Coming up with a funny story every week can begin to wear a writer down, even one who has now composed close to 2,000 of them. In order to give the old brain a rest, I decided to switch to a history lesson this week. Hope you all enjoy and learn a valuable, previously unknown bit of our past.

About four million years ago a funny looking little creature showed up in the African forests. His name was Australopithecus Afarensis. He had a very small brain which explained why he choose such a strange name. According to what I can find, they all used the same name, which was even stranger....