Conspiracy theorists suspected a jilted lover or enterprising padlock peddlers seeking new space for their goods.
So, is there any aspect of our lives that is off-limits to the peddlers and marketers?
Sometimes, what peddlers of pseudoscience say may have a kernel of real truth that makes it seem plausible.
And today's gloom peddlers can claim to have scientific data on their side.
Mr Barendse's abundant use of Dutch archives enables him to trace individual peddlers from Samarkand to Sinkiang and Circassia.
There were shipwrights and ropemakers in Northumberland, laborers in Lincolnshire, watchmen and peddlers and blacksmiths from Ipswich and Barnstaple and Carlisle.
In the 1970s the efficiency peddlers prescribed an easy fix to a nation snarled in endless lines at the gas pump.
Watchdogs take the tiniest of naps because six months of watchdogging is exhausting and here we are: credit card peddlers are back on campus.
This comes up because of a Wall Street Journal piece on how credit card peddlers are surreptitiously making their way back to college campuses.
For a little while, they had peddlers and it was kind of a place for lobbyists, but also individuals selling things there for a little while.
Spectators (those who still came) made a sport out of heaving garbage over the stadium walls, and 90-degree days plus opportunistic beer peddlers equaled myriad brawls.
That is how some peddlers of Germany's open-ended property funds have responded to reactions, verging on panic, to the closure of two such funds since early December.
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The most impressive of the foods available to sunbathers has to be the skewers, which come from the white and orange-clad peddlers shouldering small grills on their backs.
The Mouride community helps peddlers when they lose their goods.
Meanwhile the actual woo peddlers use legitimate research in those realms to justify whatever crazy thing they feel like justifying, with nobody in the scientific community really giving any measured response.
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But the police and city officials have cited that fact as evidence of an organised crime network, and since 1992 the task force has been arresting peddlers on more serious criminal charges.
Having sold us the Btu edition of Thin Thighs in 30 Days, the peddlers now insist we're peeling off the pounds, or at least saving ourselves from the horror that lies beyond blimp.
The problem, as Modou Sarr found, is that the start-ups are mostly peddlers who are unlicensed and illegal, and the city keeps a tight rein on the number of street-vending licences it issues.
His creation of their self-portraits showed their shared sympathies across time and nationality: Painters belonged to the same culture, and could understand each other in ways that museum professionals and peddlers could never comprehend.
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"I have a message for the influence peddlers, for the polluters, the HMOs, the big drug companies that get in the way, the big oil and the special interests -- who now call the White House their home, " Kerry said.
Amtech pointed out in a research note that a test Google search of each of the top 10 best-selling prescription drugs at that time turned up a slew of ads for Canadian online drug peddlers like CanadaDrugPharmacy.com and CanadaDrugCenter.com.
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Although the media - which are openly biased in Livni's favor - have placed most of the blame for this state of affairs on Mofaz, the truth is that Livni has not shied away from backroom deals with influence peddlers selling votes.
His fiery YouTube video last month drew more than 200, 000 views, was the basis of headlines in the Los Angeles Times, and rallied the food police to renew their campaign for more government regulation against his sole stated cause of obesity: under-regulated corporate peddlers of inexpensive calories.
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If it wasn't already perfectly clear by now that Monster Cable's cables aren't really worth the price (or any price above the cost of a coat-hanger), and that they're only using those bloated markups to perpetuate their reputation as money-grubbing lawsuit-happy snakeoil peddlers, we'd call your attention to their latest target: Monster Mini Golf, a chain of glow-in-the-dark mini-golf courses based out of Rhode Island.
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