Talk:What's that got to do with the...?

NPOV

The phrase 'Democracy lovers' is NPOV. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.35.41.115 (talk) 03:52, 28 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

NPOV? I think not. Anyway, it's unrelated, as we can say "price of tea in Japan", "price of tea in vietnam", etc.... I am going to remove it as such. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bky1701 (talk • contribs) 08:55, 20 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

UK usage?

I can't provide a citation for this, but in my experience this phrase has been superseded by "What's that got to do with the price of fish?" with the same basic meaning. Rob Burbidge 10:49, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There's any number of variations along this line; I've known it get as far as "the price of bacon in Belgium during the time of the recession". Kinitawowi 01:53, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Australian usage

These may be superseded now, but classic Australian sayings include "[not] for all the tea in China" meaning someone wouldn't be tempted at any price. The other is "What's that got to do with the price of eggs?" meaning something is totally irrelevant. To say it "has to do with the price of eggs" is more like chewbacca defense logic. Julia Rossi 01:44, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm English and I've heard 'all the tea in china'. It gets more hits in google (uk anyway) than 'price of tea in china' despite wikipedia. And it's referenced in Family Guy (when Peter sees a 'Free Tibet' protest, says he'll take one ( a free tibet) then tries to sell it to China for 'all the tea') so wikipedophiles can play their favourite game and have an enormous popular culture/trivia section bigger than the actual article. Come on, I'm sure it's mentioned in a few japanese cartoons too.

Me too. Why doesn't "not for all the tea in China" have an entry, while this (a phrase I've never heard anyone use) does? WikiReaderer 22:01, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My father always used to say "price of alligator eggs in Alaska". -Toptomcat 15:36, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"not for all the tea in China" is something completely unrelated....it may appear related because it also contains "tea in China", but aside from the historical importance of China in the tea trade, the two have nothing to do with each other. Related to this phrase is "what's that got to do with the price of pot in Pakistan?". "I wouldn't do that for all the tea in China" or "for all the gold in Fort Knox" or whatever, these express an unwillingness to do something no matter what kind of inducement might be offered. Tomer ^talk 17:51, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Started as fish?

I remember from long ago this explanation: Some sea fishermen complained about the low prices they were getting for the fish that they caught. This threatened to grow and spread into a big complaint movement, so a Government man went to the place to allay men's feelings with a long carefully-written speech. But one of the fishermen noticed that the speech evaded the topic, and interrupted: "And what's all that to do with the price of fish?". Anthony Appleyard (talk) 11:01, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Price of beans in Albuquerque?

I've heard every other phrase mentioned in the article EXCEPT for the last one, about the "price of beans in Albuquerque". There is no citation. Nor is there any historical market for beans in Albuquerque of any fame, which I can say after spending my childhood and many years of adult life in New Mexico. But perhaps it is a saying in some other part of the U.S., or the elsewhere in the world? Idioms are like that, sometimes! If anyone can provide a citation, that would be great. If not, I'll check a little, and if no luck, will insert a "citation needed" flag, and eventually remove. --FeralOink (talk) 18:18, 8 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

While I'm not the user who originally added that particular saying, I didn't think we needed to have citations for matters of "common knowledge."

I could be wrong, but I would think that could apply just as easily to common sayings. You don't need a citation telling me that people actually use phrases like "price of tea in china" because I've heard it all my life. Now, to be fair, I've never heard the beans in Albuquerque one. But on that note, I've never heard MOST of the variants in this article. Neither do I feel the need to demand a source for each or face deletion. If someone wrote it, I'm somewhat certain it's common... at least in their area. Anyway, that's my two cents on the matter. 24.34.63.39 (talk) 05:06, 14 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not a citation, obviously, but I can confirm that my great-grandmother would say it on the regular. It's a real one. Isaacmayer9 (talk) 10:42, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pinky and the Brain!

how can this article miss this?!?!? -- itistoday (Talk) 04:57, 2 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

CAD

The phrase: "What's that have to do with the price of tea in China?" should probably be exorcised from our lexicon for the following reason – I always found it humorous that the “price of tea in China” was relative to the price of tea throughout the British Empire; given the fact that the shipping costs were highly subsidized through the opium trade in China! If someone is making a case, don’t dismiss it out-of-hand…there may be something you’ve overlooked! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.205.128.47 (talk) 03:56, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Article is unlinkable on some systems?

The article link is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_that_got_to_do_with_the...%3F but that is apparently unlinkable on some systems. Pretty sure it has to do with the embedded special characters. Less sure, but pretty likely that this has been a long discussion on Wikipedia about how to standardize links to articles, so maybe I should just ask for where to look for that article? Then I can go back to the website of the original problem and explain why the Wikipedia link is borken (sic.). Shanen (talk) 19:48, 27 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]