shenanigans

Maggie Koerth-Baker at 6:42 AM Monday, May 2, 2011 used this venn diagram to explain the definition of the English word "shenanigans" to a Chinese colleague.

Boing Boing Maggie Koerth-Baker 2011

An excess of destructive shenanigans is generated before the closing credits.

Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2009

Then, when an unregulated financial sector engaged in shenanigans that caused the frequent, non-depression-causing event of a real estate downturn to set off a cascade of failures that sent the entire economy into a depressionary cycle, they were utterly incapable of explaining what made this different from every other real estate run-up and downturn, and were left offering the same explanation that has been wrong for seven decades.

Matthew Yglesias » FDR, Reagan and Our Current Predicament 2009

Anyway, there are many folks out here in the real world who are grateful for, and impressed by, Fish and Fritz's straight talk and steady hand through all of the shenanigans from the Jerky Boys over the past six months.

Jack Bog's Blog: June 2009 Archives 2009

Cleaning up the election process and limiting opportunities for dishonest shenanigans is important.

Election Reform 2010

Anyway, there are many folks out here in the real world who are grateful for, and impressed by, Fish and Fritz's straight talk and steady hand through all of the shenanigans from the Jerky Boys over the past six months.

Fish and Fritz -- finally, somebody down there gets it (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

Twin shenanigans make for good entertainment, but what are you going to do -- hire the increasingly puffy Jeremy and Jason London every time you need a twinset?

Need more double vision? Post 2010

Stay tuned for more wacky tomfoolery and zany shenanigans from the office of the governor of SC.

Sanford says he was in Argentina, not on Appalachian Trail 2009

That's why I call shenanigans on not poking big holes in existing stories if the story fabric is too weak.

In Defense of Criticism jimhines 2010

To the latter this is simply anathema but to the politicians it is the easy way out of the nasty little mess into which they have got themselves because they have persisted in shenanigans when it comes to party funding instead of adopting transparency as the rule.

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