Their tender little nickerings would have moved a heart of stone.

However, the loss of the uncinate process is not unique for cyprinodontiforms, but instead synapomorphic for a clade comprising of cyprinodontiforms and beloniforms (Rosen & Parenti, 1981).

Jones' sacrifice fly brought in the tying run.

He has devised another one of his famous fourth-down game breakers — the same kind of three-fisted brainstorm that climaxed with his decision to defuse the whole impeachment process by releasing his own version of the tapes, or the time he figured out how to put a quick lid on the Watergate burglary investigation by blaming the whole thing on John Dean.