ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BUNKUM
After Buncombe, a county in North Carolina, alluded to in an inane speech by its Congressional representative Felix Walker (about 1820).
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BUNKUM»
Discover the use of
bunkum in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
bunkum and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series.
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Techno fantasies: toy robots from Japan
This fascinating book charts toy robot design of the last half of the 20th century and explores Japanese aesthetics in tinplate toys, especially robots.
3
Bunkum Entertainments: Being a Collection of Laughable Skits ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
4
Pure
Bunkum: Reporting on the Life and Crimes of Buncombe ...
Pure Bunkum offers a reporter's-eye view of the way public corruption proliferates, even when "everyone knows" what's going on, told by an award-winning journalist with an eye for the absurd.
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Step it Down: Games, Plays, Songs, and Stories from the ...
Wind up-a this bunkum, bunkum, Wind up-a this bunkum. When this movement is
finished, and you have, as Mrs. Jones puts it, "nothing but a big ball of children,"
all the players jump up and down together, singing: Going to shake down-a this ...
Bessie Jones, Bess Lomax Hawes, 1972
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The Christian Remembrancer
Sam Slick hit the right nail on the head when he attributed all our long speeches
and debates to the love of talking for " Bunkum ;" but let him speak for himself ;
prefacing that the Attache and his friend have just returned from a heavy debate
in ...
... 2.5Y,or 5Y Value — 4 to 6 Chroma — 1 or 2 Texture — silt loam 2CB or 2C
horizon (if it occurs): Hue— 7.5YR, 10YR, 2.5Y, or 5Y Value — 4 to 6 Chroma —
1 to 4 Texture — silt loam, silty clay loam, clay loam, or loam 515B3 — Bunkum
silty ...
United States. Bureau of Soils, United States. Bureau of Plant Industry, United States. Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering, 1923
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"They Thought it was a Marvel": Arthur Melbourne-Cooper ...
Recorded interviews “My father made a film about a performing flea, Professor
Bunkum's Performing Flea, some comic situation, a flea jumping from one person
to another. Lots of scenes were taken locally.” (Audrey Wadowska to Gordon ...
Tjitte de Vries, Ati Mul, 2009
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The Attaché; Or, Sam Slick in England
Well, when a critter talks for talk sake, jist to have a speech in the paper to send to
home, and not for any other airthly puppus but electioneering, our folks call it
Bunkum. Now the State o' Maine is a great place for Bunkum — its members for ...
Thomas Chandler Haliburton, 1843
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Modest Proposals: American Satire and Political Change from ...
He says "I shed tears upon her humble grave — not of sorrow for her decease —
but of regret on account of my having lost a valuable and profitable curiosity" (
Bunkum 26). This is structured similarly to the previous anecdote: the narrator
sets ...
Todd Nathan Thompson, 2008
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BUNKUM»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
bunkum is used in the context of the following news items.
Hold Shady Colleges Accountable? That's Your Job
The rest is self-serving bunkum. Until February of this year, when 15 former Corinthian students publicly refused to pay their student loans and, ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
Climate change model environmental damage claims are just smoke
... a professor of economics and finance at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who earlier this year declared the whole debate bunkum. «The Australian Financial Review, Jul 15»
RE: Jehovah's Witnesses Lady Dies… After Rejecting Blood …
Also, of interest is your editorial on that report which was entitled -“A-G must intervene in Jehovah's Witnesses bunkum.” We request that you ... «Peace FM Online, Jul 15»
50 years after Kathyayani's rebellion
Though purity of birth and caste are the dominating narratives in the novel, by saying that all of that is bunkum in the final analysis, the novel ... «Bangalore Mirror, Jul 15»
Florida Alert! New Gun Ownership Study Is Bunkum - Pure Fiction
Fairfax, VA -(AmmoLand.com)- Once again we owe thanks to reporter Lee Williams, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, for his willingness to expose the ... «AmmoLand Shooting Sports News, Jul 15»
LittleBigPlanet 3: PS4 Review
As the story goes, Sackboy is brought to the world of Bunkum under false premises by Newton. You see, Bunkum's bereft of creativity after three ... «TVNZ, Jul 15»
The cult of the 'true' — or getting the facts right
Will some idiot suggest that Walt Disney's “Pocahontas” “is complete and utter bunkum”? I was the idiot who suggested that in a column 20 ... «Rutland Herald, Jul 15»
Bhatkal's Prison Break Plan is All Bunkum: Police
The phone call is believed to have been intercepted by intelligence agencies last month with Bhatkal referring to help from Damascus. (File/PTI). «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»
Bhatkal's Prison Break Plan is All Bunkum: Cops
HYDERABAD: Amid reports that terrorist Yasin Bhatkal is planning a prison break from Cherlapally with the help of Islamic State, the Telangana ... «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»
Green: Tigers threw themselves into quagmire
Many of them bunkum. Another tradition, stirring still from way back when, is that the standings on the Fourth of July of any season will be ... «The Detroit News, Jul 15»
