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- From: Jawara@Applelink.Apple.COM (Ron Drake)
- Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
- Subject: Re: Homer
- Message-ID: <Jawara-280193141235@jawara.apple.com>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 22:13:00 GMT
- References: <C1HB9D.4Co@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Sender: usenet@goofy.apple.COM
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- Organization: Me, The Whole Me and Nothing But
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- In article <C1HB9D.4Co@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, thompssp@expert.cc.purdue.edu
- (Steven P. Thompson) wrote:
- >
- >
- > Call me an idiot, but what does the "J" in Homer J Simpson stand for????
- >
- >
- > ~Steve
-
- OK. You're an idiot. And the "J" is homage to the standard middle
- initial of almost every cartoon character who HAS a middle initial.
- (Rocket J. Squirrel; Bullwinkle J. Moose; Lisa J. and Bart J. Simp-
- son).
-
- Oh. Just in case...stick a smiley after the second sentence. Some
- of us just can't resist a straight-line to save our lives.
-
- Ronald J. Drake
-