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By apenglishstudent - 31/03/2009 05:12 - United States

Today, I overheard a conversation two of my friends were having about Homer, so I interjected with a quip about a Simpson's episode I had seen before. They were talking about the poet. I'm an AP literature student. FML

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Tuesday 31 March 2009 12:31

doh!

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Mmmmm. Literature..... *drools*

Comments

flame1819 0

Saturday 16 January 2010 4:55

Ha! My best friend did something similar when they mentioned Homer in Language Arts Teacher"blahblahblah... like in homer's the Iliad..." Him"Homer who? Simpson?" Teacher"No." Him"Doh!"

khodges2 0

Thursday 28 January 2010 14:14

stupid!

RusselFaraday 0

Friday 5 February 2010 4:05

don't butt into conversations

Mattsta123 5

Thursday 25 February 2010 7:05

so am i

charlesss 0

Friday 5 March 2010 6:16

You deserve it for thinking AP Lit makes you some kind of genius. Don't flatter yourself.

DatingScaresMe 2

Thursday 3 June 2010 20:47

The Greek tragedies are much better than the epics, anyway. It is also nearly I possible to confuse Aeschylus with any pop culture references ;-)

fmlmj 0

Sunday 15 August 2010 9:19

huggghh

angel55033 12

Monday 14 February 2011 9:10

Simpson homer is way more memorable and well known

TergesteCity 12

Sunday 27 May 2012 16:33

I'll never understand why the need to modify foreigners names to your language instead of calling them by their real names: Milano->Milan, Venezia->Venice, Firenze->Florence, or in that caseὍμηρος->Homer etc etc. It would be like if for example in Italy we call New York-> Nuova Iorca, that's sound awful. O_o