bumfoolery

I'm prepared to bet I was more spaced when I wrote this indexed register bumfoolery than you were when you wrote whatever it was you wrote...

2000 February 11, Kira Brown, “Re: Surveillance...TV prog.”, in uk.rec.motorcycles (Usenet)

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.)

2008 March 24, “We the public just won’t get excited enough”, in The Moultrie Observer

Forgetting all the odd bumfoolery going on with IE, you need to sniff the NIC and see what is really happening.

2009 October 21, Spamtastic Spastic, “Re: problem - maybe due to 3Com Wireless DSL router?”, in uk.telecom.broadband (Usenet)