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Unread 05-19-2016, 06:56 PM
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What an admission, they might just as well have said the basis of selection was anti-meritorious.
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Well choosing Boris gave the competition and its originator more publicity I guess. I doubt there would have been articles in the national papers if I'd have won. But I wonder if it wasn't a political move, intended to make Boris look good maybe? Unafraid. Prepared to take on Johnny Foreigner. Brave Brexiteer. That sort of thing. I'm guessing Boris and Murray have similar politics. Of course, Boris is also a former Spectator editor, and Murray and Johnson both went to the same private school, Eton College (albeit not at the same time). But yes, a pretty crappy bit of opportunism whatever the reason.
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Well, to my mind this was a contest more honoured in the losing than the winning.

But it did occur to me that the other contestants were more frankly f****d than the gallimaufry of unlikely animals in their material.
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What a wonderful word, Ann, gallimaufry, with noble antecedents.

He loves the gallimaufry: Ford, perpend. Merry Wives of Windsor: II, i
Say is a gallimaufry of gambols, because they are The Winter's Tale: IV, iv

1545-55; < Middle French galimafree kind of sauce or stew, probably a conflation of galer to amuse oneself (see gallant ) and Picard dialect mafrer to gorge oneself (< Middle Dutch moffelen to eat, nosh)

Rhymezone has are no rhymes for it, but the Oxford suggests orphrey (an ornamental stripe or border, especially one on an ecclesiastical vestment such as a chasuble.) So there might be the kernel of a poem residing inside it.

Definitions abound.

1. a hodgepodge; jumble; confused medley.
2. a ragout or hash.

noun (pl) -fries
1. a jumble; hotchpotch

A confused jumble or medley of things: a glorious gallimaufry of childhood perceptions
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Goodness Janice, what a surprise. That is a word I use unthinkingly as part of my everyday vocabulary. I am chuffed that it caught your imagination.

I used it here in exactly that context. The entries gave one to understand that whatsoever beast the Lord had, in His wisdom, put a hole in, "President Erdogan would - er - do one".

(A rhyme, alas, only slightly less imperfect than Boris's.)
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Well, it was brand new to me! Always happy to learn new things and hope to be so inclined until I shuffle off. So thank you kindly, most learned lady.
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