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  1. 1938 Packard
    Is your car insurance company raking you? https://www.kamloopsthisweek.com/news/getting-raked-over-auto-insurance-rates-1.23801707 High premiums for not enough coverage? You're a rube.
  2. 1938 Packard
    Google only shows what it wants you to see.
  3. 1938 Packard
    It defines a con job, not a con man.
  4. 1938 Packard
    Google algorithms not being tuned in to a particular thing does not make the thing non existent.
  5. 1938 Packard
    Seems the Google algorithms aren't tuned into it. They only show what's popular.
  6. 1938 Packard
    And you still didn't know the term until just now.
  7. 1938 Packard
    Yeah, well... You probably never heard the term, "diddling" either until you read that.
  8. 1938 Packard
    The whole article is about why people like books about con games... Rakes
  9. 1938 Packard
    The phone has been in my pocket all day. No ring.
  10. 1938 Packard
    I'll wait for it to ring. Probably the pharmacy calling.
  11. 1938 Packard
    Thieves just used bolt cutters.
  12. 1938 Packard
    So? It still doesn't fit the article's context.
  13. 1938 Packard
    It had a lot of brand name toys, but more importantly, a lot of custom designed toys that couldn't be bought anyplace else. Wooden boats powered by recycled Victrola mechanisms, for example.
  14. 1938 Packard
    Dashing through the snow... Seems a bit non sequitur in the context of the article.
  15. 1938 Packard
    "Rakish" isn't used.
  16. 1938 Packard
    No, the toy store chain. Taber's Toy Land.
  17. 1938 Packard
    And he succeeded in getting it.
  18. 1938 Packard
    Or in this particular case, "rake" job. No use of "rakish" in the article.
  19. 1938 Packard
    So? Does that mean he's going to stay down and stop trying?
  20. 1938 Packard
    "Americans love a good rake." Close to the eighth paragraph https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/06/books/making-books-a-con-artist-s-criminal-charm.html
  21. 1938 Packard
    Taber's was better, anyway. You didn't miss much from Toys R Us.
  22. 1938 Packard
    Aren't guns in the schools supposed to be a problem? There they are, at least two guns... at a school. No mass shooting. Guns don't cause violence where human intent is absent.
  23. 1938 Packard
    https://www.thelocal.es/20130620/military-conman-faces-last-salute third paragraph
  24. 1938 Packard
    So, did anyone get shot?
  25. 1938 Packard
    No, you can get raked by swindler as well.
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