleston used the term when modifying Billie Piper's mobile phone so that it could make calls 5 billion years back through time to her mother.
Never expected that to become a topic here, though. :-)
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Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
a fair amount of jiggery-pokery
Just wondering...is this a technical term?
Actually no. It can be considered the British version for the American "hanky-panky" [1]
I was just about to reply that my terms are, and always will be, unconditional surrender. But then I realized what the thread was about so I'll just slink back to being a month-old lurker again.
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