# DrDeth is Pitted Again **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 17, 2025, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044 "2025-10-17T03:32:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 224
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044/224 "2026-05-25T20:25:35Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Well if somebody can’t read and understand their own cites, it’s a good bet they can’t read and understand the thread they’re responding to any better. No kidding. > [@What’s a good “warts and all” subject matter for a movie?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-a-good-warts-and-all-subject-matter-for-a-movie/1030355/47): > > > [@What’s a good “warts and all” subject matter for a movie?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-a-good-warts-and-all-subject-matter-for-a-movie/1030355/2): > > > > We really need a non-romanticized bio-pic about P.T. Barnum which features his purchase and exploitation of [Joice Heth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joice_Heth). This was the start of America’s adulation of conmen…and certainly not the end. > > She was paid a LOT of $$- > > > Historian [Eric Lott](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Lott) claimed Heth earned the impresario $1,500 a week, a princely sum in that era (equivalent to $47,000 in 2025).[[9]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joice_Heth#cite_note-lott-9) Does he think Heth was the impresario? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drdeth-is-pitted-again/1024044)._