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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland illustration by Jessie Wilcox Smith, Wikimedia<\/p><\/div>\n
Our beguilingly befuddled heroine, Alice (who else?), was muddling her way through the hugger-mugger of a most unruly crowd of partisan expatriates.<\/p>\n
She was feeling a tad topsy-turvy as a result of guzzling a gallon of green goo which had been labeled in a language of gobbledygook that she hadn’t even tried to decipher before drinking (a word to the wise: never wander into Wonderland thirsty).<\/p>\n
While Alice fumbled amidst the fray of white rabbits slinging wristwatches at men primly dressed as playing cards, she struggled to …<\/p>\n
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make sense of the mumbo-jumbo being muttered into a microphone somewhere in the vicinity of the looking glass.<\/p>\n
As far as she could tell, the Cheshire candidate, who was running against the\u2014you guessed it\u2014Mad Hatter, offered little more than a sly grin in a sharp suit.<\/p>\n
The last thing that Alice heard before catching a stale crumpet against her blond crown was, “All hail the Queen!”<\/p>\n
Of hearts, of course.<\/p>\n
Then, down she went, higgledy-piggledy, into a heap of chiffon and curls.<\/p>\n
With consciousness slipping swiftly away, Alice felt a vague sense of vexation at the likelihood that she would not regain her wits in time to vote.<\/p>\n
Now, how’s that for a bunch of bafflegab?<\/p>\n
Footnote: The silly terms in this entry are genuine dictionary-defined words!<\/p>\n
Take a look:<\/p>\n
Hugger-mugger:\u00a0 disorder or confusion<\/p>\n
Gobbledygook: language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand<\/p>\n
Mumbo-jumbo: meaningless incantation or ritual<\/p>\n
Higgledy-piggledy: in a jumbled, confused, or disorderly manner<\/p>\n
Bafflegab: confusing or generally unintelligible jargon<\/p>\n
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At a political rally in Wonderland \u2026 Our beguilingly befuddled heroine, Alice (who else?), was muddling her way through the hugger-mugger of a most unruly crowd of partisan expatriates. She was feeling a tad topsy-turvy as a result of guzzling … Continue reading