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Casmir, Y.E., Williams, M.M., Liang, M.Y., Pitakmongkolkul, S., & Slyer, J.T.

If this was the Coens' idea of funny, either they're playing a much slyer metatextual game than appears on the surface, or something went very wrong along the way.

Sir Olaf Caroe, who had the misfortune to be a British colonial administrator in the region during the 1940s, likened the Wazirs to panthers and the Mehsud to wolves: "Both are splendid creatures; the panther is slyer, sleeker, and has more grace, the wolf pack is more purposeful, more united, and more dangerous." The two tribes, segmented into a complex array of clans and other subgroups, have long coexisted in a state of chronic feuding, though they have always united when faced with an invader.

The IQ test conducted in 1938 was designed by PhD student Slyer Hallgren with the purpose to explore the relationship between social background and cognitive ability.

Maybe a touch thinner in the face, and darker, meaner, slyer, pencil-sucker, proper Dai-Book-and-Pencil when it came to it, everything recorded, pat as you like provided it suited his book and no-one else's.