I Googled "mumpsimus" after reading this story b/c I thought it'd be a better name for my blog than "farragos".    From Wordnik.com.  [In a Name] Reference

As to the dapper little compiler of farragos, mentioned some time since, he had arrayed himself in as many patches and colors as Harlequin, and there was as fierce a contention of claimants about him, as about the dead body of Patroclus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon] Reference

The above rubbish, contained in this leaflet, a laughable farrago of misinformation and poppycock albeit laced as such farragos often are with a number of truths, is what UKIP MEPs are offering voters to 'inform' them with regard to the most serious threat of our time: manmade climate change.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

I am not quite clear about the story, but it's one of those farragos of rubbish they make young men learn at public schools.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charlotte's Inheritance] Reference

In one of those farragos of stupidity and inaccuracy which are syndicated and sent from abroad to America, I found the following piece with the stuff and nonsense habitually worked off on the American press as "foreign correspondence".    From Wordnik.com.  [Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography] Reference

As to the dapper little compiler of farragos mentioned some time since, he had arrayed himself in as many patches and colors as harlequin, and there was as fierce a contention of claimants about him, as about the dead body of Patroclus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon] Reference

There only remain to be enumerated the three precious farragos entitled "The Ephesiacs, or Habrocomas and Anthia" -- "the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference

But if you give credit to all the farragos of these trumpery impostors, you will never have a moment to yourself, nor a guinea in your purse.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cecilia] Reference

The featuring of peerless talents like Eric and Ern,Potter,Ronnie Barker,Cooke and other many talented actors,writers,directors,comedians,etc. is far less prominent now for the sake of making a profit,and I suggest the sad types who decry this era and the people who always did their best to make UK TV the best in the world,not eternally succeeding but attempting to do so with great merit,should watch interminably wretched farragos such as The Only Way is Essex,What Katie Did Next,Peter Andre,Kerry Katona,etc. and truly realise how low in scraping the barrel we have now reached,and how frightening a prospect it is we may soon be scraping lower.    From Wordnik.com.  [One nation Christmas television | Joe Moran] Reference