Word: homerically
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...WEDNESDAY, DAY 5: Normally there are few things more boring than listening to someone describe what happened on a television show. But today, the day after The Osbournes, I sit in front of my friend Wendy like she's Homer with a lute...
...reputation for being a libertine playground, but the city's tourist board has been acting a bit uptight. Riotur has threatened to sue the Fox network over an episode of The Simpsons in which the family visits Brazil. While there, Bart is ingested by a boa constrictor, Homer is kidnapped by a taxi driver and monkeys roam the streets. Perhaps most insulting, the show suggests Brazil is responsible for the Macarena (the dance comes from Spain). Riotur spent $18 million promoting the city last year and doesn't want it to go to waste, though bringing attention to the episode...
...Wife of the Man of Many Wiles,” Penelope—for nearly three thousand years regarded as the archetype of a faithful spouse—indicates to Odysseus, her husband, that she may not in fact have been as faithful as he, and Homer, thought. The poem drives its point home with a jarring conclusion, with Penelope telling Odysseus to “Kill all the damned suitors, if you think it will make you feel better...
Brown got a taste of BC’s power right away yesterday, as Eagles second baseman Jeff DiScipio led off the fourth with a solo homer. The shot negated the run Harvard had gotten back on a Mark Mager RBI single in the third...
Brown retired six of the next seven hitters he faced after DiScipio’s homer. The one man he failed to retire—Eagle catcher Jeff Mackor—hit BC’s fourth homer of the day with one out in the fifth...