Re: Turtles all the way down?

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From: elis f. stanley
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 1994 10:29

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In article <steiny.781425599@steiny> steiny@steiny.com (Don Steiny) writes:
>zack@dgs.dnd.ca (Zachary Jacobson) writes:
>
>>In article <1OCT94.23513925@purple.cc.utexas.edu> ljh@purple.cc.utexas.edu writes:
>>>I heard the "Turtles all the way down" remark attributed to an
>>>audience member at one of Bertrand Russell's lectures, for what that's
>>>worth.
>
>	I heard: Samuel Johnson. 
>

Actually, it was first heard from a shelled spectator in the famous tortoise 
versus the hare race, home stretch.  The original was yelled with some derision
as in:
	"Ha! Its turtles all the way down, clown."

Or was it Magellan's comment on his last meal, looking with pleasure into
the soup toureen?
	"Mmm.  Its turtles all the way down!"

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