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

[David A. Daniel]

If anyone ever comes across "Time flies like and arrow. Fruit flies
like a banana. Snag flies like a pro." and wonders who coined it, it
was I. I used it on promotional material for my EFL radio program in
Mexico City (The McGraw-Hill English Hour) in 1991.
DAD


Quoting Damien Hall <djh514 at YORK.AC.UK>:

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>
> I can't resist adding another twist to this formula, which is starting to
> look like an aphorism made of multiple snowclones, except that snowclones
> don't (as far as I know) exploit morpho-syntactic ambiguity in the way that
> these phrases do.
>
> Anyway, this one, I got from Beatrice Santorini at Penn in about 2003:
>
> 'Time flies like an arrow; fruit-flies like a banana; Chuck Yeager flies,
> like, airplanes.'
>
> So, two different uses of _flies_, and three of _like_.
>
> A Google of
>
> "flies, like, airplanes"
>
> turns up no relevant hits;  a Google of
>
> "Chuck Yeager flies, like"
>
> turns up no hits at all. Anyone else come across this phrase anywhere else
> (possibly, of course, with another pilot's name subbed in)?
>
> Damien
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