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Re: I don't get it
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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 (...) (22 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.pun, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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