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Nova nosographia ophthalmica, John Taylor, 1766
"John Taylor, commonly known as the “Chevalier” was a notorious itinerant oculist. He studied under Cheselden and spent most of his life traveling throughout Europe and even into Asia, couching cataracts (often with disastrous results) and selling his miraculous ointments and eye washes. Chevalier Taylor’s false and bombastic claims, his surgical blunders, and his shameless pursuit of money earned him the loathing of honest ophthalmologists."
#art#john taylor#1700s#illustration#eyes#books#nosographie ophthalmica#the chevalier#black and white#ophthalmology#huckster#anatomy
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Topa Topa Huckster Double IPA (Picked up at Windmill Farms). A 4 of 4. Bright tropical fruit and white wine-like notes dominate in the nose, and this is a big fruity presence in the body, too. You can tell this is big and robust with a bigger malt presence and alcohol/bitterness towards the finish. A relatively non-standard DIPA profile, and quite enjoyable.
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Todays Word Of The Day is: Shill
Shill originates from early 1900s carnival slang in the United States. The word describes someone who pretends to support something to trick others.
#unscramblerer#word of the day#promoter#influencer#marketer#salesperson#pitchman#huckster#spokesperson#advertiser#peddler#hawker#endorser#booster#propagandist#supporter#advocate
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Eternal Warrior #6
#eternal warrior#master darque#not a real magician#huckster#intense#tattoos#barry windsor smith#valiant comics#comics#90s comics
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Grifters is also a perfectly good word
These Jezebel commenters are right and they should say it
#influencer#huckster#snake oil#shill#fraud#you don’t need 40 products on your face just to go out of the house#ulta beauty#Grifters#grift#grifters gonna grift#fuck grifters
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#Hulk Hogan#Hogan's Beach shop#ron howard#hulkamania#huckster#grifters gonna grift#Hogan sucks#Meme#tumblr scumblr#tumblr fumblr#tumblr fuckery#rest stop#Gay#urban legends#Something about Mary#funny#wwe
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Just got my new pair of Trump rightwingtips -- but they're missing a sole.
#trump#politics#assassination attempt#rightwing#left#tennis shoes#sneakers#grift#monetization#huckster
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Space hawk
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#blank#place#distance#topological_space#outer_space#quad#blank_space#outer#term#clearance#pitch#huckster#peddle#war_hawk#vend#monger#clear_the_throat#kestrel#falcon#eagle
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I don't want anyone to be harmed by this utter fuckwit - but if someone is, I hope to Ghu they sue her for everything she's got.
DO NOT PUT ESSENTIAL OILS IN YOUR EYES.
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The Hucksters (1947)
#deborah kerr#the hucksters#m#gable's performance was sooo boring and they gave kerr (rhymes with star) too little but i got much more out of this than i expected <3#the print on criterion is gorgeous
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actually my favorite thing is when Taylor low-key speaks on the apocalypse
#she said oh yeah they said the end is coming#Taylor is simply such a gifted person/artist down to her core#in the most natural/intuitive/instinctive way#and it’s like. oh yeah she’s tracking that TOO#it’s also like when she speaks on people being high/on drugs#she said thought I wouldn’t notice but I DID#Taylor is accused of this often but her vision is never myopic#she is taking it all in#industry disrupters and soul deconstructors and smooth talking hucksters#out gladhanding each other#she said hello????? the end is coming?????#the focus of the song is the love story#BUT SHE IS TAKING NOTES#SHE IS BUILDING THE WORLD#the girls carrying their shoes down in the lobby of it all#‘Taylor’s poetry is like a teenage girl’s’ could not be less true in fact
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truly no one has ever wanted to be in a cult more than john lennon wanted to be in a cult. frankly astonishing he was never really in one considering he might have been the most Ideal Cult Mark in the History of the World.
#not counting the maharishi since he really wasn't there for very long#and was that a cult? that question is above my pay grade#but there's an alternate timeline where john lennon survived into the 80s/90s and ended up in like heaven's gate or something#but seriously the amount of like hucksters and snake oil salesmen and otherwise people of dubious authority that john knew and was like#“no man this guy is legit trust me” is astonishing
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Would you take the trip to Mars?
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reading about edmund curll, an important figure in erotic literature, and didn't know i was about to stumble across the most chaotic wikipedia page ever... i love historical literary drama
critics have always been the same
and of course where there is 1700s literary drama, alexander pope is always involved. no wonder byron idolized him and was involved in a seven-year long public debate concerning him... honoring him the way he'd like to be remembered (see: the pope-bowles controversy). don juan rly was a tribute to him. we need a series about the restoration era (behn/wilmot/dryden/etc) & of course the young romantics (byron/shelleys/keats/etc) and now we also need the augustan era (pope/montagu/now curll, etc.). someone please pplease please let me do an anthology series (in the vein of ahs or black mirror) about literary communities throughout history already!
cartoonish levels of opportunistic behavior. manipulating every situation to work in his favor like a sitcom character...
the most informative thing i've learned from edmund curll's wiki page is that in the 1700s, the name of the U.S. state "maryland" inspired a whole genre of erotica novels based on puns of the idea of a "[woman's name]-land," as evidenced by "bettyland." staples of the genre included colonization as a metaphor for patriarchal sexual conquest, & erotic descriptions of the female body which borrow from descriptions of natural landscape. much to think about re: postcolonial feminism - this quite literally proves the idea that colonization is inherently patriarchal
#EARLY HUCKSTERISM#alexander pope#the dunciad#wikipedia rabbit hole#wikipedia#edmund curll#literature#english literature#lit#books#feuds#literary feuds#history#funny#hilarious#memes#roast#slander#lord byron#literary history#english history#publication#publishing#long#my writing#publishers#pamphlet wars
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who is joseph smith?
Dude who founded the Church of Latter Day Saints, AKA Mormonism. He claimed he'd been visited by an angel, who gave him these golden plates containing additional Bible books to translate. The "translated" books were literary vomit, and the take on Christianity he came up with was really, really racist.
More info: CES Letter: My Search For Answers To Mormon Doubts Joseph Smith and the criminal justice system The Mountain Meadow Massacre Mormons and Native Americans Mormons and Black People
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