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• Hoover: Now, here's an oral extra-credit question. What was Christopher Columbus actually looking for when he discovered America?
  Lisa: [puts her hand up] Ooh! Ooh! Hoover: Anyone besides Lisa for a change?...
• October 12, the Discovery. It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
  -- Mark Twain (1835-1910)...
• Algie's last letter to Lidia was written only a few days before he died, but reached her some weeks later, as he had neglected to mark it 'Correo Aereo'.
  In this letter he reported the discovery of several new contradictions in terms and mentioned, among other things, that Piero della Francesca died on the same day that Columbus discovered America, and that there is in Mexico a rat poison called The Last Supper....
• Who is John Galt? Do you know the legend of Atlantis?
  ... The Isles of the Blessed ... Atlantis was a place where hero spirits lived in a happiness unknown to the rest of the world....
• During the Renaissance America began. Christopher Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic.
  His ships were called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Fe....
• Myers: Take a letter, Miss White. Dear valued viewer, thank you for taking an interest in the Itchy and Scratchy program.
  Enclosed is a personally autographed photo of America's favorite cat and mouse team to add to your collection....
• The second reason that inspired the Admiral [Columbus] to launch his enterprise and helped justify his giving the name 'Indies' to the lands which he discovered was the authority of many learned men who said that one could sail westward from the western end of Africa and Spain to the eastern end of India
  and that no great sea lay between. -- Ferdinand Columbus, son of Christopher Columbus, -- The Life of the Admiral Christopher Columbus, ca....
• Marge: All right: it's time to vote for the grand prize.
  Jay: I vote for Barney Gumbel's sensitive yet unfortunately-titled film, "Pukahontas"....
• I hate to mention things like this in this feature, but it is one of the more pressing problems in America today, and that is the lack of tap-dancers in the Miss America contest.