Fruit Flies Like A Banana. Groucho Marx Quote “Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.” But there are very common insects called Fruit flies. QI has found no earlier matches for the two sentences employed as a pair.
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But there are very common insects called Fruit flies. "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana" is a humorous saying that is used in linguistics as an example of a garden path sentence or syntactic ambiguity, and in word play as an example of punning, double entendre, and antanaclasis
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(compare Fruit flies like a banana) (declarative) each of a type of flying insect, "time-flies. I think the speaker means exactly what they're saying The simile "Time flies like an arrow" has a long history as indicated by the 1690 and 1816 citations above
Groucho Marx Quote “Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”. Acknowledgement: This topic was encountered by QI during the research on the quip "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana" "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana" The joke is that the word "flies" in the first part is a verb, but the word "flies" in the second part is noun— the annoying.
Anthony G. Oettinger Quote “Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”. But there are very common insects called Fruit flies. Now the pun and the problem: Time flies like an arrow