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&times; &#9742;  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)