"fuckery"

[Jonathan Lighter]

A blend of "fucking  + mockery."

JL

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:35 AM, Russ McClay <mcclay at taolodge.com> wrote:

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> I've only come across "fuckery" twice.  Once
> here with this thread and another time in
> an article, in which it used in a completely
> different way.  Had to share!
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> The CIA helped Seaga and his cohorts in
> Colombia's Cali cartel pour weapons and coke into
> Jamaica during the 1980 elections, when he
> defeated Manley. But while Seago was smuggling
> blow and guns in by the ton, the DEA was pushing
> him to burn down the nation's ganja fields.
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> "What a fuckery that mon there chant!" laments one
> grower of a Seaga emissary's antidrug rhetoric.
> "Him come up fi' tell we is pure orange and
> banana we must plant again.  An' him know ganja
> we haffi grow up here to survive!"
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> "High Times" magazine, September 1995, Page 16
> Review of _Born Fi' Dead: A Journey Through the
> Jamaican Posse Underworld_ by Lauries Gunst
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> Russ
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