1.   A Washington loss could have led to playoff extinction, and at the end of the season Turner would have gone the way of the dodo bird.

2.   But somehow the crowds all week at Longwood seemed to be pulling for Chang, who makes road-runners seem dodo birds.

3.   Computer manuals, those mammoth impenetrable tomes that no one ever actually reads, have gone the way of the dodo bird, replaced by online documentation.

4.   Extinct for decades, they are the dodo birds of bowling.

5.   Free shipping is going the way of the dodo bird, as are the endless offers of free samples.

6.   Free checking accounts were thought to be as extinct as the dodo bird.

7.   Is the full-service stockbroker going the way of the dodo bird?

8.   Not long ago, many people thought video games would make pinball the dodo bird of the arcade world.

9.   Scientists now believe they can bring back extinct animals such as dodo birds.