"Jackanapes": while playing an online word-search game I checked the spelling of this silly old word and found it has a silly old origin... (scroll to 'It's the southern end of..')

Before reading the link I thought to myself that it must refer to a type of ape I'd not heard of, and for a change my punnish nature wasn't far off!
Kinda like the gorilla in charge of the sticky cloth at the glue factory is the ductape.

Very interesting, Bethree. I agree with Word Detective that it's a grand word that I'd hate to lose. I also like his talk of the revival of poltroon. I hadn't remembered G. Gordon Liddy using it.