See bumfoolery on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2000 February 11, Kira Brown, “Re: Surveillance...TV prog.”, in uk.rec.motorcycles (Usenet):",
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"ref": "2008 March 24, “We the public just won’t get excited enough”, in The Moultrie Observer:",
"text": "He refers to the Pentagon shipping two 19-cent washers from South Carolina to Texas at a cost $1 million and spending $293,451 sending an 89-cent washer from South Carolina to Florida. If this is true, it certainly tops their old well-noted scandals of $90 hammers and $600 toilet seats. (Those numbers may not be the exact — giver or take — but they do illustrate the bumfoolery of the incidents.)",
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"ref": "2009 October 21, Spamtastic Spastic, “Re: problem - maybe due to 3Com Wireless DSL router?”, in uk.telecom.broadband (Usenet):",
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"ref": "2010, Rick Senley, Moustache Man and the Deadly Whiskers, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 298:",
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