In case you are unfamiliar with the word, a mountebank is a quack, a travelling snake oil salesman.
The origin of the word is hilarious. It comes from Italian – someone who gets up on a bench in order to be seen by the crowd.
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An elephant run wild, drunk on rum, calls for a female without hope of being understood. What to do? It is not 1947 now.
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