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Thread #171977 Message #4173809
Posted By: MaJoC the Filk
04-Jun-23 - 10:58 AM
Thread Name: BS: Joke thread for 2023
Subject: RE: BS: Joke thread for 2023
.... "There is now."
The original is called "Answer", and it's by Frederic Brown, and has an even better punchline. I believe, but cannot prove, that it was first published in 1954; my copy of Space Opera (ed Brian Aldiss) lacks that, erm, datum.
.... "INSUFFICIENT DATA" [caps in original):
"The Last Question" (Isaac Asimov), copyrighted by him 1956.
.... "there is no new thing under the sun":
Ecclesiastes 1, verse 9. Usually attributed to The Preacher.