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My Homer fave 

Posted Wednesday 22nd August 2007 11:26 GMT

My Homer favourite is: "If something is difficult to do, it's not worth doing". I have that on a coffee mug...

Hail to the Kwyjibo! 

Posted Wednesday 22nd August 2007 11:54 GMT

This cromulent article certainly embiggened my understanding of modern quotations.

They missed some 

Posted Wednesday 22nd August 2007 12:00 GMT

"To alcohol, the cause and solution to all of life's problems" -- Homer

"I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman." -- Homer again

"That's where I met the Leprechaun, he tells me to burn things." -- Ralph

And there are so many more. But those are some of my favorites.

Classic Ralph 

Posted Wednesday 22nd August 2007 12:23 GMT

i bent my wookie!

Best for me is this stark truth 

Posted Wednesday 22nd August 2007 12:28 GMT

"I'm not popular enough to be different"

Rocket Science 

Posted Wednesday 22nd August 2007 12:48 GMT

"It's not Rocket Science... Get it sorted." - Gary Littlemore 2007

Re: Rocket Science 

Posted Wednesday 22nd August 2007 13:33 GMT

Are you sure you don't work with me...thats our unofficial company motto now

favourites 

Posted Wednesday 22nd August 2007 14:09 GMT

"Shut up brain, or I'll stab you with a Q-tip" - Homer Simpson

"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 scary and wierd" - Abe Simpson - and it has an IT angle

IGMC

Down a two-way lane 

Posted Wednesday 22nd August 2007 14:32 GMT

"Television - teacher, mother, secret lover..." - Homer

Re: Re: Rocket Science 

Posted Wednesday 22nd August 2007 15:50 GMT

Did you like that one?

Where do you work? You never know, I could be sat next to you... Phil is that you.

The Book of Prescott 

Posted Wednesday 22nd August 2007 16:05 GMT

You mean a quote *about* Prescott got in but Prescott himself didn't? Snobs. Hopefully he at least made it into the normal dictionary with 'Balklands' and my fave 'Hydrocardigans'.

too many great ones 

Posted Wednesday 22nd August 2007 21:20 GMT

"Donuts, is there anything they can't do?"

"Relax? I can't relax! Nor can I yield, relent, or-- *ugh*-- only two synonyms? Oh my God, I'm losing my perspicacity!"

"This enormous woman will devour us all!"

Spoilt for choice... 

Posted Wednesday 22nd August 2007 23:33 GMT

My favourite Homer line ever, on the subject of valet parking:

"Maybe for once, someone will call me 'Sir', without adding; 'you're making a scene'."

Sci/Tech angle 

Posted Thursday 23rd August 2007 08:29 GMT

Surely the best Homer quotation of all is his response to Lisa's "Daddy, Daddy, I've invented a perpetual motion machine!"

"Lisa, in this house we obey the second law of thermodynamics!"

Classic Quotes! 

Posted Thursday 23rd August 2007 09:10 GMT

I always liked

"Green belt is a labour Idea and we plan to build on it" - John Prescott

"Cats have 9 lives, which makes them ideal for experimentation!" - Jimmy Carr

And surely they had to add the Ralph Wiggan classic:

"My cat smells like cat food"

:D

Best Homer comment 

Posted Thursday 23rd August 2007 10:43 GMT

"When you think about it...mud is nothing but wet dirt"

Not so famous quote 

Posted Thursday 23rd August 2007 11:46 GMT

"What the hell was that?!" - Captain, RMS Titanic

Not Homer, but it could be, and I like it, 

Posted Thursday 23rd August 2007 11:59 GMT

"Help me Jesus! Help me Jewish God! Help me Allah! AAAAAHHH! Help me Tom Cruise! Tom Cruise, use your witchcraft on me to get the fire off me!" - Ricky Bobby

re; Captain, RMS Titanic 

Posted Friday 24th August 2007 11:56 GMT

I thought it was 'No need to worry, we're just stopping to take on a little ice'.

Deep Thoughts 

Posted Friday 24th August 2007 22:25 GMT

My favorite is from the old Saturday Night Live bit entitled "Deep Thoughts"....

"It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man."

My favourites... 

Posted Sunday 26th August 2007 11:57 GMT

Ok, I know, it's a bit late to respond, but I have an excuse. I was doing a practice round for Friday night on Thursday, and suddenly it was Sunday.

"Alright brain. I don't like you and you don't like me, so just get me through this exam so I can go back to kiling you slowly with beer" - Homer Simpson

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning that's as good as they're going to feel all day" - Frank Sinatra

"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer" - Frank Zappa

Jos

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