thingamabob in a sentence

"And if it's a thing you're referring to, then you'd say ` hand me that thingamabob / thingummy / whatchamacallit over there', " explained Whatsisface as it wiped its mouth with the back of its hand.
Charles de Gaulle of France criticized the UN, famously calling it " le machin " ( " the thingamabob " ), and was not convinced that a global security alliance would help in maintaining world peace, preferring that the UN direct defense treaties between countries.
Friends Bob the Tomato ( Thingamabob ), Petunia Rhubarb ( Vogue ), Mr . Lunt ( S-Cape ) and Junior Asparagus ( Ricochet ) all reveal their superhero personas to LarryBoy and Alfred ( Archibald Asparagus ), and team up to take on Dr . Flurry, who is determined to freeze the town in fear.
Tragically, I could not stay for dessert because whatsisface at the office would be waiting for the latest from my word beat by five in the evening, and it was already three ( took three hours to get through the main meal ) After burping our farewells, I got into my thingamabob and drove back to the whatchamacallit to write out the doohickey for whatsisface.
It's been weeks, though, since anyone thought the A's had much of a shot to get involved in this wild-card thingamabob, and in the absence of on-field drama ( hey, even the teams that have been in the race for three months have trouble drawing ), the story in Oakland has been entirely off the field.

:: just as an informal benchmark, I double-checked the above diffs using TextWrangler's compare feature ( which I think uses the standard diff routine built into unix ) . it did a better job catching the differences on the'Rockall'diff, but failed as badly on the'Goodwin Sands'diff . is wikipedia's diff routine written in PHP, or is it a prefab, pre-compiled thingamabob?

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