Jansy: switching the first letters of noun-pairs has generated a dedicated
corpus of weak quips with the template "What's the difference between X and
Y?"

What's the difference between a goldfish and a goat?"
The goldfish mucks around the fountain.

Note the payoff line is usually omitted -- you are left to deduce what the goat
does. Is it fanciful to suppose VN was familiar with such wordplay?

The difference between a Russian detective and a sex-maniac?
The former is a Rostov Tec.

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