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The segment usually began with Martin leaping onto Lane's piano ; in one episode the real piano was secretly replaced with a phony one.
Browning and North placed a phony detour sign to send the mail truck onto an isolated mountain road, while Browning's other accomplices blocked the road by staging an accident.

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The phony producer asked her if she would like to be in one of his shows.
As a result, she consulted medical authorities and learned that the devices her quack `` doctor '' was using were phony.
During the 1980s, she played Ruth Perkins, the mother of Allison Perkins, who had kidnapped the newborn baby of heroine Viki Lord Buchanan under orders from phony evangelist and mastermind criminal Mitch Laurence.
An extremely talented, brilliant writer, but she was a phony character, I'm sorry to say.
After failing to join the X-Men, Chamber returned to London, where he hooked up with pop star Sugar Kane, creating a publicity blitz for the singer, but she and Chamber parted company after her manager staged her abduction by anti-mutant forces following a phony tabloid story about her pregnancy by Jono.
As part of the arrangements, Nikolai had created a phony genealogy for Praskovia claiming that she was the long-lost descendant of a Polish nobleman by the name of Kovalevskii.
She is all campy, impossible woman, a lovable phony with the hint of tigress about her, so ridiculously artificial that she just has to be for real ".
They show Mary a phony letter in which Tom tells her that he is abandoning her for her own good and that she would be better off marrying Barnaby.
However, Marge says she dislikes the situation, including the " phony doctors ".
She also appeared on the TV series Alice, in which she played a kleptomaniac phony medium.
Although he obtains phony papers for her, she refuses to pay and attempts to strangle him.

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There was something phony about all this gun waving -- something not quite what it seemed in the detailed directions for finding the police.
William Glasser, however, refers to the DSM as " phony diagnostic categories ", arguing that " it was developed to help psychiatrists – to help them make money ".
Planting phony information into the OSS was intended to misdirect the resources of the Allies.
An American, Kurt Muse, was apprehended by the Panamanian authorities, after he had set up a sophisticated radio and computer installation, designed to jam Panamanian radio and broadcast phony election returns.
There was also a phony author photo of Bachman on the dust jacket, credited to Claudia.
When asked in the phony order form on which one was your favorite, the three choices were " R9 ( Standard Force )", " RX ( Tentacle Force )", and " R13 ( Anchor Force )".
A few authentic elements were added to the collective image: poets reading their poems, for example, but even this was made unintelligible by making all of the poets speak in some kind of phony Bop idiom.
The phony college's equally nonexistent football team had its scores carried by major newspapers including The New York Times before the hoax was discovered.
In 1975 it was extended again after another arrest, this time on charges of securities fraud and mail fraud in connection with a phony " medical consulting " company he had formed in Kansas City.
International Artists put out a Live LP c. August 1968, which was old demo tapes and outtakes dating back to 1966 for the most part, with some phony applause added.
The last strip was the culmination of a story arc where Annie was kidnapped from her hotel by a wanted war criminal from eastern Europe who checked in under a phony name with a fake passport.
He replied that it was "... very fake and phony.
Shortly after the destruction of the Soviet base, a phony defector fed Sweden false information that Hamilton was a double agent, working for Soviet Union.
It was found out that the Swedish spy Stig Sandström ( who was based on the real-life convicted spy Stig Bergling ) was behind the information used by the phony defector.
Thomas Whiteside's 1978 book, Computer Capers, documents how a programmer at a mail-order company diverted money from rounded-down sales commissions into a phony account for three years before he was caught.
Shortly after mounting an unprecedented presidential campaign, Nour was jailed on forgery charges critics called phony ; he was released on 18 February 2009.
Lebanese journalist Hala Jaber compared it to " a phony company which rents office space for a month and then vanishes ," existing " only when it was committing an atrocity against its targets ..."

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In addition to the phony prices, other common verbiage includes: " my loss is your gain ", " received as a gift ", " won it at a raffle or company award ", " I am an audio installer ", " having a baby ", " need to pay rent or a fine ", " already have one don't need 2 ", " moving out of town ", " great buy!

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From its ideological framework, the Communist Party understands imperialism as the pinnacle of capitalist development: the state, working on behalf of the few who wield disproportionate power, assumes the role of proffering " phony rationalizations " for economically driven imperial ambition as a means to promote the sectional economic interests of big business.
Turns out the money was heisted by a phony bank examiner and his mole working at the bank ( Hughes ).

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Rather, it is typical of the thousands of quacks who use phony therapeutic devices to fatten themselves on the miseries of hundreds of thousands of Americans by robbing them of millions of dollars and luring them away from legitimate, ethical medical treatment of serious diseases.
I used the alias of Robert C. Richards, gave the first three letters and the first and last figure of the license number on the agency heap, but a couple of phony numbers in between.
In 1960, Stan Freberg did a parody on the Payola Scandal, by calling it " Old Payola Roll Blues ", a two sided single, where the promoter gets an ordinary teenager, named Clyde Ankle, to record a song, for Obscurity Records, entitled " High School OO OO ", and then tries to offer the song to a Jazz radio station with phony deals that the Disc Jockey just won't buy it.
* A 7090 / 1401 installation is featured in the motion picture Dr. Strangelove, with the 1403 printer playing a pivotal role in the plot ( it is the hiding place for a transistor radio ; which, when found and turned on by one of the three characters played by Peter Sellers in the film, reveals that the nuclear attack ordered by the deranged Air Force base commander is phony, and must be stopped at all costs ).
Let them henceforth pay for their own publicity, instead of trying to get it on the cheap by launching phony attacks against me.
" In a phone conversation with Nixon on April 28, 1971, Colson said, " This fellow Kerry that they had on last week ... He turns out to be really quite a phony.
* The Great Man, adapted from a novel by TV writer Al Morgan, centered on a tribute broadcast for Herb Fuller, a Godfrey-like figure killed in a car crash whose genial public demeanor concealed a dissolute phony.
" Telephone and mail solicitors, trading on ' white guilt ' and on government pressure to advertise in minority-oriented publications, are inducing thousands of businessmen to buy ads in phony publications.
The person being set up is sent out of the house for two days on a phony premise, such as a vacation.
Sometimes fraudsters will use phishing techniques to hijack a legitimate member accounts on an online auction site — typically an account with a strongly positive online reputation — and use it to set up a phony online store.
The Harvard Lampoon satire of The Lord of the Rings, entitled Bored of the Rings, deliberately used phony blurbs by deceased authors on the inside cover.
" manipulated the baggage of big words with which the phony liberal school has been filling empty heads for fifty years on end ".
Dirty tricks occurred across the state, including phony letters from Boards of Elections telling people that their registration through some Democratic activist groups were invalid and that Kerry voters were to report on Wednesday because of massive voter turnout.
Although he had grown up on a subsistence farm and had an active interest in Vermont agriculture — especially in the type of hog shown in the picture — this had the effect of making him appear to be a phony.
Once again, on a white background, the ad showed a phony game site screenshot, with a logo similar to IGN's, spelling out " GNO. com " and the phrase " You can't spell ignorance without GNO.

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