Arnold's two posts about academic arousal over Chomsky reminded me of this passage from Woody Allen's short story "The Whore of Mensa" (from Without Feathers, p. 35):
"Suppose I wanted to--have a party?" I said.
"Like, what kind of a party?"
"Suppose I wanted Noam Chomsky explained to me by two girls?"
"Oh, wow."
"If you'd rather forget it..."
"You'd have to speak with Flossie," she said. "It'd cost you."
A transcript of the story is here, but there are some typos (or OCR-induced errors) -- e.g. "It'd cost you" comes out as "It's cost you".
Part of this exchange was quoted in Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct, p. 119 (you can search for it here).
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Posted by Eric Bakovic at April 14, 2007 04:45 PM