Scott Adams Thread (Garfield Cartoonist)

[freebeard]

"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."

Mark Twain? H. L. Mencken? P. T. Barnum?

[Piotrsko]

P T Barnum. But differently: "No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public"

Could be someone else on your actual quote. I was helped by AI until I got it turned off. found this:

"No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people."
H.L. Mencken, The Gist of Mencken:

Your call as I can't GROK your intent

[freebeard]

Your call as I can't GROK your intent

My point was that it's a popular sentiment, repeated often and variously..

I pulled the names from DuckDuckGo.

edit: I was putting 'tou' in good company was I not?

[freebeard]

The last twenty minutes were the best in a long time the last few weeks. I watched two videos. Raz0rfist shakes the box, and Sargon of Akkad watches the pieces settle. ...or something (to keep it on topic).

No Time to DEI - Amazon Buys Bond! (Razör Rants)

Sow the Wind, Reap the Whirlwind

[Piotrsko]

Originally Posted by freebeard

My point was that it's a popular sentiment, repeated often and variously..

I pulled the names from DuckDuckGo.

edit: I was putting 'tou' in good company was I not?

Dang, another insertion of hard physical reality.

Tou is a automatic spellcheck correction noticed after seeing what got enetered