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Provided by the compucert rigmorole \RIG-muh-rohl\, noun:
1. An elaborate or complicated procedure.2. Confused, incoherent, foolish, or meaningless talk.
Rigmarole is an unusual alteration of the Middle English phrase ragman roll, which refers to a "long list or catalog."
corn packer
- A farm worker tasked with picking and packing corn.
- Alternatively: A derogatory term for a gay Iowan.
"Corn packer is a derogatory term for a gay Iowan." - Stephen Colbert at House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on Immigration, Citizenship and Border Security
History
- Society of Jesus: the Jesuits' order was chartered by Pope Paul III (1540)
- Locomotion No. 1: steam-powered locomotive hauled its first passenger train on England's Stockton and Darlington line (1825)
- Warren Commission: government investigative team concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy (1964)
- NC-17: rating for adult-oriented films was introduced by the MPAA (1990)
- Taliban: a group of Islamic religious students captured Afghanistan's capital, Kabul (1996)
- George Cruikshank 1792
- Thomas Nast 1840 - Political cartoonist that created the Republican elephant and the Democrat donkey
- Vincent Youmans 1898
- Jayne Meadows 1920
- William Conrad 1920
- Arthur Penn 1922
- Sada Thompson 1929
- Kathleen Nolan 1933
- Greg Morris 1934
- Barbara Howar 1934
- Claude Jarman Jr. 1934
- Wilford Brimley 1934
- Don Cornelius 1936
- Delores Taylor 1939
- Kathy Whitworth 1939
- Don Nix 1941
- Randy Bachman (Guess Who, Bachman-Turner Overdrive) 1943
- Liz Torres 1947
- A Martinez 1948
- Robert Weller 1949
- Mike Schmidt 1949
- Cary-Hiroyuki Tagaw 1950
Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday) 1951 - Greg Ham (Men at Work) 1953
- Johnette Napolitano (Concrete Blonde) 1957
- Shaun Cassidy 1958
- Stephan Jenkins (Third Eye Blind) 1964
- Patrick Muldoon 1968
- Mark Calderon (Color Me Badd) 1970
- Amanda Detmer 1971
- Gwyneth Paltrow 1972
- Brad Arnold (3 Doors Down) 1978
- Lil Wayne 1982
- Avril Lavigne 1984
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