Three Thoughts "There goes the neighborhood"--unidentified Native American, 1492 "He knew the world was round-o His balls hung to the ground-o That navigatin', masturbatin' Son of a bitch Columbo"--folk song to which T.S. Eliot wrote verses "Columbus and his band slammed into these shores with all the force of a jet into a skyscraper"--The Rude Pundit