Talk:There's a sucker born every minute/Archives/2012

Articles for Deletion debate

This article survived an Articles for Deletion debate. The discussion can be found here. Owen× ☎ 22:00, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

The whole quote

The whole quote is rarely published. It is,

"There's a sucker born every minute...and two to take 'em!"

I believe the main reason for this is a lack of understanding of it's meaning. "Two to take 'em," refers to "two confidence men per sucker."

URL problem

The URL for this page is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_a_sucker_born_every_minute

I'm having a problem linking to it. My guess is the "%" character is causing the problem. These garbage characters "%27" should not be in the URL and I recommend that it be changed. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nancy Nickies (talk • contribs) 18:16, 19 February 2007 (UTC).

The %27 is an escape code. It is the numeric value of a character that might be misinterpreted at some point in the process of fetching the web-page, if it weren't escaped. Different special characters each have their own code. A blank space's numeric value is 32, represented as %20. The escape codes all use base 16 -- hexadecimal. %27 is the escape for a single quote. %28 and %29 are the escapes for the left and right parentheses. Geo Swan 00:49, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

?

This article is nice, but what exactly does this phrase mean? Sucker as in mammal, or sucker as in cop, or sucker as in someone who just plain sucks?

In this context a "sucker" is someone who has been fooled, someone who has fallen for a trick. Implied is that the sucker has lost money. -- Geo Swan 00:49, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

POV

This article looks as if it was written from a singular perspective with a highly biased opinion. ⒺⓋⒾⓁⒼⓄⒽⒶⓃ② ^talk 03:58, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Comments like this frustrate me. If you are going to claim bias, please be specific. We don't know in what direction User:Evilgohan2 thinks the article is biased. And now we have no idea if whatever concern they had has been addressed. Geo Swan (talk) 02:09, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Meta-ness of the phrase

The article tees up, but does not directly address, the "meta-ness" of the mis-attribution: Like the suckers in the phrase, evidently we've all been hoodwinked into associating the phrase with the wrong utterer. —LawrenceDavidSander (talk) 04:50, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Who said that?

I got here from the article Cardiff Giant, which states "David Hannum was quoted as saying, "There's a sucker born every minute"", and as soon as i come to this article, first line stats "it was actually said by his opponent Hull". So Hannum or Hull? --Spec (talk) 02:49, 22 May 2012 (UTC)