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* ProvenanceSnidely
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`* Re: ProvenancePeter Moylan
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 |  `* Re: ProvenanceKerr-Mudd, John
 |   +* Re: Provenancemusika
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 |   `- Re: ProvenancePeter Moylan
 `* Re: Provenancejerryfriedman
  `* Re: ProvenancePeter Moylan
   `* Re: ProvenanceSam Plusnet
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 by: Kerr-Mudd, John - Mon, 25 Mar 2024 16:32 UTC

On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 13:37:08 +0000
musika <mUs1Ka@NOSPAMexcite.com> wrote:

> On 25/03/2024 13:02, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
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> >>
> >
> > Spoiler - too late!
> >
> > Asimov wrote a whole story to get to the punchline about a starmangled
> > spanner.
> >
> No, that was Arthur C Clarke and the story was only 2 pages long.
>
>
Bother, my memory is failing.
--
Bah, and indeed Humbug.

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 by: Peter Moylan - Mon, 25 Mar 2024 22:10 UTC

On 26/03/24 00:02, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:

> Asimov wrote a whole story to get to the punchline about a
> starmangled spanner.

He did that more than once, usually in short-short stories. One that
sticks in my mind is "Death of a Foy", which ends with the lines "Give
my big hearts to Claude, Dwayne. Dismember me to Harold's choir. Tell
all the Foys on Slartibecckenstrete that I will soon be there."

--
Peter Moylan http://www.pmoylan.org
Newcastle, NSW

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