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[[File:used-car-salesman 7541.gif|frame|Is this the face of a man who would lie to you?]]
{{quote|''Vimes looked into the grinning, cadaverous face of Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler, purveyor of absolutely anything that could be
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** Point-Me-Own-Bone Dibbjla
*** This has been described by the author as parallel evolution; he writes in ''The Discworld Companion'' that "Wherever people are prepared to eat terrible food, there will be someone there to sell it to them."
*** In fact, in ''[[
**** Alternatively, his name could have come out of the catchphrase, and was created to make his application for a loan more... legitimate, shall we say. Back in ''[[
*** Rincewind once observed that if CMOT Dibbler ever shook hands with one of his international doppelgangers, there would probably be some sort of explosion.
** While unrelated to the Dibblers, Heme Krona, proprietor of Camels-R-Us, in the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[
** Mention should also be made of Hobson's Livery Stable, which employs an [[The Igor|Igor]] as a vet, but is rumoured to use his extreme surgery skills as a horse "chop-shop".
* Mr. Wormwood in [[Roald Dahl]]'s ''[[Matilda (novel)|Matilda]]''. The tinkering with the cars differs between the book and movie. Maybe because the books is several decades older, and the Honest Johns had to update their methods meanwhile.
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* Honest Ed from ''[[Garfield (Comic Strip)|Garfield]]''. As Garfield observes, his office is in a pickup truck with the engine running.
* Private Cosmo in ''[[Beetle Bailey]]''; basically Ernie Bilko with a reduction in rank.
* ''[[Ziggy]]'': In one cartoon, the protagonist walks past Honest John's Used Autos and sees Honest John being arrested. The next day's strip sees him walking past [[Spoonerism|Honest Otto's Used Johns]], which sells ''toilets''.
== [[Puppet Shows]] ==
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* ''[[Station V3]]'' features a used-spaceship dealer/all-around scheming huckster named "Honest J!on".
* Subverted in ''[[Misfile]]''. The car dealer is "honest John" to a tee, but Ash is enough of a [[Wrench Wench]] to [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|play him at his own game]]. [http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=144\]
* An ''[[Adventurers!]]'' strip features [https://web.archive.org/web/20090724151651/http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/0111.html "Honest Cid's Used Airships."]
* ''[[Tales of the Questor]]'' features Merchant Max, a rather slick secondhand-goods salesman who isn't above selling cartloads of (mostly) total junk to a drunk Questor. To his credit, he later gave Quentyn some really canny advice of how to bargain for the quest items that would be in someone's possession. Yes, this was an excuse to make the hero take on a ship's load of low power magic trinkets as trade goods, but the general intent is decent.
* [[Double Subversion|Doubly subverted]] by [http://www.viruscomix.com/page495.html this] ''Subnormality'' strip: after giving honest information about cars on the lot, the salesman admits he's a member of Vendeurs Sans Frontières and is doing this as a public service.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* In the city of Genava, Illinois, there are two stores that actually have "Honest John's" in the title: Honest John's Emporium, and Honest John's trading post. They're not really rip-offs, just filled with a lot of cheap useless crap you'll never need but will have a compulsion to buy.
* There was once also an "Honest Ed's" [[Toronto]], Ontario discount store. It's now gone, although former proprietor Edwin Mirvish (24 July 1914 – 11 July 2007) still has his name on a [https://mirvish.com live theatre venue].
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