"CH. MH." (Was: "There's a sucker born every minute" (1883))

[Mark A. Mandel]

Wilson writes:
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This may be of no interest or use, but WTH? CH. MH. The first time
that I ran across this saying, it was in the form, "There's one born
every minute." It was embedded in a context which made it clear that
"one" referred to "a sucker."
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WTF? These two-letter initialisms are opaque to me.

-- Mark
[This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]

Lest we forget:
In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch: be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

by John Macrae [1872-1918]