To: Dr. Franklin
“There’s a sucker born every minute”
PT Barnum.
To: JohnBrowdie
That saying is false.
There are actually hundreds of suckers born every minute.
24 posted on
03/29/2021 8:58:47 PM PDT by
joe fonebone
(Free Beer Tomorrow)
To: JohnBrowdie
“There’s a sucker born every minute”
That's just more fake news!
"There's no contemporary account of it, or even any suggestion that the word 'sucker' was used in the derogatory sense in his day. Barnum was just not the type to disparage his patrons."
P.T. Barnum biographer Arthur H. Saxon
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/03/nyregion/debunking-the-myth-of-pt-barnum.html
26 posted on
03/29/2021 9:02:33 PM PDT by
Dr. Franklin
("A republic, if you can keep it.")
To: JohnBrowdie
“There’s a sucker born every minute”PT Barnum.
Yes there is.
*gives you the side eye*
33 posted on
03/29/2021 9:33:07 PM PDT by
bagster
("Even bad men love their mamas".)
To: JohnBrowdie
PT Barnum never said that.
48 posted on
03/29/2021 11:42:30 PM PDT by
Laslo Fripp
(The Sybil of Free Republic)
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