rigamarole

rigamarole
    n 1: a set of confused and meaningless statements [syn:
         {rigmarole}, {rigamarole}]
    2: a long and complicated and confusing procedure; "all that
       academic rigmarole was a waste of time" [syn: {rigmarole},
       {rigamarole}]
    

52 Moby Thesaurus words for "rigamarole":
      absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash,
      bibble-babble, blabber, blather, bombast, claptrap, double-talk,
      drivel, drool, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flummery, folderol,
      fudge, fustian, gabble, galimatias, gammon, gibber, gibberish,
      gibble-gabble, gobbledygook, hocus-pocus, humbug, jabber, jargon,
      mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense, pack of nonsense,
      palaver, prate, prattle, rant, rigmarole, rodomontade, rubbish,
      skimble-skamble, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, trash,
      trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vaporing, waffling