Xref: utzoo comp.misc:12120 alt.fan.monty-python:3451 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!bu.edu!wang!mike From: mike@wang.com (Mike Sullivan) Newsgroups: comp.misc,alt.fan.monty-python Subject: Re: it's turtles all the way down Message-ID: Date: 15 Apr 91 12:40:32 GMT References: <455@txsil.lonestar.org> <1991Apr14.232710.8841@newshost.anu.edu.au> <1991Apr15.002132.29831@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> <1991Apr15.021623.29256@Think.COM> Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA Lines: 25 ... Discussion of the origin of the line "It's turtles all the way down" sean@think.com (Sean Colbath) writes: >Bertrand Russel. The story went something like this: Apparently he was >giving a lecture on cosmology somewhere. A rather elderly woman came up to >him and said (Ann Elk voice here: Eh-hem!) that she thought that the world ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >rested on the back of a giant turtle. Russel chided her, and asked her what >that turtle stood on. Why, on the back of another turtle, of course. And >that one? "Oh, you can't fool me, Mr. Russel. It's turtles all the way >down!" "No No, That's A-n-n-E Elk.!" "So here it is, my theory. [ and what it is too. ] EH-HEH-HEH-HEM" "..." -- ________________________ / __ \ | Michael J. Sullivan | Caution: This message | \ \ / /\ |\ | / ` | | Wang Laboratories Inc. |was transmitted across | \/ \/ /--\ | \| \__T | | mike@WANG.COM |non-secured lines and \________________________/ | FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN|may have been ********