[Fictionary] LEWIS'S LAW answers

[Hutch]

Mine was stolen straight out of one of Spider Robinson's Callahan's Place
stories; I can't recall which one.

The mention of "D.P. Crocetti" was both a riff on the idea that the person
whose name is applied to an invariant of this nature is often not the
person who actually first stated it, *and* a hint as to its duplicity:
"D.P. Crocetti" is Dino Paul Crocetti, the birth name of Dean Martin,
making "Lewis" of course, the inimitable Joseph Levitch, better known as
Jerry Lewis.

BB,
Hutch

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On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 1:50 AM Jim Moskowitz <jim at jimmosk.com> wrote:

> Hutch’s entry was
> Lewis's Law (orig. stated by D.P. Crocetti): The shortest distance between
> two puns is a straight line.
> Kir: **giggle**
> David:  2 points, because it made me smile to read this again. I think
> I've seen this before, although perhaps (like Shakespeare) under another
> name.
> Jean-Joseph: I'm embarrassed to say that although I could see where the
> joke had to be here, it wasn't until the third reading that it finally
> clicked and I got it.
> Nick: 2 points for pun.
> Total: 4 points
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