What's with calling people "Mark"?

[DS1]

I don't get that part, never have. Can someone explain it to me?

[NightWatcher]

1. what if that's there name?

[DS1]

2. I don't think it is

[GirlinContempt]

3. Isn't that an old carnie term?

[DS1]

4. Dunno

[GirlinContempt]

10. I think so

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,910646-2,00.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carny#Carnival_Jargon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_%28victim%29

[swag]

20. Nice links. I like this one too:

http://books.google.com/books?id=Vg-ns2orYBMC&pg=RA1-PA150&lpg=RA1-PA150&dq=paregoric+kid+giving+the+mark+the+%22build+up%22&source=web&ots=BH0YXDYRKn&sig=HrQD6yp_Q5nRdyNRNbYRJB9w4gw

[GirlinContempt]

22. v. nice

[swag]

24. He had his good moments.

Shooting his wife in the head probably wasn't one of them.

[GirlinContempt]

25. Maybe not

in retrospect

[swag]

27. Well, you know what they say:

hindsight is 20/20.

I don't think that's necessarily true, but that's what they say.

[Tyler Durden]

43. I always liked this quote:

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside. William S. Burroughs

[swag]

45. That's great.

[swag]

5. Have you ever read this book?

It'a a good 'n.

[GirlinContempt]

11. No, I have not

[swag]

15. Well, what do you have to say for yourself?

[GirlinContempt]

16. Very little at the moment.

[swag]

19. Well, then. Allow me to ask a question.

Do you celebrate New Year's Day in Canada?

[GirlinContempt]

21. Sure, I guess we do

I celebrated by laying in bed with the cat and checking my email

[swag]

23. Well, that's a hell of a note.

We don't in the United States, as it's considered a "pagan" holiday and, as such, unholy.

I performed my daily ablutions as usual.

[GirlinContempt]

26. Did you get Santa?

Apparently he was hard to decipher. Silly modern art.

[swag]

28. Oops. Have been too busy to check the PO.

I hope I can get up there tomorrow.

I'm sure Santa's unholiness will singe my fingertips to a crisp.

Thanks!

[GirlinContempt]

29. I sent it to real address, not po

[swag]

30. Say, that's a poser.

Thank you. I hope it turns up.

[GirlinContempt]

36. keep me posted

[Esra Star]

6. A dog with a hare lip calls everything "mark". nt

[matcom]

7. what are you talking about Hitler?

:shrug:

[DS1]

13. lick my hairy nutsack, Tookie

[matcom]

14. fine Kinkade

:rofl:

[krispos42]

8. Capitalized, it's a proper name

In the 1990 Census it was the 14th most common name with 0.938% of the country having it.

Not capitalized, it a slang term for an intended victim in a scam or con game.

The victim of a confidence game or magic trick is often called the mark, or the vic. This is an underground slang term that evolved amongst swindlers because the intended victim was said to be "marked" for the sting. It could also be a reference to confidence man Ben Marks of Council Bluffs, Iowa whom David Maurer credited as the originator of the "Big Store". The victims were, in actuality, Marks' although the reference would have meant nothing to them.

<more>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_%28victim%29

[swag]

9. Definition #3 (maybe some sort of regional thing?)

If I didn't think the best of all people, I would swear the below represents some sort of insult. At any rate, it's a new definition to me.

from Urban Dictionary:

Mark

A very white girlish boy, he sucks at all sports, never gets any girls or any action. A man who masturbates to any thing he sees.

john is such a Mark all he doese (sic) is maturbate to small gay asian men and his mom.

[xchrom]

44. my reputation has preceded me into print?

i don't know whether to be thrilled or mortified.

[Solon]

12. As a professional assassin and thief, we call everyone a mark...

;)

[Breeze54]

17. It's not Mark...it's 'Mahar...cah'... (slow drawl)

;)

I have no idea what your PO'd about.

[DS1]

18. I'm not PO'd about anything

:shrug:

[Breeze54]

31. Glad to hear it !

Whew! I have to be honest and I was worried...

:hug:

[Rabrrrrrr]

32. Didn't you hear the latest news from Washington? All men were renamed "Mark" today,

because our president is too goddamned stupid to remember other names.

[SOteric]

33. OMG! - You mean that's not your name?!!?

Now I feel like a total dumbass. :blush:

[PeaceNikki]

34. Kick for some ANSWERS!!!

WTF *IS* a 'mark'?

[swag]

35. Kick for truth and justice!

[PeaceNikki]

37. Kick in the name of all that is just, honest and virtuous

For god's sake...

[GCP]

38. What you talkin 'bout, Willis?

[bridgit]

39. The sub-thread GiC started seems on the, ahem, mark; but you're saying you've...

heard people called just plain "Mark", like ,"Sup, Mark?" when their name is really Heath-cliff, or whatever. I also dealt black-jack at Cal Neva in the off season at college, and heard many referred to as 'a' Mark, or 'the' Mark in the course of those duties. But little in their face, "Sup? How's it going The Mark."

[PeaceNikki]

40. Yeah. Like "got it, mark?"

Only spoken to a female - who's not named mark.

:shrug:

[bridgit]

41. Hm, must be a regional thing...

:shrug: or I'm too old & un-hip for the kids these days :dunce:

[swag]

42. My vote is still with post #9, but I'm biased.

[bridgit]

46. hm, well let's see, #9 #9...#......9, ummmm, oh my!!

i am utterly grateful that i've known no such 'marks' in this life, and find the ones i've come to pick out in casino' a refinement by comparison

[DS1]

47. Yes, but that doesn't hold up to the Marky Mark test

I'm fairly sure Mr. Wahlberg got enough play to not have to masturbate each night. I could be wrong.

[bridgit]

48. the thought alone gives me the vapors...

:)

[DS1]

49. must be one of them primordial images

;-)

[bridgit]

50. and this makes 50, time to get this thing on fire...

[swag]

51. This thread is on fire!

[Heidi]

52. It means "sucker" or "fool." (nt)

[datasuspect]

53. a lot of marks are actually really soft touches

tell em a sob story and they let loose with the simoleons.