The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner', but in fact the message was this: So long and thanks for all the fish.

Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.

The only thing nicer than a phone that didn't ring all the time (or indeed at all) was six phones that didn't ring all the time (or indeed at all).

and we’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere … and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.

It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don't. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things, you know?

Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him.

We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.