Coney-catching Coney-catching Coney-catching is Elizabethan slang for theft through trickery. It comes from the word "coney" (sometimes spelled "conny"), meaning a rabbit raised for the table and thus tame. A coney-catcher was a thief or con man. It was a practice in medieval and Renaissance England in which devious people on the street would try to con or cheat vulnerable or gullible pedestrians. The term appears in "The Taming of the Shrew" and "The Merry Wives of Windsor" by William Shakespeare, and in the John Florio translation of Montaigne's essay, "Of the Cannibals." The term was first used in print by
Coney Reyes was given another series — "Coney Reyes Mumar on Set" (1981), but like "Coney Reyes-Mumar Studio", it only lasted one year before ending. In 1984, Reyes starred in "Lovingly Yours: The Movie" (1984) in the segment "Akin Ang Walang Diyos", a horror drama starring Julie Vega. Vega and Reyes starred in the segment one year before Vega's death in 1985. After the cancellations of "Coney Reyes-Mumar Studio" and "Coney Reyes Mumar on Set", Reyes was given her own anthology series called "Coney Reyes on Camera", rival to "Lovingly Yours, Helen", hosted by long time good friend, Helen Vela on GMA