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Might be a reference to the story at the beginning of A Brief History of Time, attributed to Bertrand Russell’s audience member.

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This guy remembers what I thought I was saying. In my defense I stole the whole thing from Stephen King’s It which I read … forty years ago, that can’t be accurate. Let me sort out my instruments and get back to you.
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an LLM tells me there is no evidence that Bernard Shaw ever said any such thing :)
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In my defense, I was suffering from white line fever.
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Well sure, it was George Bernard Shaw, not the old CNN anchor. Also, turtles are tight lipped by nature.
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