Pokery

The time for games is over if they want to pull the country apart they're going to have to answer to the people - and I think this time round with the financial meltdown still hovering on the horizon this ain't no time for the American far right jiggery pokery. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And I liked seeing the original Avengers used due to some time jiggery-pokery. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I logged out of Google in case it was doing some personalising jiggery pokery. ❋ Hal Duncan (2010)

As you can imagine, it even distracted me from the business of Opossum penises, belly, nipple and pouch area jiggery pokery! ❋ Unknown (2009)

I would have Donna burning and some sort of Torchwood headband jiggery-pokery delaying mechanism on her so she can think but grows more incoherant as the episode progresses. ❋ Rabid1st (2009)

Mining inflation became generalized inflation and the solution from on high was denial with some jiggery - pokery of the statistics with a distinct Argentine flavour to the manoeuvre. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I'm quite good at jiggery-pokery and we had one teacher retire and another land a university job, so here are Kelly and Rachael. ❋ Martin Wainwright (2010)

Monsieur Ritz would leave in a cloud of financial jiggery-pokery and scandal in 1897, but nothing would tarnish the triumph of the new Savoy, not least because its provision of a bathroom for every bedroom (an almost other-worldly luxury in late 19th-century London) brought more or less every rich American bent on European travel to its wide and welcoming doors. ❋ Julian Fellowes (2010)

Odd, come to think, as gypsies are generally associated with all manner of jiggery-pokery. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Don't come to me with your sociological jiggery-pokery; it's all coincidence and barely worthy of remark. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Saves me the trouble of trying to get their attention through shouting and stick-pokery. ❋ Unknown (2008)

“Now you, young Robert McLean, I want you to first check up on the damage to the chip shop, find out what you can about this jiggery pokery, put an article together.” ❋ A. D. Scott (2010)

At all events, "says she reasonably," if O'Bryant once embarrassed you with his jiggery-pokery ... would that be the time Papa sent you away to Africa? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Why are we accusing Norm Coleman of petty things like technical jiggery-pokery in a commercial? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Aba @ Lasa suggested “ICT .. magic jiggery pokery or curse?” ❋ Unknown (2007)

The whole signing session jiggery-pokery, that's, like, an event for folks who want books signed. ❋ Hal Duncan (2007)

My tip would be to undertake some Photoshop jiggery pokery (or iPhoto enhancing, failing that) to boost colour and contrast in your photos, which might otherwise look a bit flat, once compressed and transmitted over a telephone line. ❋ Unknown (2007)