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Jokes and Allusions - Correction?

Wed Nov 24 11:46:21 PST 2004

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark A. Mandel" <thnidu at yahoo.com>
To: "David Levine" <dlevine99 at earthlink.net>
Cc: "Dragaera Mailing List" <dragaera at dragaera.info>
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 11:30 AM
Subject: Re: Jokes and Allusions - Correction?


>
> --- David Levine <dlevine99 at earthlink.net> wrote to me about an entry on
the
> Jokes & Allusions page of Cracks and Shards:
>
> >  >      "Patience my ass; I'm going to go out and kill something."
> >  >
> >  >      I think this is Kliban; maybe it's The Far Side. Said by one
> >  >predator to another. Here it's Vlad to Teldra; he calls it an old
> >  >Jhereg joke. [Iss131-3]
> >
> > As I remember it, It was one scavenger / carrion eater to another
> > (vultures - I think). Therein lies the joke - both the original and the
> > Jhereg version.
>
> good point. if anyone can find the actual source i'd rather use that.
>
>
> -- Mark A. Mandel
>    http://www.cracksandshards.com
>    a Steven Brust fan website
>
>
>
>
I am almost positive that it is an old Far Side cartoon, two vultures on a
tree, looking at some antelope. I googled the net, and that is what that
quote most often led me to.

Jeff