The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for. - Will Cuppy

Etiquette, or dog in the original Coptic, means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

As Darwin puts it in The Descent of Man, "Male snakes, though appearing so sluggish, are amorous." Isn't that just like Darwin? It was one of his main ideas, you know, that the males of almost all animals have stronger passions than the females. Since then we've learned a thing or two. At any rate, the female snake is right there when spring arrives in the woods.

On the fourth voyage, Columbus sailed along the coast of Central America trying to find the mouth of the Ganges River. It wasn't there, somehow.