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  • I was reminded of the contrasting approach that Penn & Teller have used to much success, in which they tell the audience they are flim-flamming them, and then explain how they did it.

    Weekend Items KaneCitizen 2007

  • I was reminded of the contrasting approach that Penn & Teller have used to much success, in which they tell the audience they are flim-flamming them, and then explain how they did it.

    Archive 2007-04-01 KaneCitizen 2007

  • If Obama gives a speech criticizing Clinton, he's a misogynist jerk, a "ghetto hustler", who is flim-flamming and jiving the American public.

    Gallup: Obama's Big Race Speech Potentially Fixing Wright Situation 2009

  • You are not creatingbalance you are flamming the boards with the rhetoricand talking points of the Hillaryteam and it is blatantly obvious to all posters.

    Happy Hour Roundup 2009

  • Btw, some nasty anony is back flamming me on my blog.

    Useless Updates Jerine 2009

  • But I'll let Penny's and others 'commentary stand in for my own, you fail to more conscientiously engage and, in effect, that results in flim-flamming the subject matter endlessly.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Well they named the capital city of ARIZONA after this bird and even a missle and STAR TREK TNG had a star ship named for it and BATTLE OF THE PLANETS had a ship called after it becuase the ship could transform into a big flamming bird on September 1, 2008 at 3: 55 am | Reply name

    PHOENIX n. a mythical bird said to burn itself and rise again from it’s ashes. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2006

  • However, the actual incidents (as opposed to the preparation and debriefing) are fewer and farther between than I surmised from reading the box cover, and their second-to-last achievement was flim-flamming a bunch of idealistic college kids who had not yet learned to think critically and skeptically.

    Archive 2005-08-01 KaneCitizen 2005

  • He is a flamming homsexual who pushes his views on sexuality on everyone else.

    Avril Lavigne Begs Perez Hilton To Stop ‘Writing Bad Things About Her’ 2007

  • If your goal is to have good conversations in blog comment pages, not a very realistic one I might add, then in my experience you have to work very hard to ignore the flames, studiously avoid flamming others and concentrate on those willing to talk to you on a more civil level.

    Think Progress » BREAKING: Bush Admits Authorizing Secret Domestic Spying Program 2005

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