Talk:There's a sucker born every minute

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[edit] 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)

[edit] 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."

[edit] 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 escapted. 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)

[edit]  ?

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)