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13 Simpsons Jokes That Actually Came True. The Joke: In the episode "In Lard Of The Dance" Homer discovers he can make money by stealing and reselling grease found in the back of Springfield Elementary's kitchen.

13 Simpsons Jokes That Actually Came True

They even build a contraption so that they can steal the maximum amount of grease in their car, like so... They eventually give up after a few encounters with Groundskeeper Willie and the Springfield Grease Company. Bart and Homer barely escape an angry, greased up Willie while trying to make it home-free with their glorious, profit-garnering grease in tow. What Actually Happened: In November of 2011 The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that thieves had stolen at least $2,000 worth of grease from the privately-owned restaurant The St. "It's a big deal. When he called the police on these thieves, they spotted three teenagers taking grease from the back of Tessler's restaurant, as well as others on that same block. The 13 Greatest Whitest Kids U Know Sketches (Page 3) Fairly_Incredible_03.gif (595×880) Now That You're Big. What Your Facebook Profile Pic Says About You - tumblemumble. Shoot First, Eat Later: 7% - Life lessons from a 90 yr. old woman.

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50 Classic Intelligent Quotes

You can do anything, but not everything. —David Allen 2. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Politically Correct Bedtime Stories. Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life and Times is a book by James Finn Garner, published in 1994, in which Garner satirizes the trend toward political correctness and censorship of children's literature, with an emphasis on humour and parody.[1] The bulk of the book consists of fairy tales such as Little Red Riding Hood, the Three Little Pigs and Snow White, rewritten so that they supposedly represent what a "politically correct" adult would consider a good and moral tale for children.

Politically Correct Bedtime Stories

Politically Correct Bedtime Stories was Garner's first published book (or, in the words of his similarly satirical biography blurb from the book, "his first processed tree carcass"). More than 2.5 million copies have been sold in the United States and it has since been translated into 20 languages. Stories[edit] The following is a listing of the stories in the order they appear in the book. Little Red Riding Hood[edit] The Emperor's New Clothes[edit] Amazing facts, random facts, interesting facts » Fuel / Petrol. ► Journal of ardency by Class Actress. Because I could not stop for Death. Summary[edit] Text[edit] Because I could not stop for Death— He kindly stopped for me— The Carriage held but just Ourselves— And Immortality.5 We slowly drove—He knew no haste And I had put away My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility— We passed the School, where Children strove 10 At Recess—in the Ring We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain— We passed the Setting Sun— Or rather—He passed Us— The Dews drew quivering and chill— 15 For only Gossamer, my Gown— My Tippet—only Tulle— We paused before a House that seemed A Swelling of the Ground— The Roof was scarcely visible— 20 The Cornice—in the Ground— Since then—'tis Centuries—and yet Feels shorter than the Day I first surmised the Horses' Heads Were toward Eternity— Critique[edit] In 1936 Allen Tate wrote, "[The poem] exemplifies better than anything else [Dickinson] wrote the special quality of her mind ...

Because I could not stop for Death

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