Hahaha. Sorry, Cervaise, but bats are more closely related (geneticall speaking) to cows and pigs than rodents.
In your defense, though, they are the second most numerous species, next to rodents. That’s prolly what confused you.
**Tigers **
Tigers, they are from Detroit. And boy, do they suck.
I am so sorry dear lady, I do not get it.
Please tell me.
Haven’t read the whole thread; just wanted to chime in with an anecdote.
There was a series of t-shirts, fairly popular in the '80s, portraying Mr. This or That: clueless would-be experts. Mr. Hunter was wearing head-to-toe L.L. Bean and carefully aiming his rifle at some ducks in the sky; meanwhile a bunch of ducks on the ground behind him were carting away his lunch, ammo, and car keys. Mr. New Dad was diapering the baby, or so he thought, with one eye on the TV, not realizing that he was swaddling the baby in a newspaper.
Anyway, he was inspired to this by his brother. The first such shirt was “Mr. Video”: a guy hefting a camcorder on his shoulder. The camcorder had all the bells and whistles…and was not plugged in. The shirtmaker’s brother had gotten a SOTA camcorder to record his kid’s swim meet, and somehow mixed up “record” and “pause”. So the video ended up being an hour or so of the floor and people’s feet. “Now, this guy was third in his class at dental school,” the shirtmaker said.
Must…fight…urge…to point out that that’s actually from the episode where Richard Masur was the mildly retarded grocery store bag boy…
Oops, didn’t fight hard enough.
I will admit to being a correcter. Friend and I (as I think I’ve mentioned in other threads) have gone a few rounds over this. He’s convinced that this is due to my supposed need to “always be right”. Not so! I’ve conceded many a time when I’ve been wrong. He just seems to only remember the times when I really was right!
I don’t have to always be right (as I’ve told him many times); I only want to know what is right, and to make sure others know it, too! There was an early instance of this, which Mr. Rilch witnessed. We were still in school, and a classmate asserted that a particular short had appeared in a film festival twice in a row. She was surprised, as was Mr. Rilch, that I took the time to dig up the previous year’s program and prove to her that she’d seen two films by the same animator, rather than the same film twice. But I didn’t do that to have the last word. Reason I did it was, I didn’t want word to get around that “I saw that last year…Really? You mean they show the same stuff every year?..Do you wanna go to Film Festival X?..Nah; they just show the same stuff all the time.”
I was serious about this. College students are notorious for repeating what they hear without verification ;), and since I liked this festival, and wanted it to return to the local theater every year that it played at all, I was anxious to prevent loose talk from affecting attendance. I know it’s not that bloody importants, but it can be so frustrating when people give you wrong information. I once asked a Simpsons fan board, “What’s the episode where such-and-such happened?”. Five different people named the same episode, and it was the wrong one! Likewise, gobear, I only corrected you so that you wouldn’t tune in to the wrong episode, hoping you would hear that quote. 
But FTR, I don’t tell people “You’re wrong”, or “You’re dumb”. I’m much more likely to say, “I believe it’s a widget, not a geegaw…Well, I’ll look it up. See, it’s a widget! Oh, stop pouting!”
Two more things:
—I thought one of the kingdoms was “insect”, separate from “animal”.
—Bats aren’t rodents? What are they, then?
< Calvin and Hobbes >
Bats: The Bug Scourge of the Skies!*
< /Calvin and Hobbes >
Fenris
*This isn’t quite right, but it’s close… 
**
Nope. Animals, Plants, Fungi, Bacteria, and Protista. Insects are definitely animals.
**
They’re bats. Seriously.
Bats are in their own order - chiroptera. While the exact relation of bats to other orders is still not entirely certain, (and not to mention the question of the relationship of the two suborders of bats) it appears that they may be more closely related to primates than anything else.
As long as we’re correcting each other about misconceptions of both the animal and insect kingdoms, here are bits of knowledge for the truly ignorant:
Whales are not insects. Insects have 6 legs, whereas whales only have 5. But they don’t need to use their legs, because they travel in pods.
And lobsters aren’t insects. Lobsters are entrees.
Who’s giving this report? You chowderheads… or ME?!
I am not kidding, I actually had an ARGUMENT with my wife last night about this. She, and her sister, and their father insist that England (or rather, the British Isles) is NOT part of Europe.
OK, I’ll grant that in a socio-political-cultural sense, the Brits have historically distanced themselved from continental Europe. But she wouldn’t buy that geographically, it’s part of Europe!. That’s why we specify continental Europe to differentiate!
I said, “If it’s not in Europe, where is it? Africa? North America? You never hear anyone talk about the continent of Britain!”
She wanted me to post the question in GQ, but I didn’t want to look like an idiot. “Tell me Dopers, what continent is England in?”:smack:
Let me add here that my wife is one of the smartest people I know and is very beautiful and I lover her very much and would never say anything bad about her or embarass her in any way and may I please keep sleeping with her