Tag: Treehouse of Horror IV

“Sorry Homer, while you were day dreaming we ate all the donuts.” – Lenny “Well, there were a few left, but we chucked ’em at an old man for kicks.” – Carl “Damn buzzards, I ain’t dead yet.” – Abe “Grandpa” Simpson This week’s links contain lots of stuff about crotchety geezers and sugary pastries.  There’s some other stuff as well, but a disappointing lack of excellent usage.  Oh well.   Straight Talk on Hope – Columnist Bob Pratte from The Press Enterprise in Riverside, California wrote that he thought the Simpsons stamps would out sell the Bob Hope stamps.  He then got irate letters from old people.  Observe: I discussed Hope because he was commemorated with a stamp that was released a week ago. I predicted Bart Simpson and his cartoon family, who were featured on stamps that went on sale earlier in May, will outsell the Hope stamps. “Let me tell you, Bob Hope had more class and humor in one little finger than the whole Simpson family will ever have,” wrote Ronna Clymens, of Banning, who does not consider the cartoon characters’ material as humor, but merely a collection of trashy jokes, “Just because the post office is selling a bunch of stamps with the Simpson family doesn’t make the Simpsons funny or humorous. I think it was an insult to America’s intellect to even issue such a stamp. I discussed Hope because he was commemorated with a stamp that was released a week ago. I predicted Bart Simpson and his cartoon family, who were featured on stamps that went on sale earlier in May, will outsell the Hope stamps. “Let me tell you, Bob Hope had more class and humor in one little finger than the whole Simpson family will ever have,” wrote Ronna Clymens, of Banning, who does not consider the cartoon characters’ material as humor, but merely a collection of trashy jokes, “Just because the post office is selling a bunch of stamps with the Simpson family doesn’t make the Simpsons funny or humorous. I think it was an insult to America’s intellect to even issue such a stamp. There’s more if you click the link, but this also deserves to be highlighted: “Some of the younger people are buying the Simpson stamps, but the seniors don’t even want to see them,” he said. “I used to be with it, but then they changed what “it” was, now what I’m with isn’t “it” and what’s “it” seems weird and scary to me.  It’ll happen to you.”  True words Grandpa, true words.   Free donuts, Pay-for-view Hulu – Today, June 5, is national donut day, or some such nonsense.  Needless to say every third news story about this mentions Homer.  Oh, and that rumor going around about Hulu getting ready to charge a subscription fee?  It’s attributable to one Jon Miller, who’s in charge of the digital division at News Corp.  Say it with me, everybody: “Fuck you, FOX”.   Canadian scam hits the north state…