Shell game player at the East Side Gallery in Berlin
#eastsidegallery #thimblerigger #berlin #streetphotography

📷ILCE-6400
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He’s a bare-faced, two-bit, double-shuffle thimblerigger

To explore a megadungeon with unknown themes pick 5 PCs from these classes.
#PCClasses
Atilliator
Barber
Cantor
Carhop
Castrato
Catchpole
Court Reporter
Deer Culler
Dog Walker
Drysalter
Gandy Dancer
Grenadier
Ice Cutter
Lector
Leacher
Milkman
Osteopath
Switchboard Operator
Thimblerigger
Toad Doctor

At this stage, FIFA has lost all credibility. It's now just like a crime syndicate. I wonder whether, blinded by greed & self-importance, it realises that by discrediting itself, it discredits the very 'product' it's selling. I suppose they don't care, as long as the perks & cheques keep coming...

Hey #PortfolioDay!

I'm Maksim Strelkov, comicbook colorist. Here are some of my examples in a small thread [4/4].

More here: keepercolors.com/category/por...

Lineart: Mariano Navarro.

Day 12, Part ii, Ch3, Drive with Swithin #Forsytesaga26
-Swithin as "too primeval" to be a Forsyte 😄
-Love how Swithin's "spirit travelled" during the visit to Robin Hill.

Tons of unusual vocab in this chapter! Here's thimblerigger as word of the day:
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/t...

Thimblerigger apparently

Listen to Weird Wired World: Terminals & Basics, an album by bodworks on #SoundCloud
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The Barber, Castro, Switchboard Operator and Cantor are in a barbershop quartet, with the Thimblerigger as their manager.

Or a: by

Fraudster
Bore
Cheat
Liar
Swindler
Thimblerigger
Cutpurse
Kleptomaniac
Pirate
Embezzler
Shoplifter
Fatburglar
Mugger
Carjacker
Rustler
Poacher
Skyjacker
all of which The Donald has aspired to.

He's a bare-faced, double-shuffle,
two-bit thimblerigger!

The Word I learned today is thimblerigger, which is a delightfully archaic way of calling someone a swindler.

Temporizer
Tergiversator 1. To use evasions or ambiguities; equivocate.
Thimblerigger 1. See shell game.
Timeserve
Trumpery 4. of little or no value; trifling, worthless; rubbishy; trashy.
Turncoat
Two-faced
Weathercock
Whited sepulcher An evil person who pretends to be holy or good; a hypocrite.

Tergiversator 1. To use evasions or ambiguities; equivocate.
Thimblerigger 1. See shell game.
Timeserve
Trumpery 4. of little or no value; trifling, worthless; rubbishy; trashy.
Turncoat
Two-faced
Weathercock
Whited sepulcher An evil person who pretends to be holy or good; a hypocrite.

On the bright side, my new vocabulary notebook has had many valuable additions not just from Maureen Dowd & not just how to understand NPD. A partial list: shambolic, bilious, bloviate, rebarbative, mendacious, obfuscating, thimblerigger, tergiversator, kakistocracy, falsiloquent. Use in a sentence.