#flim flam man

[travsd]

On "Medicine Man": That Time Ernie Kovacs and Buster Keaton Formed a Comedy Team

This morning finds me in an ever-worsening funk of several days standing. Though there are about a half dozen notable show biz professionals born on January 23 I might conceivably add to our annals alongside ones I’ve already done, such as Ernie Kovacs, Franklin Pangborn, Raymond Griffith, Ralph Graves, Wallace Lupino, Coquelin, Randolph Scott, Bob Steele, Django Reinhardt, and about a dozen…

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"CONDAMNATION D'UN FAUX AVEUGLE," Le Petit Journal (Montreal). May 20, 1934. Page 12. ---- REGINA, Saskatchewan, 19. - Déjà condamné pour escroquerie, Frank Law vient de subir une nouvelle condamnation. Il se prétendait aveugle, et guidé par une femme, exploitait la charité publique. Ils se prétendaient frère et soeur. Ils faisaient ainsi de bonnes recettes, et menatent ensemble, les heures de quête terminée, une existence confortable.

[dontcallittimetravel]

Happy #deathday to Alexander Graham Bell, who stood on the shoulders of others and called himself tall

[futurebird]

Growing a start-up bro with half baked ideas full of the most recent buzzwords on my back so I can get venture capital.

By modulating air through a series of slits he makes sounds like:

"biiitcoooin" or "A I..."

When they try to hand him checks I reach out and grab them from underneath.

Researchers have discovered a new species of rove beetle that grows a termite puppet on its back to fool real termites into feeding it. The replica is so precise, it even mirrors the termites’ distinct body segments and has three pairs of pseudo-appendages that resemble antennae and legs.

The new beetle species (Austrospirachtha carrijoi)���found beneath the soil in Australia’s Northern Territory—emulates a termite by enlarging its abdomen, a phenomenon known as physogastry. Evolution has reshaped this body part into a highly realistic replica of a termite (as seen above), head and all, which rides on top of the rest of the beetle’s body. The beetle’s real, much smaller head peeks out from beneath its termite disguise, the authors report this month in the journal Zootaxa. The termite “puppet” may help the beetle evade detection—though termites are blind, they sense one another through touch.

Because A. carrijoi’s mouth parts are tiny, the authors think it begs food from its hosts rather than eating eggs or larvae. Worker termites feed other castes digested food in a process called trophallaxis. This adaptation has obvious advantages to the beetle. Once it is inside the nest, it can relax and spend the rest of its life living off of termite room service.

Words by Richard Pallady

[redz0nez9]

Nick Sturniolo pt 10 . Zesty ahh

[cd38]

I think it's awesome Weird Al Yankovic have done a cameo in MLP, but i don't see lots of people talking about how Soarin is voiced BY YOUR FAVOURITE ED BOY!

[theswedishpajas]

🧃🐴✨🐴🧃

[mora-sprite]

The Venn diagram of Helluva Boss and Lewberger is Alex Brightman.

[diamondnokouzai]

>mfs when they realize theyll never be a fasttalking flimflam snake oil salesman wearing a smart pinstripe suit back in the good ol days of the 1920s when you could roll into town, cause flimflam-based chaos, and then vanish without a trace

[jim-fetter-illustrations]

The trump hat is really a dunce hat!

I think it's fairly clear now. Trump is making America greater for billionaires, not working class Americans. Things will get worse before they get better as tRUMP puts it,..... but he failed to mention that during his campaign.........

[skreebat]

Well if it isnt my favorite little flim flam bastard man

[mimicben]

some old doodles i did of if the flim flam brothers were part of the apple family. I'd think they'd be the ones who would be manning the stall in the town center or maybe even still occasionally doing travelling sales to promote the farm.

I stand by the fact that in their first appearance the super speedy cider squeezy wasn't actually a scam, it did work. so in this i think they wouldn't be as scammy as they ended up being by the end of the show. As they're good sales men and when they have a genuine product there no need for them to lie.

exaggerate? yeah ofc, they're still themselves. But i think the contrast between the more humble down to earth fam next to the theatrical, exaggerating twin unicorns is very funny.

[devonia]

Goddamn this guy is dumb. Species are by definition phylogenetically defined*, but you can use different sources of information to information that phylogeny. When you build the phylogenetic tree and define clades, you're still using morphology and/or genetics. This guy doesn't know what he's talking about like. At all.

*now you can define species for other purposes --i.e., defining something as a species so you could not easily create environmental safeguards even though it's genetically extremely similar to something else-- but this dumbass is trying to argue that what he's doing is a scientific way to define a species, and it absolutely is not.

TL;DR: this guy isn't actually using the morphological species concept either, he's just hoping everyone is too stupid/mesmerized by the image he's creating of himself to realize he's just making shit up wholesale

Lol. Lmao even

[shirecorn]

Shirecorn's Ponyverse Masterpost

So for the last 2 months I've fixated on doing redesigns based somewhat loosely on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. I've had so much fun filling in the gaps and extrapolating until my version is less of a redesign and more of an AU.

"Ponies" are three species of sentient hoofed creatures that populate Equestria. They worship giant goddesses that fill the sky and ferry the moon and sun across the world.

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#Skyscraper Gods - Art, asks, posts, and fanart! Everything to do with both my little pony canon and my version of things. Includes drawings without lore, and lore without drawings. This is the tag to browse to make sure you see it all

Characters

In progress: Discord

○ The Mane Six ○ All Alicorns,

○ Rarity ○ Fluttershy ○ Flutterbat ○ Applejack ○ Pinkie Pie ○ Pinkie Pie Pegasus ○ Rainbow Dash ○ Twilight Sparkle ○ Raritwi ○ Spike

○ Princess Celestia + Princess Luna ○ Princess Cadance + Shining Armor + Flurry Heart ○ Sunset Shimmer ○ Sunburst ○ Apple Bloom + Scootaloo + Sweetie Belle (Cutie Mark Crusaders) ○ Big Macintosh/Ochard Blossom (she is a woman) ○ Granny Smith ○ Mr & Mrs Cake + Pound Cake and Pumpkin Cake ○ Maud Pie + Mudbriar ○ Trixie Lulamoon + Starlight Glimmer ○ Cozy Glow ○ Zephyr Breeze ○ Escape Room Guy + Dusty Pages ○ Berry Punch/Berryshine ○ Vapor Trail ○ Bulk Biceps ○ Tempest Shadow ○ Flim and Flam ○ Queen Chrysalis + Thorax + Ocellus (Changelings) ○ Autumn Blaze (kirin) ○ Rain Shine (kirin leader) ○ Sky Beak (hippogriff) ○ Starcatcher and Skywishes (G3)

Lore

○ The 3 pony species ○ Breeding/genetics ○ The 4 Alicorns stories ○ Gods of non-pony species? Seapony god? ○ Unicorn Horns: Starlight physics, Different shapes, Alicorn horns, Horn colors, ○ Where did Spike come from? (1) (2) ○ Your daughter has won the favor of God (fic) ○ Nightmare moon playlist ○ Cutie marks are cultural not physical: (1) (2) ○ Starlight Glimmer's hometown and her cult ○ Alicorns don't fit inside buildings ○ Discord is a headache to behold ○ Government in the world of gods ○ Gender and matriarchy ○ Scootaloo's flightless disability ○ Equestria Girls Vs Skyscraper Gods, existential horror ○ Pinkie Pie breaks the forth wall because she hopped worlds once ○ Vampire fruit bat ecology and virus ○ How ponies caught it

Meta

○ Using Skyscraper Gods as inspiration (2) ○ Why I like expanding on MLP: its simplicity ○ MLP Creature designs are already good ○ If you don't like my designs ○ I'm just having fun: (1) (2) ○ Mane 6 doodle to finished design ○ After ponies ○ Designing based on birds and animals ○ Starcatcher dove

Shitposts and Doodles

○ My fursona in mlp style ○ Daytime! Nighttime! ○ Baby god ○ Local horse fistfights the sun ○ Shining armor alicorn ○ Sunset shimmer becomes god (2) ○ Poodle rarity ○ Zephyr Breeze thinks RD is a man ○ Season 9 ○ Why is EQ an hour long ○ Being held at gunpoint to watch Equestria Girls ○ World's gayest dash ○ 18 pounds of crake

Fanart by others

○ Fanart tag

Commissions

○ People request a lot and that normal ○ Prices are low because I'm already fixated

Ko-fi requests || Classic commissions

Shirecorn Discord

Join any tier of my patreon to access my art discord

○ See WIPs, discussion, the occasional meltdown, and more ○ The content is all done through discord, so if the patreon looks dead it's all just on the server instead.

I hope you enjoy seeing my MLP creations as much as I enjoy making them!

[porcelain-requiem]

More of my Scooby-Doo anime headcanon, featuring Flim Flam.

Flim Flam is the adopted son of Professor Vincent Van Ghoul, the man who invented Mecha-Scooby. He serves as a mechanic to the gang and helps with repairing Mecha-Scooby.

Enjoy!

[power-chords]

I'm with you on your opinion of Mamet. I still really appreciate his writing even though he's now a card-carrying wingnut. For me, the most disappointing thing about his MAGA turn is that the guy made a career writing about the confidence game and the ways of con men, yet was swindled by the shabbiest, most transparent flim-flam man in all history. Makes me question his intelligence just a wee bit... 🤔

I know!!! I know! It’s insane. Tragic. A great case study in the fundamental irrationality (or emotionality) of human decision-making. He apparently hates the current American Left enough to have done a complete face-heel turn in the span of a few decades. We’re all subject to the same basic pitfalls, unfortunately, I guess I was just shocked to see the form his particular 180 took.