Time Flies Like an Arrow, Fruit Flies Like a Banana
Barbara Need
nee1 at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU
Sun Nov 12 15:52:30 UTC 2006
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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