Clemens was traded to the New York Yankees before the season for David Wells, Homer Bush, and Graeme Lloyd.

John Irving wrote of the book many times in his novel " The Cider House Rules " in which the main character, Homer Wells, reads " David Copperfield " to the other orphans every night before bed.

After the season, Wells returned to the Blue Jays as part of a trade for Roger Clemens, along with Homer Bush and Graeme Lloyd.

District elementary schools in Flowing Wells include Centennial Elementary School, Homer Davis Elementary School, and Laguna Elementary School.

* Homer Wells, protagonist of John Irving's novel The Cider House Rules

Some strictly local performances have been done in the Shreveport area under the name including a 2003 Louisiana Hayride cast reunion called One More ' Ride that featured 60 acts from the original show including Kitty Wells, the Browns, Betty Amos, Homer Bailes, Billy Walker, Mitchell Torok, Hank Thompson and many more.

In January 1905, Homer S. King left Wells Fargo & Company to assume the presidency of the Bank of California.

In 1889, William Edwin Wells joined Homer Laughlin, and seven years later the two incorporated the company.

" In that episode, Homer Simpson grows giant vegetables using radioactive materials, and automatically assumes that any animal eating the food will become monstrous.

Homer grows hair, and is given a promotion at work which allows him to hire a secretary named Karl.

Marge is against the lawsuit, and she grows concerned with Homer < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s behavior and the fact that he is asking Bart to lie.

Marge is inspired to write a romance novel, though after Homer hears rumors that Marge is secretly in love with Ned Flanders due to the storyline of the novel, he grows jealous.

Homer grows impatient at the number of short films, previews ( including one for a family movie called Soccer Mummy starring Ed O ' Neill ), on-screen trivia games, and public service announcements preceding the film.

As Bart adopts more and more gangster-like traits, his mother Marge grows anxious and tells her husband Homer to go and meet the Mafia, but Homer approves of them.

A subplot follows the character Melony, who grew up alongside Homer in the orphanage.

The Lindy Hop was performed by Homer Simpson while dressed up as a panda in The Simpsons episode " Homer vs.

Homer grew up on Long Island in New York where he always dreamed of flying.

She was at first wary of Homer, but agreed to go to the prom with him, although she ended up going with Artie Ziff.

However, she regretted going with Artie and ended up with Homer.

Marge admits that she " put up with a lot in marriage ," and has left Homer or thrown him out of the house on several occasions.

* In The Simpsons episode " Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder ," Homer dresses up like a Teletubby to entertain Maggie, remarking "... and I'm all man, in case you heard otherwise " in reference to claims by Jerry Falwell.

They proceeded to Saint Paul, Minnesota, met up with Hamilton ( who had been recovering for the past month from his gunshot wounds in the East Chicago robbery ), and mustered a new gang, and the two joined Baby Face Nelson's gang, composed of Homer Van Meter, Tommy Carroll and Eddie Green.

This works to the players advantage, as it can be used to send up barrels of nuclear waste, which destroys the space ship, taking Homer Simpson's ' 70's Sports Car ', Snake and Bandit, John Frink and the Hover Car

The first white settlement in the county was made in 1791 by Amos Todd, Joseph Beebe and Rhoda Todd Beebe, emigrants from Connecticut who paddled up the Tioughnioga River from Windsor, to live near the head of navigation in the Town of Homer.

In the final minute of the segment, the 3D Homer ends up in a real world, live-action Los Angeles.

Grampa has a poor relationship with his son, who placed Grampa in a nursing home as soon as he could, despite Grampa selling his house in order to provide Homer with a mortgage, although its strongly and recurringly suggested that, while caring, Grampa was very controlling and even emotionally abusive towards Homer when he was growing up and he still had not forgiven him for that.

He survived his car blowing up, catching on fire due to the powerful magnifying effect of his glasses, a hallucinating Montgomery Burns drilling into his brain, capital punishment ( in a local jail ) after Homer eats his last meal, left inside a fluoroscope for possibly an entire weekend, being buried alive, being left forgotten and alive in a purgatory and being engulfed by an " anti-escape bubble " that was attempting to catch Marge ( a parody of a similar device from the ' 60s show The Prisoner ), and he also was run over by Homer in The Parent Rap, after the whole family promised they would not commit any crimes for a whole year.

In early episodes, she is shown as very sexually aggressive and promiscuous: in " Flaming Moe's ", she is shown with her arms around two sailors in the parody of the famous Cheers theme, and tries to pick up both Joey Kramer ( Aerosmith's drummer ) and Homer Simpson, even after learning he is married and Bart's father.

Clancy Wiggum, more commonly known as ' Chief Wiggum ', grew up in Springfield, but is originally from Ireland and was among the same class and age group as Homer Simpson, Lenny Leonard, Carl Carlson, Barney Gumble, and Marge Simpson ( née Bouvier ).

In California in 1950, Billy Cook murdered a family of five and a traveling salesman, then kidnapped Deputy Sheriff Homer Waldrip from Blythe, California and ordered him to drive into the desert where he tied Deputy Waldrip up with blanket strips and took his police cruiser, leaving Waldrip to die.

Ino, pursued by her husband, who had been driven mad by Hera because Ino had brought up the infant Dionysus, threw herself and Melicertes into the sea from a high rock between Megara and Corinth, Both were changed into marine deities: Ino as Leucothea, noted by Homer, Melicertes as Palaemon.

The Achaeans, according to Homer, had set up their camp near its mouth, and their battles with the Trojans were fought on the plain of Scamander.

As of late 2005, Prince George's County was in the process of purchasing all of the apartment buildings on the three roads that make up the neighborhood ( Homer Avenue, Hudson Avenue, and Huron Avenue ), so that they can be demolished and replaced with mixed commercial and residential properties.

Hud pulls up behind Lonnie, and both try to help Homer, but he does not survive.

The segment ends on a more upbeat ( though ultimately sarcastic ) note, where Marvin Monroe advises Homer to spend more time with Bart ( whose omnipotence is diagnosed as a cry for fatherly attention ) and, after a day of bonding, Bart turns Homer back to a human and the two share a hug ( which is interrupted when Bart wakes up screaming from the dream ).

He makes a point of maintaining an emotional distance from the orphans, so that they can more easily make the transition into an adoptive family, but when it becomes clear that Homer is going to spend his entire childhood at the orphanage, Wilbur trains the orphan as an obstetrician and then comes to love him.

Homer leaves the orphanage, and returns with them to Ocean View Orchards ( Wally's family's orchard ) in Heart's Rock, near the Maine Coast.

Homer decides to return to the orphanage after the death of Dr. Larch, to work as the new director.

After Homer leaves the orphanage, so does she in an effort to find him.

She is the catalyst that transforms Homer from his comfortable but not entirely admirable position at the apple orchard to becoming Dr. Larch's replacement at the orphanage.

Hibbert also bears a striking resemblance to the director of the Shelbyville orphanage, who mentions a personal quest to find his long-lost twin to an indifferent Homer.

Determined to find his brother, Homer and his family go to the orphanage and find out that Grampa's love child was adopted by a Mr. and Mrs. Powell and named Herbert.