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tclancy
7 hours ago
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Dumblydorr
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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.
Full story in the book
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tclancy
3 hours ago
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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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eyepea2007
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an LLM tells me there is no evidence that Bernard Shaw ever said any such thing :)
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arvid-lind
5 hours ago
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It's Sturgill Simpson all the way down:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_All_the_Way_Down_(song...
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tclancy
3 hours ago
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In my defense, I was suffering from white line fever.
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tclancy
3 hours ago
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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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