Balderdash and piffle

[Martin]

last night excelled themselves, they pointed out that, particularly with George W Bush's pronunciation, that he would say he's "A merkin"..........
which rather amused me, especially since they were often used by ladies of the night to conceal obvious signs of deadly disease - how appropriate!

[magnuscanis]

ROFL.

- Magnus

[Shirley]

I had to google it... and found an interesting definition on the straight dope website LOL