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

[Eric Nielsen]

There's also some proactive survivalist versions of the joke:

 "...And I KnowYou All Have Heard The Multitude of Jokes About Hunters and
Bears...(What's The .22 For? That Won't Scare A Bear! It's Not for The
Bear---It's to Shoot YOU in the Foot So I Can Outrun YOU!, etc., etc...)"

http://m14forum.com/handguns/95645-bear-gun-last-ditch-option-6.html

Eric


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."
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> > JL
> >
> 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."
>
> LH
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