Word: sucker
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...There's a sucker born every minute...
...most widespread abuse, however, is an old sucker play that might be called the double reverse runaround. Each network runs a post-game show that reports final scores of other contests and, like everything else in TV, the advertising revenue for these "wrap-ups" is dependent upon ratings. Thus in the fourth quarter of a televised football game, announcers conveniently neglect to give the scores of other games lest they discourage viewers from staying tuned for the wrapup...
...prospect is for favorable House action this year. If the bill is finally enacted, it will by no means repeal Barnum's law that a sucker is born every minute, but it may at least amend it to let the boob know for just how much he is being taken...
...like a fan goes to game after game. Sometimes, when your group looks as good on stage as they sound on records, you win. And sometimes, when the people who go with the sound you paid to hear turn into one big disillusionment, you lose -- and feel like a sucker for caring at all, knowing like the sports fan that they're out there for money and not for love...
...Negro soul music; the thought of James Brown, the quintessence of soul, being anything but absolutely sincere about his own music is absurd. These two don't interpret; they capitalize. They collect their $7500 per performance and make anyone who credited them with being honest musicians feel like a sucker...