The students who bluffed about maths were just as likely as the non-bluffers to admit that they had skipped school recently, for example.
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Bluffers seem to be everywhere: the share of Americans who believe that most people can be trusted has fallen from 48% in 1984 to just 31% today.
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It describes a hand too weak to play against an opponents' normal value betting range, but one that is still strong enough to have showdown value against bluffers.
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The Bluffers is a 1915 American short film directed by B. Reeves Eason.
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Residents of Diamond Bluff are known as "The Bluffers." The community's ZIP code is 54014.
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Each episode is approximately 25 minutes long. Most of the stories are centered on Clandestino doing or plotting something that will either destroy Bluffoonia's last forest or otherwise disrupt the Bluffers' lives, and the Bluffers' attempts to thwart him. Some of the stories are centered on the Bluffers' plans to steal Clandestino's "Secret of Getting It All" so they can use it to remove him from power. This secret, which plays a major part in most episodes, is never successfully stolen or even revealed throughout the series.
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The Scarborough Bluffs seen from Bluffers Park. The Scarborough Bluffs, also known as The Bluffs, is an escarpment in the Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. There are nine parks along the bluffs, with Bluffers Park being the only one with a beach. Forming much of the eastern portion of Toronto's waterfront, the Scarborough Bluffs stands above the shoreline of Lake Ontario.
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Celebrity Bluff is a Philippine television comedy game show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Eugene Domingo, it premiered on November 17, 2012. The show originally featured Jose Manalo and Wally Bayola as the original "Gangnammms" (also known as "Celebrity Bluffers"), which later consisted of Celebrity Bluffers, Boobay and Brod Pete. The show concluded on June 30, 2018 with a total of 213 episodes.
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In 1906 skeptics in the European aviation community had converted the press to an anti-Wright brothers stance. European newspapers, especially those in France, were openly derisive, calling them bluffeurs (bluffers).The Prize Patrol Wright Brothers.org. Retrieved October 1, 2012.
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The Bluffers, which was based on one of Deitch's ideas, was also co- produced by him. He directed the 1966 film Alice of Wonderland in Paris. In 1966, he worked with Czech animator Jiří Trnka on a feature-length animated film adaptation of The Hobbit.
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His first role was in Switchblade Sisters. Voldstad went to high school with the daughter of Hal Kanter, who got him roles in Bluffers (with Bob Hope) and Chico and the Man. Voldstad also had roles in Stripes and The Blue and the Gray. In 1993, he also appeared in Leprechaun with Warwick Davis.
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Andreia Leal was 37 years old when the show began and lives in Porto. Her secret is "I worked as an escort", and Ivo discovered it on day 66. She was considered one of the best players and bluffers inside the House. She was a member of the Toupeira group and was a friend of Hugo F., Ana Isabel and Ivo.
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According to one historian, the "Chalk Bluffers, soon recognized the advantages of the Brooklyn situation, came over to the new town, and Chalk Bluff vanished from sight."Thompson and West, ibid, p. 70. With the arrival of a post office in 1855, Brooklyn was renamed Red Dog because another Brooklyn existed. That said, by 1860, a mining camp called Chalk Bluff was established east of Brooklyn.
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Cliffside is home to a number of parks, most of which is near the waterfront and the Scarborough Bluffs including Scarborough Crescent Park, Scarborough Heights Park, and Midland Ravine Park, and the eastern portion of Bluffer's Park. Bluffers Park hosts a number of amenities including the Bluffer's Park Yacht Club. Municipal parks in Cliffside are operated by the Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation Division.
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Three contestants or couples attempt to outwit one another by answering questions to advance to the succeeding rounds. In round one called Fact or Bluff, three players individually answer questions. The celebrity bluffers also referred to as gangnammmm will either help or trick the players by providing answers to the questions. The players have to decide whether their chosen bluffer's answer is a fact or a bluff.
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For a short period of time, Napoles was among the three "celebrity bluffers" in the season finale of the late-night comedy game show Celebrity Bluff. He became part of the romantic-comedy series That's My Amboy as Tope. He left GMA and returned ABS-CBN at the end of 2019; his first stint in ABS-CBN was in FPJ's Ang Probinsyano, where he currently portrays Jimbo Padua, a guest character.
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The guy considered for a while, then tossed Straus $25 and chose a card. Straus showed him the deuce. After another long pause, his opponent eventually figured that Straus would only make such an offer if both his hole- cards were deuces, therefore giving him a full house, deuces over threes. He reluctantly folded, and Jack Straus entered poker folklore as one of the most creative bluffers of all time.Worldseriesofpoker.
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Player salaries were capped at $1,000 with a penalty of forfeiture of games for exceeding that amount. In the weeks leading up to the season, Southern League teams acquired nicknames from their local fans and sportswriters. The Nashvilles were variously referred to as the "Hibernians", owing to Sullivan's Irish heritage, and the "Bluffers", the nickname of spring training player Josh Conley. Sullivan did not want his team called by either of these names.
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The Bluffers is a Dutch children's cartoon series created by Frank Fehmers. The stories revolved around the inhabitants of the fictitious land of 'Bluffoonia' and their ongoing struggle against the evil tyrant 'Clandestino' and his plans to destroy the forest in which they live. The series was based on an idea by Gene Deitch, who also wrote the lyrics. Michael Jupp, who also created The Dreamstone and Bimble's Bucket, was art director for the series and created the characters.
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Swift is best known for providing the fiendish voices for the cartoon villains Simon Bar Sinister and Riff-Raff on the Underdog cartoon show. He also voiced many of the characters in The Bluffers, the 1960s underwater puppet show Diver Dan, and Gene Deitch's 1961–1962 group of Tom and Jerry cartoons. According to MoparMagazine, he was also the voice of "Tech" for their series of service training films providing color commentary and dry humor to help keep digestible and interesting.
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Note the time it takes for an accumulation of 50% of the contestants to quit vs. the Value(V) of resource contested for. This is because in the war of attrition any strategy that is unwavering and predictable is unstable, because it will ultimately be displaced by a mutant strategy which relies on the fact that it can best the existing predictable strategy by investing an extra small delta of waiting resource to ensure that it wins. Therefore, only a random unpredictable strategy can maintain itself in a population of Bluffers.
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Straight Flush received mixed to scathing reviews. James McManus wrote in the Wall Street Journal that Straight Flush was "not just a book about clueless adolescent venality, 'Straight Flush' is that sorry thing itself, and in spades."Wall Street Journal: Bluffers and Bandits Haley Hintze, a writer who helped uncover the Absolute Poker scandal, labeled the book a "literary fraud" in an eleven part series.Ben Mezrich’s "Straight Flush" Literary Fraud Don Oldenburg writing in USA Today notes one of the book's problems is "how much Mezrich himself seems in awe of" the sordid activity he is describing.
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Meanwhile, Officer Leandro talks with Colonel Aponte who, after leisurely dressing and enjoying his breakfast, proceeds to the milk shop and takes away their knives and sends them off to sleep though he considers them "a pair of big bluffers". Clotilde wants "to spare those poor boys from the horrible duty" and tries to convince Colonel Aponte to investigate further so they can be stopped. He does nothing more. Since the brothers had announced their plans to kill Santiago at the meat market and the milk store, the news spreads through the town, but no one directly warns Santiago.
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Next, he went to Thames Television, first as Head of Schools Programmes, then Head of Arts. He produced the Saint Nicholas Cantata by Benjamin Britten, for which he won the UK's first Prix Italia. In his spare time, Coleman wrote the Bluffers Guides to ballet and opera, was a community activist in Highgate and Muswell Hill and was a Buddhist who appeared on BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day. After retiring from television, Coleman led a campaign to save the Phoenix Cinema in East Finchley, and following its success, ran it for a time.
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Donald Macleod, Happy 70th birthday Composer of the Week, The Guardian 2 August 2013 The programme is broadcast daily from Monday to Friday, each week being a series of five programmes dedicated to a particular composer or a group of related composers. With the "great composers", weeks dedicated to them tend to focus on a particular aspect of their life or works. The series has been written and presented by Donald Macleod since 1999.E Jane Dickson Composer of the Week host Donald Macleod: I'm one of the world's great bluffers, Radio Times 29 July 2013 Sometimes the programme is recorded on location with Macleod visiting composers such as Harrison Birtwistle at home. BBC.
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Among their most notable offerings were Japanese anime, such as the RAI/TMS joint productions Sherlock Hound and Tottoi (The Secret of the Seal). European productions distributed on this label included the French animated series Clémentine, the BBC's Postman Pat, Jannik Hastrup's Samson & Sally, Vuk (The Little Fox), Bibifoc (Seabert), and the Dutch-produced The Bluffers. Some Russian productions had also found release through the company, including The Adventures of Buratino (released as The All New Adventures of Pinocchio) and Maria, Mirabela (released as Maria & Marabella). In addition to their animated offerings, the company licensed a share of Japanese tokusatsu productions (all dubbed by Sandy Frank), including five of the eight entries of Daiei's Gamera films from the Shōwa era.
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