8 July 2018
rigmarole
[rig-muh-rohl]
noun
1. an elaborate or complicated procedure:
to go through the rigmarole of a formal dinner.
2. confused, incoherent, foolish, or meaningless talk.
Also, rigamarole.
Origin of rigmarole
1730-1740 First recorded in 1730-40; alteration of ragman roll
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Examples from the Web for rigmarole
Contemporary Examples
After all the rigmarole, they found what any pediatrician already knew: the MMR causes fever.
Another Blow to Anti-Vaxxers’ Fortress of Pseudoscience
Kent Sepkowitz
July 2, 2014
Historical Examples
I was sitting with my finger in the hot water listening to this rigmarole.
The Stark Munro Letters
J. Stark Munro
What made that other child tell all that rigmarole about fairies?
A Little Maid of Old Philadelphia
Alice Turner Curtis
Today’s quote
Happiness turned to me and said, ‘It is time. It is time to forgive yourself for all the things you did not become. It is time to exonerate yourself for all the people you couldn’t save, for all the fragile hearts you fumbled with in the dark of your confusion. It is time, child, to accept that you don’t have to be who you were a year ago, that you don’t have to want the same things. Above all else, it is time to believe, with reckless abandon, that you are worthy of me, for I have been waiting for years’.
– Bianca Sparacino
On this day
8 July 1822 – death of Percy Bysshe Shelley, English romantic poet, considered to be one the finest lyric poets of all time. Born 4 August 1792.
8 July 1947 – reports are that a UFO crash-landed at Roswell, New Mexico.
8 July 1954 – Military leader, Castillo Armas seizes power of Guatamala in a CIA-backed coup, overthrowing Communist president Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. The coup was part of the CIA’s international anti-communist activities. On request of the CIA, Armas formed the National Committee of Defense Against Communism, which is recognised as Latin America’s first modern death squad, purging the government and trade unions of people with suspected left-wing tendencies. Armas introduced the ‘Preventive Penal Law Against Communism’ which increased penalties for ‘Communist’ activities, such as labor union activities. Armas was assassinated on 26 July 1957 by a palace guard, Romeo Vásquez. It is unknown what Vásquez’s motive was. He was found dead in a suspected suicide a short while later.
8 July 1980 – First State of Origin match played between New South Wales and Queensland at Lang Park (Suncorp Stadium), Brisbane. Queensland won 20-10.