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As HN user D-Coder pointed out a few years ago, that joke wasn't Twain but an author in the September 1946 issue of Astounding Science Fiction:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12108263

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23587507

More links at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26468884.

Thanks dang. I've always been pretty suspicious of the attribution to Twain. Nice to know where it actually came from.

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