Time Flies Like an Arrow, Fruit Flies Like a Banana

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:52 AM -0600 11/12/06, Barbara Need wrote:
>It certainly predates 1982, because I remember it from my intro to
>linguistics class at Swarthmore (Spring 1979).
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>Barbara
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>Barbara Need
>UChicago

I remember it from the mid-sixties too, and indeed in the context of
a poem of which the last (punch)line is "Time flies like an arrow".
Does anyone else remember or figure out how to access that poem?  It
was popular around ling. departments at the time, but since none of
us had computers, there are no copies.

LH

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>>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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