On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 02:33:25PM -0500, John Francis scripsit: > On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 06:22:55PM -0000, Bob W wrote: > > [...] > > > And in honor of Sir Isac's birthday, I'm starting a new > > > tradition by presenting my annual gift (the PDML Quotations > > > List) today. Enjoy: > > > http://www.robertstech.com/quote.htm > > > > > > > Vintage stuff this year. I feel compelled to nominate a favourite: > > > > "Erotic is using a feather, kinky is using the whole puffin? > > - Graydon" > > While the modification to use "puffin" was entirely appropriate, > and a brilliant interpolation into the ongoing thread, I have to > wonder if some people think the entire concept was original. > > Originally it was "chicken", not "puffin". I've even seen this > form on a bumper sticker.
It's ancient. > AFAIK the earliest appearance of this joke (though in a rather > less pithy form) was in "Eric", by Terry Pratchett. I'm quite sure it's much older than that, but my Google-fu is not up to finding a learned citation giving the first occurrence. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
