Q: "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."

[Joel S. Berson]

Larry, I didn't see any confirmation to Mark or Groucho in the ADS-L
archives.  Or are you, as usual, joshing us?

Joel

At 6/1/2010 03:12 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>At 2:22 PM -0400 6/1/10, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>>Having now recalled that this has been discussed before (in Nov.
>>2006), I find in the (ADS-L) archives that I wrote nearly the same
>>information then.  I suggested someone ask Oettinger.  No-one
>>reported back that they had.
>>
>>Joel
>
>And in Nov. 2006 I mentioned recalling the existence of a poem that
>included both these lines, but being unable to locate said poem on
>the web.  This is still the case.  I was able to confirm, however,
>that the observation that time flies like an arrow and fruit flies
>like a banana was made by Mark Twain and Groucho Marx.
>Independently, I presume, although you never know.  And inside of a
>dog, those fruit flies are too dark to see.
>
>LH
>
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>>At 6/1/2010 01:57 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>>>At 6/1/2010 12:18 PM, Garson O'Toole wrote:
>>>>I think that the teaching materials at the Harvard University Archives
>>>>are a good location to look for an antedating as you suggest.
>>>
>>>Oh dear.  And I suppose I'm targeted because I took Oettinger's
>>>class.  Perhaps I can get excused if I claim I didn't actually see
>>>the adage until the 1966 Scientific American article.  Fred, do you
>>>have a paid flunky with access to the Harvard Archives?
>>>
>>>Joel
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