My favorite Homer gag in that episode is him deliberately pouring the soda on the console at the power plant and giving Lisa the ok sign as the guy on the other end of the phone line has one of the all-time great freakouts.

Bart on the Road has some all time great gags:

* Nelson’s succinct review of Naked Lunch

Ridiculous verdict! The dissenting judge quoted in the last paragraph summed it up perfectly.

I still want to know how this affects Al Yankovic’s “Word Crimes.”

An NDA is just a kind of contract between two private parties. If one violates the terms of the contract (and assuming the contract is legal and valid; e.g. a contract obligating one party to break the law is in part or in whole invalid), then the other party can pursue the usual legal remedies relevant to contract…

No, just civil.

It’s worth pointing out that they had people passing out flyers explaining what was going on to people who walked by

Boneless wings don’t have the skins, so there goes a lot of the flavor. You also miss out on the pleasing crispy texture, instead you get breading which can get soggy and mushy if you don’t eat them fast enough.

The appeal is the skins.

I saw the original Keyboard Cat open for David Lee Roth on his Skyscraper Tour back in 1988 at the Toledo Sports Arena. The highlight was when DLR invited him back on stage to play keyboards for the encore, a cover of Van Halen’s “Jump”.

As a nurse, I have had patients who were diagnosed with Pica, but that is usually characterized by consuming non-nutritive substances like clay, etc. We did have a compulsive (beyond all reason) eating machine I cared for 20 years ago in a small rural hospital who did not gain weight but would eat all kinds of food…

You get a guitar! And you get a guitar! You all get guitars!

Skinner looking like Leonard Nimoy there:

Growing up in the 80's as a disabled kid who was really really into science, I cannot overstate how much of an inspiration Hawking was to me.

My usual technique is to put a bottle of wine in the freezer, crack open a really good beer, have like six or seven more, then forget about it because by then I don’t really want wine anymore.

It’s a little carb-heavy, but I have a fuckin’ awesome beer bottle cap collection.

A Tommy Wiseau Joker movie would probably be more interesting than whatever they’re gonna end up making.

I’m just imagining the next G-8 meeting:

I can actually see him doing ok in this role, unhinged seems to be where he lives.