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From: perl@rdin.UUCP
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Subject: Re: pun help needed
Message-ID: <403@rdin.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-May-84 16:27:22 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 14 16:27:22 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 17-May-84 05:32:40 EDT
Organization: Resource Dynamics Inc., New York
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>Anyone understand the pun at the end of Asimov's short story "Sure Thing" in
>"The Winds of Change.."? The pun is "Sloane's Teddy wins the race."

I never read "Sure Thing", but I'm an avid fan of Rocky & Bullwinkle.
The pun refers to the moral of the Aesop fable "The Tortoise
and the Hare":

"Slow and steady wins the race."

Robert Perlberg
Resource Dynamics Inc.
New York
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