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Humor, Gag-a-day. The Wizard of Id is a daily newspaper comic strip created by American cartoonists Brant Parker and Johnny Hart. Beginning November 16, 1964, [ 1] the strip follows the antics of a large cast of characters in a shabby medieval kingdom called "Id". The title is a play on The Wizard of Oz, combined with the Freudian psychological ...
Look up flim-flam in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Flim-flam may refer to: Confidence trick, a fraud scheme. Flim-Flam (album), a 1991 album by saxophonists Steve Lacy and Steve Potts. Flim-Flam!, a 1982 book by James Randi. Flim Flam, a character from Scooby-Doo. Flim Flam (horse), a Hanoverian gelding.
In an 1879 discussion of gambling in Chicago, an "old-timer" is quoted as saying, " [G]oodness knows how they live, it’s mighty hard times with the most of them; in the season they make a bit on base ball, or on the races, and then, you know, 'there’s a sucker born every minute', and rigid city legislation drives the hard-up gambler, who ...
Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions is a 1980 book by magician and skeptic James Randi about paranormal, occult, and pseudoscience claims. The foreword is by science fiction author Isaac Asimov. Randi explores topics which he says that scientists and the media are too willing to promote without skepticism and proper expertise.
Scam. A scam, or a confidence trick, is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using a combination of the victim's credulity, naïveté, compassion, vanity, confidence, irresponsibility, and greed. Researchers have defined confidence tricks as "a distinctive species of ...
Certificate – X, U, PG, R, G (from the film certificates) Charged – ION. Charlie – C ( NATO phonetic alphabet) Chartered accountant – CA. Chief – CH. Chlorine – CL (chemical symbol) Chromosome – X or Y. Church – CH or CE ( Church of England) or RC ( Roman Catholic) Circa – C.
Brief character summary. Sarah. 1–8. Mayberry telephone operator who often eavesdrops on calls and has brief conversations with characters in at least 19 episodes. Juanita Beasley. 1–5. Waitress at the Bluebird Diner who Barney talks to on the telephone as his second girlfriend in ten episodes. First mentioned in S1E26 "Andy Forecloses".
The Flim-Flam Man. The Flim-Flam Man (titled One Born Every Minute in some countries) is a 1967 American comedy film directed by Irvin Kershner, featuring George C. Scott, Michael Sarrazin, and Sue Lyon, based on the 1965 novel The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man by Guy Owen. The movie has well-known character actors in supporting roles, including ...