What kind of a flim-flam could they play if their mark always showed good judgment?

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Robert Ehrlich, 50, a former commodities trader and the founder of Robert's American Gourmet, peddles edible flim-flam.

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In the modern world, however, self-indulgence and feudal flim-flam corrode both the company's external image and its internal ethics.

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As a long-time observer of flim-flam artists, it has always been remarkable to dissect the personality of these thieves.

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This flim-flam is reminiscent of the Clinton Administration's assurance that a new technology transfer regime would replace the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls, COCOM.

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Unfortunately, shortly before it left office, the Bush Administration adopted just such an analytic flim-flam in a last, desperate bid to prevail in a four-year fight with Congress over termination of the V-22.

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Mr Trickett dismissed the minister's reply as "flim-flam".

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For Romney, who probably knows more about personal income taxes than most Americans, the concept behind his statements is not only a flim-flam, it implies that somehow half the population is not working and on the dole.

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Yet while the statements about aspirin have to be cushioned in the vaguest generalities, snake oil flim-flam can be huckstered in the most truth-defying way, thanks to a 1994 law coaxed through Congress by the people who make these drugs.

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That sounds like flim-flam.

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