"He taught us to do the right thing, and that got him caught."

Garrett Ginglen, who with his two brothers turned in their father, William Ginglen, when they saw a newspaper photo of him robbing a bank. The elder Mr. Ginglen, 64, who admitted to police that he committed a string of robberies in central Illinois, last week awaited sentencing.

"Someone else earned that."

Los Angeles taxi driver and Afghan immigrant Haider Sediqi on why he turned in to police $350,000 worth of diamonds left in a pouch in his cab by an absent-minded New York jewelry trader.

"Thought shower."

Phrase some people use in place of "brainstorm" so as not to offend those with brain disorders, according to a report from the Global Language Monitor. The group also found teachers substituting "deferred success" for "fail" and BBC reporters calling London's subway bombers not "terrorists" but "misguided criminals."

"$1,625."

The highest bid on Ebay, as of early last week, for a one-inch parcel of land in rural Indiana. The tiny parcel's deed dates back to the 1960s when a landowner sold it to a relative to circumvent a homeowners association rule stating that only landowners could fish or swim in a local lake.