Klarinet Archive - Posting 000056.txt from 1998/12

From: "Don Yungkurth" <clarinet@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Re: "P.T. Barnum was right . . ."
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 18:27:52 -0500

Neil Leupold wrote:

>On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Mark Charette wrote:

> >From Robin on the Clarinet Bulletin Board:
>>
>> "P.T. Barnum was right . . .
>>
>> Another sucker was "born" on eBay tonight. An old pink (yes, pink)
>> plastic Vito Dazzler went for $860.00. I've seen R-13s go for less than
>> that on eBay."

>The only other problem, of course, is that P.T. Barnum never
>said that. I don't remember who actually did, but this attribution
>has always been incorrect.

My copy of Bartlett's "Familiar Quotations" (1955 printing) lists Phineas
Taylor Barnum as the (attributed) author of, "There's a sucker born every
minute". I guess that means it wasn't in print.

Don Yungkurth (clarinet@-----.net)

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