And while Mr Obama said then that he had no time for such "silliness", there was room enough at the annual reporters' shindig in Washington to make a joke of the birthers and their insistence, in contravention of all fact and sense, that the president was born in Africa or Indonesia.
Fatboy Slim's Big Beach Bootique, an all-the-trimmings shindig with lasers and pyrotechnics to make a Muse fan weep, is a bit of a fixture in the DJ's hometown of Brighton.
The Bagger is going to make a rare appearance tonight – See the Man Do Real, Actual Reporting – at the National Board of Review's shindig at Tavern on the Green.
Last Saturday, we teamed up with Mashable to throw a shindig celebrating Social Media Day at Milk Studios.
The president delivered the joke at the White House press corps' annual shindig, but it makes an apt metaphor for the past week.
He went on, almost accidentally it seemed, to create Six-Five Special and Oh Boy!, the two shows that introduced rock'n'roll to British audiences, before decamping to America to make the legendary Shindig!
For instance, when stalking a celebrity at a shindig, "Do not line up with the hoi polloi.
Either that or the chairs actually belonged to him and he was lending 'em to Junius for a shindig.
When the now ninety-nine-year-old painter Dorothea Tanning met the choreographer George Balanchine, at a shindig for Surrealists in the forties, a collaboration was born.
I definitely fell down a Shindig! wormhole after that.
It was quite a shindig for a film that cost chump change, in Hollywood terms.
