Things are rapidly getting out of hand in that regard; cars are being outfitted with so many electronic
geegaws that it won't be long before human drivers will be unneeded altogether.
There were also books by and about Twain, steamboat models, jaw harps and pennywhistles, and all manner of other geedunk and
geegaws. In response to my questioning, the two older southern ladies who staffed the cash register patiently explained that the huckleberries were not local but grown deep in the Ozarks.
The attraction of apps is mostly novelty--cool little
geegaws that don't cost much and don't do much, either.
Monitors and schoolmasters were directed to eschew corporal punishment and offer rewards and punishments by giving or taking away tickets that could be redeemed for books, small
geegaws and toys.
I don't need to buy more clothes, or
geegaws for our house, or all sorts of nonessential things, but our country needs Obama.
THIS COLUMN IS written in those exceedingly dark days just before Christmas, when the proliferation of cheap and utterly unnecessary plastic electronic gizmos and
geegaws is unusually prominent.
A woman I know recently returned from a CBA convention (formerly an acronym for Christian Booksellers Association but now just CBA because its members sell as many faith-based
geegaws as they sell books) where she saw posters of George W.
In general terms, Richard predicts that consumer trends will veer more toward `experiences' than products in 2006 ( meaning you're more likely to receive vouchers for spa treatments, parachute jumps and other activities than dust-collecting
geegaws.
This technique was ever present in the mantra that, instead of costing New York money, the piece would in fact benefit the metropolis through tourist dollars (a post-Gates Bloomberg-administration press release asserted that the project ended up generating no less than a quarter-billion dollars of economic activity); in the unapologetic tchotchke stands at park entrances where crowds queued to buy Gates-related
geegaws; and particularly in Christo and Jean-Claude's donation of the millions of dollars in proceeds from these sales to local nature charities, a gesture whose genuine bigheartedness was dimmed only by the ostentation with which it was endlessly hammered home.
so there's this fabulous - huge furniture 4454 with - jungle designs o(h)n on t(h)he on (h) the cushi(h) ons you kn(h)ow and then there's 4455 S- | [laughter] 4456 J- all kinds of
geegaws and.....
There were lots of big iron thingies that go whoosh in the night -- all those platemakers, stackers, folders and other
geegaws that put the word "paper" in "newspaper." But a substantial portion of the floor was covered by the equipment where your reporters, editors and salespeople spend most of their lives.
Did you know all the
geegaws and curlicues hanging off the several new "Mediterranean-style" condo towers in town are actually molded styrofoam?
The countess's long fleshy face emerges, ruinously ogling, from a stack of ostrich feathers and pendant
geegaws. As the daughter of one earl and the wife of another, she rests her beefy elbow on an ermine-lined cloak as she toys with her ginger locks.
