Modern Fable: Lions and gazelles (Dan Montano 1985 July 6)

[Jonathan Lighter]

Me too. But probably only within the past year or so.

JL

On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> On Nov 20, 2011, at 2:39 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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>> Even more proverbial than before.
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>> On NPR, the top Jeopardy winner of all time explains that, in order to
>> win, "You don't have to outrun the bear. You just have to outrun the
>> other guy."
>>
>> JL
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> I've encountered this not as a proverb but as a punchline of a joke:  "I don't have to run faster than the bear--I just have to run faster than you."
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> LH
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