In today's Zits comic strip, Pierce says "I believe that paperclips are the larval stage of wire coat hangers." http://www.arcamax.com/zits/s-235240-821437I'm not real pleased about this. The comic's writers (Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman) lifted the joke from a wonderful story called "Or All The Sea With Oysters" by Avram Davidson. The story was first published in 1958, but it won a major award and was widely reprinted, most notably in The Hugo Winners, Book One.*daha*