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Subject:	Re: I don't get it
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.pun, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date:	Thu, 10 Mar 2005 02:48:27 GMT
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On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 02:19:34AM +0000, Dave Schuler wrote: > "All good ideas have been thought of by somebody before they are realised," > said Purvis severely. "The point is that what Huxley and others had > talked about, Julian actually did. My goodness, there's a pun there! > Aldous--Julian--oh, let it pass!" Maybe it's related to this? http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ahuxley.htm Only thing I could find that looks possible...? -- Dan Boger dan@peeron.com

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		I don't get it
Everyone knows that only my commendable humility exceeds my near-boundless wit, and yet I have stumbled upon a pun-reference that eludes me. I just read Arthur C. Clarke's short story "Patent Pending," copyright 1957, in which Clarke nicely (...) (20 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.pun, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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