h • "His ultra-bright hey-presto look was insolent." -- Saul Bellow, The Dean's December (1982) • "'Hey presto,' he said. The door swung open." -- Georgia Byng, Molly Moon Stops the World (2004) Hfuhruhurr (see qmfbtf) Facts: This mumbled word is used to summon an invisible swordsman in the film ¡Three Amigos! (1986). "Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr" is a character in the film The Man with Two Brains (198 ). Higgledy Piggledy Meanings: • "Every which way" • In random order • Topsy turvey Facts: This phrase is a favorite of professional magician Emazdad (Clive Hemsley). He says he prefers original-sounding phrases so that he doesn't appear to be using "someone else's magic."11 Variations and Incantations: • Higgledy Piggledy Pop -- Maurice Sendak In Literature: • "By whatever higgledy-piggledy chance, space arose, time arose, laws of physics arose." -- John Archibald Wheeler, Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam (1998) • From An Appalachian Mother Goose by James Still (1998): Higgledy, piggledy, my smart hen, She lays goose eggs for gentlemen; Gentlemen come from miles away, To see goose eggs my hen doth lay. 11 TheMagicCafe.com (200 )