Scientific reality is as different from lived reality as a slide rule is from a platypus. - Marty Rubin
Platypus? I thought it was pronounced platymapus. Has it always been pronounced platypus? - Jessica Simpson
He who runs with the platypus is no more a man than he who swallows chesnuts - Chief Long Spear Who Hunts Beavers
The platypus, as it turns out, derives its DNA from a menagerie of creatures. When its genome was fully decoded, it was found only to be 80% mammalian, and had genes found previously only in reptilian, bird, amphibian, and fish DNA. - B.C.CHASE