Time Flies Like an Arrow, Fruit Flies Like a Banana

[Barbara Need]

It certainly predates 1982, because I remember it from my intro to
linguistics class at Swarthmore (Spring 1979).

Barbara

Barbara Need
UChicago

>The Yale Book of Quotations notes that there is no reason to believe
>that this quotation, often attributed to Groucho Marx, was actually
>said by him and that it appeared on Usenet on 7/9/1982.  In J.A.
>Barnes, Models and Inpretations:  Selected Essays 167 (1990), it is
>cited to Oettinger, The Uses of Computers in Science, Scientific
>American 215(3):  161 - 72 (1966).
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>John Baker
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