I wouldn't want to come up with a cockamamie adventure.
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People, I'm not here to brew up any cockamamie conspiracy theories.
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But Trump still doesn't appear to understand how cockamamie it is.
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I just had him onstage talking about his new cockamamie idea.
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It just comes in a ... Cockamamie, oy, my colon is killing me.
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Richard Nixon's two science advisers quit after disagreements over the president's cockamamie ideas.
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This is meant to ensure that not every cockamamie idea becomes a law.
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Despite Romney's cockamamie plan, fewer than 50 percent of eligible Latinos voted in 2012.
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"This isn't about some cockamamie legacy," Mr. Brown posted to Twitter after the testimony.
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All of this strikes Robert Marks, the chief concierge of San Diego's Omni Hotel, as cockamamie.
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In this wretched race there's a leitmotif of cockamamie cameos from men who are stars no more.
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If that kind of cockamamie argument is a sufficient basis to decline to defend a statute, what isn't?
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It turns out that Jill's earlier idea of using feathers to reduce noise wasn't so cockamamie after all.
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"They can't get organized enough even to present the cockamamie legislation that they're interested in passing," Obama said.
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Fortunately, at times when fashion becomes too cockamamie to hold one's attention, there is Instagram to save you.
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I THINK THERE'S A LOT – HAVING ALL THIS MONEY PILE UP ABROAD AND BORROWING UNOFFICIALLY, IT'S A COCKAMAMIE SYSTEM.
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The whole gang is back, most notably the top third of Ezra Miller's forehead, and the plot is cockamamie!
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There are so many crazy details in Pruitt's cockamamie tenure that it's easy to overlook crucial aspects of it.
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" The Los Angeles Times called it a "cockamamie suburban crime story that manages to be both bizarre and incredibly thin.
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As Lenihan wrote in Quillette, his primary purpose in conducting this cockamamie study was to keep an eye on us.
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The Haggler was a little skeptical that Payless was serious about these rules, because they sound both hostile and cockamamie.
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In the end, it comes down to this: the history of truth is cockamamie, and lately it's been getting cockamamier.
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Honestly, this almost aligns with the film's cockamamie plot, since the monsters, too, are lulled into docility by a particular frequency.
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While at State, Reines sent a bizarre rant to Gawker in which he erupted at reporters' questions and ridiculed "cockamamie" theories.
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It's really not clear whether any DHS secretary — even Kris Kobach — would be willing to go along with something so cockamamie.
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It started as a cockamamie idea hatched over dinner at an uppity cantina in the gentrified side of San Francisco's Mission District.
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I think there's a lot – having all this money pile up abroad and then borrowing against it artificially, it's a cockamamie system.
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This is a welcome change — and a much better idea than some of the cockamamie notions the struggling company has floated recently.
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More serious is the cockamamie misspelling of Degas, with an acute accent on the "e," creating what the French call dégât (damage).
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Pissaladière: in the mouth, on the tongue, the word sounds to my cockamamie ears like an expletive related to its first syllable.
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But I think if they go to these cockamamie systems taking care of all the insurances, it just gets more and more complicated.
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Kennedy's ability to uncork all this cockamamie and turn it into an artful, and quite dear, breeze of a tale is a delight.
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But again and again the show floundered, indulging in cockamamie leaps of logic and inexplicable fantasies, with barely any character development to back them up.
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I'm not sure who cooked up this whole cockamamie plan, but it certainly seems designed to take away from this woman's moment in the sun.
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And he again laid bare his cockamamie and uninformed view of the bloody civil war in Syria and his refusal to acknowledge Russia's role in making it worse.
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Smack in the middle of his cockamamie interview with The Times last week, Ivanka dropped by the Oval Office so that her daughter, Arabella, could give Grandpa a kiss.
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"A Truck Full of Money" ends on a note of tranquillity — with Mr. English philosophical, the loose ends of his various projects, cockamamie or not, tied up in a bow.
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For me, a personal creativity that I was the most proud of, the ideas that I was kinda cooking up, most of them were utterly cockamamie, but it was a great time.
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They're blocking all of that research, and yet if you want to come up with some cockamamie study to show the harms they'll throw all the money in the world at you.
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Over the summer and fall, Eden concocted a cockamamie scheme, called Operation Musketeer, to stage an Israeli invasion of Egypt, followed by an Anglo-French peacekeeping force for the "protection" of the canal.
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That is what needs to change on Wall Street, not some outdated, cockamamie notion of having the government dictate what businesses Wall Street can be in or how big a bank can be.
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Well, the team has cooked up some cockamamie scheme to prevent things from getting too snowy: hire out a bunch of the Mafia to take over and shovel the shit out of some shit.
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This sounds like a scene from some cockamamie porn movie, but it was actually all part of a fairly new treatment for erectile dysfunction that's got a surprising amount of peer-reviewed studies behind it.
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Waititi has assembled a marvelous cast to walk this cockamamie high-wire along with him: Johansson delivers one of her finest performances as a mother gamely believing that her son will come to his senses.
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From faithless electors, the emoluments clause, Russian collusion, the 25th Amendment and obstruction of justice to the Ukraine impeachment scam, the left has deployed one cockamamie scheme after another to dislodge Mr. Trump from the presidency.
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He has used a number of disingenuous arguments to justify his cockamamie proposal, including suggesting that it would have helped the grid deal with emergencies like the 2014 polar vortex, when frigid winds slammed the Northeast.
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More than collaging together different forms of language – which is pretty much what computer speak has become – Fitzgerald is attuned to the nuances of anger, frustration, know-it-all pronouncements, cockamamie summations, come-ons and call-outs.
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That could be the happy ending to a scary story if it weren't for the fact that there's no indication the Republicans in Congress won't try to come up with another cockamamie idea to raise tax revenue.
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Bad things there are, the latest being the news that Ryan Lochte and other American swimmers may have made false claims to police investigators in a cockamamie scheme to cover up their antics at a gas station.
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After failure upon failure, #NeverTrump has one more cockamamie scheme: Get the Republican National Committee to change the rules at the convention, "unbinding" delegates so that they can vote for another candidate and deny Trump the nomination.
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Tuesday was further complicated for the Blue Team because of California's cockamamie election laws, under which the party could have found itself "locked out" in three of the state's seven districts where Republican-held seats are at risk.
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I would have been dumbfounded had I not already heard it three times before from others inside and outside Uber — this cockamamie notion that the messed-up communications around all these disasters was the real problem ailing Uber.
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"A terrorist, after going through the trouble of acquiring a nuclear warhead and a missile capable of delivering it to America's shores, would be a fool to employ the ultimate weapon in such a cockamamie fashion," Disney writes.
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I would have been dumbfounded had I not already heard it three other times before that from others inside and outside Uber — this cockamamie notion that the messed-up communications around all these disasters was the real problem ailing Uber.
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The parameters for a fight are already emerging: The White House is floating a somewhat cockamamie idea for getting around the limits on defense spending, which involves funding for a Pentagon account that's exempt from the spending caps, as Axios reported last week.
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We will discuss this cockamamie twist in greater depth—in which Daenerys flies her three dragons beyond the Wall to rescue Jon Snow and his ragtag band of bros—but suffice it to say: Holy cow the White Walkers have an ice dragon!
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"It was our sense -- our strong sense -- that the nation's senior most intelligence officials would not waste the time of the president and the president elect if it was cockamamie easy to dismiss information," CNN's chief national security correspondent Jim Sciutto said.
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The cockamamie real estate market has turned the good old Upper East Side into the most stimulating gallery neighborhood in New York — and as downtown stultifies and Chelsea wilts in the shadow of Hudson Yards, the old blue-blood quarter has grown manifold.
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The rabidly anti-Trump reporters covering the summit were single-mindedly obsessed by the collusion myth – determined to prove that the Trump presidential campaign colluded with Russia to help Donald Trump win the 2016 presidential race, despite no real evidence to support this cockamamie theory.
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A woman you've been exposed to for 30 years, with many negative connotations to boot; most recently having potentially lied about sending classified material from a cockamamie basement home server, who is called "crooked" from opponents and untrustworthy from members of her own party?
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Last month, amid alarms about new cases of measles, she took to Twitter with the cockamamie claim that not being vaccinated and coming down with measles or mumps was a big-picture plus, a hardiness builder that could help a person fight cancer down the line.
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"They don't have a case on obstruction, which is why they're asking all these cockamamie questions about what do you feel, what do you think," Giuliani said, referring to Mueller's inquiry on whether Trump obstructed justice in the Russia probe by firing FBI Director James Comey last year.
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As Republicans struggled to find an Obamacare repeal plan that would get a majority in the Senate, they cooked up a cockamamie scheme at the last minute: Let's pass a "skinny" repeal bill and tell our members to vote for it but also promise that it would never become law.
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Spicer faced an impossible situation: Spicer, ever ridiculed in the media for his cockamamie defense of the White House and a seeming dumb loyalty, had been judged by the president, quite from the inauguration, to be not loyal enough and not nearly as aggressive as he should be in Trump's defense.
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If any good can come out of a terrorist attack that cost eight people their lives, perhaps it is that Sayfullo Saipov may finally provide the impetus for Congress to fix a half century of bad immigration policy and a series of cockamamie work-arounds intended to cover up the underlying stupidity.
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His whole theory is cockamamie, his whole theory is, I can interpret it, the President can have five reasons, all if which are legitimate, plus an article to immunity to do what he was doing and I think he really did it for a corrupt reason so I&aposm going to recommend that he did something wrong.
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It was the perfect mix to talk about car makers and more car makers, including Tesla and CEO Elon Musk's seemingly ill-planned plans to take the publicly traded company private, then vacillating a bit before changing his mind again, much to the chagrin of his board, the company's shareholders, and poor Kirsten, who was trying to enjoy her evening last Friday when Musk decided (for now) to leave well enough alone and drop the whole cockamamie idea of switching out Tesla's investor base.
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Rather, Lagophthalmos is the cockamamie excuse Alabama's Department of Corrections (ADOC) and Attorney General's Office are rallying around to disclaim why Alabama's last execution may have burned a man, death row inmate Christopher Brooks, alive; this is a claim federal public defenders made and supported with affidavits from a medical expert and a federal investigator that should deeply disconcert, if not demoralize, anyone who believes medieval torture has no place in 21st century America; a claim that still has not been aired in a court of law.
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In the 1950s and early 1960s, King Features Syndicate marketed a set of decalcomanias bearing full-color pictures of characters from its comic strips, including Flash Gordon, the Katzenjammer Kids, and Dagwood Bumstead. Intended for young children who might have difficulty pronouncing or reading the word "decalcomanias", these transfers were marketed as "Cockamamies", a deliberate mispronunciation. The term "cockamamy" or "cockamamie" has entered the English language with various slang meanings, usually denoting something that is wacky, strange or unusual. However, the expression "cockamamie" is attested by 1946 and reportedly as early as the 1920s.
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Best of Dark Horse became out of print in the early 1990s, and it remained unavailable when Harrison's Dark Horse catalogue was reissued in 2004. It remains the only official release to include "Poor Little Girl" and "Cockamamie Business".
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"Jeff Bridges Piling Up Credits Lee, Grant. Los Angeles Times 14 Feb 1977: d9. "I have to face the fact the story is cockamamie at best," said Siegel. "So I've been particularly painstaking to give the movie a feeling of authenticity.
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Harrison recorded two new songs for the compilation – "Poor Little Girl" and "Cockamamie Business" – at his Friar Park home studio in July 1989. Also included on Best of Dark Horse 1976–1989 was Harrison's contribution to the soundtrack for the film Lethal Weapon 2, "Cheer Down", which was issued as a single in the United States in August 1989. The latter song was co-written by Petty and co-produced by Lynne. Although Lynne played on "Poor Little Girl" and "Cockamamie Business" also, and the recordings feature a similar sound to his and Harrison's previous collaborations, production for the two songs was credited to Harrison only.
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She recorded her debut album Cockamamie in 1994 while running her own desktop publishing business. The track "Better Than Nothing" received considerable airplay on alternative rock radio stations across the United States. She later released her second album, Gun Shy Trigger Happy, in 1997. Trynin would later release a book entitled Everything I'm Cracked Up to Be in 2006 about her experience in the music industry.
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Theologian Dale Allison views the track as an example of how its composer's work "often revels in the natural world". According to Allison, the same "easy romanticism about nature" returns in "Blow Away" and songs from Gone Troppo (1982), while also contrasting with the "ecological anxiety" Harrison expresses in tracks such as "Tears of the World", "Cockamamie Business" and the Monty Python-influenced "Save the World".Allison, pp. 70–71, 153–54.
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Oliver Sava, writing for The A.V. Club, gave the episode a B+ grade, remarking that the deceleration of time juxtaposed with the fast pace inherent to the episode. He called the episode funny and described that as a pleasant shift from the preceding episodes, which dealt with poignant themes and characters. Sava praised the illustrations in the episode, especially that of the time bubble. Eric Kohn wrote that the episode was "beguiling" and "cockamamie" for IndieWire Daily.
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In July 1989, Paice took part in George Harrison's recording session at Friar Park, which resulted in three songs "Cheer Down", "Cockamamie Business" and "Poor Little Girl", which also featured Jeff Lynne, Jim Horn and Richard Tandy among others. The songs were recorded for the compilation album Best of Dark Horse 1976-1989, released in October the same year. The purpose of this album was to close Harrison's contractual obligations to Warner Brothers. "Cheer Down" was also released on the Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) soundtrack album.
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Originally distributed through Warner Bros. Records, the compilation went out of print some years later and was not reissued by EMI when that company began distributing Harrison's Dark Horse catalogue. "Poor Little Girl", "Cockamamie Business" and "Cheer Down" were omitted from Harrison's 2004 box set The Dark Horse Years 1976–1992. Reviewing the album in Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s (1990), Robert Christgau called Harrison "a simpleton, but also a genuine weirdo" whose voice can imitate wah-wah sounds as well as Robert Plant emulates the guitar of Jimmy Page.
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Herzog also hoped that Natalya would not fade into "irrelevance after helping carry the post-WrestleMania malaise". Meanwhile, the finish of the tag title match was "a bit cockamamie, and the opening tornado-rules contest was ho-hum". Herzog still found positives in the show: the four-way was "perfect" with a "multitude of near-falls and clever finish" while everyone gave their "best". Also, AJ Styles, "more than any other latter-career migrant to Vince McMahon's big top, has expeditiously qualified himself as a main-eventer", having displayed "world-class" skills in the ring and taken "some Hall of Fame bumps".
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The back of the insert has some text superimposed over the credits to Young's On the Beach album, released a year earlier. This text is reportedly the lyrics to a Homegrown-era unreleased song titled "Florida", characterized by McDonough as "a cockamamie spoken-word dream, set to the shrieking accompaniment of either Young or [Ben] Keith drawing a wet finger around the rim of a glass." When unfolded, a whole side of the insert features a lengthy article printed entirely in Dutch. It is a review of a Tonight's the Night live show by Dutch journalist Constant Meijers for the Dutch rock music magazine Muziekkrant OOR.
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Best of Dark Horse 1976–1989 is a compilation album by English musician George Harrison, released in October 1989. His second compilation, after the Capitol/EMI collection The Best of George Harrison (1976), it contains songs from Harrison's releases on his Dark Horse record label between 1976 and 1987. The album also includes a 1989 single, "Cheer Down", which was Harrison's contribution to the soundtrack of the film Lethal Weapon 2, and two tracks recorded specifically for the collection: "Poor Little Girl" and "Cockamamie Business". Despite the popularity of Harrison's work over this period – both as a solo artist with his Cloud Nine album (1987), and as a member of the Traveling Wilburys – the compilation failed to achieve commercial success.
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I don't understand why they lack the cojones to find us > guilty and that "The only reason to go through all this nonsense is to get to the stage where you can appeal it to a real court, and if necessary up to the Supreme Court". Steyn further criticized the Human Rights Commissions and Canadian politicians, stating that > they didn't like the heat they were getting under this case. Life was > chugging along just fine, chastising non-entities nobody had ever heard > about, piling up a lot of cockamamie jurisprudence that inverts the > principles of common law, and nobody paid any attention to it. Once they got > the glare of publicity from the Maclean's case, the kangaroos decided to > jump for the exit.
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All studio albums featured at least one bonus track, while the individual digital editions of the albums featured additional bonus tracks. Despite the title of the set, not every track from Harrison's Dark Horse years appears. The song "Lay His Head", which was the B-side to "Got My Mind Set on You", and the two tracks that Harrison recorded for the compilation Best of Dark Horse 1976–1989 – "Cockamamie Business" and "Poor Little Girl" – are all omitted from The Dark Horse Years. "Cheer Down", which was Harrison's contribution to the 1989 film Lethal Weapon 2, is also not included, although a live version appears on Live in Japan, and non-album single "I Don't Want to Do It" is missing as well.
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"Mexico" – described with "Kansas" as "solo Young performances—short, fragmentary and hallucinogenic" "Mexico" was played a handful of times in 2007 and 2008, and appears in the concert film Neil Young Trunk Show. "Florida" – "some cockamamie spoken-word dream (printed out, for reasons no one can remember, in the booklet for Tonight's the Night), set to the shrieking accompaniment of either Young or Keith drawing a wet finger around the rim of a glass". The lyrics of "Florida" were superimposed over the credits for On the Beach on the insert that accompanied the original vinyl release of Tonight's the Night. "Kansas" – described with "Mexico" as "solo Young performances—short, fragmentary and hallucinogenic" "Kansas" was played on occasion in 1999, 2007 and 2008, and appears in the concert film Neil Young Trunk Show.
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